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For questions about a book of long narrative in literary prose, in order to distinguish it from other types of story. Do NOT use this tag for every question which happens to be about a novel. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the novel and its form in other media.
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Trying to remember a story about a guy that goes back in time and brings mythical creatures ... [duplicate]
I am trying to remember the title of a story where a man is sent back in time to collect extinct animals for his era's zoo. For some reason, he only locates and brings back mythical creatures. I read …
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Battle on the moon where the defenders hide behind brightly colored rocks
There is a scene stuck in my mind: Bad guys arrive to take over the good guys moonbase, and the good guys hide behind brightly painted rock outcroppings so they don't accidently get shot by their own …
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How many years did Lister survive after coming out of stasis?
I'm looking for a novel related answer. The TV show, while funny, has followed a different storyline. …
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Story Identification: Novel in which the dead are terraformed to create a satellite near str... [duplicate]
It was a short novel, 180-200 pages. I read it in the 80's. The opposing factions of the living had to work together to repair the main spacecraft to escape whereever it was they had been stranded. …
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Identify story: Overpopulation problem causes people to live one day a week
This story is about a man that is able to live every day of the week, while everybody else has a single day of wakefulness assigned to them. Due to overpopulation, each human spends 6 out of 7 days of …
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Short story where non automated cars are outlawed, and the protagonist sees classic cars bei...
I believe this was part of a short story, or a novella. Automated transportation is the current technology. Vehicles must be automated and human control has been outlawed for safeties sake.
The prot …
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Story identification: Doomed soldiers spirited away to guard crop against last seasons soldiers
I read this in the mid '80's or early 1990's. A group of heavily armed elite Earth soldiers is kidnapped just as they were about to be overrun and annihilated. Given the choice of being returned to th …
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Military sci-fi story: Soldier gets bone implants, can't retire, fights on through the pain
A futuristic soldier's abilities are augmentated through surgery to his bones and he becomes a super soldier. He's not the only one. After he leaves the military, he becomes some sort of Policeman. Te …
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Identify time travel story. Modern soldier goes back to days of mounted Knights with scientists
Read this sometime in the 80's(actually read it after 1999). A mission from an intricate lab (in the present(?)) back to Medieval times went awry when a soldier took back live munitions, specifically …
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David Lister is the last human being in the Universe. What happened to the rest of the human...
The Red Dwarf crew died from radiation while David Lister was in stasis. What happened to kill off the rest of humanity? Why is David Lister the last human being in the Universe?
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Why was Ulysse the first human to speak?
In Pierre Boulle's novel Planet of the Apes (aka Monkey Planet), Humans had been used as Ape slaves and exposed to their speech for generations, possibly since the long distant Ape apocalypse. …
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What happened to the rest of Bert, Tom and William's treasure trove?
In the film, Bilbo claimed to have recovered but a single chest of gold from the three Trolls, Bert, Tom, and William. We know some of the weapons, like Sting, Orcrist and Glamdring that the Trolls ha …
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Who was the first author to rework another scifi/fantasy author's character?
Philip José Farmer is the first modern author that I know of to rework another author's scifi/fantasy character. He rewrote Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan character from a first person perspective in two …
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Trying to identify sawmill pond monster novel [duplicate]
I probably read this novel in the late 70's or early 80's. …
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WW2 submarine yarn with 10 or 12 "Bermuda" type triangles
I'm trying to recall the name of a book from the 70's in which a submarine is lost in WW2 off the coast of Japan and returns 30 (or so) years later, crewless, off the coast of Hawaii. The Navy refits …
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