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Sanford posted:I’ve got an Audible credit and roadworks have currently blessed me with an hour each-way commute, so I’ll give it a go. Thanks! It’s actually one of my favorite King books, but I’d almost call it YA. Some really great characters and some genuinely terrifying moments (on a YA scale). Wolf! God-pound-it! Right here-and-now!
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Short story titled "The Black Hairs" or something very similar. About a man who conspires with another man's wife to kill her husband who has a gross hairy back. They sleep together in his bed but keep finding traces of his hairs in the bed no matter how much they clean it. The couple slowly become emaciated and the woman eventually dies. Is the bed haunted? No, the "black hairs" are parasitic worms and every night the couple slept in the bed the worms would crawl up out of the horsehair mattress where they nested and drink the couple's blood. Can't remember the author. Help pls. He also wrote a story from a dog's perspective about trying to cross a road.
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Sep 27, 2018 08:18
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Almost sounds like the Stacy Keach Hair segment from Body Bags (1993), but then not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Bags_(film)#%22Hair%22
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Sep 27, 2018 10:30
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Krankenstyle posted:Almost sounds like the Stacy Keach Hair segment from Body Bags (1993), but then not. Yeah it's nothing like that.
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Sep 28, 2018 04:25
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I think I asked about this before and there was no luck. Guy called to his old professors/mentor/coworkers house. Turns out the other guy has invented a machine to prove life after death. Bad news is it's your psyche/soul travels outwards from earth till it lands in another living creature where it goes insane and you scream for all eternity as 'you' are now a monster. Think it ends with professor/mentor/coworker killing himself and them tracking the progress of the soul
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Sep 29, 2018 06:51
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This is a long shot, but it's not really googleable and it came up in conversation today, so I figure I'll ask the thread: I'm trying to remember the name of a children's book (not sure if it was a picture book or a chapter book that was read to me) that I was exposed to as a small child, sometime in the mid- to late '80's. It was about a group or family of characters (possibly bear-people?) who had come to Earth from space. One of the characters was homesick and would stave off her homesickness by looking at a collection of little knickknacks and mementos from home, which she/the book called her "cheerings." (That's the part that sticks in the mind, because my mom still uses the word "cheerings" to describe that sort of knickknack, and today I caught myself using it and had to explain this weird family term.) Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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Sep 30, 2018 04:39
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I read it about 5 years ago, it was a short Sci-Fi story about a man who gets captured by aliens. His brain is removed from his body and put into a flight simulator, with the end goal to attack a human settlement and trigger a war. He used to be a computer programmer and manage to escape the simulator and reprogram it, and eventually turns on his captors. It seems that this story was part of a larger set of books I've been trying to find. I also believe it had War in the title.
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Oct 2, 2018 05:52
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Mrens posted:I read it about 5 years ago, it was a short Sci-Fi story about a man who gets captured by aliens. His brain is removed from his body and put into a flight simulator, with the end goal to attack a human settlement and trigger a war. He used to be a computer programmer and manage to escape the simulator and reprogram it, and eventually turns on his captors. It seems that this story was part of a larger set of books I've been trying to find. I also believe it had War in the title. I put too much time into this... I think you have a confused story... I think what you're looking for is "WINGS OUT OF SHADOW" By Fred Saberhagen. I think that story was in an anthology called 'The Berserker Wars' It's not quite that but it does have a guy captured by aliens with a flight simulator that turns it on the aliens but the details are vastly different. You can read the story online at http://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498860/0743498860___9.htm and see if that's it or not.
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Oct 2, 2018 07:14
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Could also be Keith Laumer's A Plague of Demons, or maybe a mixed memory of both.
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Oct 2, 2018 07:49
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No that's not it. Sorry Hugh. Also probably not Plauge of Demons, would have to be more recent.
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Oct 2, 2018 08:20
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Mrens posted:I read it about 5 years ago, it was a short Sci-Fi story about a man who gets captured by aliens. His brain is removed from his body and put into a flight simulator, with the end goal to attack a human settlement and trigger a war. He used to be a computer programmer and manage to escape the simulator and reprogram it, and eventually turns on his captors. It seems that this story was part of a larger set of books I've been trying to find. I also believe it had War in the title. its The End of All Things by John Scalzi, part of his Old MAns War series.
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Oct 2, 2018 12:10
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That's it, thanks.
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Oct 2, 2018 12:42
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I read a short story ... sometime within the past decade, probably within the past five years. Definitely first encountered it online rather than in print. It was a sort of fantasy horror story where a guy is like, starving in the woods and steals some food from some weird hunters only to find out he's been eating the flesh from the place where a centaur's horse part meets the human part.
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Oct 2, 2018 21:45
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A Tin Of Beans posted:I read a short story ... sometime within the past decade, probably within the past five years. Definitely first encountered it online rather than in print. I remember this story. Once you ate it you could never enjoy anything else, it was so sinfully delicious, like a hosed up mermaid flesh thing.
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Oct 2, 2018 22:02
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NinjaDebugger posted:I remember this story. Once you ate it you could never enjoy anything else, it was so sinfully delicious, like a hosed up mermaid flesh thing. Yes! That's the same one. I thought it was in Beneath Ceaseless Skies but I haven't been able to find it. At least someone else remembers it, if not the title.
