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Teh Jawesome posted:Ok, this one's been bugging me for ages. I remember reading a book back in elementary school in which a panther is loose outside a village (maybe in either England or New England?). The main character is a boy who is trying to convince people that the panther exists, but (if I remember correctly) no one believes him. At one point he faces off with the panther with only a pellet gun. If someone can actually figure out what this is, I'll lose my mind. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Beast-Janni-Howker/dp/0744590329
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GrumpyMan posted:I read this maybe 3-4 years ago, but it may be much older, and quite possibly a sci-fi classic. I can't remember the name or author for the life of me, and it is killing me.
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Ulalume posted:This is a fairly recent book. It's based off the idea that so long as someone alive remembers you, you still exist in some way. After people died, they went off to have a sort of second life in this typical city. Suddenly, they start disappearing, as does the city, at a rapid rate.
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McNutty posted:I read this book about a decade ago. It seems like the book could have been old even then though. I believe it is young adult fiction.
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AuntieJem posted:In a futuristic society people are made to be 100% average. Anyone with higher than average IQ is shocked every time they think complex thoughts, skinny people wear weights, etc. At the end of this short story, a couple break into a news broadcasting station, kill everyone during live TV and do some sort of dance before blowing their brains out. Any ideas? Appreciate the help.
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Harkano posted:Anyone help? Ninja edit: The Proof House is the 3rd, I think.
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Harkano posted:I read these books years ago and just got into Holt in the last year or so and I love him. My mind is broken. Damned authors and their psuedonyms. And glad to help! 
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Incitatus posted:1) A pawnshop owner is feeding demonic dogs he keeps books, and one of the characters starts buying up the books in town to save them from being destroyed.
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Twanki posted:This is reaching quite a bit I should think, as I only ever read the blurb in a second-hand bookshop years ago.
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Twanki posted:You are not so much a man as a tiny god. e: Serves me right! Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Jan 26, 2008 |
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soap. posted:Thats all I can remember, but it has been bothering me for years. I read it around 2000 or 2001, I think. Thanks!
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Jan 26, 2008 11:59
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The Aphasian posted:The title is one word (or "the" and one word), and that word is the term for the end of the universe when all information is attainable. The book was so-so; good ideas mixed with sappiness and ridiculous speculation. What bugs me is that I really want to know the title, not to find the book again, but because it was a word that I liked immensely. All internet searches for it just return Hitchhiker's references when I try.
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Feb 6, 2008 20:08
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The Aphasian posted:Got it in one. I don't know why I thought it was a one-word title; I assume I saw the term "omega point" somewhere on the jacket or later just retconned my own memory to pick a more sci-fi title.
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Sanguine posted:I read a series of books in primary school (early 90's) that were about a family that lived in a space ship - I think it had 'Dragon' and '9' in its name. I also have a feeling that one book was set on a planet with giant ants, though this may be crossed-books. They were aimed at kids, and I have a feeling they were from the 70s.
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LabCreatedAmber posted:There's a sci-fi book I read about three years ago; it must've been published within the last 10 years. I want to say it has a sequel.
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LabCreatedAmber posted:Ah! Thanks so much; I'm checking them out on Amazon right now!
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roffles posted:I remember reading a book (may have been part of a series, the ending made it seem like it was the first book) about a soldier who was part of some kind of galactic police force. Anyway, his whole planet somehow gets wiped out and he is infected with whatever killed the rest of his planet but is saved by some secret society.
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Elohssa Gib posted:I'm looking for a short story I read several years ago, it was about a future time when they had bases on the moon and a company gave tours, one tour accidentally get sucked into a sinkhole. I seem to remember really good descriptions of how fine the moon dust was. I want to re-read it cause I can't remember how it ended. vvvvvvv You shouldn't have too much trouble finding a copy - enjoy! vvvvvvv Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 10:28 on May 17, 2008 |
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monkeytennis posted:I read a book in the 80s I'd love to find again. It was sci-fi, about a Russian test pilot who gets radiation exposure and crash lands on a Scottish island I think, He turns into some kind of monster and starts raping and killing. The part that sticks in my mind is the author describing him as wearing a white space suit. Edit: monkeytennis posted:Aaand purchased off eBay for less than a fiver!  Rent the DVD as well; I recommend it! Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 22:38 on May 27, 2008 |
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May 26, 2008 13:32
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EvilMoJoJoJo posted:Please help! I read a book a while ago about a world like ours, with modern technology and the same political set-up and so on, where magic suddenly begins to work, and all kinds of mythical creatures show up and start causing havoc. It was definitely set in the UK, and was quite scary - I think at one point a character was being chased by one of the black dogs of legend. Giants, trolls, goblins etc all appeared and the police and army were unable to cope. Technology also suddenly became a lot less reliable.
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May 27, 2008 22:36
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EvilMoJoJoJo posted:...but it is the Age of Misrule trilogy instead, which can be found by scrolling down even further! Thank you, thank you, thank you, they're all on order from Amazon now, and I have books to fill my imminent post-Malazan void.
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May 28, 2008 19:34
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hambeet posted:Now, all the text blurbs would talk about the space ship or robot or whatever in the past tense, just describing what it is and where it came from (designed during an old war or whatever). I could describe it like an encyclopedia, or catalogue, but it was in the realm of science fiction. I would say it was aimed at the teenage demographic, maybe even right up to early adult. I wouldn't call it a childrens book, but who knows.
