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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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Book about a cube prison that turns out to be a spaceship

This is Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder (Chapter 1 excerpt). The story is set in "Inside", the cube where they live. It is a prison in the sense that they are trapped, not that they are convicts. The …
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Story set inside a sphere

The Straight Dope has a thread with examples of stories set on just about every shape of planet imaginable, including "the inside of a spherical void within infinite solid matter" (post #39) in Ring o …
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Story set inside a sphere

This is a story with a civilisation whose "planet" is the inside of a sphere, like an inverted/hollow world (or Dyson sphere but that's not quite the same thing). The physics in the story is made up. …
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