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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Female lead got reincarnated into her childhood
There’s a manga that I’m trying to find. The female was sent back to her childhood, the story starts with her mom waking her up from her nightmare or something. In that chapter, you could see that she ...
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Movie with vikings/warriors fighting an alien that looks like a wolf with tentacles
I don't quite remember the setting but it seemed to be medieval or viking-ish. These warriors are dealing with a single monster that as I remember was wolf-like with tentacles coming out of its back, ...
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2000s era show about a group of friends who used a remote to open a portal anytime they needed to escape from aliens or creatures [duplicate]
From what I can remember, it's about a group of friends who used a remote to open a portal anytime they were in danger and trying to escape from aliens or creatures and would end up in another world ...
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2005-2015 YA: Science Fiction/Romance: Book Set In Future. Augmented Reality, Teens Wear Headpieces That Display Messages Directly To Their Brains
Published 2005-2015
The main characters (teens) wear devices on their heads that are a brain-computer interface to display messages directly to their brains. The teen goes to a fancy party where there ...
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Manga where MC gets summoned to another world by a female god in order to kill an evil god
I'm looking for manga where MC is playing a VR game but gets summoned to another world by a female god in order to kill an evil god. During the first chapter he kills a frog as soon as he is summoned ...
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Short story taking place on a toroidal planet or moon involving flying
I'm looking for a short story that I remember reading, probably in Asimov's (but perhaps in Analog or F&SF), probably in the mid 1990s (unlikely to have been before 1985, or later than 2000).
The ...
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Short story about device that tells user the best action to take in any given situation [duplicate]
In this story someone gets an ear piece that tells him exactly what the best thing to do would be to get a promotion at work or whatever. Over time he and this device develop their own language ...
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Fantasy story of a girl, a black king and a white king, and a mirror
I've read this book and cannot remember its name. It's fantasy obviously. There is a girl who gets approached or saved by a glittering creature who gives her a key on her tongue through a kiss (he ...
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Short story: robot butler helps elderly man decide when to commit suicide
A paperback short story collection I read in the 1992-2002 era included a story in which a man was sinking into dementia. Appreciating that the progressive nature of the disease would make it hard ...
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Cartoon Network cartoon about power stones with Greek lettering [duplicate]
I'm searching for the name of a cartoon I watched in my childhood on Cartoon Network. In this cartoon everyone uses a cube shaped stone for power. There was a Greek letter in every single stone. I ...
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Story Identification: Nanomachines Building Cities [duplicate]
Looking for the title of a book in which nanomachines create city buildings, skyscrapers, and the like. But there was a virus that hit the nanomachines, and at some point they started creating ...
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Book about a good dark lord, think "not Sauron"
I started reading this book earlier this year at my library and haven’t been able to find it again.
It is about a “dark” lord who was once part of a group of gods? Godlike beings? I think there were ...
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Soldier vs. Warrior
I remember a conversation between two characters in an RPG a "Soldier"(Lawful good type) and a "Warrior" (neutral-evil type).
I don't know the exact dialog but:
Warrior:
Talks ...
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Muggle alternate universe Sirius raises harry potter fanfic
I read a Muggle alternate universe Harry Potter fanfiction where Sirius gets out of prison and the Dursleys are abusive. Harry runs away to live with Sirius. Sirius hires Lucius Malfoy as his lawyer ...
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Story in collection: "To attack a culture destroy its roots". Humans became teachers of aliens to do so
For years and years I have been trying to locate a story I read in a collection... a very long time ago. Anywhere from late '70s to early '90s, with highest probability being at the earlier end of the ...
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70s? Two or three short stories involving the discovery of a time sensitive molecule/compound/substance [duplicate]
The first story was written almost as a scientific paper reporting the discovery of a time sensitive substance. It described the theory, and process that led to its discovery and include charts and ...
