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Help identify novel in which hero kills an assassin via a paper trick
The scifi novel I'm trying to identify was a book i read back in the 70s or early 80s. It is about a character on a mission to avenge the murder of his family or possibly the genocide of his whole ...
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A utopia with matter control in a dying universe
What is the title and author of this book?
I remember reading in the past 5 years a novel which was not new at the time. It may have begun with a series of stories leading up to the final, longer, one ...
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Neuromancer - why did they attack Case at Sammi's?
I have read Neuromancer a few times over the years and am still confused about what happened at Sammi's, the fighting arena in Chiba city.
There Case sees his former girlfriend Linda Lee pass by him, ...
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Why does Kerillian, a Wood Elf, have purple skin when she becomes a Shade in Warhammer: Vermintide 2?
In Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Kerillian, a Wood Elf from Athel Loren, has a playable career called the Shade, a role typically associated with Dark Elves in Warhammer Fantasy. When players select this ...
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Mankind tries to colonise a new Earth-like planet, but one after another new kind of creatures force humans out
I read this SF novel when still a bachelor, so 50 years, or more, ago. I think it was in a paperback, which was quite possibly already rather old. I am positive I read it in French, but of course it ...
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What is the significance of the statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt?
When the Dark Seekers manage to almost capture Neville, this occurs in front of a 19th century statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt. CV was the wealthiest American of his time who rose from humble ...
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Adventure movie with kids and a small robot that helps them but dies
I'm trying to identify a movie from the 80s where a group of kids went on an adventure and used a small robot to help move a stone, I think to get inside a tunnel cave system. That little robot was ...
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Movie/Series with human crawling inside the wallpaper of the ceiling
I remembered a scene where a human was crawling/appearing (i'm not sure) from inside the ceiling slowly with the silhouette being fully recognizable, it was a beige tone of paint or wallpaper it was ...
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Does anyone in the 40k universe still have knowledge of the missing Primarchs?
Does anyone in the 40k universe still truly remember the missing Primarchs? Not just that they know there used to be 20 or something like that, but really knew about the missing Primarchs—who they ...
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What dark side users had the potential to surpass The Emperor, Darth Sidious, but lost it to one failure? [closed]
A motif in Star Wars is that a character fails, but is told that they had the potential to surpass Darth Sidious if not for that failure. It notoriously happened to Darth Vader, but almost the exact ...
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Short story about a man trapped in a tunnel system by a predator he can't kill
This recent question mentions two scenes, one of which matches the ID I made based also on the character's name. The other one I remember in more detail than is described there, but I can't find it ...
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Four book Kindle series about a red-headed slave girl named Camilla who marries a vampire king
There's a book series I bought as a kid years ago on a kindle E-book.
It was about this slave girl who was found and married by a vampire king I think named Dominic and she was a red headed slave ...
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Old sci-fi novel whose main character is Artur Bloor or Blord
Back in the 70s, IIRC, I read a sci-fi story whose main character was named Artur Bloor, I think. He was described as an operator's operator. A couple of escapades included:
He survives an encounter ...
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Story about the hero's party but there's no banishment
This manga was about the hero's party and they had one member who was just their friend and didn't really contribute much. However, he gave them emotional support and drive. The hero's party consider ...
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Short SF story about two men and one woman crash landed on a desert planet
The story starts with an exchange between the two men as they move salvageable cargo/resources out to the place outside the ship they're evacuating to. It's suggested they've crash landed on an ...
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