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Guesticles posted:I think you might be right. Man, did my screw this up that badly? Cool, I hope it's the ones, I love when I get these right. 
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Frantick posted:Cool, I hope it's the ones, I love when I get these right. No luck tracking it down just yet, but I'm very sure this is it. How do you want your bounty?
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Sep 15, 2011 17:54
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P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT
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Does anybody know of a short story, probably science fiction, where it is told from the perspective of a young boy who is quarantined during a plague or something. All he knows is what he overhears from nurses, they call him "patient zero" but he doesn't really understand what that is. I remember it was a very sad story.
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I'm trying to find the name of a series of young adult fantasy novels, but I have pretty few details to work with. The series had a group of people, I think they were children or otherwise younger-than-normal for this type of story, searching for a series of artifacts, broken down to one per book. The artifacts all had some kind of gem or jewel in them (or maybe they just were the gems). Ruby, sapphire, etc. I remember one was a Lapiz Lazuli, specifically because this was the first time I'd ever heard of that. The only other detail I can remember is that in one of the early books in the series, possibly the first one, two of the main characters created a "secret language" to send notes to each other that others couldn't read. The code consisted of removing all the spaces from the normal, english message, adding "el" randomly around, and then re-adding spaces in random places. The reader was presented with several of these encoded messages through the course of the series, and expected to translate it themself because the characters just went on from that point knowing what it said.
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Funkmaster General posted:I'm trying to find the name of a series of young adult fantasy novels, but I have pretty few details to work with. The series had a group of people, I think they were children or otherwise younger-than-normal for this type of story, searching for a series of artifacts, broken down to one per book. The artifacts all had some kind of gem or jewel in them (or maybe they just were the gems). Ruby, sapphire, etc. I remember one was a Lapiz Lazuli, specifically because this was the first time I'd ever heard of that.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I'm almost positive this is Deltora Quest. I'm so glad you asked about this, I loved those books as a kid but had totally forgotten about them until you posted this and it all came flooding back. This is ringing bells for me, yes. Thanks!
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Sep 18, 2011 20:10
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Okay- fantasy trilogy that I read in the early 90s featuring a real badass dude who ends up with a ridiculously gorgeous woman. Good so far, huh? The only thing I remember for certain is that in the second or third book dude has somehow obtained a castle and has a chalice (or two) that never runs out of wine/mead/whatever. I think either he gets poisoned and his woman has to save him or they both get poisoned and their daughter has to save them. The cover of one of the books (third, I believe) featured a very attractive black-haired woman standing in a river and holding a rather large and ornate sword.
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Sep 18, 2011 20:18
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Bookish posted:Does anybody know of a short story, probably science fiction, where it is told from the perspective of a young boy who is quarantined during a plague or something. All he knows is what he overhears from nurses, they call him "patient zero" but he doesn't really understand what that is. I remember it was a very sad story. Bizarrely enough, it's called Patient Zero. Author is Tananarive Due, it's been collected in two different 2001 retrospective collections, "The Years Best Science Fiction, 18th Annual Collection" edited by Gardner Dozois and "Years Best Science Fiction 6" edited by David G Hartwell.
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Fatkraken posted:Bizarrely enough, it's called Patient Zero. Author is Tananarive Due, it's been collected in two different 2001 retrospective collections, "The Years Best Science Fiction, 18th Annual Collection" edited by Gardner Dozois and "Years Best Science Fiction 6" edited by David G Hartwell. Or, you can just read it online at Lightspeed Magazine: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/patient-zero/ It's actually a pretty touching story, as I remember it, if you don't mind the odd narrative style.
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Fatkraken posted:Bizarrely enough, it's called Patient Zero. Author is Tananarive Due, it's been collected in two different 2001 retrospective collections, "The Years Best Science Fiction, 18th Annual Collection" edited by Gardner Dozois and "Years Best Science Fiction 6" edited by David G Hartwell.  Well that makes sense. Thanks!!
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Sep 19, 2011 22:45
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SolarFire2 posted:Okay. Sci Fi novel that I read in fourth grade or so, but it was probably written in the seventies. My parents were big fans of Niven, but I don't think it's one of his. This is Prince of Mercenaries by Jerry Pournelle. The character you remember is not the main character, he's a secondary character who has a B-story (his exile and life on the prison planet Tanith) that intersects with the main character's at the end of the book.
