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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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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Policeman pursuing woman with baby on spaceship
Looking for a recent SF novel where the
protagonist is policeman pursuing woman with baby. They live on the inside of a giant spaceship/planet that is starting to fall apart.
Read as a Kindle book ...
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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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Old school sci-fi book about descendants on a generational spacecraft
I'm looking for the name of a sci-fi book based on a generational spacecraft that sent heavy rain (radioactive isotopes) to Earth because they were angry, then later sent a message to Earth warning ...
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Fantasy Series, Dragons, Drakes and Knock-Off Hobbits
This is a book that I read in the mid-to-late 90s. It was from a bin of books that the library was throwing out, so it is probably from the 80s or early 90s.
There are halfling or hobbit type ...
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Book where the female main character cuts off her boyfriend mid-sentence to prove her point about the perceptions created by one's choice of words
I'm trying to remember the name of a book I once borrowed from the library over two decades ago.
All I remember of this book is the main character was female and there was a line in the book where her ...
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Fantasy novel involving a magic bracelet that saves a man from a fish dinner
I had a vague set of memories pop into my head earlier today. I'm pretty sure it was a fantasy novel from a series I read in my childhood (late 1980s to early 1990s). The scene I remember, I'm pretty ...
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Book where people in a future society escape to an island to be free
for the life of me I cannot remember this book. the main character lived in some sort of futuristic society where the government controls the information they know. he is approached by this secret ...
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Book about a prototype robot that dies every time it's shut down
I saw this once, in paperback in a bookstore in the early 1990s.
The book's blurb was that the robot was a prototype and every time it booted, the robot was born again, and every time it was shut down,...
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Book where a girl uses kendo to fight aliens
If I remember correctly, in the opening of the book, the protagonist is hit by a vehicle. In the story, she and a squad of people are sent on missions to kill these aliens. I can't remember if they ...
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A novel about near-death experiences and a mysterious ship
I read this novel about 20-25 years ago, and I think it was shortly after its publication.
It is definitely SF if only because medicine is more advanced in the book than it was 20 years ago when it ...
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Book where the setting is both in the present and past
I read this book a while ago and can't remember much, so it is sloppy.
There's the main character, whose mom is a witch but has kept it a secret. Also, the main character's mom had erased her memory ...
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