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Novel in which the far future remnants of civilisation are visited by other descendants who left Earth long ago
I remember reading a novel from maybe the 80s about a village on Earth in the far future, after the Sun has gone red giant. The protagonist discovers that an 'alien' visitor is a descendant of humans ...
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Aliens exchange their dying sun for ours. Humans steal their ship and seek revenge
I'm looking for a book about aliens exchanging our sun with their dying sun (or some other sun). Humans must retreat underground to survive. Years later, aliens make contact and humans ambush them to ...
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Book/short story about a post-apocalypse Earth with kids trained to fight
I'm looking for a short story or book series about a post-apocalypse Earth which is controlled by aliens. The aliens at the time of the story have a more maternal role over the remaining humans. The ...
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Novel about a man waking to a world without life after hibernating, then hibernating while re-evolving life? [duplicate]
I have vague memories of a novel I read decades ago, and am trying to find out what it was. I tried various "AI" services to identify it, but all failed. This is what I remember:
It was ...
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Story about a spacecraft that crash-lands on a planet with a civilization resembling Pre-Columbian era
I have read this book around 20 years ago, and the book was already quite old at that time so was likely written before 1990. Highly likely I have read it in Hungarian, but I'm unsure if the novel was ...
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What is the name of this short sci-fi award winning film on YouTube, in which robots are exterminating humans but one robot kept a little girl?
Looking for the name of this short film released around 2013 maybe.
So basically the story is that the robots invaded and destroyed the humans but one girl (baby at the time) was found and kept alive ...
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TV show about a boy who finds a hidden room
TV show about a boy who finds a hidden room with goblin and finds out what he is and has kid with alien in another dimension or something. Time moves fast in that place and his friends try to get him ...
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Science fiction book about a seven foot tall teen who is forced to fight and inducted into an interplanetary martial arts guild
This book has been on my mind for years and have done searches for at a long time but nothing ever come up so figured I'd try here.
I read this book in the late 90's early 2000's no later than 2001-...
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1980s(?) sci-fantasy kids book where a boy travels across a wasteland world in a blimp made of trash
I believe the book was written in the 1980s, but I'm not sure - I read it in the 1980's, so it was available then at least. It may also be British. A young boy is transported to a strange wasteland ...
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Looking for title of story, probably sci-fi, about mentally declining man who built prompts allowing him to perform daily functions. Any help here? [duplicate]
I have no idea when it was written, nor when I read it, but it's been at least a couple of decades My memory is very vague on particulars, just that it seemed to be pretty prophetic, bringing to mind ...
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Book with male protagonist struggling against giant (possibly alien) bugs
When I was about 10, I read a fantasy/sci-fi book involving a male protagonist and his struggle against giant (alien-race?) bugs. Being 24 now, I barely remember anything about the book, but I know I ...
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Young adult book about teenagers in highschool with superpowers
I read it in the late 90s to the early 21st century. The main character was a teenage girl who could turn invisible, I think her powers manifested while waiting for a counselor when someone approaches ...
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Book about a girl who flies to an island and found out her mom was creating robot clones of children to be servants
It was like there was this girl who lived with her dad and her mom worked on an island and when the girl turned a certain age, she flew to the island to visit her by with this guy that she was I think ...
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Need help identifying a sci-fi short story (shocked from a band saw, comes to in a slightly altered timeline)
I recall reading this fantastic sci-fi short story in a book of collected short stories, I just can't remember the name or author.
I read it maybe between 2010 and 2015, it was in a thick book of ...
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Alien Symbiote Computers that eventually have godlike computer-children
I am looking for a book/trilogy that had 21st century earth hit by a wave of alien symbiotes. The symbiotes are seemingly physics/compute constrained and are purely biological, able to manipulate the ...
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