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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Identification: a story about an entire spaceship converted to anti-matter
A novel of Russian author. Presumably, published in 1980s. An expedition to a remote galaxy on its way back to the Earth encounters a strange phenomena. During the passage through a "cloud" of some ...
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Movie where a girl in a swing disappears when a solar flare hits
What's the name of the movie where there was a girl in a swing and a solar flare hit. The girl instantly disappears. There was also a scene where an incubator was made from a fishtank. Any ideas?
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Book with creatures who able to jump backward in time for several minutes [duplicate]
I read it about 1995-96 - though it was a translation and the original book could have been published earlier. So, some facts I remember so far:
There were creatures able to go back in time several ...
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Identify Science Fiction Story about underwater city and liquid breathers (Not "The Abyss")
I read a story in the 1970s, probably older, the only part I remember was the person had his gag reflex cut so he could live in the undersea city. It was separated from the rest of the ocean only by ...
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Please help identify a Soviet SciFi movie from ~1950s
The only things I remember was that it was a propaganda SciFi movie about Americans developing some sort of WMD, and fights to own it. It was infamous as really bad propaganda.
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Old fantasy book about two warring nations and an airship destroyed by a dragon
I'm looking for a book that was written by two authors about two warring nations of elves and hobbit-like people. The book cover has a small hobbit-like person in a shallow cave with a dragon looming ...
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Seeking story about time slowing, couple in stasis, end of the world
I remember reading this in an anthology over 15 years ago:
A married couple lives in an automated house/citadel that satisfies their every need. Somehow, it also preserves them; life is so stable and ...
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Who are the characters in this Top Gear episode supposed to be?
I was watching an episode of Top Gear (series 2, episode 8) and they said "Have you ever wondered who is the fastest Master of the Universe in a Honda?"
Darth Vader and the Klingon are ...
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50's movie where an alien invasion implants devices into human heads for mind control
I'm looking for a 1950's movie where there was an alien invasion. They sent mechanical bat-like objects flying around implanting little devices into human heads, and then taking control of their minds....
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Novel About a Girl Who Realizes She is a Clone [duplicate]
So I remember reading this book in the early 2000's, and I'm pretty sure it was placed in my classroom, so it was obviously geared toward young adults.
It was about a girl who wakes up one day with a ...
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Identify a trilogy about Earth and its colonies in a civil war
I'm trying to find this book trilogy. It is set in the future when earth and its colonies are engaged in a civil war. It deals with battles and strategies of the war, but also the politics involved ...
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unidentified 1970's children's sci-fi magazine
I'm trying to remember a scifi/activity mag that I read when I was a kid in the mid-70s. There was a serial that spanned several issues sometime around '76-'77 called "Invasion of the Strange Ones". ...
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YA book about sister being alien, discovering telekinetic powers in a car accident
I think there was a girl who discovered some telekinetic powers in some kind of car accident. An old neighbor lady turned out to be her helper or guardian and told her she was an alien. The girl's ...
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A book series about a Prehistoric Man versus Intelligent Reptilians [duplicate]
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Trying to Remember a Book that explored evolution of Dinosaurs to intelligence and then encountering humans
In this series prehistoric man is constantly fighting a reptilian ...
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Post Apocalyptic Series With Alien Species
I read this series when I was younger but cannot remember the name to save my life. I remember a species of Aliens saves humanity from the ashes of an apocalyptic nuclear fallout and in the resulting ...
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1980s film involving humanoid aliens crash-landed on Earth
There was a film I loved as a kid; it will have come out in the early-to-mid-1980s, at a guess, set in late-Cold-War-era America.
A stereotypical family unit (mother, father, brother, sister) of ...
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YA book involving a planet with dragons and double-K in people's names [duplicate]
I remember reading, in the 80s, an English-language teen-SF novel involving two teen protagonists (1 male, 1 female) on a planet (not Earth) that might have had some history of slavery (or inter-caste ...
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A SciFi / Paranormal tv series from 10+ years ago
I remember watching a SciFi/Paranormal thriller kind of tv-series with a man that had a special gift. I remember some vague details, like glowing spiders as one of the problems he needed to solve in ...
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TV series about a man guided by another man with a sort of calculator
When I was little I used to watch a TV series, not quite regularly, but it managed to stick in my memories. The problem is I can't remember the title.
It was done probably in the 90s, but I'm not ...
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Novels about a time traveller who fixes a major problem, then investigates the Kennedy assassination
A long time ago (late 70s/ early 80s), I had a 2 book series about a man who came from the distant future to a pivotal point in the past (around the 70s) to 'fix' something that went wrong. He ended ...
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A TV Movie where a guy turns into a cyborg?
I've been looking for this one for years now. I saw it as a kid in the eighties. I thought it was on NBC and seem to think it was around the same time as Misfits of Science but it was a one-time TV ...
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Movie about a mysterious girl who turns out to be an alien
Nearly 10 years ago, I watched a movie or short telefilm on TV. I have forgotten most of it, but I am providing highest detail possible based on my faint memory.
The story was based on a novel (as ...
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80s Sci-Fi movie with a monster-astronaut
I will admit that this is very little information to go on; however, in the early 80s I was watching HBO and caught the tail end of a rather odd sci-fi movie. I remember the "monster" being an ...
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Help me identify a blatant Star Wars clone
Over lunch, I was conversing with some friends about a Sci-Fi movie I saw on TV many years ago (I believe it was in the late 80's, but I'm pretty sure the movie itself was older than this).
I ...
