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3:44 AM

Q: 60’s or earlier short fiction about an object that encompasses the world, and a woman’s name repeated

OK, this one is a long shot. I remember almost nothing of this story, not even if it is Fantasy or SF. Only that is was rather short, certainly not a novel. And that I read it in the 60’s. The main character is looking for a strange object (magical ? or man-created through advanced science ?) t...

Q: What is the most realistic post-apocalyptic movie?

I don't mean zombie movies or anything supernatural but movies in which the reason for the decline is something plausible. I also don't mean specifics but general things, like who ends up on top, how long it takes for society to fall apart.

post-apocalyptic

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Ward - Reinstate Monica

5:12 AM

This is a real political sign from the recent Canadian federal election, with taglines that I added. Real sci-fi fans will find it amusing without needing to google...

Marvin

5:51 AM

Q: Old short about robots searching for the "Great Enemy" that wiped out mankind

An old story about a race of robots that had survived after humans were wiped out in a great war. The robots develop their own civilization, with their only goal to search the universe for the "enemy" that destroyed mankind, and get vengeance. They develop their own culture, art, music, philosoph...

story-identification robots

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Marvin

11:44 AM

Q: Old story about a man with tattoos that told stories

I'm trying to remember the name of this book that's really a collection of short stories but is told with a narrator character who's telling the stories he sees as they take place on a man covered in tattoos. There's a pretty big number of stories in the book even though it isn't overly long. The...

soft-sci-fi hard-sci-fi cold-war

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SmokeDetector

2:32 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer (87): Why are the Borg different in Voyager and TNG? by Autism speaks on scifi.SE

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Marvin

6:18 PM

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Q: Book about tourism through time travel

I am pretty sure this was a novel, but I can't pin down the time when it might have been written (though it was likely between the 1980s and early 2000s). As I recall the plot, tourists were taken back in time by guides to see places and witness important events (one of the darker versions was th...

story-identification time-travel

Stormblessed

7:13 PM

@Marvin too broad maybe?

@Ward-ReinstateMonica a cricketer?

Marvin

8:02 PM

Q: can anyone tell me the name of a half remembered story

It was about a guy in a half broken down spaceship and a fleet from earth fleeing from some enemy who meets a engineer who has never flown before from a planet of engineers

story-identification

Marvin

8:44 PM

Q: Can you be blinded by expecto patronum?

Can you be blinded by expecto patronum? Like if you happen to stand in the direction the spell is cast?

harry-potter

Ward - Reinstate Monica

8:55 PM

I thought it was obvious, but then I'm a lot older than most people on SE... I saw the movie on PBS when it came out.

The Lathe of Heaven

The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The plot concerns a character whose dreams alter past and present reality. The story was first serialized in the American science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. The novel received nominations for the 1972 Hugo and the 1971 Nebula Award, and won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 1972. Two television film adaptations have been released: the PBS production, The Lathe of Heaven (1980), and Lathe of Heaven (2002), a remake produced by the A&E Network. == Title == The title is taken from the writings of...