Questions tagged [story-identification]
Use for identifying a work of SF or Fantasy, including novels, movies, comic books, fanfic, TV series, video games, etc. Use with other tags to specify the type of media, eg. [short-stories]. Use [episode-identification] for identifying a single episode of a known series, whether TV, book, or comic. Use [actor-identification], [character-identification], [music-identification], or [object-identification] for those specific ID requests instead.
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Isekai manga where the main character gets transported into a MMORPG
I read this manga on og mangakalot about 2015ish.
The main character and a few others get transported into a mmo rpg game. While everyone moves up from the beginner dojo he sticks in the same one ...
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Old story about space-walking humans
I believe this was in Fantasy & Science Fiction, sometime in the early to mid 1980s. I cannot remember title or author, alas.
The setting was on a planet where only one man lived; at some point in ...
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Looking for a Manga about a Reincarnated Boy with Magic Talents in a Fantasy World
I am looking for a manga I read a couple of years ago (within the past 1-3 years). At the time, the manga had less than 20 translated chapters, and the raw version had about 3-5 chapters remaining. It'...
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Romance book series set in modern times during a zombie apocalypse and featuring a race of all-male elves finding love with humans
I read a book about a year ago that was part of a series, and I'm trying to find it again.
The one book I read, from what I can remember of it, was about a woman and her boyfriend managing to make it ...
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Where is this manhwa name can I get a link
What is the manhwa where there is a brown haired girl who is commonly known as the competition god in her high school? She joins a competition about youth with a few friends. She makes a dark haired ...
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A 1960s/70s time travel novel that starts with three young people committing a crime against an old woman, who sends them back to 12th century England
I read this time travel story some time in the 1970s. The story started in what was then the modern day with three young people, (two boys and a girl) committing some sort of crime against an old ...
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Short story from the 1930’s through mid 1950’s with a plot that includes robots learning how to replicate independently of humans?
I'm trying to identify a short story about robots learning how to replicate independently of humans.
It was included in a textbook at Hampden Sydney College in Virginia during the early to mid 1950’s, ...
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Looking for an older manga/anime where the characters wear ornate armor, swords come out of their hands, and they can fly
I also think one or more of the characters has/have wings (like angel wings). I think one character is a woman with short hair and her love interest? is a much taller man. Not sure if it’s one side ...
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Drarry fanfic where both Harry and Draco are hit/doused with a love spell/potion
I'm looking for a drarry fic that I remeber reading on AO3. The fic begins with both Harry and Draco being victims of a love potion/spell, which causes them both to suddenly be madly in love with each ...
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1960s movie where air pollution forces people to live underground (from a Twilight Zone-like anthology series)
There was a series from the 1960s that had movies that were not necessarily related (similar to The Twilight Zone). I'm trying to identify one of the movies that was about people having to live ...
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Short Story - Nixon becomes a game show host with a lie detector theme
This is a short story I read in Asimovs in the 1980s. Richard Nixon is the main character- the premise is that after his disgrace and resignation he's become a popular TV personality, His program ...
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Trying to remember the name of a movie where a very powerful AI needs to be defeated and one of the main characters ask it what time it is
I don't remember much more than that, unfortunately. Certainly an old movie from the 60s or early 70s. I'm pretty sure it was in technicolor.
The AI is mainly talking. We don't really see a robot or ...
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VR SF book from the 70s or 80s in which a boy and girl are locked into a fantasy VR game
In the book, a boy and a girl (the crush) are locked into a fantasy VR game and...
I don't remember much else about it, except I was like 9 when I read it (it was the early 00s) and it had a very ...
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Looking for a trashy alien romance book from Kindle
I remember the sample of the book had a girl (29ish?) who became an ambassador to an alien race on their planet, and it was strongly implied she'd traded BJs for the chance to get off earth. When she ...
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Book where a boy finds a girl with powers, unconscious in an alleyway
I remember only reading some of the first chapter of this book. The front cover depicts a teenage boy with chin-length black hair, wearing a black coat. He’s on the left side of the cover and has most ...
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