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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Short story of a man missing his opportunity to escape his unhappy life on earth [duplicate]
Read this story in an anthology of not strictly science fiction many years ago. A man unhappy with his life is offered the opportunity after an interview to escape this world and live in basically a ...
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Isekai manga where the main character gets banished by the queen into a dungeon
I think he had healing powers and kills a mimic in the dungeon that gives him the ability to reverse his magic to death magic.
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YA Novel : 'A Drop Of ? Water'
I read part of this British YA novel in the '70s or the '80s. I am almost positive it was called 'A Drop of Fresh Water' or 'A Drop of Pure Water', although I have searched the internet for both ...
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Old SF movie that ends with a robot preventing a man from spanking his little boy [duplicate]
Once upon a time, probably back in the late 1990s or thereabouts, I walked into a room where someone else had been watching something on television. I somehow got the impression it was an old movie, ...
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Futuristic novel where war is unconstitutional and people have limbs amputated but replaced by powerful prosthetics, triskelion logo from 60s
From the 1960s; a sci-fi novel where the Constitution outlawed leaders from advocating for war. A feature of this future society was that as a symbol of non-aggression, people would amputate first a ...
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What Was the Educational Series About an Alien Learning Library Skills?
In 1986 or so I watched an educational series about an alien that came to a post-apocalyptic earth. He was stuck and had to learn to use the library in order to get the information that he needed to ...
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'90s cartoon involving characters flying out of a PC
All I can remember is these small characters doing battle in some cyberspace on small flying ships, only to find their way out into the real world by flying out of the hard drive and proceeding to ...
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Space anime movie from '90s with a spaceship that looks like a large sled with wings [duplicate]
I remember an anime from the 90s. It was on VHS back then.
The spaceship looks like a large sled with wings.
The commanding bridge was on top of it.
The spaceship started on the water, maybe in the ...
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Old animated TV series where a character has a bracelet that generates a metal suit and finds a second, different one
I'm having a hard time finding what I'm looking for because I only remember one scene that happened.
The character who I think is the MC, wears a silver (or metallic) band/bracelet/bangle on one wrist,...
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Short story where a sideshow barker asks a child to debunk his paranormal exhibits, including ectoplasm [migrated]
The question has most of the elements that I remember, but not the author or title of the short story, which I’ve forgotten.
The barker is setting up the exhibit and invites a child to critique it. As ...
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Story about time traveling to the dinosaurs where travelers have an option to stay in the past
I'm looking for a short story I read in a magazine like OMNI, probably in the late 80s or early 90s. It was set in the near future where time travel was possible. People were using it to visit the ...
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Story about aliens who captured humans and realise they are terrifying in terms of wound healing, endurance etc
Read it online some time ago. The story started with humans already captured in space, followed by aliens' realisation about humans' abilities. The human protagonist later grew attached to some other ...
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Regression Manhwa/Webtoon where the main female lead died due to illness
I read this manhwa a year ago but I forgot the title. I changed phones so most of the titles are lost and since the site where i use to read was brought down.
So I vaguely remember about the story is ...
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Science fiction novel on genetically engineered chimeric embryos in cows, with resulting escaped monsters
The novel is dystopian science fiction, published before 2013, in English. It is set in the US, Canada, etc.
It starts with a Chinese (or Asian) woman researcher in a secret laboratory where ...
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Old sci-fi short story involving a small scorpion-like creature that can mind control people after stinging them
A few decades ago I came upon a collection of sci-fi short stories. One in particular stood out, but I can't find the name of it.
Basically, an exploration starship returns to Earth from, I believe, ...
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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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Book about reaching a nearby star and returning millennia later
Thanks for the suggestions to improve. Here is an updated version.
I've been trying to find this for decades.
science fiction book (or maybe long story)
English
I do not remember the cover image, but ...
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Manhwa where the female lead is executed by her family and sent back in time by the male lead, who is a wizard
I read this manhwa a few months ago but forgot its name, where the female lead was executed by her family (I don't remember why) and gets sent back in time by the male lead who is a wizard, but he can'...
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Short story with man stationed on another planet
I am trying to find the title of a really scary SF short story about a man stationed alone on an outpost on a moon or alien planet. He lives in a small bunker with an alien as his assistant or helper....
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Science Fiction comic with detective
I read this comic book sometime last year on my kindle, and I am pretty sure it was a part of kindle comixology or something and since I have prime I got it for free.
It featured a detective as the ...
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Sci fi book series about two boys, one from the modern day, one from the future, who swap places. Set in the UK
The boy from the future has an AI assistant. When he turned 10 (or 12) he was given a choice between an AI that had opinions or one that just did whatever you told it to do. He was lazy and ...
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Short Science fiction story about a group of people trying to get to a portal that people believe leads to paradise
I'm looking for the name of a short science fiction story, that I read in the early 1980s. It had a heavy cold war vibe to it, so it's probably much older.
The story is about a group of people trying ...
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Manga/anime about a mage who makes himself younger but in the process falls asleep for 100 years
It's this one anime I watched not long ago.
There is this old mage who drinks a certain potion to make himself younger. Once he drinks the potion he gets put to sleep and sleeps for like 100 years ...
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Man from advanced civilization becomes stranded on planet with humans with primitive society
Seeking title and author of work that starts with protagonist's life in an advanced society where people don't even walk, they float in chairs and their muscles are thus atrophied. They can only ...
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YA book - kids detective / mystery book where they travel into the computer / web
I’m searching for a YA book I read back in primary school in Australia in the 1990s (so I’m a bit fuzzy on details).
The book itself had a metallic silver cover. I remember it being a computer mystery ...
