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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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Guy summoned to a D&D world, who ends up winning by abusing rules exploits
This is The Two-Year Emperor by David K. Storrs.
Jake is a 40 year old programmer who has been yanked to the land of Flobovia and made ruler of said country, due to a quirk in local law. He is thu …
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Identify story/book where paralegals are also a paramilitary group
Could it be Eoin Colfer's The Supernaturalist? It does have a scene where a squad of paralegals break into a building, albeit to seize a prototype engine design.
One night, the Supernaturalists st …
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TV episode where people are in a cave/tunnel and get teleported to the other coast
Sounds like Earth2, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_2_(TV_series) for description. There was a tunnel that the Grendlers (native hunter-gatherers) used that transported them from one location …
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old scify novel similar to "miss peregrine"?
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon. In the original group, there are actually twin teleporters, a boy and a girl; another girl who is telekinetic; and a man who can compel people to do things.
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Book where girl is raised in history museum to believe she as actually part of the time peri...
I believe you're looking for Running Out of Time, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (1996). From Wikipedia:
Jessie Keyser is a 13-year-old girl from the village of Clifton, Indiana, in the 1840s. During …
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Story identification - huge abandoned spaceship
That's probably the Great Ship series by Robert Reed, of which the first entry is the novel Marrow.
When a jovian sized, artificially-created structure enters the galaxy,
a society of technolog …
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Short story about "leaping" (matter transfer without "beaming")
The discovery of your "leaping" is very, very similar to the discovery of Jaunting in Alfred Bester's book The Stars My Destination.
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Mid-80s novella about interstellar colony ship with a caretaker/troubleshooter awakened from...
The Dream Millennium by James White.
WARNING: Spoilers in the link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_Millennium
Earth is dying, so a secret project sends a starship full of cryogenically fr …
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Acolytes are turned into crows and learn magic
It is probably the novel Krabat by Otfried Preußler, also known as The Satanic Mill.
The Mill is both an ordinary mill that grinds ordinary wheat to make ordinary flour, and a secret school of dark ma …
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Online science fiction story: Amnesiac evil mastermind used horrific Doomsday weapon
It's Simon of Space. Found it through a Darth Vader diary by the same author.
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Name/Author of this 70s German(?) SF novel? Zone Two?
Could possibly be Zone Null by Herbert W Franke, published in 1970 and apparently was translated into English in 1974.
Kirkus Reviews describes it thus:
This German antiutopia is the latest in …
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Artist painting Sistine Chapel, Old Bull God and talking mechanical birds
Possibly from the series...
The Sarantine Mosaic
by Guy Gavriel Kay.
From the plot description on wikipedia the following elements seem to match pretty well:
The story's setting is based on the …
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Story ID: centered around a (board) game
It seems that the story I was thinking of is "Out There Where the Big Ships Go", by Richard Cowper, and it's appeared in several anthologies, including one by the same title. The game in question, if …
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Finding a book with a man from the future being reincarnated on Earth in past times
This sounds like it might be the Orion series by Ben Bova.
From the link:
John O'Ryan is not a god...not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for d …
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A trilogy which started as fantasy but ended up as science fiction
That sounds like Jack Chalker's Soul Rider series, published from 1984 to 1986. Chalker was prolific and, as the comments on your initial question indicate, many of his storylines involved people havi …
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