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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A manhwa in which the main character is sent to a distant outpost
The main character is reborn in the body of a child and is sent to a distant outpost, where the male character at first thinks of killing her, but then becomes attached and they become like father and ...
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Book where you can fall in a loop, an old man becomes young again
It starts with an old man who tries to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. He is holding some magic type rocks. He falls through the sky. In these books you can keep falling and end up back at the ...
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A short fiction where a well-preserved corpse of a tens of thousands years old homo sapiens sapiens is used to make a clone, and more
I read this SF novelette (I think, or maybe longish short story ?) about 20 years ago, in a collection that might have been older.
it is rather complex. The very well preserved corpse of a homo ...
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Fantasy book series about an orphaned girl who works as a concert employee and steals a genie lamp from a fae band
I read this on the Nook around 5 or 6 years ago. I think it is a YA fantasy novel and part of series.
It was about a girl who was orphaned. As she grows up, she works in the human world that is ...
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Mid-1960's large format newsprint sci-fi comic about a crew on a spaceship that landed on an asteroid with infectious fungal plants growing on it
The comic I would like to find out about involved a story about a crew on a space ship that was rectangular in shape, at least four or five times as wide as thick and at least ten times as long as ...
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Manhwa where the villainess female lead kills her brother to become Empress, but is killed and sent back in time
I read this manhwa online. It wasn't too long ago and I think it is still on-going. Can't remember too much except some plot points.
The female lead is a princess who was manipulated into growing up ...
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Dystopian story in which people are killed randomly even if they are "reformed" into accepting the regime
One day I was browsing the questions/answers of Sci-Fi Stack Exchange, and I think I came across a question which asked why the protagonists of the story, after getting brainwashed, still got picked ...
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Sci-fi book with a part-human, part-machine protagonist who lives for centuries to witness robots gain sentience and wage war on humans
I vaguely remember a sci-fi book I read with a long saga that starts with a human explorer who is fatally injured in a ship explosion and is then kept alive by being turned into a half-mechanical ...
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Magical academy book where the female lead gets sent to a magical school and has relations with 3 or 4 other guys
The female lead destroys a city, then gets sent to a magical school and her male best friend gets in as well. She has strong feelings about 3 or 4 other guys at the school and has sex with them. One ...
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Looking for a Movie or TV series where a guy brings a beautiful model from a magazine/image to life
I recently watched the episode “Miscalculation” from the TV series Amazing Stories (1985).
The fantasy of a special goo bringing beautiful magazine girls to life is amazing, and it’s just as amazing ...
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70s/80s book: male character had to keep hair long. Front cover male with massive braid over holding cat
Trying to locate the name of this book. Was my bother’s fave. Had a young male with a cat-like companion. He has long hair he wore in a braid. He observed the frustration of conformity with beauty ...
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Manhwa where female MC's soul revives in the body of someone else
I am looking for a manhwa where the female MC died and got reincarnated in the same universe in the body of a different person, a princess I think. After being reincarnated she is married to the same ...
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~1980 UK TV: very intelligent children recruited for secret project
I'm trying to remember a TV series in the UK some time around 1980. It was aimed at 10-15 year olds.
A shadowy organisation was recruiting very intelligent children for some kind of project. The ...
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Manhwa where the world becomes a game with goblins and bosses like minotaurs, but the main character is playing for the second time
Manhwa where the world becomes a game and goblins pour out and bosses like minotaurs, etc, but the main character is playing for the second time and saves people he couldn't save before.
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A short story about a writer compelled to write lest he drown in ink
I read this short story more than 30 years ago, in a collection of Fantasy and SF. It is not SF so it must be fantasy.
It is about a writer who used to be prolific but now has failed to give his ...
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Short story or novella where a man's wife dies and is brought back to life. The process is called rekindling. Rekindled people are very different
This was a short story or novella I read back in the mid 80's probably. It was published in one of the Analog-type periodicals, but I don't remember which one.
The main thing I recall is that a man's ...
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Sci-fi book about humanity warring against aliens that eliminate all species in the galaxy
I am looking for a book that I read last(?) year. I think it was rather older, though.
