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Two IDs for you detective 1) During the Destination Saturn thread in GBS some people mentioned a character from a Kurt Vonnegut book who's basically a hack science fiction writer who spends his days writing mediocre stuff similar to the one in the thread, anyone know which book that is? 2) I believe a goon mentioned a cyberpunk novel similar to Snow Crash where in the future everybody is named after the company they work for (ie Nike). I remember looking it up on Amazon but I've forgotten the title
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When I was in kindergarten the teacher showed us a bunch of pitches by an author, not even short stories, but pitches they made. They were kinda spooky, one was about a woman who was gonna carve a pumpkin but it would get brighter when she got closer. Another story was a house taking off like a rocketship I think there were more but that's all I remember
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Oct 19, 2018 02:18
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chernobyl kinsman posted:The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg. Reprinted in 2011 as The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, with the illustrations/pitches turned into full short stories by Stephen King, Lemony Snicket, Gregory Maguire, et al. thanks any particularly good ones that were made
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Oct 19, 2018 02:43
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wizzardstaff posted:Dangit, this was finally one I knew and someone beat me to it. Come to think of it K was too young. What state you go to school?
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Oct 19, 2018 07:59
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wizzardstaff posted:Montana. nope wonder if it was like, a teacher thing going around
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Oct 20, 2018 02:04
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Horror anthology I saw in the 90s It wasn’t Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark but was like it. Spooky tales some with drawings. Not as gruesome but spooky still The only one I can remember is there’s one about a woman whose driving and spots a hitchhiker at night and she’s like awww hell no and keeps driving past him But then she sees him again. And again. And again. Until her car starts dying and all of a sudden he’s holding a knife. Iirc it ends by not saying what happens but jumps to later another driver picks up a woman or a man and a woman and implies that she was the original driver. Iirc the new driver gets killed or winds up dead I think the drawing was a hitchhiker. Creepy guy in a jacket or trenchcoat
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Ripley posted:Stuck with covid and nothing better to do than read TVTropes entries - this one from Beware Of Hitch-Hiking Ghosts sounds close to AlanSmithee's description: hmm. The year of publishing seems to line up too. Can't seem to find any images of the drawings though.
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Jul 24, 2022 16:08
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uvar posted:There's copies on archive.org but you'll probably need an account to view the whole thing - https://archive.org/details/railwayghostshig00cohe/page/20/mode/2up?view=theater gently caress me that's the one idk how archive works but when i saw it originally it only let me see cover to cover, but i guess since you shared it? Still only lets me see your link and covers
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Jul 25, 2022 14:49
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Hope it doesn't end like Guts by Chuck Palahniuk
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Chill la Chill posted:Trying to remember the name of a cyberpunk novel that heavily featured the SF bay area and bike couriers. It was near-future, had current day (90s? 00s?) technology and featured phreaking. I remember an excerpt about going down a hill and timing all the lights to green so they can make it in one go. ARe you sure it wasn't the movie Hackers? Maybe a novelization of it?
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so im thinking of a spooky tale, might be from an anthology book, would have read it when i was in the 90s (yes im really old  )the tale was about a guy who had to stay in a spooky house or something, might have been for a prize or some other reason. I think it was something like 3 nights? First night he's in the bedroom or living room or idk and some pallbearer guys come in with a casket and leave or stay. He opens it and sees a body so for whatever reason warms him up by the fire iirc, not sure if it was instinctive or he was instructed to. Corpse man wakes up and sits upright and is like "now im going to strangle you!" and guy is like "wtf man i warmed you back to health" and knocks him back dead somehow. The pallbearer guys then return and take the casket back out thus completed night 1 can't remember the others
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Sep 19, 2023 14:19
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Fuuuuuuuck, this sparked a memory in me. It appears to be an old German fairy tale. Hope this helps! drat the details were exact. I do recall the cats wanting to play a card game too now though not the second tale. For some reason I didn’t think I ever read brothers Grimm
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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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