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Movie from the '90s about a girl who wishes for her life to be perfect and wakes up in a parallel world
I remember growing up I watched a movie about a girl tired of being poor, her life and her boyfriend; she fantasized about a football star. One December 25th, she wished her life was perfect and she ...
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Story/webnovel where the main character is neglected by her family and time travels to save her sister and mother
I read a story a year or two ago (pretty sure it was a web or light novel) that I haven't been able to find since. It starts off similarly to 'My Fiancée Is In Love With My Little Sister.'
The main ...
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Harem manga where the main character gets blessed every time he gets dumped
It was one of the first manga I read; I later moved on to the novel to continue reading it.
It was fantasy/harem. The main character confessed to a girl, got dumped and some goddess blessed him. From ...
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Manga about bad luck where the main character has an evil umbrella with a spirit in it
I'm trying to find a manga where the main character, a kid, has the worst of luck. I don't recall the boy's name, but he has so much bad luck that I think he's called by a ridiculous name at school. I ...
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Universe made of rock
Years ago - the 1980s - I read a short story in which a universe is made of rock or stone, within which are voids, some inhabited by intelligent races. I've always thought it was in The Monadic ...
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Mc gets kicked from the village because he gets ability to attract monsters which was actually a legendary ability to tame monsters
Mc gets a ability to attract monsters. He gets kicked from his village because he poses a threat to the village. Mc is sent to nearby forest where he meets his harem
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Short story that reminds me of 65 movie premise [duplicate]
Read this one decades ago, and could have been written earlier. Could have been in an Asimov anthology as I was going through a pretty major sci fi/short story phase.
At any rate, it’s about the crew ...
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Scifi delivery girl with a Maori ally facing off against a vietnam vet CEO
I listened to a sci-fi audiobook about 10 years ago. I'd like to revisit it, but I can't remember the title.
Here's what I remember: The protagonist is a delivery girl with a hoverboard. American ...
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Book about a dog who is an alien that is adopted by a little boy
I don't remember the title of the book, but I think I can describe it pretty well.
So the book follows this young boy who wants to have a dog but can't because his father is allergic to dog hair. Then,...
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A Farmer Named Todd Finds Himself In A Very Large Store
I think this is a Clifford Simak story, but I'm having trouble tracing it; Todd, a farmer, is working his fields on his tractor when he sees a new building under construction. A few weeks later, the ...
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Post-apocalyptic published in Asimov's in the 1980s; main character named Georges - travels in time on highways (on foot)
I'm looking for a story published in the 1980s, in Asimov's magazine. The story featured a character named "Georges" (last name starting with "M" - possibly Mordreaux - though that ...
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Looking for a book about tattoo magic where a young woman is an apprentice to her uncle
Teen girl/young woman is taken on as her uncle's apprentice in the art of magic tattoos and begins learning. Gets her first tattoo. Her uncle's name could have been Gage. Something happens and they (...
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A girl and boy go back in time to stop their siblings from getting married
In this manga, a girl and boy go back in time to stop their siblings from getting married. I forgot the details about this manga. I just need the name.
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Post-apocalyptic novel set in America after a plague has wiped out nine tenths of the Earth's population
I'm looking for a novel set in America after a plague has wiped out nine tenths of the Earth's population. Although dark in theme and incident the novel has a lively comic tone. The central character ...
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Sci fi book about a character with an implant/enhanced capabilities who was hired to assassinate a member of elite society
As per the title, I can't remember the title of this book that I read some years ago (10ish I guess).
As far as I remember, the story starts with the protagonist being hired to kill some member of ...
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Short sci-fi book about aliens coming to Earth and challenging humans to a game
I'm looking for a sci-fi book. It is a small book, about the palm of a hand, and has fewer pages, about 17. It was part of a short series of sci-fi books just like it.
The only two things I remember ...
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Manga where the MC has a gate or space ability and builds a bath in his home
I'm looking for a manga where the MC has a gate or space ability. He builds in his home a big bath with magic stone that heats up the water that he found from a monster that lives in a cave. He ...
