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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Searching for a specific book about a woman born on the edge of the veil between worlds
I found this book in a library and want to see if it has a sequel. The main character is a woman who was born on the edge of a magical wasteland on a special day where the magical world and her world ...
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This is a manhwa. FL uses a cane ( I think she has a limp) [closed]
What I know is that ML and FL they are like rivals and the ML wants to marry the FL sister bcuz their family is ( I think)on the brink of brunkuptcy but the sister love another guy so the FL suggest ...
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Anime with a girl who chooses a school based on its uniform and ends up in a club with duels and special powers
The female lead chooses a school based on its uniform, and the school she chose was a kind of unusual one where the students are required to join a club and have a duel with one another, and everyone ...
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Early 90s book of interviews with scifi authors, includes Pratchett talking about translating jokes to different languages
I am looking for the name of a book I saw in my local bookshop in the early 90s. It was, I believe, a newly published paperback containing either interviews with or descriptions of interviews with ...
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Old anime movie about an alien who falls in love with a human girl
I remember watching it on TV when I was young, but I don't know the title. It's about creatures that are not actually aliens, but are not human either. One of them creates an illusory world for the ...
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What is the name of this short sci-fi award winning film on YouTube, in which robots are exterminating humans but one robot kept a little girl?
Looking for the name of this short film released around 2013 maybe.
So basically the story is that the robots invaded and destroyed the humans but one girl (baby at the time) was found and kept alive ...
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90s historical kids show where people get sucked into a computer?
I remember some sort of 90s kids history show. Kids would put a floppy into an 90s era computer and then gets sucked into the computer where they would interview various historical figures.
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Trying to remember a fantasy portal book from the 1970s or early 80s
I am pretty sure I read the book between 4th and 8th grade (1978 to 1982).
I remember the book was about children being transported from the "real" world to a fantasy world. Mostly, I only ...
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Short nerdy sci-fi story where scientists discover that the Earth is falling into a black hole
I remember finding a PDF of this on the internet a few years ago, so it may not be a published work. It is about a scientist who observes unnatural behavior in the sky, and after some analysis ...
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Grimm brothers talking to ghosts?
I am trying to find a story in which knowledge of historical sound changes is important for talking to ghosts.
I am pretty sure one of the Grimm brothers was involved (aside from documenting fairy ...
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Manhwa where the main lead gets reincarnated into a novel where the main character is her sister and she has 4 potential husbands
The female lead goes into a novel and her goal is to stop her sister from marrying an asshole and to instead marry someone else.
All the potential male leads bring their nephews and I know one of them ...
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70s illustrated children's book about a witch who lives in the attic of an old house purchased by a single mother
The plot as I remember it: A young boy and his mother move into an old house in the country (this could be set in England, not sure). I am unsure about the boy's name, but I believe his name is "...
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I can't remember the name of this manga I read before [duplicate]
I don't remember a lot but it was definitely a Manhwa Manga. But I remember the main character is a orphan girl who lost her parents as a child, and she's forbidden to ever leave the orphanage by the ...
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A very old young adult SF novel about interplanetary travel within the solar system
This story was my very first contact with SF. It was at least 61 years ago. I remember reading it in my parents' "old" apartment and we moved out of it in December 1962.
It was a novel, in a ...
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TV show from 2000s where a group of kids were put in a digital version of the real world
There was this TV show I remember watching as a kid, but I can’t recall the name. I know it’s not MP4orce or Chaotic, I only remember very little about it.
The premise was these group of kids would ...
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Dark manhwa/webtoon about a girl who meets her alleged future husband, who has actually time traveled to find his twin's killer
I'd like to ask for help finding a webtoon/manhwa.
The story might be a bit all over the place, but I remember all of it quite well.
It is set in high school, the main character is a female (I shall ...
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Revenge manhwa/manhua about a woman who dies and uses a system to take revenge on all her lover's counterparts in parallel worlds
I read a manhua/manhwa some years ago. It was about a woman who is betrayed and chained by her lover. Then she dies and a system appears. The system allows her to take revenge on all of his ...
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I'm looking for a manga
A hentai manga where the protagonist is a girl who finds a sword stuck in a tree and when she removes it, she gets a dick and has the power to make men turn into girls
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Anime where the MC uses cudgel
I remember seeing bits of it many years ago, forgot how many. As I remember it is about a high school boy that was isekaid. He excels in using in cudgels or poles like monkey king's weapon.
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I'm looking for a manga I used to read but I've forgotten the title and I want to read it again [closed]
I don't remember a lot but it was definitely a Manhwa Manga. But I remember the main character is a orphan girl who lost her parents as a child, and she's forbidden to ever leave the orphanage by the ...
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An unbelievably talented protagonist who re-creates technology from scratch and wins the girl
I'm trying to identify a story I read as a child. I vividly remember it as being by E.E. "Doc" Smith, but reading the synopses of the Skylark and Lensman series, it doesn't seem to be any ...
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I'm trying to remember a book I read about 11 years ago. This is a young adult fantasy book set in ancient Egypt
An adult fantasy book with Egyptian mythology.
A mute jackal shapeshifter girl who gets her voice back eventually
when she kisses a demigod and he was tortured after his parents threw
him out.
The ...
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Young adult novel in which the protagonist is a young woman and her family turns to stone
I'm looking for a fantasy book I read as a kid. The protagonist is a young woman and her family turns to stone. She befriends a griffin that is very well spoken and intelligent. One of the parts I ...
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I’m looking for the name of the fantasy novel [duplicate]
I’m trying to remember the name of a novel I read. Three teenage character set in a medieval like times. One of the 3 friends.? was a cripple.
The two friends helped the cripple jump
Across an ...
