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1970s (?) book where teacher flies in a balloon and crash-lands on mysterious island [duplicate]
Plot: The teacher finds an island with very sophisticated civilization. There is a volcano on the island which causes quakes every so often. I also do recall something about families being lettered by ...
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What edition of Scalzi's The Human Division contains all the original artwork?
I am starting to read John Scalzi's novel "The Human Division". It appears to be made up of thirteen distinct chapters named "episodes".
In the acknowledgments, he praises the cover artist:
Cover ...
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Sci-fi book (no magic, hyperspace jumps, blind protagonist) [duplicate]
I'm trying to recover a book from my childhood:
I believe I read it in 199x, maybe early 200x
No magic. Space sci-fi with hyperspace jumps between stars. The plot is all about jumps. Hyperspace jump ...
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2010s(?) book with identical twins who have musical powers
Summary: There are two identical twins who are amazing with music. They are part of a circus and when playing, odd things happen to their audience which starts attracting the wrong attention and they ...
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Novel: Woman lives her entire life, then finds out it was just practice
I read this book sometime between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The story follows the life of a woman, which starts when she is a newborn in a kind of robotic creche that cares for her, teaches ...
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60's book with purple-haired protagonist journeying into increasingly technologically advanced societies, saves the day with a sword throw
This was published in the 1960's.
The protagonist has purple hair and is on a quest of some sort that takes him into increasingly technologically advanced societies. He learns to ride dragons, and ...
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Sci-Fi book with girl who spent 3 years in space
Major Plot Points
A girl (the main character) has spent the last 3 years in space, I think because she had training of some sort.
When she comes back to her planet (starts with "V," I think), she ...
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Book about a DNA hacker who could customize people using animal DNA
I read this book approximately 10 to 15 years ago; here is what I remember. Might not be 100% but should be close.
It was about an expert hacker who learned to hack DNA code.
He was a twin but his ...
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Book where aliens are selecting humans for food consumption
I have read a science fiction years ago. About aliens selecting humans on Earth and people trying hard to fit in their criterias in order to be the "chosen ones" and go away with the aliens.
But they ...
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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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Book I read in the middle 80s about a werewolf killed by sharks
I think the main female character was Maeve. It talked about wolfsbane. Hunting in the woods at night. Something about being on a boat. Sharks killing the werewolf at the end of the book.
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Post-apocalyptic sci-fi book about a family that goes into cryogenic chambers in a cave to wake up hundreds of years later
I am trying to find a book I enjoyed reading as a teen. I can't remember the name or authors unfortunately. It was part of a short book series.
It was a post-apocalyptic story about a family that ...
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Novel series regarding a spy being cloned for different environments
Novel series of 4 books about a spy being cloned - 1 to breathe in water, 2 others were other types (sulphur or?) for 4 planet system about to break out into war. I read the series in the early 1980's ...
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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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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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