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Sonderval posted:I read this book over 20 years ago, sci fi but I think it starts as fantasy. Exodus from the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe, the last volume of Book of the Long Sun.
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life is killing me posted:Having real trouble with this one, but I read a series of fantasy novels way back when I was 14 or 15; I'm 32 now and I don't know when the books where originally finally published, though it may have been in the early 00's or late 90's. They depicted a culture very similar to medieval Scottish clan system, and the main character in the first book was named Mouse, whose name was later changed to (I think) Kaelan as he found out he was the son or grandson of a Laird or some such. The Rune Blade series by Ann Marston.
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failing forward posted:It's a YA book about a girl who gets/buys a "Barbie" and it comes to life. The doll is not evil or anything but it is really spoiled and demanding. If I remember right the doll looks like Barbie but is obvs called something else due to copyright Probably Caitlin's Holiday or its sequel Doll Trouble by Helen Griffith.
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Looks like the story was first told by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in his book A Voyage into the Levant, but it's been mentioned in many books including Vampires, Burial, and Death. The specific undead creature was called a vrykolakas.
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Runcible Cat posted:I know the second one! It's by Damon Knight. With a Whimper, I think. She's immune to the world-ending illness, he had it and recovered, but a side-effect is he gets this muscle-locking tetanus thing and needs her to give him a shot to recover from it. He's sitting there thinking how much he hates her but maybe their daughters will be tolerably fuckable, then goes to the mens' room and locks up there. Where he's going to die, because she's too prudish to ever go in the mens' room.... Other way, it's "Not with a Bang." The other story is "The Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond" by Nugent Barker. The collection would be either Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me or Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Slay Ride, the latter of which has an awesome cover: 
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Leavemywife posted:I'm trying to think of a book I read in elementary school. All I can remember is the main character's name is Rory, a new girl moves to town and he's jealous, and they bond over the Aurora Borealis. I think she also ate pizza by putting two slices together, topping side to topping side. The Hot & Cold Summer by Johanna Hurwitz.
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Schadenboner posted:My grandma had a couple of books from a series when I was a kid. It was from the 1950s and was very (...very very) similar to the Hardy Boys or Johnny Quest but I am 100% certain it was neither of those. All I remember is that there was nuclear powered airplane, a colorful U.S. Navy cook character, and the inside covers had neat blueprints on them. Sounds like the Tom Swift Jr. series.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:I'm trying to track down a story I read as a kid in some horror anthology- I thought it was one of the Whispers anthologies but it doesn't seem to be panning out. I think the story was call CHIPS, and it had something to do with a haunted computer. I doubt it was particularly good, but I would be curious to read it again if it rings a bell for anyone! Probably this: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1023966
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Astrofig posted:Content: When I was a kid I had a beautifully-illustrated hardcover book about this cat and his (her?) nine lives throughout history. It was from the cat's perspective and went from a pharaoh's cat in Egypt (and the cat's mother saving the pharoah's daughter from a snake, being fatally bitten in the process because the kitten distracted her) to a samurai's cat and surving an earthquake (he nibbled on his master's fingers as they poked out of the rubble and could tell he was still alive because they were warm) to I think a ship's cat in the age of sail? Possibly there was also a bit about living with the Captain on the Isle of Man and a local woman who was born heterochromic despairing that it meant she was ugly?) This is from Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander but I don't think the rest of that description is, unless you're wildly misremembering it. Time Cat does have chapters in Egypt and Japan but those events don't happen.
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On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer.
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MisterBibs posted:I've thought about this short story for some time, and damned if I can remember any pronouns to search for it ”Brooklyn Project” by William Tenn. Action Jacktion fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Sep 6, 2019 |
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Mystic Mongol posted:Once upon a time, I read a pulp sorta science fiction story. It was a series of incidents following a reporter who would occasionally investigate this weird crank scientist. The crank always had new schemes that were based off of new ideas, and he had a female sidekick who was also an extremely intelligent con artist. Those were columns appearing in Scientific American written by Martin Gardner. The scientist was named Dr. Matrix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Joshua_Matrix Action Jacktion fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Nov 22, 2019 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:Looking for a sci-fi short story(?) where aliens observe the Earth and determine that cars are the intelligent creaures and humans are just parasites. There's an animated short film called What on Earth with that plot. It's not based on a short story. There's also a poem called "Southbound On The Freeway" by May Swenson with a similar idea.
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Witches by Erica Jong? http://www.ericajong.com/witches.htm
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Biplane posted:A fantasy (maaybe steampunk-ish?) novel, taking place in a big city in a huge cavern. Maybe everything is underground and the surface is deadly or something. Must have read it about 10-15 years ago, and it was fairly new at the time. The protagonist may have been a woman. Pleaae help me City of Ember?
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Professor Shark posted:I remember reading a sci fi book about a self replicating robot that eventually ends with the last remnants of humanity fleeing the galaxy, knowing that eventually the devices would follow them. Anyone know what it is? Von Neumann machines going out of control has been used a number of times, though you might be thinking of one of the Revelation Space books by Alastair Reynolds.
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ScienceSeagull posted:Saw this in a StackExchange discussion: That happens in Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon but it could be in another book too.
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Venus Plus X by Ted Sturgeon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Plus_X
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Runcible Cat posted:Agh, what's the title of the kind of recent post-apocalypse book where the narrator turns out to be his best buddy's imaginary friend? Stupid title, was a big thing a couple of years ago. I kept thinking it was The Half-Made World but it's not. The Gone-Away World.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Probably a long shot, but I'm trying to remember a comic book from the late 90s. Pretty sure it was image. The only thing I remember is a superhuman shows up floating in New York? and they scramble fighter jets to see what's up, and this guy catches one telekinetically and disassembles it into all it's various parts while holding em (and the pilot) in the air. Emissary?  He doesn't disassemble the plane but maybe you're thinking of Dr. Manhattan.
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"The Things" by Peter Watts?
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