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Searching title of a dystopian story: In the future people are forced to sit in front of giant screens and must watch TV or movies as a punishment
The description is vague so please pardon.
It might be from the 1970's or earlier.
The story focuses on one protagonist in a bleak future society. It seems everyone is forced to spend time sitting ...
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Manhwa where the main character has a system with a lucky wheel and opens a restaurant
Looking for a manhwa where the main character has a system with a lucky wheel and obtains soup most of the time so he opens a restaurant.
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Manhwa where the main character is bullied in high school, gains powers with others, and is pursued by a scythe guy
In the mahwa, the main character is a bullied high school boy and one day he gets powers like his in-game character. The systems call him and meets this rich orange-haired female classmate and there ...
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I remember a Sat morning sci fi show in the 70’s or 80’s that feature an all teenage crew made up of very intelligent individuals
The crew was young because they needed to be in space a long time for what ever their mission was. The capt/cmdr was a dark-haired/white male and he had a smaller reddish haired/white male assistant. ...
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What does "their" in "their next" refer to?
In Matrix (1999),Trinity answers a ringing public telephone and vanishes just before an
Agent crashes a truck into the booth.
Brown: We have the name of their next target.
Jones: The name is Neo.
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Small furry alien but very intelligent and good fighter with human male partner
I'm trying to find the name of a short story or novel from the '60s to early '80s.
The human and the alien partner travel in space, solving mysteries or fighting bad guys or just getting rich. The ...
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Fantasy manga where the mc is the vassal of the demon king
looking for the manga where the mc is chosen as the vassal of the demon king and becomes him. he gets lost in the human world and they search for him, as he adventures with an angel.
this is all the ...
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Is there any knowledge or notes on the 11th Culture book?
When Banks died, he had in his mind the plot for the 11th Culture book (source: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/the-future-might-be-a-hoot-how-iain-m-banks-imagines-utopia/...
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Short story published in Sci-Fi Best in 60's-70's about delivering a unique animal to home planet or keep in captivity
the short Sci-Fi story I'm looking for I read many years ago, is about a spacecraft captain who is suppose to deliver alien species held in the spacecraft to some sort of zoo. One particular being is ...
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What was the original name of James Blish's "IMT"?
In James Blish's Cities in Flight novel, Earthman Come Home, what was the original name of the rogue city known as IMT (Interstellar Master Traders)? Did Blish expect that the alert reader would be ...
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Comic that's like Spider-Man but violent, and the main character wears a mask with a heavy-metal aesthetic?
So as the title says, I am looking for a comic wherein the protagonist has a coming of age origin arc similar to Stan Lee's Peter Parker.
The difference is that this dude has inherited or unlocked ...
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Other-world manga story with an emotional mc
The manga had some chapters where the mc met a shy white haired elf while being kids, with her being bullied by others, after some chapters she becomes a guard of some noble, also the fmc was red ...
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An inconsistency in Secrets of Sulphur Springs?
Season three premiered March 24, 2023, with the episodes "Time Won't Let Me" and "Time in a Crystal".
And in one of them, probably "Time in a Crystal", Zoey, Wyatt, and ...
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First instance of robots killing a non-human animal?
This is kind of grim, I realize. I am rereading The Second Variety and a quirky, almost humorous bit is, "Major Hendricks went on. Off to the right something scuttled, something round and ...
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What was the first story wherein an artificial plague is created for therapeutic reasons?
In Miri from STOS, I do not think specifically an artificial virus or artificially-modified virus is mentioned, but Wikipedia says, "The party find a medical research laboratory and look through ...
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Story in which only children who receive treatment can become immortal?
I think I read this in the early 1990s.
I recall thinking that the basic premise, that it would only work if you got it young resonated -- just like if you take growth hormone as a child, indeed you ...
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Looking for title of future ice age book from before 1980
About 50 years ago I read a book that started near Spilsby in Lincolnshire, UK and followed a family who moved across country due to an advancing ice age. They moved to the west coast of wales. I ...
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Old scifi tv series where a possessed astronaut tries to figure out a passcode
Trying to find name of the show and episode of an old (possibly black and white) sci-fi television show for my dad.
From what he can remember the episode is about a couple of astronauts on a planet ...
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Manga where mc dies and reincarnates into same world and body
I'm looking for a manga where the main character is poisoned or injured by a relative or clan member, dies from it, but reincarnates into same body a couple months before he dies, and he goes hunting ...
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Book read in the '80s or '90s about a girl who is kidnapped and replaced, then escapes and returns home to find it different than she remembered
I read a book as a kid about a girl who is kidnapped or something and replaced. She eventually escapes and there's a scene where she's riding her bike home but her street looks different...trees look ...
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Was Second Variety brought up in connection with Ellison's suit against Cameron over Terminator?
It seems to me that if anyone had pointed out that some ideas in "Second Variety" were very similar to Terminator's -- in particular, the "infiltrator" of Terminator is completely ...
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Underground Comix Story - 'Twilight of the Dogs'?
I read this B&W story in an American underground comic sometime in the 1970s. I am almost certain it was named 'Twilight of the Dogs'. The GCD lists two Richard Corben stories by this title: one ...
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Anime where guy breaks anything he touches
I saw this in an anime years ago and I don't believe this was the main character of the show. But this one character broke/ deteriorated anything he touched. So when he fought he carried around a lot ...
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Book about a war against evolved rats attacking Earth with bioweapons that kill women
I've been trying to recall a sci-fi book I read; the key elements I recall is that only men were in space as women were kept on Earth after a bio-attack that killed most women.
Along the way the ...
