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Tagged with story-identification soft-sci-fi
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Book where an Earth woman travels with human-like aliens to their planet, where all men are bald
I vaguely remember reading this as a child in the late 90s or early 2000s.
What I remember is that a woman either agrees to go or has to leave Earth under dire circumstances with an alien woman (these ...
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Old cartoon/movie with tiny character driving a toy red Chevy Bel Air
I watched this Disney-style cartoon on TV between 1997-98 but it was probably much older than that since the car in question appears to be, if memory serves me right, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air ...
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Old book about a man who finds an abandoned house with a portal to another world
This is an old book I think written around 1930s-ish timeframe (possibly older) and could be by a female author.
A man is traveling around Europe and finds what appears to be an abandoned house. (I ...
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A sci-fi-ish movie about toys coming to life I saw on TV when I was a kid
I've been looking for this movie for probably two decades - not because it's brilliant or anything, but just because I can't leave a mystery unsolved.
It was a movie about a kid who loved toys and ...
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1990s-early 2000s sci-fi TV show about aliens who came to earth and had beautiful white ships
I vaguely remember it from my childhood and can’t find it. It would be late 1990s-early 2000s TV show about aliens show came to earth and had beautiful white ships and they were supposedly helping us ...
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Asian movie from alternate reality with Tesla coil in Tokyo
A friend of mine saw a movie some time ago on the TV, but he can't recall the name. Here is the description he gives:
Japanese or Chinese movie, in the end, there was a Tesla coil (or some device ...
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Looking for pulp sci-fi paperback written pre-1976, two men, separated early in the book, find an underground civilization of dim-witted, pale beings
In this dumb pulp novel, two men are exploring a cave and fall through to a vast domed world where a race of small, pale beings regularly crash their go-cart-like vehicles into each other. The ...
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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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Sci-fi Show with Tech Magic/Psychic Powers
The show was on in the late 90's or early 00's. It may have been re-runs at that point though. It was on the SciFi channel. It was live action.
I don't remember much of the plot, but it involved ...
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Old movie about a man with healing powers who arrives in a town while looking for his mother
I'm looking for a movie from the 80's or 90's.
It's about a man with powers who is looking for his mother. He arrives in a town; there, he fixes a man's TV antenna and detects a kid's aneurysm. When ...
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Old black & white movie with an ostrich-like monster
I am trying to find the name of a movie I saw many years ago. Should be from the '50s or '60s, since I remember it was black & white.
The creatures looked like "ostriches", but had some &...
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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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Looking for a short story, romance scifi, about a person who falls love/friendship with a "mayfly" species of human that only lives for 3 days/3 weeks
All I remember is on Day/Week 2, the mayfly persona is very blasé about dying the next day/week, and the longer lived one is already kind of mourning/concerned. However the next day/week the mayfly is ...
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Novel where the stardrive is powered by magic
In the mid 00's I read a novel where starships FTL drives were powered by magic. The better the magician on board, the lower they could go, the faster the FTL drive.
The crew reminded me of a typical ...
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Title of science fiction novel from the '80s or early '90s with small furry aliens [duplicate]
There was another alien species that was invading Earth, and the little furry aliens helped us out. I think they liked having sex all the time and ended up having sex with the humans as well.
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