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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Trying to remember an ancient Greek fantasy movie, possibly video game
The only things I can remember is it was probably an ancient Greek fantasy film and has that dust/dirt/rock aesthetic of films like Clash of the Titans, it was probably of the same era as the 2010 ...
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Book about a boy transported to vintage game show
This was a book I read in primary school and the only thing I remember is that the main character was a boy and I think he was at a mall looking at old TVs before getting sucked into one. Once he was ...
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Anime involving a guy with a sword, a girl with a crystal in her chest, planes and space battles
I remember watching it when I was 13.
The main character (MC) is a guy using a sword and wearing a red shirt or thingy and the heroine, if I remember, has pink hair and wears a white dress.
They are ...
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Looking for specific story involving dimensional travel
Daughter has vision of dad being killed. Tracks him to a scientific institute. Discovers she has telekinetic abilities. Is able to travel to another dimension. Revealed at the end that the “other ...
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Classic science fiction about teachers battling for tenure
I read a book of classic sci Fi stories that included a group of teachers in the future who are literally fighting over tenure.
Elements include a gunfight, standing behind a podium dodging ...
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Movie with aliens that looked like rocks and would eat people's faces
I saw a movie when I was a child; I was born in '73.
These aliens looked like rocks and lured people in and would eat people's faces when they got too close to them. I believe the rocks were blue.
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Late 80's/early 90's paperback about a young girl with pyrokinesis, not "Firestarter"
In the late 80's/early 90's, I read a drugstore paperback that featured a teenage girl with pyrokinesis. She may have also had telekinesis. Sometime towards the beginning of the book, she kills some ...
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Harry Potter fanfiction where Harry is married to Tom Riddle, who is a king but Tom is in love with Ginny
Harry dies after falling of a roof after stealing something
He wakes up in another dimension, where he fell into the lake and almost drowned.
Harry is married to Tom Riddle, who is a king.
Tom is in ...
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Book about a girl that lived in a society surrounded by a barrier and is supposedly surrounded by monsters
She was a regular girl who saw someone get killed trying to leave their society. She eventually finds a metal chain that gives her powers like more strength. Eventually she fights in a little contest ...
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90's movie involving a super-soldier, a fear-smelling "monster" and a trapped man & woman
I remember, sometime around 1995/96, watching a movie on satellite TV in the UK. I have no idea what it is called, but would like to track down. Pertinent details about the movie, as best as I can ...
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Harry Potter FanFiction where Dementors leave Azkaban in support of Voldemort and Harry creates goblins to guard Azkaban
The story was very well written. It had a powerful Harry and a supportive Dumbledore.
Dumbledore takes Harry and Ginny to visit Godric Hollow/ Potter Manor (?). Eventually they meet Lilly and James ...
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Isekai manga where a boy wakes up in a forest with no powers; he somehow finds his way into a town where a knight takes him into a church
After he is taken to the church and he can't understand their language, the priestess casts a magic spell on him that makes him understand them. He has no powers, but he is smart and helps them to ...
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Is there a movie or series with almost the same plot as "Archive 81"?
I am currently watching Archive 81 show on Netflix. As I am nearing the end of first series I experienced strong feeling of déjà-vu, to the point I became convinced I watched something very similar ...
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Manga where the female lead enters a novel world
The female lead come to novel world but as a novel; the female main character's friend and the novel female character brother become her love interest and female character also somehow became a ...
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Book about a group of heroes setting out to kill the king of demons
A book I remember reading as a pre-teen. It had to have been published in the late 70s or early 80s. It was about a group of heroes setting out to slay a king of demons (or monsters, I can’t ...
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Anime where everyone hates people who can't use magic
I saw a short few months ago on YouTube where a guy was being tortured by nurses because he can't use magic. He is naked, then suddenly a girl comes and falls on his man part.
When he was naked other ...
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Animated Short About a Hand in a Flower Pot
I saw this between 2000 and 2005, guessing it's 5 to 10 minutes long. Think it looked like a drawing on a chalkboard; with a dark background and colored lines, it was 2D animation.
