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Tagged with story-identification soft-sci-fi
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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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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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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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