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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 a sci-fi story about a prisoner and a universal solvent
The best I can find is a reference to an unpublished short story of L. Ron Hubbard, The Alkahest. C.f. L. Ron Hubbard® and his works of fiction or Was L. Ron Hubbard foremost a ‘science fiction’ write …
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Fantasy Book about shadow people invading?
I believe that you're referring to the Darwath Trilogy by Barbara Hambly. Sounds most like the final book The Armies of Daylight (1983). It really could be any of the books in the trilogy, however, si …
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SciFi Novel, pre 2000, about time-travel type messages
Looking for the name of a SciFi novel set in Scotland. Scientists working at home develop a way of sending messages back in time using quantum mechanics. Messages can only be received by the machine t …
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Book ending with a space ship flying out of an ice floe in which it was hidden?
If the "ice" could be the icy slopes of remote mountains, then I'm feeling like it could be Orion Shall Rise (1983) by Poul Anderson.
After nuclear weapons ravaged the Earth, only Skyholm, a hug …
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Fantasy story with severly disjointed time-line but not using time travel
I read the book in the mid-90's and it seemed physically older (10 years at least), though that could have been poor care as well. Paperback with no recall of the cover, but thick-ish in the range of …
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Book series with people transported through time by magic
I read some of the series, not all of it, around ten years ago, though they were likely to be older. I think the series had at least four books. The story follows two time lines, one "current" and the …
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