Aliens have arrived in some sort of ark, looking like a huge meteorite. At first they appear peaceful but then it ...
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Very old fantasy adventure movie where the princess is captured by evil, for evil, and turned evil
Yeah, just a little generic, which is why I can't remember the title myself. I think it's from the 50s or so.
I can remember a trio of hags attack a ship and capture the princess, taking her to the ...
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Manhua where the male lead is cursed by a blue dragon and the female lead must work out how to save him
The female lead, who transmigrates into the story, discovers that the male lead is cursed by a blue dragon and destined to die in six months. The curse causes him to turn anything or anyone he touches ...
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(?) Older SciFI Cartoon with robot boy character that is green magenta and silver?
There is a tv show I watched on dvd when I was a kid that I cannot remember at all now, but really want to. It consists of a crew that is trying to save their world and selves from these bad guys, as ...
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Name of a YA book about a girl who undergoes secret experimental surgery that makes her super smart
I last read this book some 10+ years ago and I could swear the title is 'M' something.
The main character gets in an accident and undergoes secret experimental surgery that both saves her life and ...
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Fantasy manga in which a noble lady is in a coma and her parents hire a magician who transfers a different soul into her body
The plot is that the female lead is in a coma, then the parents hire a magician, but the magician transfers a different soul into her body because that's the only option left.
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Sci-fi movie 90-05: female prisoner went to spaceship, a room full of naked girls
The main actress was from somewhere in the galaxy like a prison planet, then she went to a spaceship. The female scientist there was affected by an alien in one mission and now she's trying to make ...
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A short story where a space pilot has a device that sends the ship back in time just before losing a space battle. He is duplicated by accident
Fairly sure I read the story in a mammoth Sci-Fi collection around 15 years ago. The character is fighting another ship, triggers the time shift defense, and inadvertently creates a duplicate of ...
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Short story in which a human scientist is on an alien planet attending a music gathering and egg-shaped aliens start to reproduce by splitting in half
A human scientist is on an alien planet attending a huge music gathering. Egg-shaped aliens start to reproduce by splitting in half. Short story ends as the observing scientist feels a headache ...
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Short story about a man’s rescue to Earth where he discovers that decades have passed?
I don’t know much about the story more than its resolution, as I read it when I was in middle school (about 7th grade, in 2016-2017) but to my knowledge a man is going on an expedition throughout ...
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Searching for: Manga about healer girl / bodyguard - Highschool
I'm searching for a manga that I started reading years ago. I think it's a shoujo, with art similar to Card Captor Sakura etc.
The girl is a healer, but she doesn't know it yet. She can heal animals/...
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Elite warriors who have never lost must fight near trees
This book has a young boy who is sent as a hostage to stay with an elite group of warriors. These warriors have never lost a battle, but they must fight within sight of a tree and then during the ...
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Book where it’s a maze filled with paintings
It’s this book where a ladder leads to an underground maze and the maze is filled with old paintings but they all look the same depending on where you go in the maze but if you make it to the other ...
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Looking for a book from 25 ish years ago, Aliens mined Earth and made Humans their slaves, but a human bombs the alien homeworld,
The story is based on a future Earth that has been destroyed. Humans have been reduced to a primitive race and the Earth has been mined by an alien race that uses the humans as slaves to work in the ...
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A short story about a demon, in a modernising Japan, living in electric wires and starting fires
I read this Fantasy short story (or maybe novelette ?) about 20 years ago, in a collection which might have been older.
It takes place in Japan, in the throes of modernising, so I suppose, in the late ...
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Manga about a guy who is reborn or reincarnated weak
I need help finding something I read a while ago… basically this guy has no talent and I can’t remember if he was reborn or got reincarnated but he is in a fantasy world and no cheat abilities or ...
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Boy finds a new world, meets a werewolf who knew his father
Posting for a friend.
The novel (possibly YA fiction) involved a boy finding a new world, possibly underground. The boy (who's an ordinary human) finds a werewolf who knew his dad, and the boy has a ...
