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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 story where Satan is the sane, stable one
There's a short story by Keith Laumer where Satan is a reasonable and actually nice person; Yahweh doesn't appear in the story, but it's explained that Hell got its bad reputation just due to negative …
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Story or novel with free power generation
I'm wondering if you are thinking of the Bending Converter, from the fiction of Randall Garrett. If so, I have good news for you: you can find the stories on Project Gutenberg.
I'm aware of two refer …
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Lost in alien world - Comic book identification
This sounds exactly like Land of the Giants, and per Wikipedia there was a tie-in comic made in 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Giants
Hermes Press sells a graphic novel featuring all …
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Help me identify an urban fantasy web comic whose main character was named "Resonator"
I thought of a new way to research this: people like to make lists of things, so maybe the fact that the protagonist is bisexual would mean that I could find this comic in a list. Lo and behold, this …
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Comic book that was released in the 80s
Could this possibly be Camelot 3000?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot_3000
Similarities:
gruesomely drawn battle scenes, with swords cleaving aliens in two
aliens with blasters vs. modern-day …
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Help me identify an urban fantasy web comic whose main character was named "Resonator"
I used to read a web comic and I've forgotten it's name and URL. It was "urban fantasy" where some fantastic things happened in a world that looked like the real world in the present time. The main …
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What is the earliest portrayal of cell phones as we know them now?
I think the best answer has to be @user14111 with the story from 1915.
I researched this briefly because I remembered Heinlein had pocket phones in several of his stories, and found this article:
http …
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Identify a novel of interstellar piracy with "spreighforming"
I would like to get a copy of a novel I read decades ago. I'm certain it was a paperback, not a hardback. I couldn't remember the author or title so I Googled for words I remembered from it.
I've fo …
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Short story about a secret suburban house on the moon
I think this must be "Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's" by Adam-Troy Castro (a review).
This review provides more details:
Destination turns out to be something that cannot exist! A very small- …
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Hard sci fi novel that ends with vast civilization ships all cruising in a line toward the s...
It seems like a bit of a long shot, but could you be thinking of the exodus of the Pierson's Puppeteers in Larry Niven's "Known Space" future history?
In the story "At the Core", the Puppeteers found …
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