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Does anyone recognize this fantasy book about a witch’s curse and the quest to break it? [duplicate]
I was young when I read this in the 1980s and have forgotten a lot of it, but I’m hoping someone will recognize it. A vain young man, possibly a noble or prince cursed to be much bigger than he was (I ...
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Strange memory of a pre-1990 and probably pre-1980 science fiction story: something about forced human labor and "knobs"
Aliens forced humans to work for them and the work consisted of holding onto smooth metallic knobs which, presumably through something like electrostatic force (but probably something alien and exotic)...
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Horror webcomic about a sleepover where a girl is dared to kiss a boy but she's attacked by monsters in his room
I stumbled on a YouTube short. The comic is about a girl sleepover playing truth or dare until it was a tall black haired girl's turn and she was dared to kiss the hostess' brother. She accepts it and ...
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Looking for name of Manga Pls Help🙏 [migrated]
Hi I’m looking for this old manga I read, it’s more slice of life with a female lead in college. She has been living with her boyfriend she meet in high school. She had a abusive father and moved away ...
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Blue shirt guy on an airship
I remember watching this show back in the 2000s where a guy with a blue shirt with curly mustaches moving around in a huge airship. He was very energetic and probably became stronger after eating an ...
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Manga where the main character is a dragon and human who dies and goes into another body after healing it
I'm looking for a manga that I read a year ago.
The main character was a prince who is dragon and human. His father found him and punished him for a reason I can't remember. The prince dies and goes ...
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Book about a young girl whose arm is blessed with luck after an encounter with some reptilian creatures
I can't remember the name of a book I read as a child, before 2005.
The main character is a fairly young girl, I think around 13 years old. I can't remember if she was living in an orphanage, or was ...
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Series of novels about humans migrating to a new planet in cylindrical spaceship(s)
I read a series of sci-fi novels a few years ago and cannot remember the names of the novels or the author.
Here are some of the specific plot elements:
One of the ships' main entertainments was a ...
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Short story ID: Earth evacuates and one(?) person stays behind
I read this story in the last 15 years, but the story was probably much older (50's, 60's?) and I think is from one of the more well known authors, but maybe not one of the greats. I probably read it ...
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1960s or 1970s short story; Earth is being evacuated because of an expanding Sun
In the 1970s, I read a short story about a young man who missed the last evacuation ship off Earth. The Sun was expanding and Earth was heating up too much to sustain life. Humans were being moved to ...
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Sci fi - 60s/70s [closed]
Trying to find the name of a book or series from the 60s/70s about the future when mankind had spread to multiple planets outside of this solar system - and the government (a little totalitarian) was ...
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Looking for a story featuring Pegasus, two boys and a girl
I read this book 6-7 years ago. It was a series with over three books.
What I remember:
There was something about "the Flame of Olympus"
The main character is a girl
The setting was most ...
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Manga where time resets when the main character kills
Hi I'm looking for a manga I had lost a while ago. The main character was an esper and, whenever he killed someone, time would be reset. He tried destroying the city, and that didn't work, so he tried ...
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Harry Potter fanfic: Snape is ordered to raise Harry
Definitely read it on FFN. I last read it about 10 years ago; it was definitely unfinished at the time. The profile pic had a fox in it.
Key details:
Harry is either a baby or possibly a toddler.
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Comedy Manhwa where FL reincarnates in her favourite novel and breaks engagement with ML to survive
I can't remember the name of this manwha that I read a while ago. The FL reincarnated as the villainess of her favorite game/novel (I can't remember). The story happens in a school, and the characters ...
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Manhwa where a girl dies because of a fairy that gives her some important power. She reincarnates as a plant mage
It's about a girl who is reincarnated in a magic world as a plant mage (or something like that). She starts to grow fruits and vegetables to get money, because these are expensive in this world. There ...
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Book I read 26 years ago where the protagonist visits a therapist and talks about dreams and trains
I have very little recollection of the book other than the general theme (augmented humans fight across space and possibly time). On particular thread in the book was the protagonist's recurring ...
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Low budget 70/80/90s film where men go through a factory and come out women
I have had flashbacks to a film I once saw on TV as a young lad. It stuck with me, but I’ve never been able to find it again.
It would have been on UK TV late night possibly channel 3 or 4 around late ...
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Short story about misfit diplomats in a crucial, last minute negotiation
I remember this story from years back, it was when I was reading lots of early sci-fi (e.g. Asimov). It was probably in a collection of sci-fi works. I would appreciate help finding it again:
Key ...
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Scifi TV show about an AI from a spaceship, contacting different teenagers?
I am searching for a 90s TV show. It is about a spaceship with an AI that contacts different teenagers each episode.
In one of them, the alien AI sends a message to a teenager asking
What is the FBI?
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Manga about a boy who died on his way to school who has to win battles to be resurrected
I'm looking for a manga I read about 8-9 years ago.
The MC was a male high school kid that woke up on his birthday. As he was running to school he all of a sudden he was in the hallway of his school ...
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Manhwa with a female lead who keeps dying by the age of 25 and reincarnating to start over again
At the beginning, it showed a red-haired woman who was dying. Then she was in front of a man who greeted her familiarly and said something like "so you're here again?" because she died. I'm ...
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I’m looking for a 3-book science fiction series about human encounter and battle with aliens that happens on a submersible aircraft carrier
The three book series takes place on a submersible aircraft carrier which starts to have strange encounters with unknown creatures swimming in the ocean. As they continue to investigate, they ...
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A truce between the ground and sky
I'm looking for this short story of the ground and sky arguing and then reaching a truce. It features a star who acts as arbiter. I wanted to know if anyone else has found or read it?
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Looking for story where a company can predict when you will die
I haven't read this book. I apologize for the limited info. My friend once told me about this book and shared the limited info that she knew about it.
All the info I have:
The book has a company that ...
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