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Tagged with novel parallel-universe
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Sci-fi book (all-knowing cow, almost grey goo beginning, different universe/dimension)
Someone created self-replicating nanobots that replicated enough only to replace every other few nano particles. The consequence is that privacy is impossible as every nanobot has a camera and you can ...
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Sci Fi book about a man travelling through portals from one dimension to another through who ends up in a place where mind control is prevalent
I read a book in the late 80s about a man travelling from one dimension to another through portals that are "right around the corner". He ends up in a place where mind control is prevalent ...
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Book about a character born in-between time on some sort of timeship
I can't find the name of this book! I believe it's YA. I read it at least 5 years ago, probably more.
The main character was born in between time on some sort of timeship. His mother had gotten ...
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Book about a young man in high school who is approached by a warrior woman and travels to alternate dimensions
I need to figure what early 2000s book this is!!
This book details a young man in high school who seemed to have a talent for everything, especially basketball. One day, he's approached by some ...
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Book where Earth is invaded by a future, parallel-universe Earth
I read this young-adult science-fiction book about 10 years ago, I believe I may have picked it up through an advance reader copy program. If it was an ARC, details may have been changed before ...
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Sci-fi novella about a group of people and a giant pendulum that swung, slowly coming to a halt
I am trying to figure out a sci-fi novella I read maybe 30 years ago. It was about a group of people and a giant pendulum that swung from side to side, but slowly coming to a halt. For every swing, it ...
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Novel about an alternate dimension where human perception is warped
I'm looking for a novel series, probably for teens, published in 80's-90's, which has a spaceship traveling to an alternate dimension.
One distinguishing feature is that human senses stop behaving ...
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A novel about a group of scientists who think they've invented a teleporter
I read this a few years ago, around 2015/16 I think and I cannot for the life of me remember the title of it and googling isn't helping at all.
It was about a group of scientists who are working on ...
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ID: kids' novel, alternate universes, suits designed by disappeared father
I'm trying to identify a English-language kids' SF novel, I would have read this as a library hardcover some time before 1980. To the best of my recollection:
Protagonists were subadult brother and ...
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Novel about girl growing up in a mirror universe, searching for surface world
I read this book on my Amazon Kindle.
There was a girl whose father disappeared and she went on to later volunteer/work for some sort of research company. She had a dream where she saw a man shoot ...
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Book involving children traveling between alternate worlds via switches
I know I read this after 2012, I think as an ebook. The cover depicted a knife switch by itself, I think closed with the handle up. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist, a boy, is told by ...
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Man transported from Alternate World into ours by a Neutrino Detector
Probably read 15-20 years ago. English Paperback.
Scientists running a deep underground Neutrino Detector [might have been cosmic rays]. It was a VERY Large tank of water with detectors built into ...
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80s-90s novel about reptilian overlords, with "east" or "west" in the title
Novel about a parallel world where the dominant species is reptilian. Some humans (or a human?) are captured and their way of life is threatened. Very severe race with different clans at war with each ...
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Need the name and author of a Sci-fi novel involving luminescent creatures that live in another dimension
I remember reading this novel in late 80s or early 90s. So, it's gotta be written before this time-frame.
In this novel, humans were travelling in a space cruise liner to visit a unique planet so as ...
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Book about interdimensional travel by use of a hallway
I vaguely remember details about the book. I remember that travel between dimensions was regulated by either a company or government entity, and they used a box shaped hallway, basically a tesseract ...
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