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Science-fiction novel about a galactic tournament to earn humanity’s place in some inter alien species "common wealth" org
I’m trying to identify a lengthy science-fiction novel I read in high school that I can’t shake from memory. I’ve scoured Google, Goodreads, Reddit, and even past Science Fiction & Fantasy ...
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anime that I do not know the name of
anime where the guy destroy a magic crystal at the adventurer's guild also I remember the girl having red hair and the guy having black hair
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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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How was Rahm Kota going to put Darth Vader on trial?
As anyone who has played Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II knows, after Starkiller defeats Vader in a fight, Rahm Kota and Starkiller have the following discussion:
Starkiller: "You want him ...
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Short story about astronaut and cosmonaut smuggling
Im trying to remember a short story I read in the 1980s. A Russian cosmonaut narrates the story of how an American astronaut makes an unauthorized visit to the Russian capsule while both are in orbit. ...
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How did the Japanese Return of the Jedi movie poster end up with a green lightsaber when other versions used blue?
How did the Japanese version of the Return of the Jedi movie poster (July 2nd, 1983) end up with a green lightsaber when other posters show it as blue?
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Science fiction book from 80’s/90’s, aliens die when eating human food
It’s a science fiction book from the 80/90’s about a human colony on another planet where aliens already live. The young of the aliens are called groundlings. The aliens have asked for Earth's help as ...
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Looking for a short story about an "always worse" timeline change
In my book group last week, we were discussing The Ministry of Time. The discussion reminded me of a short story (possibly a novel or movie...but I'm pretty sure it was a short story) that put forward ...
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murim manhwa where mc transmigrated into murim world and come back to korea
its been a long time since i read or heard about this manhwa where mc transmigrated into murim world from korea and his task is to conquer the murim world without dying and after completed his task he ...
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How does undead conjuration work in The Elder Scrolls, and where do the summoned undead come from?
In The Elder Scrolls games, the Conjuration magic skill allows the summoning of various creatures, including both Daedra and undead.
When it comes to summoning Daedra, the lore seems fairly clear. ...
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What is the fictional location of the House of Usher in various versions? [closed]
I have always believed that in Poe's original story the House of Usher would have been somewhere in the British Isles or elsewhere in Europe.
Usher is a English language family name, from the ...
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How or why did the Millennium Falcon crash on Kef Bir?
In The Rise of Skywalker, as the Millennium Falcon approaches Kef Bir, Poe and Chewbacca have a conversation in the cockpit:
CHEWBACCA: [grunts]
POE: Landing gear's busted? How busted?
There's a cut ...
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Anime from the 2000s/2010s with teen heroes transforming into elemental forms
I'm trying to remember an anime or animated series I watched during the 2000s or early 2010s. (I remember watching Beyblade during that time.)
It featured a group of five teenagers who used devices ...
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Title of 1960ish fiction book about a small western US town sprayed with a biological weapon from an aircraft by mistake
I'm trying to identify the title of fiction book from around 1960, about a small western US town sprayed with a biological weapon from an aircraft by mistake. Two main characters, a man and woman, ...
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what would happen if the primarchs were swapped [closed]
in the Horus heresy what would happen if the loyal primarchs were the traitors instead and vice versa.
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Could the Emperor return without dying? [closed]
As per the title, could the Emperor in Warhammer 40K return without dying?
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Did Belisarius Cawl use Traitor gene-seeds and the gene-seed of the missing Primarchs?
I want to know if Belisarius Cawl has used Traitor gene-seeds and the missing Primarchs' gene-seeds.
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Manga where mc is villain and kill all the rising hero's one by one
I read a manga a year ago, where the main character wakes up in a game-like other world as a villain, but he successfully hides his true identity and kills all the rising heroes in the story one by ...
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LitRPG book with a miner protagonist in a VR game
I think I read this as a free Kindle book somewhere in the mid 2010s. The real world is set somewhere in the not too far flung future, it is not uncommon for people to play the game to make money in ...