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Manhwa where the female lead finds out her magic has been sealed and her husband protects her from her family
From what I remember, the female lead had pure white hair and chose to marry her husband to get away from her family. She had a gem on her wrist that all people in that world have, but she couldn’t ...
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Energetic man and his boisterous son are a better fit as colonists than on an overcrowded Earth
I want to say this is probably from the 1950s, based on the nuclear family (father, mother, daughter, son) and the fact that the father was the breadwinner, the mother stayed home, etc. The setting (...
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Movie where a man invents a spray that removes sounds
I believe that I watched this movie in the mid-90s, but I think it was black and white. What I remember is that a man and a boy were trying to escape from somewhere. The man got the idea to make a ...
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Books about twin girls that are captured and surgically experimented on
I read a young adult book several years ago that was about twin girls that had been captured by either fictional Nazis or it was set in a dystopian world. They were experimented on by being injected ...
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Book where a group of shapeshifting teens band together to fix a carousel
i will preface that i do not know if its a series or not but i do have a feeling it might be
Female main character that is one of the panthers (with dyed fur). there are only 2 shapeshifters of the ...
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Live-action movie where a boy goes fishing and the fish appear above the lake
The main problem is that I remember this children's film very poorly. I watched it about 15 years ago. I clearly remember the moment that the boy went fishing, but there was some kind of magic, and ...
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Anime film in which a young boy is riding a Pegasus that turns into a weapon
I’m trying to find an anime film I had on VHS when I was younger. It would have been in the 90s or maybe the late 80s.
I can only remember one scene in which a young boy is riding a Pegasus and he ...
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Early 2000s series with police unit catching supernatural creatures. Main character reveals invisible monster in an episode and says "nice to see you"
This was a live action TV series; I think from the early 2000s.
The story was about a special police unit force, which was tasked to capture supernatural creatures. The creatures were mostly related ...
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A fantasy short fiction by Asimov about a murder mystery writer whose sleuth comes to life
I read that story (possibly shortish novelette rather than technically "short story") at least 40 years ago.
A writer got rather successful with a series of murder mysteries with the same ...
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Looking for a fantasy novel I read in 1993 when I was a kid. It was set in Viking like society with raids, had swords and a rite of passage [closed]
What i remember most of the novel is the 3 friends who have to pass a physical rite of passage. One of the friends like a physical disability such as a haunched back which prevented him from jumping ...
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Young Cylander stows away to visit Earth
This is a novella or novel I read in the 90s. The main character was a teen who had spent his life on a large orbital space station. The station was known as Cyland (not sure about the spelling) ...
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Looking for a tv series with a food processor that gave out everyone's favourite food
I saw a science fiction TV show from the late 1990s or early 2000s, on a sci-fi TV station.
It featured a food processor on an alien planet, that gave out the food that every user desired. The food ...
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Little boy killed too early, isekais to a younger body, gains wolf companion and a noble adoption
It's a manga where a little boy is killed too early. As an apology god transports him to another world in a younger body and gives him a big wolf I think black as protection. A noble finds him that is ...
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Manga about a struggling writer who gets a mysterious game on his phone and fights red ants from the game that start appearing in the real world
A struggling writer ends up getting a mysterious game on his phone called: The God Maker. In the game, there are ants that, if he taps, they get killed and then he gains a god coin for each one killed....
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Trilogy about technologically advanced society that sends "actors" to an alternative sword and sorcery type world and streams VR
There was a sci-fi/fantasy series I read years ago. The main premise is a technologically advanced society that somehow managed to access an alternative sword and sorcery type world. "Actors&...
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Science fiction story with a boy and girl protagonist and spider-like alien abductors
The story begins with the daughter of a government scientist before rockets could achieve orbit on earth, and they meet a boy's family who claims that their backwoods family jerry-rigged a satellite ...
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Sci-fi book or story written over 50 years ago about survivors from a destroyed Earth chased by aliens
I am looking for a sci-fi book or story written over 50 years ago. The backdrop to the story is that Earth has been destroyed and those who survived are being chased across the galaxy by the alien ...
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Murder mystery, probably by Asimov, but SF plays a crucial role
I read this short story at least 50 years ago. It was probably in a collection, probably by Asimov, but also probably in a collection of murder mysteries rather than SF stories. He wrote so many ...
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Short horror story where man's subconscious gives him phone-calls
So I was reading "I Am Legend" and when I finished it I found a couple more extra short horror stories tied in within the book so I assume they were also written by Richard Matheson. The ...
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Graphic novel about a girl and a mischievous green man/creature that only she can see
This was a graphic novel that I read back in the 2010s when I was a kid, so my memory might be foggy.
I know for a fact that it was about this teenage girl and a weird creature that sort of followed ...
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A boy with metal robotic arm powered by motor inside it [closed]
This arm was activated by puling string inside it. Any one knows ???
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90s or 2000s anime with a white, human-sized mech suit
The pilot would be in danger the more he piloted the mech suit.
The pilot was male.
I believe it had a space setting.
It was probably also on Cartoon Network / Toonami.
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Woman travels back to past and pretends to predict future [closed]
A short story about a woman who gets paid for predicting future which she already knows because she time traveled to the past.
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Young adult/teen fiction about a kid that is somehow transported into various numbered worlds
I read this book in the early 2000s. I remember the kid being in a field of wildflowers with a white gazebo that either faded into the air or into water. They were then transported to different ...
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Depressing story where SETI received signals from deep space but this news was suppressed
I read this rather depressing story about 10 years ago, I guess, in a collection that was probably much older.
The Project “Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence” is to be terminated. It never ...
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Anime where a boy needs the power of the Shinigami and befriends one who looks like a white and red bunny
This is gonna be very obscure. There is a exorcist or priest or something and he's a teen. His dad retires and its his turn to take over. But he needs the power of the Shinigami (don't know how to ...
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