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Oct 4, 2011 06:08
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Hoping someone in here can work their magic and identify a book based on a brief snippet that my girlfriend gave of me of a book she loved to read as a kid: I have always loved books about adventure. I've been looking for this one for years that I can't remember the title of. It was about a little boy who was staying in the guest room of a great aunt or something and he dreamed that a painting of a meadow on the wall opened up and let him in. In the meadow he's the size of a bug and meets all these interesting insects.
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Oct 4, 2011 20:18
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I posted this one a while back but didn't get a response, hoping someone may have an idea today: Sci-fi story about soldiers in training onboard a spaceship to their destination. The training is VR based, if I remember right there was real life feedback (either physical or mental pain?) and I want to say they may have used tanks or fought a tank in a battle. I also think some/lots of the trainees may have died in training but it's all hazy to me. I would have read this in the late 80s most likely to help give some vintage. I also think the soldiers may have called each other zombies.
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Oct 5, 2011 15:05
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I'm trying to remember the title of a book I saw a few times over the last couple years. * From the cover blurb, it seemed to be about a kid in a dysfunctional family who had some kind of escape into a secondary world * I think it was either by a Japanese author or a translation of a Japanese book (no anime) * It was trade paperback, published sometime within the last five years
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Oct 12, 2011 03:15
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fritz posted:I'm trying to remember the title of a book I saw a few times over the last couple years.
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Carbuncle posted:Hiromi Goto's Half World? (She's Japanese-Canadian and writes in English, if that makes a difference.) Nope  Also this was shelved in the regular sf/f section.
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Oct 12, 2011 13:40
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I read this novel in the early nineties, science fiction, very distant future, the main character was an architect of planets and frequently changed genders having both male and female lovers. That's all I remember. Hoping it rings a bell with someone.
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Oct 13, 2011 08:50
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wormil posted:I read this novel in the early nineties, science fiction, very distant future, the main character was an architect of planets and frequently changed genders having both male and female lovers. That's all I remember. Hoping it rings a bell with someone. Sounds very Culture, so likely Iain M Banks (don't forget the "M"). Could be Consider Phleabas though it;s a long time since I read that one.
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wormil posted:I read this novel in the early nineties, science fiction, very distant future, the main character was an architect of planets and frequently changed genders having both male and female lovers. That's all I remember. Hoping it rings a bell with someone. Fatkraken posted:Sounds very Culture, so likely Iain M Banks (don't forget the "M"). Could be Consider Phleabas though it;s a long time since I read that one. It's not Consider Phlebas - the main character is a shape-changing assassin. But in Banks' The Player of Games the main character is, well, a player of games, but his girlfriend is an environmental architect (they don't live on a planet, they live on a ring-shaped orbital structure) who changes sex to male and then back to female while the main character is away.
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Oct 13, 2011 13:07
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fritz posted:I'm trying to remember the title of a book I saw a few times over the last couple years.
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shadok posted:It's not Consider Phlebas - the main character is a shape-changing assassin. But in Banks' The Player of Games the main character is, well, a player of games, but his girlfriend is an environmental architect (they don't live on a planet, they live on a ring-shaped orbital structure) who changes sex to male and then back to female while the main character is away. There are some strong similarities, I'll check it out at the library and see. I guess it would help if I could remember anything about the actual plot but all I remember is the book was very challenging to my beliefs at the time.
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Oct 14, 2011 03:13
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This is a kid's book I used to have in the 80's. A chicken wants to go out and buy jam (or maybe butter I can't remember) so she can have toast, but each day she goes out, a new catastrophe happens. I do remember her ending up with a broken leg at one point, also possibly being in a traffic jam?
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Oct 14, 2011 03:31
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Moms Stuffing posted:This is a kid's book I used to have in the 80's. A chicken wants to go out and buy jam (or maybe butter I can't remember) so she can have toast, but each day she goes out, a new catastrophe happens. I do remember her ending up with a broken leg at one point, also possibly being in a traffic jam? Was the Chicken wanting to bake bread? If so, I know of this book (not the title though, but I think I can find it)
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Oct 14, 2011 03:38
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Action Jacktion posted:Probably Brave Story. BINGO thanks!
