Questions tagged [story-identification]
Use for identifying a work of SF or Fantasy, including novels, movies, comic books, fanfic, TV series, video games, etc. Use with other tags to specify the type of media, eg. [short-stories]. Use [episode-identification] for identifying a single episode of a known series, whether TV, book, or comic. Use [actor-identification], [character-identification], [music-identification], or [object-identification] for those specific ID requests instead.
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A story about a personal mode of teleportation, called "jaunting," possibly in Analog or Amazing Stories
In the 50's, I think, I read a story about a scientist, last name Jaunt, who caught himself on fire and found himself outside his lab in the hall next to a fire extinguisher.
Further experimentation, ...
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Short story where a captive spirit entity was used to defeat other spirit-realm entities
There was a story in a collection by a Japanese writer 90% sure. A “spirit” entity was being held captive and used to defeat other spirit-realm entities. Maybe captor was descendant of Nazis or some ...
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The book where someone can serve a sentence in advance
I read a novel about a system where a person could volunteer to serve a sentence working on an inhospitable alien planet in advance of committing a crime, if they survive.
The protagonist chose to see ...
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Short story: typical 'time machine and kill Hitler' tactic backfires when the world is made peaceful and thus totally unprepared for alien invasion
I've googled this a few times and can't find it. Short story, 3k-5k words I suppose, likely published in the 70s-90s. I read it in the 80s or 90s.
Someone sees another human with a time machine ...
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Manhwa where the blonde, stoic female lead reincarnates/regresses into a kid and has a brother. Together they are friends with a black-haired kid
The female lead (FL) is known to be emotionless and can wield a sword really well. I remember a scene where the three (the FL, brother, and black-haired friend) heard rumors of a ghost in their castle ...
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Improved memory leads to writing success
I'm looking for a short story probably from the 1950s or 60s (I probably read it on Project Gutenberg). I think the person telling the story is a TV producer. He gets a script from a newcomer, which ...
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A male furry prevented a male student from jump down onto a train track, and ending up the boy also help the furry from depression [closed]
This is a short manga (one-shot) about a male furry (drawn in his 30s I think) helped a boy (a human). The furry took antidepressant pills until he ran out and decided to end his own life similar to ...
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Book in which a girl dies on a railway track and her sister brings her back in a virtual world
This is on behalf of my daughter who read the book a few years ago. How she described it to me:
In the book, the girl is electrocuted on a train track - electricity travels through a balloon she is ...
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A short story where all humans deliberately evacuate Earth to allow its ecology to recover
I don't even remember when I read this short story, except it was very long ago, nor whether I read it in French or English.
After my question on the last zoo on Earth was answered, Jason Patterson ...
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Arabian Nights type movie, comic sidekick turns out to be a ghost
I saw this film many years ago, and it was old then. Probably 40s or 50s, maybe 60s at the latest. It was live action and in colour.
Its an Arabian Nights/ Sinbad/ Thief of Baghdad type story. The ...
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Old anime about a city in deep space that had to fight its way back to Earth
When I was a kid, I watched this anime with a similar art style to Space Carrier Blue Noah (1979–1980).
It was about this city that was in deep space and had to fight its way back to Earth. I think ...
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Arthurian stage play that had The 5th Dimension's "Up, Up and Away" played during a flying scene with Merlin
I was putting my child to bed tonight and, when he was saying "Up" repeatedly, it led to me suddenly remembering watching a stage show at the Paramount Arts Center in Ashland, KY.
I don't ...
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Corporate Dystopia book from the early 2000s
I read a book in the early 2000s (which is when I think it was published). It was set in a near future dystopia where corporations had taken over all public services. Poverty was outlawed and being ...
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A book about the Second Coming of Jesus, but the supposed Messiah is actually Satan
I'm trying to find a book (or maybe a series of 2 or 3 books, I can't remember) about the Second Coming of Jesus. I read it about 25 years ago, and the author was a male.
In the book(s) Jesus returns ...
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A movie in which a statue of woman dressed in black moves and kills at night
I watched this movie about 15-20 years ago, I can't remember correctly. There was a scene in which this statue of woman dressed in black is moved into some museum or building and then moves around and ...
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