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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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Looking for a book described in the story "The Man in the Pepper Mill"
It sounds likely to be Fu Manchu, a heavily stereotyped Asian supervillain who featured in a number of pulp thriller novels with racist overtones, and was the model for later characters such as Ming a …
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Book about extremely overpopulated world where caring was a liability
This sounds like Philip Jose Farmer's noted short story "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World", which he later used as the inspiration for his "Dayworld" series. Both are about a future in which …
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People waiting in a building to be taken to a new future/planet
James Patrick Kelly's "Standing in Line With Mister Jimmy" was published just shy of 25 years ago, in 1991. It appeared in IASFM and later in Kelly's collection Think Like a Dinosaur. The plot is ab …
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Romantic fantasy book with codes, ciphers and time travel
I read this book in the late eighties or possibly early nineties. It was basically a young-adult romance, but an unusual one --a lot of it revolved around the use of various codes and ciphers. It wa …
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80s (or earlier) sci-fi book with the smartest young people of Earth sent to outer space, an...
Could it be Zindell's "Neverness"? It came out in 1988. It would have kind of been a tough read for your first ever science fiction book, but some of the elements sound similar.
It's about a young …
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Looking for a sci-fi detective novel
There's no connection to the Hindu gods or airships, but Jonathan Lethem's "Gun With Occasional Music" is a sci-fi noir in a future world where karma is tracked via credit card, and drug use is rampan …
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Fantasy book where the "wizards" constructs their towers in their minds
A minor but memorable feature of John Crowley's 1981 fantasy novel "Little, Big" is that one of the characters, Ariel Hawksquill, practices a form of "magic" whose chief feature is constructing buildi …
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Looking for title/author of sci-fi book from the 80s/90s, environmentalist theme, older fema...
The timeframe is a bit off, but this sounds very similar to Margaret Atwood's paired books "The Year of the Flood" and "Oryx and Crake". I never finished reading either book, but I do remember that a …
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Young adult sci-fi / chaos theory from 90s
This sounds to me like 0X (1975), the final book from Piers Anthony's "Of Men and Manta" series. I read it when I was quite young (early 80s), but exactly the same plot elements have stuck with me: t …
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Novel with a hyperspace pilot who goes to supernova party, falls in love with god who become...
This is definitely a book by David Zindell, most likely Neverness. The woman who becomes a godlike cybernetic entity is called the "Solid State Entity" (encompassing not just a planet, but an entire …
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Science fiction novel about a man who travels through time and falls in love with a warrior ...
I know another answer has already been accepted but the original question is a pretty close match for the original "Time Machine" novel by H G Wells, the father of science fiction. A man goes forward …
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Book series: Sentient dinosaur-like academic travels to a city of living books
I'm seeking a relatively recent (last 10 years) fantasy series translated from the German. The title is something like City of the Living Books. The tone is humorous, and is appropriate for children …
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Fantasy novel about young girl's trip through the alphabet
Another book identification question about a children's fantasy novel. I read it when I was in early elementary school (around '82 or '83) but I had the sense it was an old book even at that time.
I …
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80s SF/F movie with exotic cult, soldier of fortune
So, I was flipping through broadcast last night, and I caught just a couple of brief glimpses of a B action flick on a lesser channel.
I would guess it to be 80s/90s in time period. The protagonist se …
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Anime where the main character enters a game he plays and uses his knowledge of the game to ...
Is it possibly the anime-inspired webcomic "Erfworld"?
Erfworld was a story-driven fantasy/comedy webcomic and independently
published graphic novel about a master strategy gamer summoned into
and st …
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