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ToxicFrog posted:Book ID question from my wife! Maybe Eyewitness Time and Space? I remember that one having a metallic silver cover, but there may have been different editions.
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I have a book from that era matching that description called The New Astronomy that I don't think was pitched at a kids level but then the name is also attached to this series: https://classicaleducationbooks.ca/product/the-new-astronomy-book/ so vOv
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Nov 7, 2023 06:36
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My partner is trying to remember the name of a book she had as a kid, it was an anthology of horror stories aimed at children (8-10 years old maybe). She had it in the early 90s but the copy she had was old, possibly printed in the 70s or earlier, and it was hardcover bound in green fabric with black lettering ( probably, she’s not 100% positive on that detail). Possibly illustrated, she can’t remember. She remembers two stories in particular: - Travelers stay at a hotel that seems normal, but in the morning it’s decrepit and there is a moss covered skeleton in the corner - Someone sees a light in the forest, is transfixed and drawn to it, they end up turning into a goblin/hobgoblin Does this ring a bell to anyone? She is fairly sure it is not any of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books.
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Nov 14, 2023 04:41
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gey muckle mowser posted:My partner is trying to remember the name of a book she had as a kid, it was an anthology of horror stories aimed at children (8-10 years old maybe). She had it in the early 90s but the copy she had was old, possibly printed in the 70s or earlier, and it was hardcover bound in green fabric with black lettering ( probably, she’s not 100% positive on that detail). Possibly illustrated, she can’t remember. The hotel one might be Bungalow 14 from the Scary Stories for Sleepovers series by Q. L. Pearce? wheatpuppy fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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Nov 14, 2023 04:59
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wheatpuppy posted:The hotel one might be Bungalow 14 from the Scary Stories for Sleepovers series by Q. L. Pearce? It’s probably a similar story but that series is too new, she read it between 1990-1992 and it was at an absolute minimum from the mid-80s as her brother also read the same copy about 5 years earlier, and it was an old used copy then. She’s pretty confident it’s from at least the 70s, possibly as old as the 50s
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Nov 14, 2023 06:06
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gey muckle mowser posted:My partner is trying to remember the name of a book she had as a kid, it was an anthology of horror stories aimed at children (8-10 years old maybe). She had it in the early 90s but the copy she had was old, possibly printed in the 70s or earlier, and it was hardcover bound in green fabric with black lettering ( probably, she’s not 100% positive on that detail). Possibly illustrated, she can’t remember. The Hotel doesn’t ring a bell, but the “turning into a goblin” could be the story “The Yamadan” by Lynne Gessner which is collected in “Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures.” Ask if they remember a story about an evil patchwork monkey.
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Nov 14, 2023 07:02
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I have one of these as well, also from a children's horror collection. A boy dreams that he is trapped in an alternate dimension where he can see our world, but not communicate with anyone. Thank god it was just a dream! Over breakfast that day, his parents keep ignoring him. He thinks they're just being dicks, until one of them casually mentions that they never had children... The end.
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Nov 14, 2023 07:26
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Bilirubin posted:I have a book from that era matching that description called The New Astronomy that I don't think was pitched at a kids level but then the name is also attached to this series: https://classicaleducationbooks.ca/product/the-new-astronomy-book/ so vOv This sounds Very Christian, which the book she describes was not. ScienceSeagull posted:Maybe Eyewitness Time and Space? I remember that one having a metallic silver cover, but there may have been different editions. That's almost certainly it! There's also an edition with a white cover and probably black spine, and while it doesn't look like there's an ebook version, I was able to find lots of shots of different cover editions and one shot of a single page that she says looks familiar. So likely some edition of that. Thank you!
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Nov 14, 2023 14:54
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ToxicFrog posted:This sounds Very Christian, which the book she describes was not. Whoa, didn't notice that. The book I have that led me to search it is not either, just shares the same name as that series, which seemed age appropriate (the book I have not so much upon flipping through it again). Apologies for not reading into it deeper!
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Nov 14, 2023 15:42
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navyjack posted:The Hotel doesn’t ring a bell, but the “turning into a goblin” could be the story “The Yamadan” by Lynne Gessner which is collected in “Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures.” Ask if they remember a story about an evil patchwork monkey. That has a lot of elements that match, but I found a PDF of it online and showed it to her and she said it's definitely not it. Thanks though!