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Oct 2, 2018 22:04
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y'all need to read the bible or something god drat. your nice old preschool teacher didn't teach you to read so you could grow up to read about people getting sexually hosed up from eating centaur meat
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Oct 2, 2018 22:45
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NinjaDebugger posted:I remember this story. Once you ate it you could never enjoy anything else, it was so sinfully delicious, like a hosed up mermaid flesh thing. This is an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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Oct 3, 2018 00:57
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NinjaDebugger posted:I remember this story. Once you ate it you could never enjoy anything else, it was so sinfully delicious, like a hosed up mermaid flesh thing.
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Oct 3, 2018 16:17
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Esme posted:This is an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Also the Fairy Fruit in Lud-in-the-Mist chernobyl kinsman posted:y'all need to read the bible or something god drat. your nice old preschool teacher didn't teach you to read so you could grow up to read about people getting sexually hosed up from eating centaur meat Hey, no kinkshaming
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Oct 3, 2018 21:32
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Also the Fairy Fruit in Lud-in-the-Mist it's from christina rosetti's the goblin market and its a metaphor for loving
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Oct 3, 2018 22:23
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chernobyl kinsman posted:it's from christina rosetti's the goblin market and its a metaphor for loving I talked about that in the Lud-in-the-Mist thread!
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Oct 4, 2018 00:20
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For a colleague: Can you help me find a short story about New York about trash collectors not picking up trash so now New Yorkers just live on trash. Sounds like a Barthelme, but I am no doubt wrong.
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Oct 5, 2018 17:38
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Trying to remember which book has a character who dislikes looking downstream when standing on a bridge because it makes them feel a sense of loss as the water flows away from them. I think it may have been an Iain Banks book, but my wife recognised the idea and thought it may be from a movie or TV show, so I could be entirely off.
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Oct 6, 2018 17:01
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Maybe The Crow Road? I feel like the landscape is a character itself in that book and it would fit in thematically. But also it's not a super profound observation so it's probably in a ton of books.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:44
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Thank you for the avatar tweak, mystery person.
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Oct 11, 2018 04:57
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When I was in kindergarten the teacher showed us a bunch of pitches by an author, not even short stories, but pitches they made. They were kinda spooky, one was about a woman who was gonna carve a pumpkin but it would get brighter when she got closer. Another story was a house taking off like a rocketship I think there were more but that's all I remember
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Oct 19, 2018 02:18
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Alan Smithee posted:When I was in kindergarten the teacher showed us a bunch of pitches by an author, not even short stories, but pitches they made. They were kinda spooky, one was about a woman who was gonna carve a pumpkin but it would get brighter when she got closer. Another story was a house taking off like a rocketship I think The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg. Reprinted in 2011 as The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, with the illustrations/pitches turned into full short stories by Stephen King, Lemony Snicket, Gregory Maguire, et al.
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Oct 19, 2018 02:28
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chernobyl kinsman posted:The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg. Reprinted in 2011 as The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, with the illustrations/pitches turned into full short stories by Stephen King, Lemony Snicket, Gregory Maguire, et al. thanks any particularly good ones that were made
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Oct 19, 2018 02:43
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Alan Smithee posted:thanks Chronicles is just one book. It has all the illustrations and text from the original but also the short stories they were adapted into. Haven't read it since it came out but I enjoyed it at the time. King's story in it was really good
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Oct 19, 2018 02:46
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Dangit, this was finally one I knew and someone beat me to it. In 4th grade our teacher had us all pick our favorite picture from that book and write a short story about it.
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Oct 19, 2018 06:30
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wizzardstaff posted:Dangit, this was finally one I knew and someone beat me to it. Come to think of it K was too young. What state you go to school?
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Oct 19, 2018 07:59
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Alan Smithee posted:Come to think of it K was too young. What state you go to school? Montana.
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Oct 19, 2018 22:35
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wizzardstaff posted:Montana. nope wonder if it was like, a teacher thing going around
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I'm trying to remember a scifi book that featured a detective from Earth who went to another planet, Mars I think but not positive, to solve a mystery (murder I think). Earth was overcrowded and this detective was real freaked out by all the open spaces. At one point he uses a bathroom that's all video walls an he can't handle it. I've been trying to find it for a few weeks now but have been coming up blank.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:53
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BallerBallerDillz posted:I'm trying to remember a scifi book that featured a detective from Earth who went to another planet, Mars I think but not positive, to solve a mystery (murder I think). Earth was overcrowded and this detective was real freaked out by all the open spaces. At one point he uses a bathroom that's all video walls an he can't handle it. I've been trying to find it for a few weeks now but have been coming up blank. Maybe one of Asimov's Elijah Baley books? Baley's agoraphobia is a major plot point, especially in The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:05
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Yeah, sounds like The Naked Sun.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:12
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I'm looking for the author of an urban fantasy book titled Underworld or Underground? It's set underneath New York City and was published in the 80s or 90s.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I'm looking for the author of an urban fantasy book titled Underworld or Underground? It's set underneath New York City and was published in the 80s or 90s. Downsiders by Neal Shusterman?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I'm looking for the author of an urban fantasy book titled Underworld or Underground? It's set underneath New York City and was published in the 80s or 90s. Down Town by Viido Polikarpus and Tappan King? Came out in '85. vvv Yay! vvv Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Oct 20, 2018 |
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Runcible Cat posted:Down Town by Viido Polikarpus and Tappan King? Came out in '85. That's it! Thank you.
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