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Trying to remember a book that had people (I think they turned white?) segregated into a compound
I think the main character was a prince or high born person, who one day wakes up and looks in the mirror and his hair is turning white, I think his skin bleaches out too... His servants notice and ...
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Book about a kingdom invaded by another world
This is a series my father read when he was younger (he was born in the 60s) and had me read as a kid, the book cover had the look and feel of classic fantasy novels such as the Wheel of Time series.
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Older science fiction book about time travel to retrieve things but they went sideways through the dimensions instead
So, as I vaguely remember it. It was set in the distant future were a dictator rules the Earth. By this point carbon dioxide was so high most life outside of humans was extinct. So the dictator built ...
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Science fiction book about a world where bioengineered animals are used for common functions
A novel/book from the 90's. Society used genetically modified animals to perform basic tasks. For example, birds were genetically modified to be large enough to carry passengers like our passenger ...
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Sci-fi novel from 1980s(?) about colony on Mars
Plot Summary: I honestly don't remember much of it, but here it is... There are some humans who have colonized Mars. Some of them just want to live peacefully on the colony, while there are other ...
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Book about a boy that enters a medieval fantasy PC computer game
This is a repost with additional info of an older question that was never answered. I have stumbled upon this old question while also trying to find the name of the book series myself, as I dearly ...
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Fantasy novel: magic school, talking rabbit, character bites off another character's fingers
The plotline as a whole is completely lost to me, but it was a big inspiration to my preteen self at the time and has shaped my creative development up to now. I'll list some of the big points that I ...
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Post Apocalyptic Series With Alien Species
I read this series when I was younger but cannot remember the name to save my life. I remember a species of Aliens saves humanity from the ashes of an apocalyptic nuclear fallout and in the resulting ...
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Book ID: Boy plays a video game and has to to solve different tasks (the last being a maze that's an IQ test)
There is this boy who plays a video game where he has to solve a multitude of tasks. One was a tactical space battle and the last one was a maze.
Later, it's revealed that it was some IQ test and he ...
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Trying to identify book I read as a child. With hindsight, possibly politically incorrect
I am trying to find the name of a book I read as a child and thought people here might know. I asked this question here before some years ago, but some more details have occurred to me so I thought I ...
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Book with a unicorn stampede on the cover
I found this book on a shopping website. I know which shop but the problem is that the shop isn't returning the book when I search via the site's search bar when I try to find it again.
The front ...
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Book about a boy thats transported into a medieval fantasy computer game [duplicate]
This is a long shot but I'm really in need of help for this because it was an amazing book. It was either a kid's or YA book. A guess from what year it was published would be 90s-mid 2000s, as I read ...
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What poetic old detective noir book has mutants smuggled out of a ghetto being blackmailed?
Years ago I read this old science fiction book that was written in a poetic noir style, and I remember bits of the plot, but not any names to google. Could you help me find it?
It was from my Dad's ...
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Looking for a novel about a mysterious sphere/cube shaped object
I read a story years ago that revolved around a mysterious ‘ship’ (it was a basic shape - I believe the name of the book was also around this shape) found in the universe. It had some species worried ...
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Fantasy story where a young girl (I think) discovers magic, but must then hide from all magicians [duplicate]
I remember reading this story many years ago (at least ten).
A young girl (at least I think so), discovers that she has magic by throwing something. However, magic is restricted (or maybe even ...
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