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Maybe an old ACE sci-fi novel (Maybe one of the ACE Doubles) But I am not certain it was an ACE Book. Basiclly a poor boy on a scrap planet, eventually leaves the planet, adopts a small kitten, meets ...
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I saw the movie in Germany, in the late 90s or early 2000s. It is live action, not animation. Practical effects, no CGI as far as I recall. A starship is on its way to Earth. It is some kind of ...
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Late 70s or early-to-mid 80s illustrated story with astronauts on a spaceship trying to escape or combat these bug-like and tentacled mechanical aliens (or spaceghosts) that are bathed in light or ...
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I read this novel at least 30 years ago, but it might have been even older. After Earth was invaded and mostly controlled by aliens, humanity was stuck to the ground when the aliens completely ...
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I read this short story more than 50 years ago, and IIRC it was already a "great classic" at that time. A spaceship is sent to the Sun to bring back some “Sun-matter" to Earth so one ...
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I'm looking for a series of slim books from the late 1970's or early 1980's which is also being hunted by another person called Adam who has posted on this website too. Adam posted: "I'm looking ...
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I read this story more than 40 years ago. I think it was a great classic already at that time. I remember very little. I even forgot whether it was a novel or short fiction, novella or novelette. ...
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I believe it was an Australian (maybe British) TV series. The area around the colony was desert like, no forest/jungle/river. There was a mountainous area nearby with a sea/ocean beyond it. The colony ...
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Trying to find a kids sci-fi book that featured sentient metal "space ducks" that maybe were spaceships. I read it as a kid in the early 90s - remember it being funny and very entertaining ...
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I read this short fiction (novelette or novella, not short story) more than 30 years ago, in a collection that was probably much older. The main character is some kind of “Merchant Prince” but this ...
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I read this SF short story more than 20 years ago, in a collection that was probably somewhat older. A spaceship is stranded on a possibly hostile world. The atmosphere is breathable, so the crew ...
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I'm looking for an older sci-fi anthology, probably from the 1990s or early 2000s. There are probably about 12 stories total, the one I remember being featured are: a Winnie-the-Pooh-like bear lost ...
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As the title says. I believe this was a short story in a collection, and I think it was set on or around Europa. I didn't read the whole thing, but I read the first page and it described David as ...
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Between 1994 and 1998 I read what I remember as a paperback anthology of short stories about the practical issues involved in going to work in space. One story in particular involved EMTs (Emergency ...
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I'm trying to identify a 1970s sci-fi book about alien invasion where the survivors were on a moon of Jupiter and called themselves the JLC or the Jovian Lunar Confederacy, Jelks for short. These ...
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A young academy student's class is dropped off to survive on a planet as a graduation exercise. He is allowed to take anything he wants but doesn't know what the planet will be. His older sister was a ...
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Just like that other story, I read this SF short story only a few years ago, in a magazine. I have checked, however, none of the stories in the issue of that other story match this one. It might have ...
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I read this SF short story at least 40 years ago, probably in a collection. There are FTL jumpships in this story, a classical notion, but here with a twist. In order to have enough energy to make a ...
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I read this book series through Kindle Unlimited a while ago about an ex-military diver who is developing a new sonar for the military as a private company and stumbles upon a hidden spaceship under ...
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It was decades ago that I have read this novel, probably a long and intricate one, but I have just one clear memory, which I cannot connect with the remainder. It takes place in a "space opera&...
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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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I saw this video (TV/short film - live action) back in the 80's: it was about two kids on a space colony, and a major celestial event (like a sunrise) is about to happen. On this colony, it only ...
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I have a vivid memory of a short story where a space colony (if memory serves) has the perfect temperature, so no one registers it as hot or cold. This was in the opening framing of the story. I want ...
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As a kid I remember watching a space (horror?) movie that had astronauts with skulls as their heads. The astronauts had a blue or red glow inside the helmet which showed their skull head. I vaguely ...
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At the beginning of the movie, a spaceship is flying and another spaceship crashes into it. Then the astronauts are forced to land somewhere in an unknown place and there they start to be killed by an ...