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Nov 14, 2023 19:27
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Apologies if these are unwelcome inquiries, but it's surprisingly hard to google for this sort of stuff so I've got a couple of these I'd like to run by the thread. The first is a sci-fi story that I would have probably read in the late 90's, but could have been from earlier. It was something of a weird...reincarnation young adult romance novel? It follows a girl through the story of her life, where I believe, initially, she's destined to be a colonist for an exoplanet, but she witnesses several weird events including seeing an older version of herself at one point. The plot unfolds to reveal that she has this sort of destined soul-mate, except she almost never gets to be with him for any real length of time before fated events another version of herself put into place intervene. She clones herself and reincarnates over and over again; she ends up fostering both spacebound humans and the alien race they war with. She creates a ship that survives the end of the universe and guides the creation of a new big bang to eventually create a weird timeloop where she's responsible for setting into motion all the events that happened to her before. The book ends with her standing on an alien planet and seemingly looking forward to finally spending at least one lifetime with her crush (which is slightly silly and loses a little of its intended gravitas anyways because I think one of the previously-mentioned offshoots of herself ended up parenting the eventually-alien-evolved-humans with him, but maybe that's just the point in the timeloop it stops at). Another is a short story about a kid who is a graffiti artist, and ends up with a brain tumor due to spray paint fumes. Some goosebumps-rear end shenanigans ensue where they maybe-metaphorically fight the brain tumor monster, only to wake up in the hospital with the tumor removed. I believe the story ends with a hospital tech eating a sandwich next to the empty jar that was supposed to contain the brain tumor. I think that this came in a compilation novel with at least two other short stories, and I think one of them was about a kid time-travelling to the Cambrian where they are tasked with causing the Cambrian extinction event (by...blowing up a cliff with dynamite I think???), which they fail resulting in them returning to the present and expressing relief that nothing has changed when they see their parents who are giant trilobites just like the kid remembers. Another story I believe is about a child in an alien class where they commit a faux pas by giving away something irreplaceable, I think, like a photograph, or something to that effect, and there's a whole discussion about teenage liminality and how they're neither really a child nor an adult, and they end up getting the photograph back. If I'm recalling this correctly, this actually interesting bit of late-childhood/early adulthood writing is immediately cut short by a joke about an alien race who communicates by devastatingly noxious flatulence. I can usually find stories from the big-name authors if I search major plot points or particularly memorable imagery, but the shall we say 'less-celebrated' work is incredibly difficult to locate.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:51
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The first one sort of sounds like The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike
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Nov 15, 2023 23:29
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:The first one sort of sounds like The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike Nailed it in one, thank you! Reading a summary I'm not surprised that my recollection of details was poor, but that's definitely the right novel.
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Nov 15, 2023 23:44
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A late 90s/early 00’s sci fi collection that had partial rules for a board game “recovered from the ruins of Manchester in 2036” where the four players were the pig, the pimp, the pusher, and the prostitute (prozzie?). And then the rules (or parts of) heavily implied that the game was to be played “live” as it were, on the street, with real people. And I think it maybe crossed over or got referenced elsewhere, maybe just tapped into a shared universe, which suggests it was by a single author rather than an anthology. Thank you!
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Nov 17, 2023 10:56
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Sanford posted:A late 90s/early 00’s sci fi collection that had partial rules for a board game “recovered from the ruins of Manchester in 2036” where the four players were the pig, the pimp, the pusher, and the prostitute (prozzie?). And then the rules (or parts of) heavily implied that the game was to be played “live” as it were, on the street, with real people. And I think it maybe crossed over or got referenced elsewhere, maybe just tapped into a shared universe, which suggests it was by a single author rather than an anthology. Thank you! The story is "Pimp! -The Board Game".
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Nov 17, 2023 11:58
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Blimey it is as well. White cover with a feather or a frog or something on it. Loved that book, not thought of it for years. Thank you!
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Nov 17, 2023 12:43
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I think this one will be near impossible but it’s been bugging me and I can’t find it: Short story in a horror? compilation. I would have read it 1995-2000 timeframe because I remember lending the book to a school friend afterwards, and this is the only story that I remember from it. Woman is either day dreaming or dreaming on a bus and is psychically raped by a man on the bus. She realises what’s happening and draws him in, taking him deeper into her own fantasies until he is enthralled - because he’s usually an aggressor as he intruded into women’s minds and in this case she’s taking him deeper and darker - and she turns the tables on him somehow. I think last scene is her exiting the bus and he’s sitting there catatonic/stupefied/broken. A couple of bits that are really jammed into my brain from it, possibly because I was a teenage boy at the time: “She showed him the warm teak fantasy” + description of that being sex on a table or desk, warm wood pressed against her flesh type stuff. I think it was specifically lesbian sex. “She showed him the broken glass”, something like that but I don’t think it ever explains that one, just left it open ended.
