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I'm looking for a fiction book about pyramids
I read this book a very long time ago (30+ years.) All I remember for sure is Giza and Cheops pyramids were important points, they emitted some sort of energy. The end of the book was calamitous. ...
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Novel or short story about glass so thick a widower can see his late wife walking around outside [duplicate]
A novel or short story I read probably 30-40 years ago about a man who lives in a cabin with such thick windows (or glass with special properties) that he can see light that was passing through the ...
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(Online?) short story inspired by those "choose a special power" CYOAs
It may have been on a blog, as a riff on those dime-a-dozen choose-your-own-adventure images shared on social media. There were some people (eight I think), each of whom chose a special power, I think ...
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Children's sci-fi book with protagonists lost on distant planet
Been trying to identify a book I read in the late early 90s for quite a few years now,
It was a children's/ young adult sci-fi story.
Plots Summary/Details:
A boy (teenager possibly) had ...
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Story about reaction with water that must proceed, ending with hurricane
I remember a story read to me as a child, but remember very few of the actual details. I remember that it involves some type of reaction that has to proceed once it is started, and the reaction ...
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Story ID: Corporate brands as massive invisible creatures attaching to human minds with creepy tendrils?
I saw this movie once, probably around 2013. I doubt it was made before 2005ish, given the level of CGI. Likely in English — maybe a UK production? — but my second guess is Russian with subtitles.
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Sci-fi or horror, guess from Mars
When I was young, I saw a movie from space. I remember just this scene:
bloody red sand, astronauts building a white oxygen tent. Inside, they take off their helmets, and from behind the tent window ...
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Robot head, polo, transcendence and a helpful alien guide
I read this paperback novel in the mid to late 1980's, it was second-hand at this point and might have been 10 or 15 years old - so perhaps from the late 1960s or some time in the '70s.
There was an ...
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Story about 3 humans stranded on alien planet/ruins, solve riddles, rescue aliens from astral form?
Looking for a story read during the 80's or 90's wherein there are three humans (two men and a woman, iirc) who somehow become stranded on an alien planet / ruins, specifically on an island. Only by ...
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looking for a short story about a college/high school kid who lives billion of years and witnesses the end of the universe
A few years ago I read a great online short scifi story about a boy (either in high school or college) who kept wondering what the point of life is. The story then describes how immortality became ...
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What book had a robot going around the galaxy, making other robots?
I remember getting recommended a book about a robot travelling around the galaxy making other robots. However, I never had a chance to read and have now forgotten its title.
My recollection is ...
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Short Story (Scifi?) about a whale that "appears" in a boy's bathtub
I read this book in the mid-to-late 80's. It was a new book then as it was a gift, but I do not know how old the stories were that were collected within. It was a hardcover with compilations of SciFi ...
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Short story, where humans encounter an alien race, tell them stories; the aliens act out the stories and kill the researchers
Can't remember author or title of the story.
Seem to remember the protagonist is an investigator of some sort trying to find out why previously-peaceful alien race has killed the research or liaison ...
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Novel: Sentient lifeform enslaves all life on planet — colonises other planets by making copies of itself?
I'm trying to find the name of this book I read in the past couple of years.
The book was about a sentient lifeform (I can't recall what kind, something that normally isn't sentient — the planet ...
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Series of books/novellas, involving a depopulated Earth, mass infertility, a religious cult, time travel, and Amazon warriors
There was a series of books/novellas in the '70s or so, involving a very depopulated Earth due to a chemical/drug error that made all females who lived in modern society infertile. A prophet had ...
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