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Fantasy series where in the first book a poor girl gets saved by a mage
At first she was kind of terrified of him, but then he just gives her some money to apply for the magic academy and leaves. She had some trouble with the registration (the school is usually for rich ...
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Manga/Webtoon featuring fractured worlds seen through cracks in time
Basically this woman moves in to an apartment but the apartment was considered to have a ghost in it, turns out that that apartment overlays another apartment and a man was living in that apartment ...
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A manga about a man in a slice-of-life isekai manga about eating otherworld foods
It's a black and white manga, with not many chapters, maybe 50-ish at max, where a black-haired dude (main character) and his maid (female MC) go around eating foods like dragon steak to a magic water ...
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Manga where MC comes back from another world after being trained by the demon lord
MC was summoned back to the hero academy for people who came back after they've defeated the demon lord. When he was summoned to another world, it's the world where the demon lord has exterminated all ...
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YA fantasy novel about a girl who goes through the woods into another world with a boy
Sorry if it’s not very descriptive but I’ve looked everywhere and have decided this is my last option. I read this book somewhere between 2014-2016 and I believe it was relatively modern, but not sure ...
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Manhwa where a pink haired main character goes back to the past
This manhwa is about a pink haired main character who used to be a bully but her boyfriend doesn't like bullies so they broke up. Years later the main character regretted what she did and she died but ...
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Manhwa where a woman is reincarnated as the daughter of an emperor and introduces cultivation magic to the realm
I read this manhwa ages ago and stopped reading because I lost interest but now I wanna start reading it again but I can’t remember what it’s called.
It starts with a girl from the cultivation world ...
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Trying to find a manga where the Mc discovers that hero is a girl
If I remember correctly, the story is set in an academy where the main character fights the hero but remains in second place. I remember a specific scene after the battle where the main character ...
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Book about two guys who are captured by dwarves or goblins, and build Icarus-like wings to escape with
When I was a kid, I used to read this German book (but maybe it also exists in English) where these two guys would travel a lot and search for something (I don't really know what they searched for, ...
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I'm looking for a short story involving Time Tower minds
I'm looking for a short story, perhaps in a volume of Year's Best SF or The Year's Best Science Fiction that involves "Time Tower minds" which have a stretched consciousness across time, ...
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What is this TV movie that used the Voight Kampff test?
I saw a TV movie, probably starring Dennis Farina as the principal actor (the cop), in which the Voigt Kampff test was used as a detective tool.
I really believe that they mentioned the VKT ...
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What book is this comic page apparently referring to Alex Jones from?
Someone posted this page on Reddit wondering if it was referring to a well known media personality. Unfortunately, they did not share what book it was from. Anyone know?
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Detective story with an alien that looked like celery
This is a short story from an anthology published before 2000.
It was told from the point of view of an alien who was a friend or side-kick to a human detective. The alien walked and talked but looked ...
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A Donald Duck version of The Odyssey
I once read a comic version of The Odyssey in which the main characters were portrayed by characters in the Duck universe.
Can you help identify the story?
Here is some information:
The story was ...
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Three Teens Build an Electronic Telescope That Peers into Another Galaxy
Three teens, two boys and a girl, construct a computerized monitor that as they increase the power, allows them to see farther into the universe and ultimately, another life form in a far galaxy. One ...
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Sci-Fi novel about a world with early iron age technology, it is a world shaped like a flat disc on a giant pillar
I read a Sci-Fi novel a few years ago, it concerns a world with early iron-age technology that is a giant disc supported on an immense pillar. A cyborg is sent to study the people and report back to ...
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Short story in which shapeshifting woman scares man by shaping herself like a bustle [duplicate]
Probably aliens, or unusually advanced mutated humans, living normal lives among people in nineteenth or twentieth century America or Europe, could mold their body shapes to fit the prevailing ...
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