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Teen/young adult fiction anthology book that has a steampunk/Victorian era theme
I read this book four years ago (in 2020), so the details I can provide may be thin. It was an anthology book that, from what I remember, took place sometime in a Victorian-ish era, with a possibility ...
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Late 80s/ early 90s anthology of scary stories: cover art had a boy running away from a shadowy figure at a campfire
I got this either at a book fair or from the book store. It had several (probably 13) different stories. I don’t remember if they were different authors. I remember four premises. Although they could ...
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Short story collection for young readers centred around ghosts and the weird
I'm trying to remember a short story collection centred around ghosts and the unexplained from my childhood. I read this book between the years of 1990 and 1995, so the publication date would not be ...
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Collection of short sci-fi/alien stories, including a story about astronauts landing on a planet that seemed like Earth, but was slightly different
I'm trying to identify a book I read back in 2007. It was a collection of short science fiction/alien stories. From my memory, here is one story that I remember:
A group of astronauts landed on a ...
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Anthology book with a short story about a genetically-modified person escaping alongside other captives from imprisonment in a genetic mod. facility
I’m trying to find a book I read, possibly during 2018 or 2019. It’s a young adult book with a collection of short stories about bioengineering and genetic modification.
One of the short stories was ...
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YA book ID: short stories including Masked Granny and hypnotic TV camera
Who can identify this collection of sci-fi (or spec-fi) short stories that I read (in Britain) in the late '80s or early '90s?
One story was about a rock singer called "Masked Granny". She ...
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Collection of sci-fi short stories I read in the '90s. One story was about a girl and boy with powers who'd been raised on a spaceship
I think there was a hand on the cover which looked like it was pushing through/covered by a type of material. The last or near-last story was about a girl and boy with powers who'd been raised on a ...
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Collection of stories including one about "Keiron of Valkrie"
One of the stories is about a Keiron of Valkrie who leads his men, known as the "men of edge," to a fight in the capital of their empire. He fought a man-made man named Freka and exposed a ...
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YA Fantasy Anthology featuring folklore legends in original stories - 80s-90s
I'm looking for YA fantasy anthology from the late 80s, early 90s. I'm pretty sure the cover was black. It featured stories that were based on regional/ethnic folklore. One story that stood out for me ...
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Anthology book: man tricked he was dead by falling off a balcony, apocalypse with black spot on the sun etc
Male author(s). I read this book between 1996-2000 and was published in the USA some time within that decade. It was written in English and was an anthology book. I can recall 3 stories though I ...
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70s-80s SF book, a series of short stories each set X years ahead. In first one aliens placed domes over cities before wiping out everyone else
I read this years ago, most likely this would be a young adult book, maybe from the 1970s or 1980s. I swear the title was "The Turning Point: Tales of a Future Past" but I've never been able to find ...
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Young adult short story book with one story where a woman finds a walrus suit and becomes a walrus
I’m trying to identify a book I remember reading sometime in the 2005-2006 time range. This book was in my fifth grade classroom in the US. I’ve tried searching for it a few times in the past few ...
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Young adult anthology book from 1970s/1980s
I am trying to figure out the title of an sci-fi short story anthology book that was geared towards young adult readers. It was in my junior high school library and I read it sometime between 1987 to ...
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90s(?) young adult sci-fi anthology book, including a girl astronaut going to a smell-less world and a merman-looking boy
I'm looking for a compilation of YA sci-fi short stories which I read in high school in the mid 90s.
The book had two stories which I remember:
Was about a girl astronaut who goes to another world ...
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