Questions tagged [story-identification]
Use for identifying a work of SF or Fantasy, including novels, movies, comic books, fanfic, TV series, video games, etc. Use with other tags to specify the type of media, eg. [short-stories]. Use [episode-identification] for identifying a single episode of a known series, whether TV, book, or comic. Use [actor-identification], [character-identification], [music-identification], or [object-identification] for those specific ID requests instead.
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Fantasy manhwa where the female lead is poisoned when she becomes the empress
Manhwa where in the beginning, the female lead is destined to marry the future emperor. When their coronation comes, she’s extremely frail and dies; she’s replaced by another woman and her husband ...
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Immortal cursed hero
I'm looking for a manga where the main character and his party defeat the demon king, but he curses the hero so he is immortal and slowly turning into a monster. He has the ability to absorb ...
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Please help me find this fantasy live action series that was probably released in 2010
The show has five teenagers each of whom has a stone related to an element: fire, thunder, electricity, rain. The name of characters as far as I remember are Fire, Electra, Rain, and Sky.
It starts ...
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Sci-Fi novel featuring space travel, time dilation, and civilization regression
When I was a teenager back in the 90s, I read a sci-fi novel or short story whose plotline was something like this:
The novel's protagonist is a man who travels from and to Earth on a spaceship.
Due ...
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Fantasy book about a brother who becomes a warrior and a sister who goes to magic school
There was a book I read when I was in middle school. It is a brother/sister fantasy book.
The brother becomes a warrior, goes to a battle school, and then joins an elite group of soldiers that need to ...
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Manhwa where the main character goes looking for his teacher's daughter after his teacher is killed
The main character (MC) and his teacher train in a cave for some years, before the teacher dies. After that, the MC goes looking for his teacher's daughter. I think the MC's teacher cultivates ...
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A movie where a supernatural girl gets hit by a car and then wakes up to chase another girl
I recently saw a 30 second clip of an unidentified movie. I've been searching ever since to find it again and try to see the movie. The clip starts with a girl laying on the street, apparently hit by ...
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A book about a drug that induces a 24-hour high before death
I am looking for the name of a dystopian book I read 4-5 years ago. The book is about a drug that induces an amazing high for 24 hours before it kills you.
Parts of the book I remember
The book starts ...
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Old movie or TV episode involving a girl who raced go-karts and a leprechaun or some other deity who helped her to win a race
I've been searching for this movie off an on for what feels like 10+ years.
I'm unsure if the sole focus was go-kart racing but I know it was reoccurring in the film.
The parts I remember 100% of:
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3D animated cartoon where the main character is a tree-like teenager and the lead main character is an eagle humanoid
It’s a 3d animated cartoon I watched a long time ago.
The main character is a tree humanoid that has something on his hand that makes him turn into a giant version of himself. He has to go find other ...
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Science Fiction Fantasy about earth in the far future covered by a jungle that is miles thick
Pre 80s story where earth is covered by a sentient jungle and there is only one human woman whom the jungle entity protects. The jungle covers the entire world and is a few miles thick from top to ...
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Movie in which a woman investigates the death / disappearance of a crew of a spaceship stranded somewhere in the universe
I'm trying to identify an old movie (quite possibly 20+ years old). Clearly science-fiction.
What I remember:
some spaceship had a mission somewhere in the universe
something bad happened, and ...
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Trying to find a series I read in the 90s about a boy who finds other world and overhears plot
He’s visiting a house, I think his uncles, for the summer. He finds a way to another world in a chest? He finds in a room. While there he finds other world creatures and overhears them talking about ...
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Ghost hunter story in Asimov's in the early 90s
This story takes place in the modern era - the main character can see ghosts, some of whom wander the world causing problems (in a manner I don't remember - temporarily possessing people perhaps?). ...
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Galactic Empress with nude female guards book
I read a SF book many (40-50?) years ago but I can barely remember any plot or characters.
Only one thing sticks in my mind, there was like a galactic empress and, chained before her throne, she had ...