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Was Iola ever cloned in the Hardy Boys Series?
I have a vague recollection of a Hardy Boys story where Iola dies and Joe later sees her as a clone.
Does anyone have an idea as to what I am referring to?
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What was the first depiction of Klingons using cloaking devices?
The earliest example I saw of a Klingon ship using cloaking technology was Kruge's ship in The Search for Spock (I don't know if this is relevant, but I've read the antagonists for that film were ...
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Did the Potters have a house elf?
All wealthy families, like the Malfoys and Blacks, had house elves. The Weasleys didn’t have a house elf because they were poor.
Given that the Potters were wealthy (based on gold found in their ...
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Why does Harry Potter not explicitly cast a spell in Philosopher's Stone?
According to this reddit post, Harry Potter does not cast an explicit spell anywhere in the first book. (He obviously does behind the scenes).
Was this an intentional choice by JK Rowling and has she ...
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A fantasy manga about a boy who is kicked out of his wealthy family for not having powerful combat magic
As far as I remember, the manga's power system is based on "blessings", for example you are born with the "blessing of the sword goddess" or something like that.
The protagonist is ...
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Looking for a 1960's story about first-contact, environmentalism, and woodpeckers
I'm looking for a short story or novelette that I would have read late in the 1960's. It could be much older than that — I had discovered the local library's collection of sci-fi. It was in some The ...
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how did Tarrlok conclude that Amon was Noatak just because he's a blood bender and not some other blood bender?
How could Tarrlok possibly know that was his brother rather than many other bloodbenders that could have been going around?
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Has JK Rowling spoken about Muggle authorities attitude to slavery and prejudice in the Wizarding world?
In the Harry Potter franchise - through various hints, allusions and direct statements - it has been confirmed that the British government has some level of awareness of the existence of the wizarding ...
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Live action movey with two rodents in a house being moved? [closed]
I think it was a (disney?) movie with two rodents , chipmunks?- in a house that is being moved across the country . the home is on a semi trailer . it is a live action film . it has a voice over . pre ...
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Do the people in Middle-earth realize that Frodo technically failed?
When Frodo finally stands there and is supposed to throw in the Ring, he changes his mind in the last minute and instead puts it on (or is about to). The only reason it ends up getting destroyed is ...
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Alternate future novel
Trying to find book length sci-fi story about man sent into future by a capsule? in a cave. Something goes wrong, and when it stops the cave looks out over a glacial?? (post-nuclear?) valley which has ...
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Cultivation novel where the main character trades items from modern Earth to other worlds for cultivation resources
It's been so long i barely remember some details, so any ideas would be awesome.
The mc in the novel enter a cultivation chat of sorts, and uses modern items from Earth to trade with other beings from ...
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In the Harry Potter universe, do Wizard-hating races/individuals distinguish between Muggles and mages?
In the Harry Potter universe, do any of the characters or races that have been noted as holding a grudge against wizards make a distinction between magic users and Muggles who likely aren't even aware ...
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Looking for a short story about time travel
In the story time travel to the past to witness historic events is normal. The story explains the name for them and that it is an event when they come & the whole neighborhood hears of it. Three ...
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Looking for science fiction short stories that I read in school in the late 1970's
I am looking for science fiction short stories that I read in school in the late 1970's as a 4th to 6th grader. They may be in separate books, but likely the same set of books:
A midget baseball ...
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Manga where the main protagonist gets stronger when he drinks poison
A couple years ago I read either an isekai or pure fantasy manga.
The protagonist got stronger when he drank poison. He is trying to find a harem. At some point he gets betrothed to a little dragon ...
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Would Dark Queen Galadriel still benefit from Nenya?
(FWIW, I have directly only seen the films, albeit years ago, but have read various descriptions/summaries of other parts of the Legendarium, and haven't seen any relevant difference with the books ...
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