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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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70s or 80s sci-fi book, a small community try to save the world
I'm trying to identify a novel I read when I was a student. The novel could have been written by Philip José Farmer or Clifford D. Simak, but I'm not sure.
A small group of people are on a quest, the …
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80s Sci-Fi film where alien race agrees to arm transplant to try and kill the bad guy [duplicate]
I am trying to identify a Sci-Fi movie from the 80s. Amongst the 'good guys', there are three identical aliens with a form of telepathy that allows them to synchronise their body movements. They have …
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Book series about a girl who has to live with a vampire
The book starts with the protagonist (young girl) climbing a mountain and getting kidnapped by a young male vampire. She has to live with him as a servant, and at first she's afraid, but later she fe …
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Looking for a short story about Bela Lugosi
It was included in an anthology I read in the 90’s.
Basically Bela Lugosi is filming Dracula and at the end of a long day, he gets high on morphine and hallucinates meeting Vlad Tepes.
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70s or 80s sci-fi book, boy has secateur hand
I'm looking to identify a sci-fi book I read a few times as a tween / young teen in the 80s. Set in the future where jobs are predetermined and the body is manipulated accordingly. The main character …
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Can you identify a cartoon in which Flash became fat?
I have this animated show/ movie scene in my mind: Flash is running and suddenly he becomes fat. Then, he goes out of breath.
It may also have Mirror Master because Flash also saw his distorted images …
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Low-budget fantasy movie scene where a sorcerer's apprentice creates a banana but has no ide...
This was a movie I rented on VHS, back in the late 1980s or early 1990s. It was a quasi-medieval swords-and-sorcery fantasy, clearly made with a very low budget. It's tone was mostly serious, but spri …
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A widower with 3 children wins a female android at a football game
A novel about a widower with three children in the future. He is given free tickets to the 49er game but the kicker is he asks a girl if she is a robot he gets to take her home. He wins and takes her …
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Movie where everything turns out to be the test of new VR glasses in helicopter
The movie was probably made somewhere after 2010 in Hollywood. According to what I remember, it had rather contemporary visual effects and overall visuals.
The plot begins with CEO of some company rea …
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Name the book with human embassy on small island [duplicate]
I’m trying to recall a sci-fi book. The story involves humans discovering a planet inhabited by an alien civilization. They orbit the planet in their spaceship, and the aliens eventually allow them to …
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A cartoon about a man who uses a magic flute to save a town from an invasion of rats, and la...
I vaguely remember watching a cartoon movie whose plot goes like this.
The movie begins with a boy named Hans and a girl (I don't remember the name) playing on a meadow. The girl's kite gets trapped o …
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Time travelling paedo priest novel
I read this in the UK in the 1990s but it could have been older than that, I don't recall too much of the story.
Basically there's a priest who is a sexual predator to young boys, however he is select …
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Humans try to help aliens deactivate their defensive barrier
I read this short story in the 90s, it was in either a magazine or an anthology and probably written much earlier.
Humans were expanding in space and found a race of friendly aliens. Meeting them dire …
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A giant wall in the middle of the ocean that splits the world in two
I watched what I think is a couple of episodes of a series a long time ago, maybe around 2002-2004 or something. Could be an older show. The show had a medieval setting.
In this show, there was a huge …
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An almost steam-punk short fiction about robot childcarers
I read this short fiction, probably novelette rather than short story, about 10 years ago. I read it in English, most probably in some collection. But it might be much older.
I said "almost" steampunk …
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