It depicts someone ...
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Manhwa about female lead reincarnated to noble family with magic but she has no mana
I'm looking for a manhwa about a female lead reincarnated into a noble family with magic but she has no mana.
She was an Engineering or Architecture student so she could use mathematical equations to ...
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Manhwa about an adventurer who's secretly a noble's daughter with a sick sister
Searching for a manhwa (maybe a webtoon; just remember it's coloured) about two sisters.
One's constantly sick, the other is secretly an adventurer or a mercenary. They're from different fathers and ...
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Book series about an evil king who eventually turns into a dragon that turns into a boat that goes back in time
I'm looking for a book series with a time-traveling story about an evil king who eventually turns into a dragon that turns into a boat that goes back in time to be the dark ship that the heroes used ...
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Book about a boy and a dragon who meet at the beach that's written by an Irish or Scottish author?
I read this book about 6 or 7 years ago and I can’t remember the title
This boy found a big dragon shaped rich at the beach and it turns out it was a real dragon. They become friends and fly together. ...
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Book written in different colors depending on which narrator or character is "speaking" [closed]
If anyone is able to help with this you are truly amazing because the information I am about to give is barely any and not too reliable.
I think there were at least 4 font colors in the book (green, ...
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Short scifi story of a man who can remember his past lives because of a grudge with an angel
The short story begins with the protagonist waking up from the aftermath of a cult orgy, and while in the bathroom washing his face, he remembers his past lives.
The story goes through what he ...
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A female lead who comes back to the past
After the female lead gets betrayed, she would wake up in the past before she met her husband. She takes care of her husband and son unlike before she gets betrayed. The husband have like another ...
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Manga with a boy who goes to school, and struggles, but eventually becomes a dragon slayer
It is medieval fantasy, like kings, dukes, and royals. The main character goes to a prestigious school because of his female childhood friend who is also there. As time go on, he struggles to keep up ...
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Looking for specific gate/dungeon manhwa
The main character has a status window. He chose multiple combat classes, like mage and healer as well as being a fighter.
At one point the he jumps into a horde of zombies from the top of a castle-...
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Manga with a male main character who has a female sprite teaching him Spirit Magic
I think it could of been an Isekai with a male main character who has a female sprite who is teaching him Spirit Magic. The main character comes across a girl in the woods who has escaped from the ...
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Book in which a man who's been poisoned is saved by a princess using a snake that absorbs the poison
I need the name of a book. I read the first of a series 20 years ago.
The story is about a young man of the streets who falls in love with a princess, he is poisoned and she saves him by making her ...
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Book in which a father and daughter wake up on an abandoned spacecraft after spending hundreds of years in cryostasis
I read a book a while ago about a father and daughter who were cryogenically frozen until the cure for the daughter's disease was found. But it turns out they were frozen for hundreds of years and are ...
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Fantasy novel involving mythical creatures on a farm and two children staying with a relative for the summer
Mythical Creatures on a farm (unicorns, basilisks, etc.).
Relative having two children come to stay for summer.
Children's book.
Pre-2010.
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Sci fi book from the 80s where humanity builds a space ship based on alien technology
Sorry I do not have much. Here is what I can remember. The parts are disjointed at best.
Humans already have contact with some aliens. One group they do not communicate with and I believe they are a ...
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Manhwa about a girl who is reincarnated into a novel and sent by her family to battle monsters [duplicate]
The main character is is reincarnated into her own fantasy novel as the villain.
She has white hair and her family has sent her off to serve mandatory military/draft service in place of her brother. ...
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Novel in which the far future remnants of civilisation are visited by other descendants who left Earth long ago
I remember reading a novel from maybe the 80s about a village on Earth in the far future, after the Sun has gone red giant. The protagonist discovers that an 'alien' visitor is a descendant of humans ...
