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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 name of a book-series - Spaceship crashed, Civilization based on Magic rebuilt
I agree that Darkover is very likely, but also the Cycle of Fire books by Janny Wurts has similar ideas.
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Book, alien uses mindcontrol machine to manipulate a mob of humans
I read this around 1981, in the US, in English, in paperback most likely. I feel like it dated to the 50, 60s or early 70s at the latest. The only scene I remember is:
A man (the protagonist, I beli …
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1980ish book, runestone, Tolkien elvish
This is a somewhat forgettable (obviously) book I read in paperback, 1980 or 1981, in the US.
I believe it was set in the modern-day. Someone discovers a runestone. Somehow, (possibly involving blo …
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"Welcome to (city name)!" used ironically by townspeople
This incident was a small part of the adventures of the protagonist, which probably consisted of several to many books.
He'd heard of a city or town that was supposed to be very welcoming of stranger …
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Online serial, higher dimensional cop & criminal imprisoned in our universe
Fine Structure
By Sam Hughes.
Fledgling physicist Ching-Yu Kuang has discovered a Rosetta Stone for all
of physics, a treasure trove of advanced scientific
breakthroughs beyond all imaginat …
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Kid's science fiction book from early-mid 1970s
This is a book I read in about 1975 at the age of 9. The book was targeted for that age or maybe a little older. I recall it being comparable to the 'Danny Dunn' books, but I don't believe it was pa …
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Fantasy story with Female Lead where magic is used by a "web" inside her head
Perhaps The Web of Wizardry by Juanita Coulson? It was published in 1978, so earlier than you remember, but the sorceress does cast spells by traversing webs in her mind. I don't recall the other pa …
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story ID: Humanity recruited to make parts for an intergalactic war
This sounds like This Island Earth, by Raymond F. Jones. The alien races were the Llanans and Guarra, the Earthlings are sent advanced electronic parts. The movie of the same name is considered a …
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A sword named lark?
I believe this is actually the Saga of Thorgrim, by Gerard Earl Bailey.
There is a lay the Agelings sing: of Thorgrim the glacier-born, who
was outlawed strode the sea on cross-grained ships o …
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Novel or series about humans who deal with monsters who come out at night
It's possible that this is Barbara Hambly's The Time of the Dark, the first of her 'Darwath' books. It's fantasy, with real-world characters being brought over to the fantasy world. There's a Gandal …
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Giant (non-mech) battle machines endlessly re-fighting a stalemate
I answered this as a partial answer to this question.
This is Hidden World (1957) by Stanton A. Coblentz. It was originally published as a serial In Caverns Below in Wonder Stories, March, April and …
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A book with tribes that connect across national borders, and national borders don't matter
Not much to go on, but I'll suggest Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series. In it, nations have become irrelevant and people instead voluntarily belong to "Hives", which are philosophies/clubs. The Hives …
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1990s? Novels bases on 1930s-style video game?
This must be Crimson Skies, a "dieselpunk" game from 2000. It was also a tabletop wargame. There were several books set in the universe as well, that's what you're probably looking for. The box art …
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1950s or 1960s movie about an expedition to a living planet
I saw this movie on TV in the US in about 1971 or 1972. I'm pretty sure that the movie was older than that, though. My impression now is that it could have been made in the 60s or late 50s, not sure …
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Kid's story: freed witch causes strange weather
I believe I got this from a BookMobile in the US, around 1973.
Set in 1950s or 1960s. A child (from the city, or maybe from the US) is sent to live with relatives in rural England, maybe for summer …
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