Unanswered Questions
826 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Book about remote-controlling interstellar mining robots and dangerous feedback
I read this book in the 2010s, I believe from a library. The main character was a woman who worked for a company that mined other solar systems with remote controlled robots.
The setup they used was ...
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Continent sized, X-shaped alien
I have a vague recollection of this book, mostly the X-shaped alien. I can’t find anything through internet searches. I thought it may be some sort of “choose your adventure” book, but I haven’t seen ...
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Scifi book in a rural setting where the main character fails a psychic test?
I am looking for the title of this book. It is an older book from 70-90s. The author should be well-known. It is Sci-Fi.
This part isn't main timeline, its a flashback. The main character grew up in a ...
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What book has an alien species of explorers finding a radioactive earth with a signal coming from a human moonbase?
I read this book a while ago but I can't remember the name or author. It's been about 20 years since I read it and I'd like to reread it. It took place in our immediate future and a long time from now,...
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Old sci fi story where all Earth's animals are at war with mankind
Very vague on the details here, sorry.
I read this in the UK but it was possibly set and written in the US - a novelette or thin paperback book I read about 1971 or 1972, but it could have been older.
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A book I read about a girl whose paintings could make the future happen
About six years ago (but probably the book itself is older) I read a book for children (probably but not surely), fantasy genre. I read it in Italian, but think the original language was Spanish since ...
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Book about a scientist wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife being sentenced to die on a desert planet
I checked this book out from my local library a couple of times between 1985-1990 before it was cycled out. The library did not keep records once the books were retired so they can't help me. The ...
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Book where a girl finds a being in a field and it transforms to look like her
I read this book a few years ago and I can't remember what it was called. I think it was about this girl who lives on a farm and one night finds this "being" in the field. She bathed it, fed ...
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Book where astronauts sent out to find other life are recalled back to Earth
I had a book in the 80's-90's that I would like to find a copy of if I could just remember the title/author. It was published in English.
Ships with lone astronauts had been sent out to explore for ...
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A book about life as a ghost but being a ghost is only temporary
This was a book I read around ten years ago. I read it in Swedish, unknown if it was translated or not. I remember getting it from the "youth/young adult" section of the library, though that library ...
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Haunted television set summons zombies from nearby graves
I watched the Goosebumps movie tonight with my son and I started feeling nostalgic about other books (not in the Goosebumps series) that I read when I was a kid. I've been scouring Google looking for ...
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Sci-fi book about a male agent addicted to an illegal enhancing drug
I’m looking for a science fiction novel that I read about 4–5 years ago in Russian translation. The book was quite thick, and the cover of the Russian edition was turquoise/green.
The story begins ...
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A Housewife's Brain is Put in a Computer and goes Skynet
I read this book back when I was very interested in Mind Uploads. Books like the Silicon Man, Mindscan, The Turring Option, Demon Seed, The Modular Man.
I believe this book was printed before 2005. ...
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Survivors pursue a myth that there is a machine that can immunize them against radiation
Decades ago I read a book that I want to identify. The plot, as I recall it:
The world had been destroyed by a nuclear war
There is no place safe from radiation
Survivors pursue a myth that there is a ...
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Very sad children's book about a boy who remains on Earth as a ghost
I'm trying to identify a book I read in Dutch around 1992, though it may have been a translation from another language (possibly English). I was 11 years old at that time, so it was likely a children'...
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