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Manga where a town is cursed and is experiencing a drought for a long time
I remember the town being cursed and the townsmen haven't seen or eaten fish in a long time. There are also dungeon-like monsters in the manga. In the end, the main character (a girl) has lifted the ...
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Film from the 1960s, like "She," that ends with a lost underground city being destroyed by an atom bomb
I’m trying to find a movie that I saw as a kid in 1964 or 1965, at the cinema.
I had always assumed it was She, the 1965 film adaptation of Rider Haggard’s 1887 novel, She: A History of Adventure, but ...
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I want to find a manga/webtoon about a class on a field trip where this parasite that looks like blueish white eggs are everywhere
So a few years ago i found this manga/webtoon that kinda reminds me of sweet home. It's about a class going on a field trip when they discover a weird parasite that kinda looks like a small blueish ...
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Live-action vampire movie where a vampire drinks a horse's blood
I saw this live-action vampire movie a very long time ago when I was a kid, so I don't remember much.
The movie was made before 2006.
Near the beginning of the movie, a vampire takes a horse to the ...
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What are these classic 80's action movies?
I've bumped into an exquisite 80's music+TV compilation on YT. Since I was born in the early 80s, I missed most of these movies at the time. Of course I did later watch most classic, iconic and cult ...
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"Bonne mammifération" short story
I read this short story at least 30 years ago and it was probably even older. I read it in a collection in French, but is was almost certainly a translation, because I remember a footnote of the ...
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What is a series about wizards with yarn magic?
I barely remember this series and don't expect anyone else to, but it's worth a shot.
All I remember is 4 or 5 wizards: one had yarn magic, one had fire or lightning, and I remember one of them had ...
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Looking for a CYOA that might not have been a CYOA about a shrink belt
Okay I think this book might be lost media at this point. I am looking for an interactive story that may have been a CYOA but might not have been that brand. It's about you getting a shrinking belt to ...
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Harry Potter fanfiction where Harry is given Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake
I am searching for a Harry Potter fanfiction with the following things in it.
Harry was imprisoned in Azkaban after being framed.
Voldemort tortures him.
Bellatrix removes one of Harry’s eyes.
Harry ...
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Stories about Dragons Anthology Book - remember one story in particular
I am trying to find the name of an anthology/story collection about dragons and or other monsters. I don't quite remember the cover but I know the first story about a dragon. The condensed version of ...
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Short story about a genetic engineer who created a retrovirus that fixed genetic diseases
I read a short story about a genetic engineer that created a retrovirus that fixed genetic diseases as well as a few other things. He also modified it to change himself to female. There were other ...
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What manga is about a former prostitute and a retired knight? [closed]
So it starts out, the former prostitute was trying to run away when she passed out on a snowy field. Then she woke up in a small cabin.
She was found by a former knight with a dog. He took care for ...
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SF book with alien planet, whose plant life lacks chlorophyll / is not green and is being outcompeted by Earth plants
Does anyone happen to recall the title or author of a science fiction novel with the following major plot elements?
My recollection, not a quote:
On an alien planet, whose plants are not green (...
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Manhwa where the main character is half-human, hiding in the human world
The main character’s father was a king and he fell in love with a human and his parents were killed in a coup, I think.
He then fled with the general of his father’s army, who posed as his grandmother ...
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Story ID: Collection of short stories about fantasy and possibly mythological beings and places?
I read a collection of short stories as an elementary school student in Canada around 2008 to 2010. This is a book.
I believe that there was a story associated with each letter of the alphabet from A ...
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Webtoon where two high school students sneak into an abandon house to escape their abusive homes [closed]
The girl was a high school student with black hair. Father abused her and her mother while doted on the son. Once she didn't wanted to go inside so she waited outside for some time squatting against ...
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Book about an amnesiac protagonist who sucks the life out of anyone nearby if he dies near them
A book about an unkillable, amnesiac protagonist that wakes up in the introduction of the book, after being killed in a children's playground, looking up at a fake dragon children's rocking horse. ...
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