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May 29, 2008 10:10
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hambeet posted:Were they the only type of people doing books like this that you know of? What time of genre would this be under as graphic books bring up arts students resources or some manga and marvel comic compilations.  They were the first, but they started a fad (in the UK at least) - Cowley did the similar Galactic Encounters series under his pseudonym of Caldwell*; Bob Shaw, I think, did a Galactic Tour version; I'm sure there were others... I'll have a rummage through the boxes in my spare room at the weekend, I might have some of them still. I don't know if the genre has ever been given a specific name, sorry. *Here's a site with the covers of both - any of those ring bells?
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JoeNotCharles posted:Oh, man, the first "definition of vague" post really rang a bell - I'm sure my library had a bunch of those, including some with spaceships and one that was all pictures of aliens, but of course I couldn't remember any more. hambeet posted:edit: An update for all of those on the edge of their seats following my harrowing trip down memory lane :P. Reading all the links provided, I'm 100% the book is on of the Terran Trade Authority. Mentions of the "deVass drive" tripped my memory. I'm going to go get them regardless now. Thanks LittleSunshine, criptozoid and Anapaest, I owe you all E-Beer's!  I think the deVass drive is in Encounters too, but it's definitely one of Cowley/Caldwell's series then. Hooray for us!
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Mister Kingdom posted:I believe this was a short story I read in the late 70s/early 80s. ninja e: it's got a different title in the colonies - Re-Birth, I think.
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Hubcap Hal posted:I'm looking for a short story, and it's about angels. In the story angels appear, but they cause massive amounts of damage and death. I think it's a pretty recent story, within the last 6 or 5 years.
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wlokos posted:This book was mentioned on this forum a while ago, and I meant to get it but forgot about it. It's about some society where there's a statue or something with the alphabet on it, and as letters fall off of the statue, those letters are banned from society, at which point they no longer appear in the book (I think the book is comprised of letters from people in the society, maybe?). It might have been a slightly dystopian novel, although I'm not sure on that. vvv Glad to help! vvv Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jun 15, 2008 |
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Be warned, When the Tripods Came is gently caress-awful. A real pity, because the original trilogy is great.tastysoup posted:There was another book that I liked as a kid that I hardly remember anything about. This kid is on a strange planet, and I'm pretty sure he's not supposed to be there, and he keeps talking about buttery pie. Or something like that. It was a pretty cool book but all I remember is the drat pie.
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Ballsworthy posted:A young adult fantasy novel with two teenage boys who don't like each other very much that get sucked into fantasy land. They each have, for some reason, a magical stone, each one like half of a yin-yang. They also have magic bottles and bowls that become filled with whatever food/drink they want. They have to learn to work together so they can fight some wolf thing. Fenris, I just remembered, that was the name of the wolf-thing.
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Spathi posted:Book #2, read around the same time period, young adult fantasy. Protagonist is a girl in a family of "grey" necromancers who lay the undead to rest, the novel's world also has "black" necromancers". The necromancers - Abhorsens - in this use a set of bells with specific names and powers if that helps you remember.
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Solaron posted:Some crappy fantasy book from when I was a kid.. I don't remember much of it. Something about a thief, hits town, has a rendevouz with one of the local whores and ends up agreeing to retrieve something for some wizard. He steals a ring from the wizard, heads to retrieve the item, and is beset by all manners of crazy poo poo. A maze, I believe, some floating eyeball and tons of stuff. Then, at the very end, he finds out it's because he's wearing that ring.
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onceling posted:I haven't read this, it was recommended and I can't remember the title.
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Fedaykin posted:The book was about a guy that collected and dealed rare first edition books. I don't remember much of the plot except that it like a mystery. The main part was that he dealt in first edition books and such. Sorry for being so vague but that's all I remember.
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I think the first one is Robert Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky; at the very least I remember it having the mutants/mutineers ambiguity. And the second sounds like George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails. e: for synopses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphans_of_the_Sky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Gravity_Fails Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Jul 28, 2008 |
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JoeNotCharles posted:Definitely sounds William Sleator-ish, but I read The Boy Who Reversed Himself and I don't remember any of those details except "boy can travel to another dimension". I think he reused that theme a bunch, so I think it's a different book. (I could have just forgotten a whole bunch, but it really feels wrong to me.)
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PrinceofLowLight posted:I've never read this book/series/short story, but I've read about it. It's supposed to be very important in the history of a certain kind of sci-fi/fantasy. It's basically about a massive arcology on a planet where it's always night. If you're planning on reading it be warned, the opening chapter is the most nauseating glurge you'll ever read in your life. Thankfully it's just unnecessary framing so you can skip it and go straight to the City. e:f;b. Should've looked at the next page....
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Golden_Zucchini posted:The second book was at least the second in a series. A group of humans had been removed from Earth back in prehistoric times to live with some aliens while the humans still on Earth continued to develop to a point where they less warlike and more able to live peacefully with the aliens. The aliens couldn't understand human psychology, though, so they set their pet humans to guide the Earth humans' development. Consequently, the pet humans did all sorts of things to screw with the Earth humans' development. That's all backstory, though.
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RyanNotBrian posted:All I can remember about this book is that the protagonist has some sort of little vampire creature that is hungry and he or she has nothing to feed it, so he lets it drink its blood. This saves the creature from dying. Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Sep 19, 2008 |
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First one might be Moon of Three Rings by Andre Norton - synopsis here. Not a clue about the others though.
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vegaji posted:I remember some book that was being given away by my middle school library. I read a few pages of it then quit for some reason.
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