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Results tagged with story-identification
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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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A book about a magic clock that could stop time
"The girl, the gold watch, and everything" (John D. MacDonald) has the grandfather (actually an uncle) who invented the watch, but not any goblins.
From the plot synopsis at Wikipedia:
Kirby play …
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Book where FTL is generally invented in the bronze age
Also, 'Ranks Of Bronze' by David Drake. A Roman legion is kidnapped by aliens who use them to fight low tech battles between alien corporations to determine trading rights to low tech planets. The ali …
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A story about organisms living in humans told from their perspective
The "story told from the symbiotic organism point of view while living inside humans" sounds like 'Needle' by Hal Clement, published 1950, but I don't remember any "identification of humans by number …
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Colonists kill local creature, only to discover they were killing off immature monsters
This sort of theme was touched on repeatedly in a book published in 1991 by Janet Kagan called Mirabile. The book is a series of stories about the colonists on a new planet who often had to deal with …
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YA paperback about a boy talking to an alien on his computer, alien asking for help
Your book sounds similar to (but probably isn't) Terry Pratchett's 'Only You Can Save Mankind', where a boy playing a computer game where he defends earth from alien invaders discovers that the aliens …
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Children's novel: three children (plus dog?) travel to the Moon in pretend spaceship turned ...
Sound similar to "Wonderful Flight To the Mushroom Planet", but that had two boys and their chicken.
When two boys find an ad in a newspaper asking for two young boys to build a spaceship, they quick …
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Short story where a man's life is calculated by a computer
Sounds similar to the story "Realtime Interrupt" by James Hogan, where odd occurrences make the main character realize he is in a reality simulation.
Joe Corrigan awakens in a hospital to find tha …
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