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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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Fantasy or sci-fi book involving cats and their philosophy
I read the book mid to late 90s and it seemed a bit old then so could have been published late 70s or 80s as well as 90s. My guess would be mid to late 80s.
The title was something unusual and not ...
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Pre-2013 collection of short stories involving teleportation and time travel, a noir detective, an artist, and a plague doctor
Around 2011 or 2013, I read a library book of a collection of short sci-fi stories dealing with teleportation and time travel. I don't know how old the book was. There were maybe 10 or so short ...
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Book about a time traveling city, metallic eggs, and psychic wars [duplicate]
I am trying to remember the name of a science fiction book I borrowed from a library in BC, sometime between the years 2005–2008. The story is a young adult book which involves time travel:
The book ...
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Short story about future where living space is at a premium
I am looking for what I remember as a short story probably written in the 1970s or earlier which was set in a future where living space was at a premium.
What I recall (may not be accurate) is that ...
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Aliens invading Earth who control adults and are afraid of wood
Here's all I can remember :-
It was a sci-fi story but had a horror-taste to it.
It was about aliens from some other planet, who tried to invade Earth.
The aliens could not (or probably would not) ...
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90s sci-fi book about humans on a alien reserve; one man escapes and returns to liberate his people [duplicate]
There is a sci-fi book I read in the 90's. It was old back then, so it's possibly been published earlier. It was in English and I suspect the author was either American or British.
From what I can ...
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Prince who was either a robot or a human who needed another heart
The book as about a girl who worked in a bar or something similar, I'm not sure. There was also a prince who was either a robot or a human who needed another heart. His heart needs constant ...
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Looking for sci-fi short story about a spacecraft flight simulator consultant
I hesitate to provide much detail because with the last question I asked, I got many of the details pretty wrong, but still got the correct answer here, amazingly, so here goes…
I’ve been trying to ...
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I'm looking for a book titled "Signal to Space" which was translated from a French novel titled "Le Signal" originally published in the 1970's
I read this book in the mid 1980's. It revolves around a young boy and his pet. In the story, humans live in a space station orbiting Earth after a cataclysmic event has rendered the planet ...
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Short story about a space shuttle seeing a city of lights on the Moon
Twenty years ago or thereabouts, I listened to an audio book about a sci-fi short story. I remember bits and pieces, and pardon the vagueness of it due it being 20+ years ago, but the general synopsis ...
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80's or 90's children's book about an alien boy who lives at The School
I read a book when I was very young, approximately 9 or 10 years old, and like my title says, it must have been written in the 80's. It was a paperback book with a boy on the cover wearing an odd ...
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Looking for a short story about a boy killed by his girlfriend's anti-pregnancy kit
I read this short story about 15 years ago, dystopic future where humans are divided into castes and at the top of the oligarchy there are the wealthiest and the ones with the right genes, i.e. one of ...
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Looking for a movie about alien parasites who rely on seduction to reproduce
I remember seeing a movie some time in most likely the 00's (though I have no idea whether it was new or old at the time) about some sort of alien infestation. The key conceit was that these aliens ...
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Animation movie (80's-90's) with brain-sucking insects
I'm looking for a movie I've seen as a kid, the details are foggy and sparse but I'll try my best following the guide:
What is it?: An animated movie.
Tell us what it isn't: It is not Nausicaä of the ...
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Late 2000’s / early 2010’s sci-fi movie involving an experiment where water is turned into wine
I'm not too sure the exact details sadly. My biggest memory is that, at the end of the movie, the lead female researcher has her experiment turn water into wine in front of a priest and the movie ends....
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