wheatpuppy posted:Double post! Could this be The Boy Who had the Power by Jean Sutton and Jeff Sutton? Sure sounds like it! Thanks much!
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# ? Apr 27, 2021 11:29 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 10:40 |
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I found it! It was none of your suggestions, but they helped knock some memories loose and I managed to wrangle a result from google: The Fade, by Chris Wooding
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# ? Apr 27, 2021 11:43 |
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wheatpuppy posted:That first one is The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen.
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# ? Apr 27, 2021 14:14 |
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Biplane posted:that's not it, even though it ticked like, all the boxes. the one I'm thinking of is pretty dark as I recall and definitely not written for children. But I appreciate the effort! Metro? E:oop, there's another page here
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# ? Apr 27, 2021 15:58 |
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I remember reading a pop-science book about 10-12 years ago where it had various chapters on scientific concepts, written at about a year 11-12 level. One of the chapters was called something like "The incredibly unlikely triple-alpha process", speaking about how we got carbon inside stars. I think the book had a pink cover. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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# ? Apr 28, 2021 00:48 |
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Memento posted:I remember reading a pop-science book about 10-12 years ago where it had various chapters on scientific concepts, written at about a year 11-12 level. One of the chapters was called something like "The incredibly unlikely triple-alpha process", speaking about how we got carbon inside stars. I think the book had a pink cover. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Poking around Google Books I think this is The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck by Marcus Chown which has a pink cover and a chapter called "You, Me, and the Spectacularly Unlikely Triple-Alpha Process". wizzardstaff fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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wizzardstaff posted:Poking around Google Books I think this is The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck by Marcus Chown which has a pink cover and a chapter called "You, Me, and the Spectacularly Unlikely Triple-Alpha Process". Nailed it, thank you very much! edit: huh, that's one of the chapters in the book, but the title I know it by is actually We Need To Talk About Kelvin, which is how it was released outside the USA. Memento fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Memento posted:Nailed it, thank you very much!
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Memento posted:Nailed it, thank you very much! I want so badly for this to be true
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regulargonzalez posted:I want so badly for this to be true
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# ? Apr 29, 2021 16:44 |
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That's in such bad taste that it's exquisite
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# ? Apr 29, 2021 19:57 |
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I remember reading a book about 15-20 years ago that I have had a lot of trouble finding. I think it was in the wake of Dan Browns popularity boom. What I remember is that there was some woman (paleontologist/historian/archeologist/something or other) who meets a man who she travels with, for some reason. I think he teaches her some stick fighting martial art (Kali maybe). The Bad guy is a rich guy that gets eaten by a tiger in the end, due to his own hubris. There is maybe a pyramid involved? This is almost impossible to Google since I have such vague details and I don't know anyone else that read it. Anyone have any ideas?
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# ? May 2, 2021 14:42 |
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Could it be one of the Andy McDermott "Wilde/Chase" series? The woman is some kind of archeologist, the man is ex-SAS, and there's one called The Pyramid of Doom. I haven't read it but I recall the author (who nay have been a goon?) was fond of gruesome deaths for the bad guys.
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# ? May 2, 2021 15:13 |
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Yes, he is/was a goon. Always hilarious to me to go to Walmart and see a book written by one of us. Almost feels like I should get a sa discount or something.
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# ? May 2, 2021 17:50 |
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Holy poo poo I think that may be it! Thanks!
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# ? May 2, 2021 20:23 |
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Looking for a time travel novel wherein the protagonist could travel back in time but never to the same place twice. I think the guy was trying to save his wife maybe? I think was from the 90s.
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# ? May 2, 2021 23:11 |
Mister Kingdom posted:Looking for a time travel novel wherein the protagonist could travel back in time but never to the same place twice. I think the guy was trying to save his wife maybe? I think was from the 90s. It got made into a film called Predestination, which is probably one of the better examples of a science fiction book getting turned into a movie.
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# ? May 3, 2021 10:00 |
SeanBeansShako posted:Oh boy no progress on this one? Probably not it but this sounds a little like a Phillip Pullman book I remember reading ages ago. Except I think they were all set in England. Mister Kingdom posted:Looking for a time travel novel wherein the protagonist could travel back in time but never to the same place twice. I think the guy was trying to save his wife maybe? I think was from the 90s. The Time Travellers Wife? He couldn't control where or when he goes, but he could go both forward and backward in time.
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froglet posted:The Time Travellers Wife? He couldn't control where or when he goes, but he could go both forward and backward in time. that book is an ouroboros of grooming & works super hard to make it acceptable
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# ? May 3, 2021 12:44 |
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The best part about that book is the daily show interview with the lady who plays the wife in the movie. Jon is just asking her all this spoiler laden questions and she's just telling him everything, and he finally just goes "YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL US THAT!". She's adorable.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Looking for a time travel novel wherein the protagonist could travel back in time but never to the same place twice. I think the guy was trying to save his wife maybe? I think was from the 90s. This one is forward in time, not back, but otherwise sounds kind of like Dean Koontz's Lightning?
