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Searching title of a dystopian story: In the future people are forced to sit in front of giant screens and must watch TV or movies as a punishment
Maybe The year of the sex olympics, a television play from 1968?
Plot summary from Wikipedia:
In the future, society is divided between 'low-drives' that equate with the labouring classes and 'hi-...
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Early 1980s short story - man receives a gift of high technology, but there's a catch (probably published in Asimov's)
This is "Power Times One" by J. Michael Matuszewicz, Asimov's, February 1983.
The main character, a scientist of some sort, I think, receives from a mysterious personage (I don't remember ...
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Brain ship decides to restart the human race
"Mr. Spaceship" by Philip K. Dick
The story is set in the distant future, where humanity is at war with "Yuks", an alien life form which does not use mechanical spaceships nor ...
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Book about a man that travels back 2 hours for every hour that passes
This sounds like it's probably The 13th Hour (2009) by Richard Doetsch, although you may have a few details confused. The blurb for the book reads:
At 9pm on July 28, Nick Quinn is given an ...
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1950's novel about FTL engine and the rare mineral that makes it possible
Operation Star Voyage by Jack Pearl (1970), the second book in the Space Eagle series.
In the first book, millionaire and scientific genius Paul Girard discovers the exotic element "Spartanium&...
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Catholic Apocalypse Short Story - can't remember the title
Possibly A Short Story of the Antichrist by Vladimir Solovyov.
It is along the lines you describe. Elder John is introduced in the paragraph:
The real, though unofficial, leader of the Orthodox was ...
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Identify scifi short story about post apocalyptic robot that wants to be human
This is Roger Zelazny's classic story "For A Breath I Tarry".
From Wikipedia:
Taking place long after the self-extinction of Man, it recounts the tale of Frost, a sentient machine. While ...
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Comic that's like Spider-Man but violent, and the main character wears a mask with a heavy-metal aesthetic?
This is likely The Strange Talent of Luther Strode by Justin Jordan.
Wikipedia says:
"Luther Strode, a skinny teenager living alone with his mother, acquires enhanced physical abilities from a ...
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Searching title of a dystopian story: In the future people are forced to sit in front of giant screens and must watch TV or movies as a punishment
A Clockwork Orange.
A Stanley Kubrick film. Starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee etc..
Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the central character, is a charismatic,
antisocial delinquent whose interests ...
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1980s Floral Punk (?) Violent Cottage Core Children's Book
This is Trouble for Trumpets by Peter Cross and Peter Dallas Smith (1982).
From a review: "Fanciful creatures called Trumpets are besieged by their sworn enemies, the Grumpets in this lavishly ...
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I'm looking for a recent comic series about a pink hair girl and set in the desert
I found it! It's Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters.
An epic tale of sisters, survival, and some monster-punching
Rainbow has been looking for her younger sister, Jonna, for over a year--since the ...
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I remember a Sat morning sci fi show in the 70’s or 80’s that feature an all teenage crew made up of very intelligent individuals
I believe you're remembering Earth Star Voyager, a two-part Disney mini series from 1988 that was a stealth pilot for a tv series that never got picked up.
The premise is that in the future, the Earth ...
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Horror episode or movie about a girl receiving a look-alike doll
This is The Haunting Hour, specifically the episode Really You.
Spoiled brat Lily gets her own life-sized doll and names it, "Lily D.," but when her mom starts to care for the doll more ...
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Searching title of a dystopian story: In the future people are forced to sit in front of giant screens and must watch TV or movies as a punishment
It sounds a little like the excellent 1984, although the scenes where they watch the tele-screen on mass aren't necessarily on a large (cinema style) screen:
In 1984, civilisation has been ravaged by ...
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A man sentenced to hibernation is released early and someone quips, "Good behavior" -- what was this from?
As Valorum points out, in TekWar the cop is released early from hibernation and his android partner makes the joke -- very deadpan delivery -- at 5:15 or so herein:
I ...
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Short story involving a broken PDA that results in freedom
You may be thinking of Fritz Leiber's "The Creature from the Cleveland Depths" which is available on Project Gutenberg
In that story, a man invents a device called a "tickler," ...
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Story about spreading virus re-writing itself to be able to run on any processor and any machine
This sounds like "Coding Machines" by Lawrence Kesteloot, which can be read here: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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Trying to find an older anime about a man who morphs into a robot/mecha suit
Well... thankfully I posted this to Facebook, where my little sister who was barely even ONE when I was watching this show, saw it and answered it CORRECTLY. It was Tekka Man - The Space Knight. ...
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Story revolving around a sarcophagus which eats its inhabitants slowly while keeping them alive
The story is "Mr Gaunt" by John Langan
Available in the print collection New Cthulhu: the Recent Weird and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
Found online here:
Once they were in the ...
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Old Disney cartoon featuring cavepeople
I suspect you are looking for The Hunting Instinct, from 1961
Ludwig Von Drake hosts this episode, since Walt feels this noted expert on everything can shed some light on the subject of why man hunts....
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Fantasy series or novel about a thief who can use magic
I believe you're recalling The Longing Ring (1993) by Christopher Kubasik. It did indeed have a German translation, Der magische Ring (1994). It was the first book of a series associated with the ...
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Immortal cursed hero
As confirmed in the comments, this is Shindou Yuusha to Maid Onee-san.
After defeating the Demon King and saving the world, Shion was exiled to the border. Here, the strongest Hero enjoyed his slow ...
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Time loop text-based adventure game about preventing a car crash
I believe this to be "Rematch" by Andrew Pontious.
It's a text-based adventure game, but not one from their commercial heyday back in the eighties or so. It was described to me in 2010 as ...
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Book taking place on a partially terraformed ice world with an artificial moon
The Snows of Jaspre. Been looking for this book for years.
An artificial sun awakens psychic powers on an ice planet. The original Finnish settlers, who thrived on the frozen wastes of Jaspre, ...
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A SciFi from the 70s showing a suicide by electrocution
We have a winner!
@Skyjack was correct, it is an episode of the British TV series UFO (1970-1971): The Psychobombs
Linda Simmonds, played by actress Deborah Grant, has her mind taken over by the ...
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Short story about a father who dies and returns as a android/robot
I finally tracked this down, the story is 'The Resurrection Man's Legacy' by Dale Bailey. An excellent and haunting story from a collection by the same title. (“The Resurrection Man’s Legacy,” first ...
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Story or book with a large facility at the sub-solar point of a tidally locked planet
The scene and the "tide locked" condition are reminiscent of Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny -- including divided lightside and darkside populations, science based in the day and magical in ...
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Illustrated children's book series with Greek Mythology references
Potentially the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. From Wikipedia:
Set in the mid-2000s, the series follows the story of Perseus "Percy" Jackson, a boy who discovers he is a demigod son ...
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Fantasy manga/manhwa about a young guy who comes to a young noble girl's house to teach her magic
This is likely Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter.
After failing the final exam for his dream job at the royal court, promising young sorcerer Allen wants nothing more than to retreat to a simple ...
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Fantasy manhwa where the female lead is poisoned when she becomes the empress
This is There's No Use Hanging On. It is licensed by TappyToon.
Kaira willingly risked her life to make her beloved Prince Reagan emperor. But when the man she sacrificed it all for crowns her cousin ...
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