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Tagged with young-adult soft-sci-fi
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1980s(?) sci-fantasy kids book where a boy travels across a wasteland world in a blimp made of trash
I believe the book was written in the 1980s, but I'm not sure - I read it in the 1980's, so it was available then at least. It may also be British. A young boy is transported to a strange wasteland ...
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looking for science fiction short story about boy and friends who jump through planet gates to watch star explosions
This story is relatively new. It's short probably from one of the most known sci/fi magazines (Asimov, Analog, The magazine of fantasy and science fiction, Clarkesworld) I just read it earlier this ...
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Space colony novel where space pirates attack a planet and take a boy hostage who fights his way back eventually
I think it was a 1970s novel and might have been simply titled "Colony". These days it would likely be classed as young-adult, but I don't think such a category existed back then. I probably read it ...
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Old book about a young man marooned in space who is drawn to an alien shipwreck by a ring he is wearing
It was a school library book I read in the 70s, about a young man marooned in space who is drawn to an alien shipwreck by a ring he is wearing. Can't seem to remember more, but the image has stayed ...
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Children's book about a boy who travels to the future, using Coca-Cola syrup for negative friction
I remember reading this (old) book when I was about ten years old, in 2012. It was already old then, I think it's from around the 1980s. I can only remember a few things from it:
They used Coca-Cola ...
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Book about portal/other worlds and a tribe digging for gold
There was this book I read years ago (2000-2009, possibly even older) about a boy who finds some sort of portal door.
It takes him to this world where a tribe is fighting to survive by digging for ...
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Late 80s/early 90s young adult sci-fi book about teenage girl living on the moon after Earth's invasion by aliens
The book is about a teenage girl who lives on the Moon after aliens take over the Earth. I think there was a picture of a blonde girl sitting and the moon in the background on the cover. It was one of ...
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Book Where Girl Can Control Meteors and Works for a Circus (YA Novel)
I read a book a couple years ago. It was fairly new, too. In the book, people begin giving birth to children (girls only?) who could control elements. The first child can control fire, the second ...
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Trying to remember a young adult sci-fy fantasy novel about memory
In this book I'm thinking of:
the main character was a young girl
I believe the title showed half of her face and her hair might have looked blackish blue
her parents grew up in this society where ...
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Looking for a YA book series about teenagers who are the only ones to survive hypersleep [duplicate]
I read this series back in the early 2000s - sometime between 2003 and 2010. There were a ton of them, thin paperbacks. Some of them focused on different characters.
The plot that I remember: Earth ...
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YA sci-fi/fantasy/horror book about a kid that has to overcome a lot of trials
I'd like to make a disclaimer that I remember very little about this book or when I read it (I think I read it sometime in the late 90's or early 2000's), so it'll probably be difficult to figure out ...
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Near-future sci-fi/fantasy story for young adults
I'm looking for a book I read a few years ago, around 2010-2014. It was about a boy who lived in a world where kids and teenagers can play recreational games like golf, tennis, etc. if they work at a ...
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Sci-fi novel in the 90's or early 2000 - Girl revived in violet room, tried to escape
In the early 2000s I read a Science fiction book in school. The details I remember are vague. Just little glimpses of the beginning.
I believe in the beginning of the book a girl, the protagonist, ...
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Young Adult SciFi Book: Alien Web Used to Catch Asteroids, Cadet Saves Alien
Looking for a paperback, science fiction story possible printed in the 70s-ish time frame, probably only 150 pages. Seems to have been aimed at young adult / children as I enjoyed it in the 90s as a ...
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Martian colonists wind up back on Earth, and have to repopulate
In high school (late '90s) I read a book where there were a bunch of people trying to escape a doomed Earth (I believe climate change was the disaster), by going to Mars.
The protagonist was a ...
