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Movie where a man is talking to a parasite in his stomach?
Is this Shivers (1975)...?
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by ...
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Story Identification: Rousing speech delivered on alien planet to alien allies that borrowed heavily from Shakespeare and Churchill
That is Poul Anderson's The Man Who Counts AKA War of the Wing-Men, a Nicholas Van Rijn story.
Van Rijn and two others are stranded on a remote part of Diomedes when their air car goes down and Van ...
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Looking for dystopian short story where a woman discovers she can't leave a mall
DARK TOYS AND CONSUMER GOODS by LAURENCE STAIG
I found this post because I was looking for the same story. After a lot of googling different search terms I managed to locate a reddit thread where it ...
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A ship goes into a void and discovers a missing space station and also a legendary ship from the past. Working together they recreate the legend
I just pulled together a few threads in my brain, and I'm wondering if you read one of the Diving Universe novels by (2009-ongoing) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, especially with the additional details ...
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Children's fantasy story with dragons and St George
Is this Deliverers of Their Country (1985)...?
It was originally published as a short story in The Strand Magazine in May 1899. The author was Edith Nesbit, an English writer and poet.
From Goodreads:
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Movie where two people meet and fall in love in a dream
As Wondercricket noted in a comment, this could be Hallmark film In My Dreams
Nick Smith and Natalie Russo are single, living in the same city. On opposite sides of a fountain, they are both ...
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Movie where two people meet and fall in love in a dream
Possibly Paperhouse
While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has ...
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Manga/graphic novel where a girl is cursed and has to enter the memories of spirits to save them
I think it’s called Bibliomania. According to the Villains wiki:
Alice, also known as the Book of Truth, is the main protagonist of the manga Bibliomania, which was loosely based on the Lewis Carroll ...
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Holmesian short story about the detective raising magic (?) bees in the Himalayas
There is the story The Case of Death and Honey in Gaiman's book Trigger Warning.
It differs from your description in some ways. Holmes is not incognito and the setting is unnamed mountains in China ...
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Which old black and white movie is the end of the "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" video based on? (Not "Death Takes a Holiday!")
Might you be referring to the HIM cover of the song? That video is a mix of several old B&W movies along with more recent color films that have been given the B&W treatment.
There is a scene ...
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Manga where reborn Demon lord searches for his former companions
This is 'A Wild Last Boss Appeared!'.
The year is 2800 and Lufas Maphaahl – The Black-Winged Tyrant, Great Conqueror, and leader of the Twelve Heavenly Stars – has returned. A man wakes up in the ...
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Short story about alien invaders encountering prairie dogs
This is The Thing from Outer Space and the Prairie Dogs (1964) by Gahan Wilson.
Printed in its complete form below:
A rocket ship landed on the Texas panhandle one
bright, sunny day, in the middle of ...
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Book/short story about a post-apocalypse Earth with kids trained to fight
This might be "The Bite of Monsters", a 1971 science fiction novel by comic book writer Dennis O'Neil. The story happens after snake-like aliens have conquered earth. The aliens have limited ...
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Title of anime where the protagonist is a vampire queen?
Dance in the Vampire Bund
This might be the series you are thinking of. It has a female vampire lead and her body guard is a werewolf.
Plot synopsis taken from Wikipedia:
The story revolves around ...
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Short story - advertiser using mind control dart device
Found it! It is "Just Do It" by Heather Lindsley from F&SF in 2006.
The protagonist gets shot by a dart:
“You little bastard!” I yell at his retreating back as I pull out the dart out ...
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Story which ends with humans not being capable of riding the standing wave that binds the members of the higher alien race together
"The Martyr", a novelette by Poul Anderson which was also the answer to the old question Aliens hiding important information about the human race; story ends "'You don't' he said?";...
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SF novel inspired by Moby Dick and featuring "Sand Skiffs"
Could this be Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling?
The novel is a scifi retelling of Moby Dick set on a desert planet.
The novel Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling, published in 1977, features the ...
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Girl taken from her village and trained in magic in a tower
Uprooted by Naomi Novik fits both the plot and cover description.