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I played this game on an HP Compaq laptop, on which it came preinstalled. This was an FPS (first-person shooter) set in space. Your companion's video contact would appear in the top right corner. An ...
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I'm trying to find a short story where a group of astronauts develops telepathic abilities while on a distant planet. As their powers grow, they begin to experience overwhelming mental strain, leading ...
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The story is about a male mc they have these long slabs of stones with writing that you read to get to the next level and this happens in some kind starry space. The person can only read the slabs for ...
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This is a short story I read online maybe 5-7 years ago, though I'm unsure if it was a republishing of a printed story. I believe it was a more modern short story, but I could be wrong, and I cannot ...
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I read this short story (or, possibly, novelette ?) at least 40 years ago, probably more. I read it in French, in a collection, but I am almost sure it was a translation from English. An alien ...
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I read this story more than 40 years ago, probably in a collection. Technically it might be a novelette rather than a short story, but no longer than that. Short as it is, it is a space mini-opera. ...
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I saw it in the 90s on a VHS. I think it's an 80s cartoon. This is what I remember of it: A space prince all dressed in blue, looked like a skinny version of He-Man with brown hair. A space princess ...
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I broke my leg as a kid and my parents dropped me off at a movie house that showed 3 movies back to back. My dad pulled me out of the 3rd movie and I never got to finish it. It started with a space ...
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I read it awhile ago and I just remembered it I know that the guy who made it also made another book about a kid moving into a sea town and finding pirates and I think giant monsters but other then ...
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I read a space opera novel more than 40 years ago. Probably in a paperback but I don't remember the cover. I do not remember much. There is a dictatorial regime in planet which has conquered some of ...
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I read this great novel about 30 years ago. I don't remember the cover but it was a paperback. A terrible war is fought between humans and aliens that look like spiders but are larger than humans. An ...
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I read this story (in fact, a novella) at least 40 years ago. Probably in a collection. A team of scientists is sent to investigate the value of a newly discovered planet. With them there is also a ...
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I read this story at least 30 years ago, probably in a collection. Either a short story or maybe a novelette. It is a bit fuzzy in my memory. IIRC, a woman lived alone in a spaceship. The ship had ...
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I read this story in a collection not so long ago, but it was in my previous life, that is, BC (before Covid). I think I read it in French but in that case it was certainly a translation from US ...
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I found out recently about a short story (probably by Asimov) about a neutron star. It was mentioned in a discussion about puns, and in particular "star mangled spanner", which even being ...
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I read this novel even before I read Eon by Greg Bear. The common points is that an object arrives from space and though initially believed to be an asteroid it is found out it is in fact a spaceship. ...
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I only read, about 20 years ago, a few of the novels of what I think is a very large space Saga. The galaxy is divided into several polities. But the Saga is mostly about two of them, one which is ...
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This was a story in an YA anthology of science fiction stories that I was gifted about 1967-8. The space traveller discovers a planet where every person is a gifted actor, singer, musician, painter, ...
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I'm trying to remember a book with a conceit that struck me deeply but that I'm now realizing I remember almost nothing about. The conceit in question is that the setting of the story is a star system ...
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It's a story about a redhead girl raised mostly with tigers who ends up going into space because space pirates took her off of her planet with a tiger. She ends up being adopted by the captain of the ...
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There was a movie I saw many years ago that was made in a documentary style. I think it was on YouTube or something similar and I specifically remember these details. Nazi bases in Antarctica. ...
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Summary: An alien craft lands, it's referred to by one scientist as a "cinder cone", an alien representative comes out and talks to humanity, but it was all a delay tactic. It was later ...
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I would like to ask you for help identifying a rather short story or novel (maybe short series). I believe I was reading it somewhere on internet and it may have been an amateur author publication or ...
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An intelligent rock like monolith crashes into the side of a mountain from space. It emits either heat or radiation, the military investigates. It moves down the mountain into a lake or ocean. It can'...
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I'm trying to track down the name of an animated space science fiction film that I remember seeing on UK television in the late 80s or very early 90s. I am guessing that it was a film made somewhere ...
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