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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? 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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Ramc posted:Okay I have kind of a tricky request. A family member of mine sent me this photo (cropped to remove people) and they are wondering if it is possible to figure out what the book on the table is. Time-wise the pic was taken around 1989 and is "probably sci-fi" I swear I recognize that back cover. The title seems to say something like Entropy Stars or something
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Gambrinus posted:I think the white writing could be "EMPIRE" but probably not. Sam Delaney wrote a book called Empire Star but none of the editions posted on Goodreads has the right front cover
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Ramc posted:Update, it was found! NICE! I knew I had seen it, and even pulled all my vintage Witchworld books to check because something whispered Andre Norton in the back of my mind. Well done
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It is the plot of an 80s horror movie
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The New Babel Tower is what I see
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Another successful goon project!
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City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison? (I kid, I kid)
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Phy posted:Trying to remember the name of a science fiction-ish short story. Set in a near-future gas-crisis version of the 50s-70s. A suburban guy keeping up with the Joneses rumbles his big, loud, brand new car up and down the block so his neighbor can see what he's driving - and then, when he pulls back into the garage, tells his son, "Ok, I'll go rewind the tape for the exhaust note, you wind the car's mainspring back up, and when you're done maybe I'll let you drive it!" Sounds like something by Ballard
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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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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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