From the Wikipedia recap:
Agnieszka lives in the village of Dvernik in the kingdom of Polnya. Every ten years the local wizard ("...
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Story where hospital staff succumb to aliens and wear them close to their bodies
If it was a bit later than you remember, it could be the 2006 Candy Stripers (not to be confused with the 1978 porn film of the same name)
Candy Stripers begins with a blind girl taken into the ER ...
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What's the title of the movie where flesh and muscle monsters eat humans
This is Feast II: Sloppy Seconds (2008).
The monsters have made it into a small neighboring town in the middle of nowhere and the locals have to band with the survivors of the bar' slaughter to ...
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YA novel about a clumsy boy who learns it is actually his talent
It sounds like the Alcatraz series of books, by Brandon Sanderson. The first book is titled Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians. I've not read it, but here's some snips from TvTropes that line up with ...
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A manga about a guy transferred to a video game as a girl
Maybe Tadashi Ore wa Heroine Toshite? It seems to be about a boy who is transferred to a dating sim, but as the main girl, instead of the male protagonist:
After the manufacturing company of R-18 ...
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Sci-fi book about a boy who lives a few seconds into the future as well as the present
Twilight in the Land of Nowhen by Nury Vittachi.
Imagine living 3 seconds ahead of everyone else! This funny, mind-twisting, adventure for 10-14-year-olds tells you exactly what that's like - and ...
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Novel in which a research team investigates a rip in the fabric of space
This may be Greg Egan's 2002 novel Schild's Ladder (which is now just over two decades old) about a science experiment that creates a section of space growing in all directions at half the speed of ...
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I'm trying to find a short thriller film about a light bulb and kids in a room
It was a short movie called Click from 2010. "Alter" was also in the title:
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Manga/Manhua/Manwha Where the female lead is in a world where her day keeps repeating with zombies
This is Surviving Romance.
When Chaerin Eun becomes the protagonist of the romance novel she is
reading, she expects a fairytale ending with the novel’s love
interest, Jeha. But when a bizarre twist ...
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Novel about a man waking to a world without life after hibernating, then hibernating while re-evolving life?
Second Ending by James White. The robots propagate the grass from seeds found in his trouser turn-ups (why he was put to sleep wearing ordinary clothes, I don't know).
The people at the end have ...
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Anime with a girl who chooses a school based on its uniform and ends up in a club with duels and special powers
This is Mikagura School Suite (AKA Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku).
To be around cute girls wearing cute clothing is all Eruna Ichinomiya desires. Since Mikagura High School happens to have the cutest ...
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Fantasy series about a red-haired orphan girl raised by an old woman in a house within a tree
This sounds like the Witches of Eileanan series by Kate Forsyth.
The first book opens with Isabeau, a red-haired orphan who lives with her guardian Meghan in a house built inside a tree — the upper ...
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Book about a girl who is a thief and learns to transform into a puma or cougar
I agree with nebogipfel that this is the Midnight Thief series by Livia Blackburne, but the book you remember is the first book of the series Midnight Thief.
Growing up on Forge’s streets has taught ...
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Book about a girl who is a thief and learns to transform into a puma or cougar
Well, Daughter of Dusk by Livia Blackburne has some of the characteristics. It is about an orphan girl who is a thief and discovers she has connections to a group of feline shape-shifters. And it was ...
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Trying to remember a fantasy portal book from the 1970s or early 80s
I'm not confident in this identification, but possibly Andre Norton's "Dragon Magic"? Not every detail matches perfectly - the kids are from the same part of the world, but have very ...
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Early 90s book of interviews with scifi authors, includes Pratchett talking about translating jokes to different languages
The book you're recalling is probably Stan Nicholls' Wordsmiths of Wonder (1993), which contains an interview with Pratchett titled "Terry Pratchett: Leaves the Furniture Alone."
I don't ...
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90s historical kids show where people get sucked into a computer?
Could be A.J.'s Time Travelers.