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Guesticles posted:Was the Chicken wanting to bake bread? If so, I know of this book (not the title though, but I think I can find it) Maybe!!! That sounds pretty familiar!
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Oct 14, 2011 04:07
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Little Red Hen?
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No that's definitely not it. In this book the chicken wants to go out to get something so she can eat toast and jam, but each day she tries to go out to the store, something happens to stop her.
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Oct 14, 2011 04:44
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Darn. I looked for anything in Loganberry with "chicken" in the title/description and got nothing. Sorry
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Oct 14, 2011 09:58
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Did you try looking under "hen" too? I had that thought but I don't want to duplicate your effort.
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...no. God drat I'm dumb. Thanks, I will look under "hen" now haha. EDIT: gently caress i am never going to be able to find this book
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Oct 15, 2011 21:16
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I'm trying to find a book I used to love, but can't remember the title of. From what I recall, there's a young woman (maybe in the service of Queen Elizabeth I) who gets sent to a manor somewhere. There's a handsome young man there whose sister was lost down a well or stolen by fairies. The girl ends up going down the well and there are fairies down there that hold her captive or something. She rescues the sister and marries the young man and everyone is happy. I remember the girl feeling this crushing, frightening sensation when she's down the well that the fairies called "the weight." Does anyone have any idea? It's definitely in the young adult category, if that helps at all.
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Hydronium posted:I'm trying to find a book I used to love, but can't remember the title of. From what I recall, there's a young woman (maybe in the service of Queen Elizabeth I) who gets sent to a manor somewhere. There's a handsome young man there whose sister was lost down a well or stolen by fairies.
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Hydronium posted:I'm trying to find a book I used to love, but can't remember the title of. From what I recall, there's a young woman (maybe in the service of Queen Elizabeth I) who gets sent to a manor somewhere. There's a handsome young man there whose sister was lost down a well or stolen by fairies. This book sounds disturbingly familiar to me, I'll have to go try to read it. So glad someone knew what it was!
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Carbuncle posted:Perilous Gard, by Elizabeth Marie Pope. That's it, thanks!
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AreYouStillThere posted:This book sounds disturbingly familiar to me, I'll have to go try to read it. So glad someone knew what it was! Glad to help, Hydronium!
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There's this sci-fi story I read in an anthology a while ago that I want to track down again. Can't remember the author, but the premise was pretty interesting and creepy. Basically there's this planet where the dominant lifeform is this kind of red weed that infects other creatures, causing red weed to grow from their eye sockets, adding them to some sort of hive-mind. The book starts with a earth based space ship arriving for some reason or other, that basically has to nuke a large swathe of ground into oblivion to create a safe landing zone in order to minimize the risk of the crew getting infected.
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A kids' SF/fantasy book I read in the early 90s, in the UK. The main character was a boy living in a mountain village in what appeared to be a medieval tech-level world. As the book went on, there were hints that something was weird with the setting. The whole world seemed to be small villages in a mountain range, and no-one knew what lay outside them. In the villages there were objects from the modern era, but no-one knew what they were or how they worked. (I particularly remembering a description of a strange glass box that was clearly a tv set.) Near the end of the book a passenger plane crashes near his village, with everyone thinking it to be a dragon. The boy goes to the crash site and rescues a girl from the plane. It's been so long since I read it that I might be misremembering some of this. I think it was the first book in a series, but again I'm not really sure. I do remember younger me really wanting to know what happened next, and nearly 20 years later it's still bugging me. Any help would be appreciated.
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Apraxin posted:A kids' SF/fantasy book I read in the early 90s, in the UK. The main character was a boy living in a mountain village in what appeared to be a medieval tech-level world. As the book went on, there were hints that something was weird with the setting. The whole world seemed to be small villages in a mountain range, and no-one knew what lay outside them. In the villages there were objects from the modern era, but no-one knew what they were or how they worked. (I particularly remembering a description of a strange glass box that was clearly a tv set.) Near the end of the book a passenger plane crashes near his village, with everyone thinking it to be a dragon. The boy goes to the crash site and rescues a girl from the plane. vvv No prob! vvv Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Oct 23, 2011 |
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Carbuncle posted:Jet Smoke and Dragon Fire, by Charles Ashton. First in a - gasp! - trilogy.
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