Questions tagged [novel]
For questions about a book of long narrative in literary prose, in order to distinguish it from other types of story. Do NOT use this tag for every question which happens to be about a novel. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the novel and its form in other media.
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Once a year, invading aliens attempt to teleport the Earth to their home star
What are the title and author of this (short) novel? It was for sale as a second-hand pocket-size book, mid-1990's; the author is almost certainly native to the English-speaking world. I have not been ...
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Looking for an SF novel with huge "spiders" on a planet which is frozen most of the time [duplicate]
This SF novel has a very rich and complicated plot, but I remember very little of it. I read it about 20 years ago, probably in a paperback.
What I do remember is that it takes place on a planet with ...
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Sci-fi story with time-lagged senses
I remember details from a sci-fi book I read years ago, but haven’t been able to identify it by searching on my own. Hopefully someone out there has better recall than I do! The main points I remember:...
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Looking for a YA fantasy novel from the '60s or '70s similar to the Narnia books but set in America and only one (female) protagonist
I remember reading this book in 1977, so it predates that year. There's a young girl who finds an abandoned mansion with an eerie gothic garden. I recall that the setting is the American Eastern ...
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A short YA SF novel about teenagers who lived their whole childhood in a house surrounded by a fence in a clearing of a "dangerous forest"
I read this short novel about 20 years ago, in French, in a rather thin paperback. I think one can consider it as YA.
I am not sure the action is on Earth. I have a vague memory of Mars having been ...
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Book about a group of prisoners enlisted in a military training program who end up going rogue
I don't remember a ton about the story, but this is the general gist of it.
The book is set in the near future, like the 2090s or so. The protagonist is a boy around the age of 19, who has a single ...
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60's or 70's book about a planet of only women
Trying to find a 60's or 70's book about a planet of only women. Many searches have been done to no avail.
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A SF novel where a character steals an adhesive anti-slip mat from the bathroom of her host's house
This novel I read rather recently, during the early "Covid" years. But I don't remember much.
One thing I am positive about is that, in this universe, one can upload the mind of people (...
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Humans with forbidden technology, energy absorbers / storage - series of books
Need a little help, the book / series had humans with forbidden technology, if remember correctly it was like a energy storage that they adjusted to act as energy absorbers on their ships.
The other ...
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Elf Left In the Humans' World, Came Back To A Magical Farm
I believe there were four or five books in the series, maybe more or less. I remember the protagonist being female. I read this approximately three years ago, and I think it was relatively new then, ...
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Time travel book involving a man deciphering an ancient stone and future time travelers leaving clues about their origins
This is a book I picked up from the library when I was really young, but I found it way too big for me and gave up after a chapter or so. Now I want to give it another shot but can't seem to find it.
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Young adult book set in a post-nuclear wasteland (but is actually a video game/computer simulation?)
I read a book when I was in elementary school (circa 1995) that to my recollection was about a child/pre-teen who is living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (maybe it's a girl searching for her brother?...
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An SF novel about monasteries which are isolated from the external world for 1, 10, 100 or 1000 years [duplicate]
I read this SF novel about 10-15 years ago. I think I read it shortly after it was first published.
In this novel there are monks (though the word used is not "monks" but I don't remember ...
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America broken up into separate regions, a journalist visits the Great Lakes region from the East Coast, finding a libertarian society
I read this novel around 2020 maybe. The cover is yellowish orange and depicts a run-down city street with derelict cars and buildings, etc
A first person narrator travels from the East Coast to the ...
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Book about an alien invasion to steal metal from Earth
In the book alien drone like ships come to Earth and invade Earth for its metal.
The ships use some tractor beam magnet type to gather the metals. They also remove metal from people, like braces, hip ...
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