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Sci-fi book, pre 1980, about a man who invents things while asleep or blacked out
He invented a machine that could dig a hole while making holographic thread.
He makes a hoop that leads to other worlds or dimensions and when he throws it onto the floor, a women gets transported ...
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two part novel, fantasy, tree people, female protagonist. mysterious antagonist who becomes an ally and her romantic potential
So, I'm wracking my brain trying to track down this book. I read this when I was 12 or 14, could be a YA fantasy novel since there was no hanky panky, but there was a serious romantic theme in the ...
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Male protagonist with prosthetic arm, vampire girlfriend, female barbarian under a curse — late 80s–early 90s?
The book is set in a medieval world and features a male protagonist named Jonah, who has a magical prosthetic arm. There is also a female vampire named Emma, who is his love interest, and a barbarian ...
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What Sheri S. Tepper novel includes a prophet and a resulting religion?
What Sheri S. Tepper book includes a prophet saying “Don’t let them mess with your head” and a resulting religion which forbids haircuts?
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Vampire book with white dress cover (showing bare feet)
The book contained shapeshifters that could transform into animals that weren’t your usual picks. Like armadillos etc. The vampire who changed the main character had a type of control over her and her ...
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TV show set in the future after humanity evolved?
I'm trying to remember a TV show that I watched years ago and wanted to show to someone else. What I sort of remember is they are teenagers. There is a quasi military structure to it all. They had ...
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Cartoon where the main characters, two boys and a girl, could turn into a mantis, a hummingbird and a chameleon
It was not a series, but a single cartoon.
If I'm not mistaken there was one of the Egyptian gods. Two boys and a girl traveled with a small chameleon, a praying mantis and a hummingbird. Children and ...
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Old, space-themed comic from the '90s or earlier, involving a female character with cat ears and a tail
I remember one of the female characters had cat ears and a tail; I think she was involved with another character romantically. In fact, I think there was some nudity and it might have had a softcore ...
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Alternate Worlds Fantasy with Kendo in Ours and Feudal World in Other
I read this many years ago (probably in the 1980s or 1990s and I’m trying to find it again:
A woman is in a mental institution in California (?) for killing a man with a samurai sword except she was ...
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Time travel book where the protagonist travels by gazing into a ring
I was hoping to get help to identify a time travel story. In school, in the 1980s I read a novel where the protagonist gazes into a shiny ring she is wearing and she time travels. It starts with her ...
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Short story about a guy who takes a drug to re-experience better times
I read this sometime in the 1990s; I don't recall if it was in an anthology or a magazine.
A guy has recently gone through a bad break-up, and desperately misses the good times that came before. He ...
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Short story collection about Indian scientist/inventor: one of the stories involves turning people into statues
Some years ago, I read a collection of short stories published in India (though the author had a Western-sounding surname.)
It was about an (if memory serves correctly, slightly bizarre) inventor/...
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Post-apocalyptic sci-fi book about a man with metal spikes in his head, like a crown of thorns, who is worshipped by rats
More than a decade ago, I began reading a book. The book got lost before I could finish, and I only remember very few, vague details.
I'm pretty sure it was set in a post-apocalyptic climate. Most ...
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Movie in which a scalp is removed in a cockpit of a plane [closed]
30+ years ago, as a child, I saw a movie, and I only remember a very short, but very specific scene.
It is set in the cockpit of a modern civil airplane cockpit, looking towards the right of the plane....
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Manga where a guy and girl play a videogame where they discover that the people in the game are sentient
The guy and the girl are classmates and the meet up to play the videogame. They then discover that the game is kind of alive and the one of the characters can hear them. They end up trying to manage ...
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Novel/Novelette ID: Humans as domesticated pack/riding animals
I read this story at least 20 years ago and almost certainly it is quite a bit older than that. I would hazard a guess that it is 1980's or earlier, but don't actually have a clue. I don't remember ...
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Underground vehicle case
I'm trying to remember the title of a young adult science fiction adventure novel or novella, probably from the late 50s up to early 70s, set in (then) present or not too distant future. It starts ...
