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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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Fantasy book with an adopted son called Boy

Around about 2010 I read a fantasy book in which the main character was an adopted son called Boy. The adoptive father was a stage magician, but it seemed to imply that there might be some real magic …
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4 votes
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Story identification: A family has a table that can copy money

I'm trying to find a short story that I read, probably in the late 90s but I'd expect the story is a lot older than that. In the story the main character (actually a family I think) somehow come into …
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3 votes
1 answer
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Film identification: Two men using equipment to play metal CD-like discs

I remember seeing a film (or part of) a long time ago (probably about 1988) and I'm trying to identify it. As I recall it was black and white. The only bit of it I remember had two men working with so …
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16 votes
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Short story identification: society partitioned off by high wall

Reading another question today reminded me of a short story I read in the early 90s (probably written in 60s or 70s though). A society is blocked off by a really high wall; the story follows a girl wh …
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Scifi short story - "Look, darling. Food!"

It is 'Survival' (1952) by John Wyndham. It's appeared in multiple collections as well as having some adaptations for radio (including BBC Radio Fear on Four)
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8 votes
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Cartoon identification: Two kids in a ship full of robots

I'm trying to find a cartoon I saw a few minutes of when I was young. It was on UK children's TV, probably between 1988 and 1992. I remember two kids, a boy and a girl, and there were some kind of shi …
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