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I'm looking to identify a pre-1990 (probably pre-1985) short story, probably from Analog. An unscrupulous scavenger mistakes a pewter mug for silver, ends up in suspended animation, and is awakened in ...
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I'm trying to find a (probably) late 1990s science-fiction novel. It's set in the near future (possibly 2100s) in the USA. A male private detective is hired to find a missing female celebrity athlete (...
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I'm trying to identify a sci-fi novel I read around 2006. The cover, I vaguely remember, shows a woman sitting in what I think was a spaceship, and there was a young boy there. I think there was a ...
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I'm trying to identify this story in an anthology of children's stories (might even have been a reading textbook, but I am not sure) that I read around 1978. It was about a little boy who lived in the ...
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I think the man had a head injury leading to a coma and woke a considerable number of years in the future. He was taken for a car ride where the driver thought he was doing 300mph, but in reality was ...
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The main character finds they are getting more and more unsettled in a society where life is about extreme feelings of excitement or joy. There are ads showing up everywhere to buy things. There are &...
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One could argue that science fiction is very old indeed, but the early fantasy/science fiction (and "science fiction" is used loosely although maybe the ancient Greeks had stories involving ...
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I remember as a child I read a historical fiction children's novel set in the late 1700s (the American Revolutionary War.) It was basically historical fiction but the main character was very ...
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I was watching a video from the Youtube channel, Modern Day Eratosthenes and the Youtuber gave an example of Star Wars style prosthetics as the technology necessary to create a simulated reality like ...
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It was like a Sci fi book where there was a new ice age, everything was iced over but the humans found old Apple products and thought the old humans worshipped God Apple, the main character was a girl,...
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It's a story about: a boy called "Jay" he has a sister who is apparently a hacker and can block the WiFi in specific places and a mom who works for rich people and a dad that works in a ...
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A novel, possibly from the 80s or earlier, set in Earth's future. Society is split into three groups: Normal humans, telepaths, and people with the ability to think superhuman thoughts. (This ...
Score of 11
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It may be written in 2000, and set in distant future. It could have been on Earth. The bit I read was about an elevator time machine doorway. This was used routinely to travel back and forth in daily ...
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I read this story at least 20 years ago and almost certainly it is quite a bit older than that. I would hazard a guess that it is 1980's or earlier, but don't actually have a clue. I don't remember ...
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I'm trying to remember a TV show that I watched years ago and wanted to show to someone else. What I sort of remember is they are teenagers. There is a quasi military structure to it all. They had ...

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