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Animated film or maybe anime? from 1980 (probably)
I've glimpsed a part of it in my childhood, and it still bugs be that I cannot find what it was. Here's what I remember, only some pictures, no plot:
Some planet, most likely Earth. There are large ...
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Pre-2010 fantasy novel about a young woman attending a magic school. The climax involves a conflict that opened a rift in the world
I don't remember much except a young woman travelled to a boarding school where she learned magic. Some mystery and intrigue throughout, and at the end of the book there was some sort of conflict that ...
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Book I read ~23 years ago about slaves mining something that gave them telepathy
After reading through the Mistborn series, the slaves mining atium reminded me of a book I read ~23 years ago.
It was about a slave in a mining camp that was forced to mine a mind altering compound ...
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Early 80's cartoon with a robot where a pilot would sit in its head
As a kid I fell in love with a certain cartoon and I just cannot think of the cartoon's or robot's names. It must not have been on very long. It had to be early 80's.
I remember the robot having a ...
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A manga or anime from the 90s where the protagonists have gems on their forehead and their hands can burn faces. Might be vampires?
A manga or anime from the 90s where the protagonists have gems on their forehead and their hands can burn faces. Might be vampires?
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Harry Potter Fanfic - Harry is a Phoenix animagus, trained by Fawkes, Luna is an animagus too
I’m looking for a fanfic I must have read pre 2013, it’s a long one and is probably is part of a series. I’ll do my best to recall details, I think the vets I remember are likely split over two parts ...
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Manhwa where transmigrated siblings are engaged to each other
I didn't read much before the translators dropped it, but a brother and sister are transmigrated into the same world, where the people they possessed are engaged to each other and now they have to ...
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Show about half of the world on perpetual night and the other on day.
The show that used to be on tv where half the world was in perpetual night and the other half was in perpetual day? I think there was a wall that went around the world so that the people on the night ...
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Short story where space travellers must move the planet they've crashed on, or die in a supernova
Trying to identify this short story I read in maybe 1960's. The space travellers crash land on an uninhabited planet and soon realise the star will explode in the very near future. Their ship cannot ...
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ID of ocean related cartoon shorts
Can you help me identify a cartoon shorts collection with the ocean as the main theme?
I only remember some of the stories. It would be mainly western cartoon style but from time to time a 3D ...
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Need help identifying 80s/90s animated movie about computer viruses [duplicate]
I remember watching an animated movie aimed towards children about animated computer viruses trying to take over. Anti-viruses were flying around on little ships and trying to stop the invading ...
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Movie about aliens transforming people into slaves with a claw or weapon-like arm
When people get captured, they get dragged to some kind of portal. They transform into slaves and have one of their arms become claw-like or weapon-like. They are strong but not very fast.
They also ...
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Story about a Singaporean company that is contracted to modernize an Indian city?
As for question title, I am looking for a story about a Singaporean company that is contracted to modernize an Indian city.
The story should be quite short, probably under the average under novel ...
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Short story about a musician who wants to use samples from underground dwellers in her work
Around 2007, I read a short story from a collection at my friend’s house. I do not remember the format, unfortunately, but it may not have been formally published. I think it may have been from one of ...
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Manhwa where a woman is transmigrated into a Boys' Love novel
I'm looking for a manhwa where the Female Lead (FL) was transmigrated into a Boys' Love (BL) novel, and to protect him she tries to marry him to keep his secret that he will love a guy.
I think the ...
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1950s/60s SF Post-Atomic Motorcycle Gang
I read this short story/novelette in an anthology in the 1960s. I don't know when it was originally published, but I suspect it was the '50s. Background: war has destroyed civilization & a ...
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Short story where there is a new extremely realistic 3-D movie system that eventually kills you
I am pretty sure I read this short story in an American magazine in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
The time is the future, when an extremely realistic 3-D movie system has come into use. It has ...
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SF Short Story — Mercy-Killing Telepath
I read this short story in the 1960s — can't remember just where. Pretty sure it was an American author. The main character is a middle-aged man, who, if I remember correctly, walks with either a cane ...
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