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Collection of youth short stories about aliens 1990-1994ish
I am trying to remember the title/author/editor of a book I had as a kid. It was a collection of short stories about aliens. The cover had a one eyed green alien reaching through the bars of a cage.
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Looking for an old SF tv short story about blue men staging the future [duplicate]
Does anyone know a SF TV short story in which there were blue men who helped "stage" our world- at least the parts we saw, on a minute by minute basis.
So, at each minute, everyone would be in the "...
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Identify book: Older generation of reptile warriors are awakened from stasis to fight next war until newer generation arrives
I'm trying to remember the title to a book. It may even have been a short story. In it, Reptile warriors from a previous war are awakened from stasis and thrust into battle as shock troops until an ...
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Identify trilogy: mankind sends off a ship with the last humans on board
I thought this was a trilogy from Michael Moorcock - but maybe not. I can't remember the name of the trilogy or any of the books (the one I read was a three-in-one volume, like The Stainless Steel Rat ...
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Identify this book: boy who was raised by white tiger
I remember reading this book in the early 60s as a teenager.
At the time I thought it was very provocative for a book aimed at a teenager.
I thought that the name was "Tam son of the white tigress", ...
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Short story: Alien comes to earth and meets bratty girl
I remember this from school days - it was a story about a modern day earth, and a very selfish bratty little girl (9-10?) goes outside to play. An alien craft lands and she is the first earthling to ...
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Identify book: controlling the weather as a weapon in silent global war
I remember a book that was about a secret war being carried out by Russia against America (and with retaliation) that used weather as a weapon. One of the main characters was a weatherman that started ...
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Book about teaching magic and an old stone [duplicate]
It's been more than ten years, but I've been thinking about a book I read as a kid. I can't remember any part of the title or author's name.
It begins with an old man who sits and ponders a stone in ...
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Sci-Fi Golden Age, aliens who see X-rays
Around 1980, I read an anthology of stories by a Sci-Fi author from the 1930s. The aliens portrayed in these succinct short stories were extremely different from Earth creatures, and their peculiar ...
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In which movie was the "Ultimate Question" mentioned for the first time?
I don't remember in which movie it was mentioned for the first time.
It was some movie with John Malkovich if I remember well.
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What is this old movie that featured round, flat creatures that killed by touch?
I remember that I watched this movie as a kid, probably in the late 70's - early 80's. I think it was a black and white movie. I believe the story revolved around an outbreak of creatures that were ...
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ID a book about a mirror world and 4th dimension
I read a book about 10-15 years ago about a boy and a girl who find a mirror. What made the mirror special was, they were able to enter the reflection and be a part of the reverse image world. They ...
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60s or 70s movie with a submarine that flies
There was a large submarine which, through most of the film, was a super advanced sub with a large crew. At the end of the film the submarine deployed an untested feature which enabled it to rise out ...
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What was that movie where people drilling in an asteroid awaken a monster?
I watched this movie on TV 10-15 years ago, and I remember the title as it was translated to my native language, when I translate it back to English, it was something like "The Rock" or "The stone" (...
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Searching for a specific book about dragons [duplicate]
I believe it was a trilogy. It was set in a universe where dragons are pitted in fights against each other for humans' benefit, and the main character was a stableboy who helped to take care of ...
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Set of short stories, including one with a man with wings, and another about his strange family gathering
I was thinking today about this set of short stories, but I can't remember what they were or who wrote them!
One of the stories was about a strange family, where each member has some sort of dark ...
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Story About Carrying Buckets of Oxygen (Old Time Radio) [duplicate]
When I was in college, in a small town, there was a radio station in town that would play old time radio shows. One night I heard one that has stuck in my mind ever since. While I have a lot of OTR (...
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Story of an ex-dictator time-traveling into the past who's hunted down b/c he's radioactive
Can anyone find this story for me? It's one of those early sci-fi short stories. A dictator is violently deposed but escapes by jumping into a time machine. He travels to the past (somewhere around ...
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What is the novel with a John Carter like hero from the pulp era?
In the early 70s I read what I'm sure was an Ace paper back. Loosely SF in the same way that the Barsoomian tales might be considered SF. A typical "mighty-thewed" hero is magically transported to ...
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TV series or film where some have a technology allergy or aversity
I remember watching a UK television series episode or a film about a group of people wandering around (Britain). The group seem to suffer collectively from a technology phobia, for example they ...
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Identify a story about the last dwarf warrior / berserker
A novel I read at least 15 years ago was about a dwarf who was visiting a human woman he had known for years. He referred to her as Sif, I think. At the time of the visit he was one of the last ...
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I am looking for a sci-fi novel about an earth expedition invading an alien planet by mistake
I recall a novel I read back in the 80s about an scientific survey ship from Earth being destroyed in orbit around an alien planet. When the messages from the ship arrive on Earth years later, a ...
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Sci-fi novel with characters called 'Milk' and 'Apple'
I'm trying to remember a sci-fi book I read in the seventies. All I can really remember is that the two main characters were called 'Milk' and 'Apple'.
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Looking for two stories about a telekinetic boy
I have been trying to find a book I read quite a few years ago. Well, there are 2, one being the sequel.
Now I'm sure my memory has been kind enough to mix parts of the 2 books, but I will do my best ...
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Book of thought experiments around philosophy of identity
I remember reading a paperback book in the late 1970s or early 1980s that consisted, at least partly, of a series of thought experiments about identity. Examples were teleportation to another planet ...
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A short story of a guy on a strange alien planet
A long time ago I read a short novel (can't remember the actual length, but not likely that it was more than 100 pages long) about a human astronaut on some sort of mission who landed on an alien ...
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