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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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Short story where criminals were imprisoned in a mountain with a huge spinning wheel [duplicate]

I remember reading this as a short story. Prisoners where entombed in a mountain. Inside the mountain was a huge horizontal wheel, and the prisoners' cells where like teeth or cogs at the edge of th …
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Science Fiction Dystopian story where only the homeless still knew how to read

I can't remember if this was a short story or from a film (or a dream), but I think it is at least 10-15 years old. The homeless (as I recall) tended to live underground and would have stacks of books …
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