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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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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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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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Sci-Fi book about female pilot in the distant future who is a linguist and has to decipher an alien language/code
This book I read in college, I think it was published between the 1970s to 1990s.
It's about a female pilot (I think her first name began with an R) in the distant future who is famous and is also ...
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Series Whose Protagonist Is a Leper
I am trying to remember a series I read some time ago (probably in the early aughts) about a leper who is transported to another world where he leads an army. In the real world, he cannot feel most of ...
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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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Identify a book featuring overpopulated world with limited living space assigned to individuals
When I was wee I would read books by pile and a specific story came to mind and I wish to identify it. I have lots of the premise in mind but weak google-fu.
Details include:
A man awakens from ...
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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 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's the name of the book where a girl is built into a spacecraft?
There was a sci-fi book a book I saw about 10 years ago, that featured a society of people where (I think) some chose to become parts of spacecraft. I was very young at the time so i only remember ...
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1980's sci fi book series, subspace is a sponge, young man in emergency suit can propel himself by sucking in the sponge stuff
I read a couple of sci fi books in the 1980's from UK library, they were from a series... I don't think I read them in the right order so I've a mish-mash of memories. From the context of romance and ...
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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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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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Looking for the title of a novel about a divine/heavenly being turned into a dog
I read the book about 19yrs ago (2003/2004). I think it was published by Orion books as I seem to remember a dog-looking-at-stars logo.
In it, a being is maybe banished from the heavens...either was ...
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Fantasy book with battle between owls and crows
I have a difficult one here. I am trying to track down a fantasy book for my Dad, but the problem is that his memory is not quite there these days. He remembers really enjoying the book but ...
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