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Book where an Earth woman travels with human-like aliens to their planet, where all men are bald
I vaguely remember reading this as a child in the late 90s or early 2000s.
What I remember is that a woman either agrees to go or has to leave Earth under dire circumstances with an alien woman (these ...
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Novel where the stardrive is powered by magic
In the mid 00's I read a novel where starships FTL drives were powered by magic. The better the magician on board, the lower they could go, the faster the FTL drive.
The crew reminded me of a typical ...
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Alien Symbiote Computers that eventually have godlike computer-children
I am looking for a book/trilogy that had 21st century earth hit by a wave of alien symbiotes. The symbiotes are seemingly physics/compute constrained and are purely biological, able to manipulate the ...
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Novel about a boy (a sea diver/scavenger) who discovered a spaceship in the depths of sea with dangerous consequences to him
The boy was like a sea diver/scavenger, who stumbled on a star/spaceship in the depths of the ocean, which led to people trying to kill him.
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Novel set in world with miles-high trees. (NOT Alan Dean Foster's Midworld.)
The story comes from a novel I found in my junior high school library in the '90s. I have the distinct impression that the book is at the latest from the 1970s, possibly decades earlier.
Story ...
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Book about three asteroids hitting Earth, underground bunkers, tunnels, portals and ancient giant civilization, portals work by placing hand
This book was a trilogy, I believe.
There were three asteroids heading for the Earth. All powerful people are in underground bunkers awaiting the destruction of parts of the planet. A team of people ...
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Series of books/novellas, involving a depopulated Earth, mass infertility, a religious cult, time travel, and Amazon warriors
There was a series of books/novellas in the '70s or so, involving a very depopulated Earth due to a chemical/drug error that made all females who lived in modern society infertile. A prophet had ...
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Fantasy series three books, Australian woman on vacation, travels back in time to Welsh castle, Tae Kwon Do
Looking for title of a series of 3 (to 5) books, probably Australian author.
In the first book: A young Australian woman (and Tae Kwon Do expert) vacations in Britain, shortly after the death of her ...
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80's sci fi book, players picked random game elements to compete
I'm looking for the title of a book I read that always stuck with me. Some kind of sci fi society in which people competed in games. Each competitor picked random elements like "Cold", "...
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Book about a woman named Lessa
There were dragons, and she could talk to them. I remember the author's name being Anne maybe. I also think that the author may be dead. I read the first book in this series some years ago. I remember ...
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Book about the 'aliens abduct humans to be soldiers' trope. It was comedic in style, involved blue skinned aliens
Quite a common trope I know but remember some details. I must have read it about... five or so years ago?
It was a pulp book I read on Kindle. It may have been a self-published eBook-only thing like ...
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Book where an undercover chess grandmaster is sent to an alien planet so that he can facilitate contact or avoid the forthcoming war [duplicate]
I last read the book in the early 90's, so it would have been written before then.
The main plot is about an Earth person being sent on an undercover mission to an alien planet of extraordinarily ...
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1980's (maybe 70's) Scifi book series about other planets which were colonized one by native Americans, one by Mennonites, one by Mormons etc [duplicate]
I'm trying to remember the name of a book I read in high school (about 1984) that was about other planets which were colonized one by native Americans, one by Mennonites, one by Mormons etc. Very ...
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Book series about pairs of clones, Pratwa, that were mentally linked [duplicate]
There was a great sci-fi book series that I read about experiments with clones (Pratwa?). The lab produced sets of 2 clones that were linked mentally. When they meditated and merged consciousnesses ...
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Book where the world is divided into seven parts where each part only lives for one day of the week and is in suspended animation for the rest [duplicate]
There was a book I read quite a while ago where due to population problems the population of the world was divided into seven parts. Each part actively lived one day a week and were in suspended ...