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Book about a girl who lives in a world with genetically-modified humans and runs into a girl who looks exactly like her
I recall reading a story about a young teen girl who lives in a world with genetically-modified humans and non-modified humans. On a school trip (rock climbing/hiking?), she runs into a girl who looks ...
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Time travel story where the female protagonist travels to Chicago World's Fair and escapes H. H. Holmes' hotel
I read this book as a kid, so that would have been between 2010-2016.
The female character travels to more places than just the World's Fair, but that was the most action-packed travel. This book may ...
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A kids' show where a girl and boy relive stories from their Nan's cupboard
I'm looking to identify this kids' show where a girl and boy would go to their Nan's house. In their Nan's house, they would go into a cupboard where each dish and plate would tell a different story ...
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Short story about a scientist abducted and experimented on by aliens [duplicate]
It's a short fiction story in which a scientist was abducted by aliens and taken aboard their ship. The aliens wanted to know whether humanity was worthy of continued existence or not, so they took &...
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Manhwa about a cursed, blue-eyed girl who runs away from her village into a forest, where she meets the male lead
Could someone help me find this manhwa / manga?
The female lead (FL) is somewhat a cursed, blue-eyed village girl. Because of her curse, she was forced to engage with one of the village boys. The ...
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Old sci-fi movie with a chrome spaceship and aliens disguised as people eating organs under a black cloak
There was a movie I caught the end quarter of in a hotel room a couple years ago.
There were aliens (I guess) disguised as people amongst people who would 'appear' or transport (?) onto Earth, use a ...
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Short story in which in which "aliens" from the future appear at a man's door
I remember a short story in which "aliens" appear at a man's door looking for a Mr. Potts. His name is Calderone. They're from the future, sent by his then-adult son, and are there to train ...
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Secret super people
I'm trying to recall the details of a sci-fi book I read a while back. The story involves an Erath secret police organization that investigates "Unexplained Events" or UEs. Through their ...
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Manhwa in which the souls of the female protagonist and the female lead of a novel switch places
The female lead (FL) was reincarnated as a character who was supposed to die when poisoned by her fiancé(?), but because she had read the novel, she avoided it and met the male lead who wasn't ...
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Short story about a committee planning to eliminate 1 in 10 people
I read a story years ago in which an international committee of population or hunger was considering a plan that would cause the deaths of 1 in 10 persons (more or less). One of the members prepared ...
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Name of story about the CIA leaking a rocket design to the soviets which caused the Chernobyl disaster? [duplicate]
I remember finding a link to this story on here months ago and loved it but I can't seem to find it again.
It was a relatively short story from what I remember and was available online.
The story was ...
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Teen sf/horror book with main character with club foot
I'm looking for a teen sf/horror book where the main character has a disability in one of the legs (clubfoot).
The story summary I remember is:
There's a huge human ship that meets a small shuttle ...
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A tokusatsu show where they capture monsters via card
The tokusatsu show maybe outside Japan I think Chinese or Korean but I could be mistaken. I remember one episode on YouTube where the main team gets replaced by a other temporary team I believe. And ...
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Story about fishing for a sea monster on Venus
First of all, this is not LeGuin's story, "Semley's Necklace." In the one I'm thinking of, the sea creature was referred to as Icky, not Ikky, and after the grueling experience of hauling it ...
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3D cartoon involving a lion with a crown on his head, a crystal, and artifacts that need to be found
The cartoon was made in 3D and was broadcast in 2010-2014.
The main character is a boy or a girl, I don't remember exactly, maybe both. Each episode was based on the search for the missing "...
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1950s or 60s black-and-white show where aliens took over an old TV set
Black-and-white, early 1960s or late 50s. Old box TV on 4-legged wire stand moves by itself. It was rolling down the street and people were hiding.
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A post-apocalyptic short story where very sick people from our future save people in our timeline that would be killed in plane crashes
I read this short story about 20 years ago, in a collection that was possibly much older.
Some sickness has almost destroyed mankind and the survivors are sterile, and in the rare cases they can have ...
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