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Wondering if there's a manhwa for this [closed]
A manhwa, where the mc is female and gets reincarnated into a new world. She has a good singing voice so she uses it to her advantage. She uses her singing voice to get recognition to get famous.
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Old sci fi story about a crashed alien shape shifter eating people in a town/city
I've been trying for years to find a sci fi story I read as a kid. It had a stranded alien using shape shifting abilities to stalk and eat people in a town or city. The main character figures out that ...
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Fantasy manhwa where the female lead is poisoned when she becomes the empress
Manhwa where in the beginning, the female lead is destined to marry the future emperor. When their coronation comes, she’s extremely frail and dies; she’s replaced by another woman and her husband ...
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Immortal cursed hero
I'm looking for a manga where the main character and his party defeat the demon king, but he curses the hero so he is immortal and slowly turning into a monster. He has the ability to absorb ...
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How many times has the Prime Directive been broken? [closed]
I'm speaking of onscreen moments where the Prime Directive has been violated somehow, by any character in the shows or movies.
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Could Battlestar Pegasus' heavy guns bombard planetary targets? [closed]
In the 2000s TV show Battlestar Galactica one of the capital ships destroys enemy ships with a large cannon.
For the sake of argument let's say that Battlestar Pegasus was in orbit around the Earth, ...
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Sci-Fi novel featuring space travel, time dilation, and civilization regression
When I was a teenager back in the 90s, I read a sci-fi novel or short story whose plotline was something like this:
The novel's protagonist is a man who travels from and to Earth on a spaceship.
Due ...
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When did Star Trek first start using low lights as a norm for red alert conditions?
In older shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager, corridors were not dimmed during red alert.
But in the newer shows, the lights are usually dimmed.
In what show did this ...
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Fantasy book about a brother who becomes a warrior and a sister who goes to magic school
There was a book I read when I was in middle school. It is a brother/sister fantasy book.
The brother becomes a warrior, goes to a battle school, and then joins an elite group of soldiers that need to ...
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A book about a drug that induces a 24-hour high before death
I am looking for the name of a dystopian book I read 4-5 years ago. The book is about a drug that induces an amazing high for 24 hours before it kills you.
Parts of the book I remember
The book starts ...
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How can deflector arrays block weapons fire?
This question is based on this exchange from the TNG episode The Outrageous Okona
Worf: "Captain, they are now locking lasers on us."
Riker: "Lasers?"
Worf: "Yes, sir."
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3D animated cartoon where the main character is a tree-like teenager and the lead main character is an eagle humanoid
It’s a 3d animated cartoon I watched a long time ago.
The main character is a tree humanoid that has something on his hand that makes him turn into a giant version of himself. He has to go find other ...
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Old movie or TV episode involving a girl who raced go-karts and a leprechaun or some other deity who helped her to win a race
I've been searching for this movie off an on for what feels like 10+ years.
I'm unsure if the sole focus was go-kart racing but I know it was reoccurring in the film.
The parts I remember 100% of:
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Why does Harry think that Dumbledore has never been in the Room of Requirement?
In Chapter Thirty-One of Deathly Hallows Harry has the following thought about the Room of Requirement:
Tom Riddle, who confided in no one and operated alone, might have been arrogant enough to ...
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Manhwa where the main character goes looking for his teacher's daughter after his teacher is killed
The main character (MC) and his teacher train in a cave for some years, before the teacher dies. After that, the MC goes looking for his teacher's daughter. I think the MC's teacher cultivates ...
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Please help me find this fantasy live action series that was probably released in 2010
The show has five teenagers each of whom has a stone related to an element: fire, thunder, electricity, rain. The name of characters as far as I remember are Fire, Electra, Rain, and Sky.
It starts ...
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Trying to find a series I read in the 90s about a boy who finds other world and overhears plot
He’s visiting a house, I think his uncle's, for the summer. He finds a way to another world in a chest? He finds himself in a room. While there he finds other world creatures and overhears them ...
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Batman comic quote [closed]
I’m trying to remember a quote Batman said in the comics(?) about himself - how he’s only doing what someone with his experiences, resources and character would do. Can anyone help?
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What changes were made to "Eragon" for the 2003 version?
According to Wikipedia, the book was originally published by Paolini's parents' company "Paolini International". It was later "discovered by novelist Carl Hiaasen, who brought it to the ...
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Science Fiction Fantasy about earth in the far future covered by a jungle that is miles thick
Pre 80s story where earth is covered by a sentient jungle and there is only one human woman whom the jungle entity protects. The jungle covers the entire world and is a few miles thick from top to ...
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Ghost hunter story in Asimov's in the early 90s
This story takes place in the modern era - the main character can see ghosts, some of whom wander the world causing problems (in a manner I don't remember - temporarily possessing people perhaps?). ...
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who was the real-life model for Artem Ivanoff in Detroit: Become Human
Trying to find out who is the model of the Russian president Artem Ivanoff in the video game Detroit: Become Human
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Would an XNA based organism be immune to all pathogens? [closed]
XNA is a nucleic acid analogue that could hypothetically be used by an organism in place of DNA. and is "invisible" to natural biological systems. In medical applications, it has the ...
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What Sheri S. Tepper novel includes a prophet and a resulting religion?
What Sheri S. Tepper book includes a prophet saying “Don’t let them mess with your head” and a resulting religion which forbids haircuts?
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Vampire book with white dress cover (showing bare feet)
The book contained shapeshifters that could transform into animals that weren’t your usual picks. Like armadillos etc. The vampire who changed the main character had a type of control over her and her ...
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Galactic Empress with nude female guards book
I read a SF book many (40-50?) years ago but I can barely remember any plot or characters.
Only one thing sticks in my mind, there was like a galactic empress and, chained before her throne, she had ...
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