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Trying to find book about monster that hides in dreams
I read a book as a child about these kids that find this guy at the zoo who talks about this mystical almost-extinct animal who was hidden inside a secret place which could only be accessed through ...
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What is this book about an obsidian pyramid?
Ok I have a very hazy memory of reading a book with an obsidian pyramid. I think I probably read it in the 90's but it could have been in the early 2000's.
There was something evil about the ...
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Book about those left behind in an over-populated earth that was considered dying and was abandoned
The story starts with a man living in modern civilization as we are about to embark and leave the dying world and there are more people on the planet than seats on the fleet leaving for the new home ...
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late 90s, early 2000s high(?) fantasy YA trilogy
All I remember from this trilogy was that it was 3 books in 1 giant book, a little over a thousand pages long, and I read it around 2010. It was already somewhat old by then, so it's possible the ...
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Book about accidental robot civilization
I have a memory of a book or short story that I read years ago. It was about a group of human explorers who are investigating an uninhabitable planet. They find that a robotic colony ship had crashed, ...
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Book series about post alien invasion Earth being exploited
I'm reasonably sure this was a book series that I read in the 80s.
It's set on Earth post alien invasion, the planet is being mined heavily and humans now live a very basic existence.
Scenes I ...
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Has Sherlock Holmes ever solved a case with Sci-Fi elements? [closed]
In the many novels and short stories that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have solved a variety of cases including supernatural elements to politics but has Sherlock Holmes ever ...
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Identifying the story where the girl doesn't know that she's actually a robot until the very end
The plot
It is an apocalyptic period, the world is overrun by robots, and the girl (female main protagonist, but I forgot her name) is struggling to survive. She has the help of a robot that helps ...
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Revolt of Third World; South African gold mines nuked
In the 1980s (or perhaps, not likely, early 1990s) I read a book about a fictional future rise of the Third World. It wasn't well written and I don't remember much about it, but one detail was that ...
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Late 90's novel about conflict around replicator machines
This book had a strange title, I think it was one of those made up all capital letters titles. Unfortunately I remember none of the plot! Only vaguely that the theme was around conflict about ...
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Paperback about an Aboriginal Australian who travels through space via hand signs painted on rock walls
A young Australian Aborigine woman can travel through space via the hand signs painted on rock walls in the outback. A young Welsh [from Wales] woman is jealous of this power and tries to steal it. It ...
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Book Identification: Gas Giant with breathable atmosphere and burning core
I am trying to remember the name of a science fiction book I borrowed from a library in Ohio sometime between the years 2001–2009, though it was probably closer to the end of that period than the ...
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Short Story about Teenagers with Computer Chips Implanted in Their Brains
Maybe I’ve just totally imagined this, but I swear I once read a book or a short story about this group of teenagers who had computer chips implanted in their brains. I keep thinking about it and ...
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1980s Science Fiction book with a manta-shaped ship, people who turn into animals and wind
I took out a book from the bookmobile in (1989?), and have never been able to track it down again. Memorable because it was one of the first adult sci-fi books I read, and I've been trying to track it ...
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New trilogy about a battle between ancient inhabited spires or towers
About a year ago (i.e. in 2020) I read a book which was intended to be the first of a trilogy about a sneaky invasion by the inhabitants of one giant spire against another. The story is told from the ...
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