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# ? May 3, 2021 15:18 |
Zack Ater posted:This one is forward in time, not back, but otherwise sounds kind of like Dean Koontz's Lightning? Also forward in time is Charles Sheffield's Tomorrow and Tomorrow It hits the saving his wife theme, and its from the 90s too
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# ? May 3, 2021 16:14 |
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Zack Ater posted:This one is forward in time, not back, but otherwise sounds kind of like Dean Koontz's Lightning? That's the one. Thanks.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein? The entire conceit of All You Zombies is that the protagonist can visit the same time more than once...
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# ? May 4, 2021 17:29 |
Hughlander posted:The entire conceit of All You Zombies is that the protagonist can visit the same time more than once...
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# ? May 4, 2021 19:40 |
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There was a book I read as a kid and everything about it except for a vague outline of the plot completely escapes me now. The story, from what I remember, was about a guy living in the real world in contemporary times who gets transported to a magical fantasy world. In the fantasy world he is a super hot, super buff, super capable warrior. Also he is now a woman. And the fantasy world is incredibly misogynistic. The only specific detail I recall is that when the protagonist gets transported they arrive at a stone circle. There are a bunch of people there because they are waiting for the foretold chosen one to appear but of course they aren't expecting the chosen one to be a woman. That's all I got. I would have been about 12 when I read it and I was reading a really old, ratty, second hand copy so likely the book came out in the 80s sometime. Also it was written by an established author because the only reason I picked it up was because I recognized the author. Cant remember who though. It really nagged at me at the time because despite obviously being the first book in a series I could never find out if any other books existed. It didnt even appear under the author's list of published works. The memory of it popped into my head today and of course a quick search would answer that question in 5 seconds, if only I could remember what book it was. Attempts at googling just lead to thousands of entries of gender transformation erotica. 12 year old me was pretty dense but I would still probably have realised if I was reading erotica.
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# ? May 6, 2021 01:19 |
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Random Integer posted:There was a book I read as a kid and everything about it except for a vague outline of the plot completely escapes me now. I couldn't tell you the specific book, but start looking at works by Jack L. Chalker - portal fantasy plus involuntary transformation was kind of his thing, and the God's honest truth is you probably were reading his stroke fantasy.
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# ? May 6, 2021 03:05 |
Random Integer posted:There was a book I read as a kid and everything about it except for a vague outline of the plot completely escapes me now. The Wonderland Gambit? The first book is called The Cybernetic Walrus. Anything involving transformations sounds like Jack Chalker. What a guy.
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# ? May 6, 2021 03:32 |
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Random Integer posted:There was a book I read as a kid and everything about it except for a vague outline of the plot completely escapes me now. One of the Gor books by John Norman? As Jack Chalker is to transformation so John Norman is to misogyny...
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# ? May 6, 2021 03:57 |
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It was somebody talking about Chalker in another thread that brought it back to my mind but it's not him. Nothing in his biblio looks like what I remember. I feel like it was a very generic, mainstream mid 90s fantasy author because it was somebody I had read before and that's all I read at the time. Googling around has revealed to me that apparently 'get transported to a fantasy world/transformed into a hero' is a common trope so my memory might just be conflating the plots of several different books.
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# ? May 6, 2021 04:25 |
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Random Integer posted:There was a book I read as a kid and everything about it except for a vague outline of the plot completely escapes me now. This sounds like a Clive Barker book to me.
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# ? May 6, 2021 23:50 |
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I really enjoyed some of Chalker’s work, especially the Four Lords of the Diamond stuff. And, I don’t know what exactly goes on in people’s heads but you gotta wonder if ol Jack might not have been happier if he’d been born Jacqueline, given how often main characters of his make that transformation and then, when they have the opportunity to reverse it are all “nah I’m good.”
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# ? May 7, 2021 04:12 |
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Could anyone help me here? When I was a kid I remember reading a book at the library that was about a girl surviving by herself in a house following an apocalypse that was either nuclear or viral (can't remember) and then one day a man in a hazard suit shows up and she's unsure of who he is or what he wants.
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# ? May 13, 2021 20:50 |
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Elderbean posted:Could anyone help me here? When I was a kid I remember reading a book at the library that was about a girl surviving by herself in a house following an apocalypse that was either nuclear or viral (can't remember) and then one day a man in a hazard suit shows up and she's unsure of who he is or what he wants. Z For Zacharia by Robert C O'Brien?
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# ? May 13, 2021 21:04 |
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wizzardstaff posted:Z For Zacharia by Robert C O'Brien? It’s definitely this.
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# ? May 13, 2021 21:32 |
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Yeah, googling it brought up the cover, which I remember. Thanks!
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# ? May 14, 2021 01:04 |
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They made a movie out of it a couple of years back
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# ? May 14, 2021 17:31 |
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I remember that title. Is the movie/book good?
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# ? May 14, 2021 17:42 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:I remember that title. Is the movie/book good? I thought the book was very deep and impactful when I read it in 5th grade, but not sure how well it holds up. Somehow the movie apparently created a love triangle from a book with only two characters?
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Sounds promising lol
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