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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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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Short novel. A human astronaut is exploring a huge structure in space. It has tunnels and can exit on different planets
I read it recently, maybe 2021 or later. It had been written recently.
The astronaut landed on the structure in our solar system. He landed with a team but for most of the novel he is exploring alone.
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I’m looking for a Sci-fi book where a man’s brain is hijacked by someone trying to prove what human consciousness and the soul is
I read it probably 15 or more years ago now, so it’s not new.
It is a book where a man’s brain is hijacked by someone trying to prove what human consciousness and the human soul is. He is kidnapped, ...
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Novel manhwa in which the female protagonist runs away from an orphanage that was selling children
The female protagonist is in an orphanage that have talented in magic and she discovered that the orphanage has been selling the children, so she runs away. By the way, she also has a wand that was ...
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I'm looking for the title of a book about a group of dream warriors who fight a "demon" with psychic abilities that hides in peoples dreams
I read a book in the early- to mid-eighties that I have not been able to recall the title to. The story was set in roughly the present day. A small group of people were able to enter the dream world ...
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I am looking for sci-fi story/novel, where some sort birds convinced inhabitants they can see only through their eyes and used this to control them
The story is set on a rather developed planet, where inhabitants can space travel but they are fully controlled by bird-like creatures they have to carry on their head to be able to see. The ...
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Sci-fi book where the survivor of a bombing is turned into a cyborg
I only remember parts of the book vaguely as I had it as a child. But I think it starts out in a city and there's a bombing or some other disaster and when the government come in to look for survivors,...
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Alternate Civil War: The USA and the Confederate States of America (CSA) against England
My grandfather once told me about a book he read where the British accidentally landed on a bit of confederate land and accidentally started a fight. Then the USA army in the area came to the rescue ...
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"Did the maser blind you?" Young adult dystopian story - older girl and younger boy fighting the regime
What I remember is:
A near-future dystopian city. Standard YA science fiction dystopia. Riot police, young people fighting back, etc.
A young-ish boy (pre-teen, teenager?) is caught in the middle of ...
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New Zealand chapter book about a runaway girl from a foster home who can talk to animals
I read this in 90's/2000's.
The girl's parents had sold marijuana, and she was sent to a foster home run by a mean woman. She escaped down a tree and met a cat named Homer, and they went to find her ...
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