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A kids book, there were 3 or 4 kids being main characters and each had a wand that controls an element
I don't remember much about it. But these 3 or 4 kids get a wand, and when they split the wand, each piece controlled an element. I also remember that an antagonist was a giant with 3 pairs of eyes, 3 ...
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Tiny book about a planet full of man-eating sunflowers
I'm trying to find information on a book I have read in my youth, or at least on the story it contained. I bought this book in a German bookstore somewhere around 1985-1995. It was one of several &...
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Book or story about a lonely man who orders and falls in love with a customized android after his wife passed away and his son went to college
The story focuses on a man who is lonely after his wife passed away and his son went to college. He orders a customized android, but I think he makes it look different from his wife, and they go out ...
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Story Identification - Short Story, Parody of Bremen Town Musicians with Record Producer [closed]
This is a story I read that is a parody of the fable/fantasy story The Bremen Town Musicians. In the original story, a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster all end up agreeing to travel to Bremen Town ...
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Trying to find two short sci-fi stories [closed]
A man, some sort of functionary arrives to a planet. The planet is I habited by aliens that are literally incomprehensible.
He talks to some of the scientists that try to establish contact, then, ...
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Alien plant from another planet moves around a spaceship during the night and finds a sleeping human body to take root in
A man takes an alien plant from another planet into his spaceship. But what this man doesn't know is that the plant has its own mind, and it moves around during the night looking for somewhere warm. ...
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Book or story about scientists repeatedly teleporting copies of a human to a hostile alien planet
The plot:
A guy comes to an underground facility for experiments or something.
Scientists put him in a small dark room for a small amount of time and let him out without any change.
The procedure ...
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Book or short story about a character who is kept alive as a disembodied brain encased in a mechanical device after an accident
I read a book (or a short story) when I was a teen - so this is 40+ years ago. It was likely old, then, as I was reading a lot of older Science Fiction at the time. I thought it might have been ...
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Short story involving a man who does battle at the molecular level in his own body
After I saw the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in my youth I bought a paperback of the same name. Besides 2001, it had maybe two short stories. I thought all were written by Arthur C. Clarke but that ...
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1960's-1970's (possibly older) sci-fi story about a man stuck on an inhabited planet with a twist [duplicate]
The story was about a man who crashed on an uninhabited planet and was wandering around for a few years looking for another crashed spaceship to use its parts to repair his spaceship. He had a small ...
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book about self replicating crablike robots who invade North America
I am looking for a book I got from Fictionwise about self replicating crablike robots who invade North America. A NASA scientist has been working on a crab like rover for mars and uses it to battle ...
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Sci-fi book or short story about people who crash-land on an alien world. The protagonist is captured by a hive of intelligent insects
This book from my teenage years I just can't get out of my mind for many years now, and sooo want to reread!
It involved a travelling spaceship full of a few key characters - a male and a villain (I ...
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Alien guides human history to deliver circuitry to repair damaged spaceship [duplicate]
There was a science-fiction story or book where an alien lands on one of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter with its damaged spaceship. The alien is extremely intelligent, powerful and has a long, long ...
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Short Story about Teenagers with Computer Chips Implanted in Their Brains
Maybe I’ve just totally imagined this, but I swear I once read a book or a short story about this group of teenagers who had computer chips implanted in their brains. I keep thinking about it and ...
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Short story book about a neighborhood with identical houses and identical children
A teacher read this story to us in elementary school, and I can't remember the book.
It kind of follows the A Wrinkle in Time ball scene, where there's a neighborhood with identical houses and ...
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