Questions tagged [space]
For story-identification questions which are related to or might be set in space. Always use in conjunction with the [story-identification] tag.
33 questions from the last 365 days
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What is this book series about spacefaring teens trying to discover a renewable energy source?
I read this book maybe 5 or 6 years ago. I remember it being geared towards younger children. I think there were six books total, with each one having the main characters go to a different planet, and ...
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A live action sci-fi show with a blue Yoda-like creature with a trunk
I am trying to find this show. I recall watching it somewhere between 2005 and 2010. The only details I remember about it is that it was a live action show, alien/space-themed, had some children in it,...
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Sci-fi book about a woman with two people in her head, a matriarchal harem society, and a dying dust planet in the main character's past
I'm looking for a sci-fi book involving two humans who go to a planet to negotiate a treaty, and the planet is a matriarchal, polyandrist society. One of the women falls in love with the husband of ...
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1960s to 1980s story in which a stranded space traveler becomes a god to humanoids
I'm trying to identify a story, probably from the 1960s to the 1980s, in which a stranded space traveler becomes a god to humanoids living on the planet he (crash?) landed on. Then he discovers that ...
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Manga about a little girl dreaming about another little girl in space who needs help
There was this manga I read back in 2020/2021. It was about this little girl having a dream about another little girl who lived in space and needed help fighting these alien monster things. They'd ...
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Novel (90's): Female spaceship pilot, lightspeed to exoplanet, flooding exoplanet to start terraforming. Uses frozen atmosphere to revive crew
Novel from the 90's or earlier, perhaps WAY earlier.
Female spaceship pilot.
Lightspeed to exoplanet.
Flooding exoplanet to start terraforming.
Uses frozen atmosphere to revive crew.
She uses frozen ...
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Obscure low-budget sci-fi/fanfic movie. The ending was humans being dropped off on Earth by a robot crew member to save the human species
I am looking for an obscure low-budget/fan-fiction movie I remember seeing. I saw it online after 2010. Had to look around for it; it was not available on the main sites (e.g. YouTube).
No idea when ...
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Book about a ship that travels the universe increasing gravity so that the Big Bang will occur again
Book about a ship that travels the universe endlessly increasing gravity so that the universe will stop expanding and go back to create another Big Bang. Ships use rings as identification in their ...
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Trilogy book series about kids awakening on a spacecraft; each book takes place on another planet
From the first book, all I can really remember is that when the kids awaken on the ship, they ask the (AI/ship, I think) where their parents are and it responds by saying they're on another ship or ...
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A SF short story about a detective with an original method to identify a drug trafficker
I read this short story by Asimov more than 50 years ago but it was probably even older than that. I read it in a collection but it is not in “The Early Asimov” and there are very many collections.
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A short SF story where people are so used to computers that they cannot count anymore [duplicate]
I read this short story at least forty years ago, probably in a collection since I read very few magazines.
People are so used to computers that they forgot how count. But one guy notices that ...
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Story that includes a video negotiation between a spaceship captain and the leader of a mutiny
The story includes a video negotiation between a spaceship captain and the leader of a mutiny. The mutineers hold the Captain's girlfriend hostage. The captain tells the mutineer that he will blow up ...
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60s Book. Young boy from scrap planet grows, befriends princess(?) fights bad guys, and eventually overthrows evil empire(?) but dies in the end
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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Movie in which a starship is hit by an asteroid and the small crew try to fix the ship to get home
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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70s or 80s story about astronauts versus insectoid tentacled robots bathed in light - magazine-sized graphic novel in color - dark and intense
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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