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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Isekai manga where the protagonist is reincarnated in another world with his sister and trains to bring her down
I'm looking for a manga where the protagonist jumps in front of a truck to get away from his crazy sister but they both end up being reincarnated in another world where he trains to bring her down.
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Fantasy book(s) with magic powers gained from rose gold rings
So I don't have many memories from this book, and I've looked over the internet quite a few times before trying here.
The core information:
There's not a lot of magic holders in the story, and it's ...
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Very old horror short story about a dead man waking up
A dead man wakes up because his cemetery is being plowed up so they can build something there (apartments, houses, a parking lot?). I think the man kills the person running the bulldozer or backhoe? ...
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80s live-action short film with a labyrinth/elf/handprint/minotaur
Here’s what I know:
I saw it in the mid 80s so it’s at least that old.
I saw it at school during a class so it wasn’t full film-length.
It was definitely live action, and definitely color.
Storyline: ...
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80s-style music video/movie clip with sci-fi themes, possibly inspired by Batman (1989), Mad Max and others
This is a question I saw on Reddit's "Tip of My Tongue" subreddit here, asked by a now-deleted user in March of 2022:
So I remember this clip from a music video or movie airing on MTV ...
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Sci-fi book about man recruited to alt universe to work for secret employer, travels to alt universes, learns another version of himself was murdered
The book starts out with the man in his home universe, the last man alive. A group of people kidnap him to another universe; I think he sees the Moon is different and knows that what they're saying is ...
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What is the source for this urban fantasy quote comparing the supernatural world to the insect world?
I had been browsing TV Tropes when I came across this very interesting quote from an urban fantasy or paranormal romance story that stuck with me. The quote went something along the lines of..."...
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Gloomy anime about suicidal athletes [duplicate]
My friend trying to find an anime that featured a lot of violence.
The theme was an experiment on athletes aimed to improve their characteristics using experimental medicine.
All of it took place in a ...
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Looking for a children’s book where a kid makes a fake mainframe and hides inside with a typewriter answering questions
From the sixties I think? A series character I thought was Homer Price but isn't. The mainframe has a name similar to Univac. [edit: identified by Buzz as “One for the Computer” or “One for the UNIVAC”...
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Looking for a slipstream historical fiction childrens novel
I remember as a child I read a historical fiction children's novel set in the late 1700s (the American Revolutionary War.) It was basically historical fiction but the main character was very ...
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Anime movie with a sick guy who was able to kill vampires by glowing and emitting beams of light
So it is from somewhere in between the late 90s and early 00s.
There was a gang that killed vampires (a vampire-killing gang?). They wore armor somewhat similar to Warhammer and Warcraft at the same ...
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An impending autopsy on a totally paralyzed person who is still alive [closed]
I'm looking for an anthology of horror stories written in the 1970s that contained a story about a person (a man?) who was on a table and was scheduled for an impending autopsy. The person was fully ...
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Book series about a boy who becomes a Space Emperor
I read a series of books back in the 80's about this family that was escaping from one of Jupiter's moons. They met up with some pirates, I believe the Daddy was killed then they arrived to safety. ...
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Anime where a girl died and got reincarnated as a wingless fairy who is married
She died and was reincarnated as a fairy who is married and has no wings from an accident from what I remember I think she had white/bluish hair and I dont remember where I read it or anything please ...
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Trying to find an animated film that told the story of King Arthur [duplicate]
I can't find this film anywhere online, nor does anyone I have asked have any recollection of such a story.
The crucial plot point I remember is this:
Near the end of the movie, the villain (assumedly ...
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