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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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Sci-fi animated movie: ship in trouble, crashes into planet
I'm hoping someone here will have an idea of the name of this movie I'm trying to find. It's a sci-fi full-length animated film. The opening scene has the viewer approaching a large spaceship from beh …
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YA novel - set in an orphanage - spiny fish fed blood and candle wax
I am trying to identify the title and author of a young adult novel I encountered as a teen, around the mid to late 90s. It was:
A Gothic horror/fantasy
Took place in an orphanage
and the major s …
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Futuristic setting where citizens pay via "ID chips"
This is a book I never finished so I can only give a brief summary of the beginning of the book.
From what I remember, the story is a futuristic setting where citizens pay via "ID chips" and they ca …
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Scifi YA story about boy leaving safe surroundings for supposedly unsafe environment
I read this story in German in the early to mid 1990's. As it was in the local library and looked quite used it might be older than that.
The cover I remember was a figure shown from behind in front …
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Men In Black 1 alternate/different known endings
Watching this ending clip I got weird a feeling, I recalled there's something missing/different.
This is what I remembered:
After the last scene show in this video, …
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I'm trying to find a book I read about a boy and his brother discovering an alien girl who c...
It is sort of sci-fi, maybe for teens, younger readers, or young adults.
The main character is a boy, he might have an older brother. There are crop circles appearing and a spaceship, maybe a shuttle, …
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Fantasy Alien world With Girl in Crashlanded ship
All i remember about this book... Or graphic novel I guess.. There's alot of drawings.
Maybe it started with an E.. Or like "world of.." "journey.."
Black and white. With green color .
So this girl …
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Pre-1978 short story or poem about a football game with no officiating mistakes
I can't remember the name or the author, but the plot is that human officials have either been replaced by robots or every play is video reviewed. The point of the story is that the game couldn't prog …
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Teen sci-fi book - Stonehenge type structure reference
I'm trying to remember a book I read several times as a kid, so sometime in the 90s. It involved a structure that was basically Stonehenge (was something very important regarding signage that said to …
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Trying to recall the name of a young adult/children's dystopian fantasy series
I am trying to remember the name of a series with quite a few (shortish) books, although I am having trouble remembering the details of the series, as well as the name of the books.
I remember that t …
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Boy transported to mystic land, fights evil, future self helps him as a wizard
This was a book I read in the early part of the 2000's. I can't remember title or author and it's driving me mad.
The protagonist is a youngish man transported to a mystical land and is taught by a w …
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Lone humanoid wanders a hostile, frozen ship; befriends an alien with a lemon-shaped head
I'm trying to recall the name of a novel, approximately 3 to 5 years old, where the plot follows a lone humanoid as she awakens on a huge, hostile, frozen ship. Parts of the ship are cold so she has …
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Story Identification: Trying to recall an older (early 90s) fantasy book set in modern times
Okay, so this was a book, possibly part of a series, that I started reading as a kid, but lost the book before I could finish it. It is set in more or less modern times, on earth. I want to say at lea …
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Genius siblings help build spaceships to escape a dying Earth
I am looking for the name of this book, which was maybe written in the early 90's.
It's about:
A boy and a girl that when they were babies their parents end up at this facility while traveling.
The …
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A book where balloons are used to capture peoples' lifeforce
We read this book a while ago where the main character - a girl - befriends a boy and they realize that something is wrong with their parents. Turns out, they were going to this tree where they would …
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