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Space fantasy book involving a man searching for a replacement planet for Earth and an alien girl from a faraway world who can astral project
I'm looking for a book I read In 2006/2007. I don't know the author's name and can't remember the book title. But here's a brief synopsis of the story that I can recollect.
The story is told from the ...
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A short story where all humans deliberately evacuate Earth to allow its ecology to recover
I don't even remember when I read this short story, except it was very long ago, nor whether I read it in French or English.
After my question on the last zoo on Earth was answered, Jason Patterson ...
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Old anime about a city in deep space that had to fight its way back to Earth
When I was a kid, I watched this anime with a similar art style to Space Carrier Blue Noah (1979–1980).
It was about this city that was in deep space and had to fight its way back to Earth. I think ...
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Book set in/around a space station where the workers get tattoos of equations relevant to their profession
Looking for a title/author of a book I read years ago, when I was in the habit of browsing my library's sci-fi section. Sadly I only remember a few details:
It's set in/around a space station, no ...
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80’s to 90’s sci-fi film with humans aboard a spaceship, whose dating choices are determined by the emblems on their uniforms
Humans were aboard a spaceship. They performed their duties during the day and then paired up in the evenings according to emblems on and colors of their uniforms matching. People “dating” by their ...
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What was that animated shortfilm (maybe) or game cutscene/trailer where an asteroid transform into a tentacled monster?
I remember from a long time ago a short animated movie (unless it was a game cutscene or trailer) in which a spaceship slowly passes by an asteroid (or moon, but rather an asteroid), which for a ...
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A 90s (maybe) made-for-TV movie (maybe) about a group of trainees on a spaceship. There is some kind of emergency and all experienced officers die
After the death of the officers, the trainees have to get the ship to a certain planet/base to warn them of an attack. One of the trainees betrays/sabotages the others and the one in command ends up ...
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Teen space Sci-Fi book/series that was turned into cartoon, copyright issues with Star Trek
My co-worker is looking for a book/series from probably the 70's or 80's that was turned into a cartoon in the 80's or 90's but both the book and the cartoon ran into copyright issues with Star Trek ...
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Novel. Parents drugged kid(s) to lower intelligence due to blackmail/threats. Attempts were made to kill/kidnap the kids when they were younger
Probably read 15-20 years ago. IT was a paperback in English, published in USA.
The story set when man has reached the stars. (Honor Harrington level of civilization.) I recall a bit of a story. I can'...
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An SF novel with whole pages entirely in capital letters
I read this SF novel decades ago.
I remember almost nothing of the events. But there were several POV characters. I don't remember how many, but all but one were human, or, possibly, "human-sized&...
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Short story about a neurodivergent child who becomes a pilot
Many years ago, there was a short story (I think in a May issue of Asimov's magazine or whatever it became later) about a neurodivergent child (perhaps Williams disease).
In this society, this was ...
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Sci-fi book in which an artist with polio is abducted by aliens, cured of his infirmity, and joins an interstellar crew [duplicate]
Looking for a science fiction book, probably from the 50s or 60s. I read it in middle school in 1990-91.
The protagonist is an artist who suffered from polio, but when he is abducted by aliens, they ...
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A SF novel about a boy sold at a slave auction in a spaceport
I read this at least 20 years ago. I read it in a rather slim paperback in French, a novel but rather short, and probably a translation.
I only remember the beginning. In a spaceport in a polity where ...
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1960s-70s movie in color; Human reactions being tested before assistance provided
I'm not clear if this was a film or series, but I don't remember the characters in anything else. That wouldn't rule out something like The Twilight Zone, but my memory was that it was more than an ...
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A novel about an asteroid-looking automated spaceship larger inside than outside [duplicate]
I read this novel more than 20 years ago, in French, but I am convinced it was a translation from English. It might even be older than that. It was a pretty fat paperback, but I don't remember the ...