Questions tagged [books]
Use this tag on [story-identification] questions when the work is a book series or when the written media is unclear but use a more specific tag where appropriate e.g. [novel], [novella], [short-stories], [anthology-book], etc. Use this tag to indicate the question is about the book version or adaptation of a work. For differences between the book and other versions, such as a movie, use [adaptation-comparison].
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Continent sized, X-shaped alien
I have a vague recollection of this book, mostly the X-shaped alien. I can’t find anything through internet searches. I thought it may be some sort of “choose your adventure” book, but I haven’t seen ...
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A book I read about a girl whose paintings could make the future happen
About six years ago (but probably the book itself is older) I read a book for children (probably but not surely), fantasy genre. I read it in Italian, but think the original language was Spanish since ...
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Book about wooden sailing ships with FTL
I read this book in the 1990s; I'm trying to remember the name. It seems like a the start of a series I'd like to read the rest of now.
It's a space opera about humans traveling our galaxy with giant ...
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Book where a girl finds a being in a field and it transforms to look like her
I read this book a few years ago and I can't remember what it was called. I think it was about this girl who lives on a farm and one night finds this "being" in the field. She bathed it, fed ...
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Book where astronauts sent out to find other life are recalled back to Earth
I had a book in the 80's-90's that I would like to find a copy of if I could just remember the title/author. It was published in English.
Ships with lone astronauts had been sent out to explore for ...
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A book about life as a ghost but being a ghost is only temporary
This was a book I read around ten years ago. I read it in Swedish, unknown if it was translated or not. I remember getting it from the "youth/young adult" section of the library, though that library ...
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Haunted television set summons zombies from nearby graves
I watched the Goosebumps movie tonight with my son and I started feeling nostalgic about other books (not in the Goosebumps series) that I read when I was a kid. I've been scouring Google looking for ...
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Book about a scientist wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife being sentenced to die on a desert planet
I checked this book out from my local library a couple of times between 1985-1990 before it was cycled out. The library did not keep records once the books were retired so they can't help me. The ...
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Sci fi short story/novel where ads are projected into dreams
Looking for a sci fi short story/novel where ads are projected into dreams. I know about the Futurama episode s1e6, but I read this in my childhood well before Futurama. So it should be from a classic ...
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Survivors pursue a myth that there is a machine that can immunize them against radiation
Decades ago I read a book that I want to identify. The plot, as I recall it:
The world had been destroyed by a nuclear war
There is no place safe from radiation
Survivors pursue a myth that there is ...
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Early 2000s sci-fi book where the main character investigates a suspected meteor, and discovers an alien craft on his heavily forested colony world
I'm looking for the title of a science fiction book. I believe it would have been pre 2010.
I believe the book is part of a trilogy. The setting is a heavily forested colony world, dotted with the ...
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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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Trying to recall author/title of a book (or series) about person who becomes a policeman in a magical/dream world
This was a book, or more likely a series of books from ~10 years ago (or more? Maybe they had been around longer and I just read them for the first time back then).
In the "dream" world, ...
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Book about a human who believes himself to be a robot
I'm from Brazil and the book I'm looking for is one that is very dear to my father, because it is the first science fiction book he read and it sparked a long trajectory of reading the genre. He read ...
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Old sci fi story where all Earth's animals are at war with mankind
Very vague on the details here, sorry.
I read this in the UK but it was possibly set and written in the US - a novelette or thin paperback book I read about 1971 or 1972, but it could have been older.
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