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I'm trying to remember a book I read about 11 years ago. This is a young adult fantasy book set in ancient Egypt
It was The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Quoting from Goodreads:
Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred and dangerous of missions: To descend into the Nether Realm and find the ...
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Boy from Earth who later finds out he can teleport accused for the murder of the leader of another planet
This might be Space Crime Conspiracy by Gareth P. Jones. A plot summary from Google Books follows because the book is not on Internet Archive.
In prison, accused of murdering President Vorlunar, ...
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A very old young adult SF novel about interplanetary travel within the solar system
Possibly Rocket Jockey by Lester Del Rey under the name of Philip St. John from 1952, and published in hardback by Winston. This is the American cover, which has a rocket and a planet (though with a ...
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Manhwa where the main lead gets reincarnated into a novel where the main character is her sister and she has 4 potential husbands
This is The Little Lady Behind the Scenes. It is licensed by Tapas.
Julianne is as close to perfect as it gets: she’s got looks, talent, and smarts. The only problem is she has terrible taste in men! ...
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One shot manga about two strangers that meet each other in heaven
I had a similar memory of a one-shot just like you described and after almost 6 years I found it (hopefully it's the own you're looking for)
Name: Happiness upon you / 幸せをあなたに / Shiawase wo Anata ni
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Dark manhwa/webtoon about a girl who meets her alleged future husband, who has actually time traveled to find his twin's killer
This is Boy From the Future. It is licensed by Manta.
High school students Dain Son and Sihyun Lee could hardly be called close. One day, Dain is approached by a man who claims to be Sihyun from the ...
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70s illustrated children's book about a witch who lives in the attic of an old house purchased by a single mother
Possibly Old Black Witch by Wende and Harry Devlin, as per this answer about the TV adaptation.
A boy called Nicky and his mother are looking for a new place to live somewhere in New England. The ...
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TV show from 2000s where a group of kids were put in a digital version of the real world
This has to be Code Lyoko. The wiki identifies an episode with a fake tower:
At the end of Garage Kids multiple Towers are seen close to each other, but in Code Lyoko, Towers are not normally close ...
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An unbelievably talented protagonist who re-creates technology from scratch and wins the girl
This is likely Smith's Spacehounds of IPC (serialized Astounding 1931, novel 1947); after a crash the hero has to build a hydro-electric dam to recharge the accumulators in order to operate the radio ...
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Movie where a man invents a spray that removes sounds
I believe this movie is The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) which is the only feature film written by Dr. Seuss.
The young protagonist must take piano lessons, which he hates, and dreams a surreal dream ...
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Manhwa where the female lead finds out her magic has been sealed and her husband protects her from her family
Is this I Married the Male Lead's Dad...?
In my real life, I was happy fawning over Abel Louvremont, the main character of my favorite book ‘Persona.’ But after a fateful car accident, I woke up in ‘...
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Energetic man and his boisterous son are a better fit as colonists than on an overcrowded Earth
Sounds a bit like the first part of Decision at Doona, by Anne McCaffrey. A family of humans from a massively overcrowded earth are selected as colonists for the apparently unpopulated world of Doona. ...
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Live-action movie where a boy goes fishing and the fish appear above the lake
I'm certain that you remember the recent Netflix series "Raising Dion", about ordinary people who develop super-powers after a bizarre incident with the Aurora Borealis.
The fish scene was a ...
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Anime film in which a young boy is riding a Pegasus that turns into a weapon
Based off Reddit, I think this might be Dino Mech Gaiking:
Q: So in the early-mid 90s I remember having a VHS of what I recall to be a badly dubbed anime […]
Essentially there is an android/cyborg ...
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Early 2000s series with police unit catching supernatural creatures. Main character reveals invisible monster in an episode and says "nice to see you"
Special Unit 2
"Links" are the common monsters from folklore and mythology (except vampires, whose existence is specifically identified as preposterous), and are described as being the ...
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A fantasy short fiction by Asimov about a murder mystery writer whose sleuth comes to life
This is "Author! Author!" by Isaac Asimov. It was written in 1943, but only published in 1964 (in the anthology "The Unknown Five"). It was also published in "The Early Asimov&...
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