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DRINK ME posted:I think this one will be near impossible but it’s been bugging me and I can’t find it: I have absolutely read this. I thought it might a story from the “Midnight Graffiti” collection but I’m not seeing it. Edit: ok I THINK it’s Ellison (man loves the word Teak) and I THINK it’s in Angry Candy. Edit 2: Boom!! It’s “Broken Glass” by Ellison anthologized in Angry Candy!! navyjack fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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Nov 28, 2023 00:37
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I have that on the shelf but didn’t even think to check it. I was going through old stuff like “Dark Love: Twenty-two all original tales of lust and obsession”, I was certain it was from something like that and for that reason I thought it would be impossible to id. Thank you so much <3
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Nov 28, 2023 01:19
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Another story I believe is about a child in an alien class where they commit a faux pas by giving away something irreplaceable, I think, like a photograph, or something to that effect, and there's a whole discussion about teenage liminality and how they're neither really a child nor an adult, and they end up getting the photograph back. If I'm recalling this correctly, this actually interesting bit of late-childhood/early adulthood writing is immediately cut short by a joke about an alien race who communicates by devastatingly noxious flatulence. So, this might be Bruce Coville's "I, Earthling" from Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens, through the haze of memory
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navyjack posted:I have absolutely read this. I thought it might a story from the “Midnight Graffiti” collection but I’m not seeing it. Incredible work. Teak.
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eating only apples posted:I'm back again looking for more teen horror stories. Still looking for all of these!
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The Chad Jihad posted:So, this might be Bruce Coville's "I, Earthling" from Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens, through the haze of memory Ooh, this sounds correct, from what I see with a little googling. I probably just lumped it in with the wrong short-story collection after, you know, decades of time working on the memories.
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I thought it was a movie but maybe it was a book? Alan Smithee posted:Just watched Napoleon and was reminded of a synopsis I read once. I’m honestly not even sure if it s a movie or a book but it was about a French soldier under Napoleon’s army who became a straggler or deserter and was trying to make it home on enemy territory. I want to say Russia but even that seems hazy.
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Nov 29, 2023 09:45
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A sci-fi story about an alien landing on Earth and being disgusted and horrified by humans. It can somehow sense human neural activity, and thinks that the brain is a horrifying parasite controlling the body. I think it wanted to "free" humans from these parasites.
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Nov 29, 2023 15:44
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They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson?
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Nov 29, 2023 15:51
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Great story but that's not it!
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Nov 29, 2023 21:57
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"The Things" by Peter Watts?
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Nov 29, 2023 22:38
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Thank you that is it!
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Nov 29, 2023 22:59
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I'm trying to remember the name of a book that was about, like, someone resurrected a Neanderthal in modern (or futuristic?) times, and he was like educated and able to interact, but had definite differences for Homo Sapiens. It was an interesting premise and I can't remember what it was called.
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Annath posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a book that was about, like, someone resurrected a Neanderthal in modern (or futuristic?) times, and he was like educated and able to interact, but had definite differences for Homo Sapiens. Sounds like Hominids by Robert J Sawyer.
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Annath posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a book that was about, like, someone resurrected a Neanderthal in modern (or futuristic?) times, and he was like educated and able to interact, but had definite differences for Homo Sapiens. Isaac Asimov wrote a short story where a Neanderthal child was brought to the present/near future by time travel, which Robert Silverberg later expanded into a novel. Both are titled "The Ugly Little Boy".
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Dec 11, 2023 21:00
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Philip Jose Farmer's novella "The Alley Man" is about a guy who believes he's the last surviving Neanderthal.
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Annath posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a book that was about, like, someone resurrected a Neanderthal in modern (or futuristic?) times, and he was like educated and able to interact, but had definite differences for Homo Sapiens. "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer"?
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Davros1 posted:"Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer"? Encino Man?
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Haha, when did the thread title change?
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I'm looking for a book I got reminded about recently with the whole I/P conflict and everything, and a few propaganda points from the Israeli side getting brought up and me being like "where have I heard that before?" It's a thriller/espionage novel, probably not from one of the big big authors in the genre, with a plot involving terrorist bad guys and some historical Nazi stuff. Otto Skorzeny may have been mentioned. There were a few references in it to how Hitler met the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and went on about how he prized Muslims and considered them useful, basically establishing a narrative connection between the Nazis and Islamic terror, which I basically took at face value at the time (I was like 20, didn't know much history). I think I read it around 2009-2011, and it felt like a new-ish book then. There may have been a climactic scene on a bridge or on some other kind of high place. Not uncommon for this type of novel though lol. Anyone have any ideas?
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looking for an urban fantasy werewolf series a girl comes back home to her pack. i think her parents are dead and the pack leader is her uncle or something. i can't remember a lot about the plot, except there are lone wolves testing the boundaries of the pack's territory and the pack leader and his enforcer (the girl's former love interest, also a professor of english lit or something like that) deal with that in a bloody fashion. also sometimes tourists trespass but that is dealt with more politely (LOL).
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Doktor Avalanche posted:looking for an urban fantasy werewolf series Pretty sure you have it a bit wrong but you mean 'Bitten' by Kelley Armstrong: quote:The main character of Bitten is Elena Michaels, a woman who is the only known female werewolf in the world. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and writes for a popular newspaper. She struggles to deal with her other-ness and to assimilate to the human world. She also contends with her terrible childhood and with the man who bit her and turned her into a werewolf.
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Hughlander posted:Pretty sure you have it a bit wrong but you mean 'Bitten' by Kelley Armstrong: yeah, thanks
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