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Q: Reading the Akata Series out of order

Not The FaceWill it throw off the flow if the Akata series is read out of order? I’ve read Akata Witch already and bought Akata Woman, but have yet to read Akata Warrior. Really looking forward to devouring another Nnedi book!

 
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Q: Do the Kollidorians of "One-Way Journey" possess psychic powers?

MaladyDo the Kollidorians of "One-Way Journey" possess psychic powers? Looking at this translated summary of "One-Way Journey", it says that of a Kollidorian woman, "Thetona" and her first interaction with Falk: Thetona psychically replaced the absent mother. Is that translation accurate, which would...

 
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Q: What is the name of the short story about the woman whose new husband steals her money by climbing onto the roof of a bus?

puzzleGuzzleI am trying to find a short story whose title and author I forget. The story is written in English and it is about a newly-wed (or soon-to-be-wed) man who scams his wife/fiancée out of her money (or some other asset) by escaping with it on a bus. Basically, the story starts with the couple gettin...

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Q: Manga time travel

Nina LopezAnyone know the manga where this female time travels wakes up in a coffin with family around,she finds out she doesn't have this bracelet but later on sees it on this prince or someone related to that status..

 
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Q: Dont know name of this sci fi thriller

Pipok near the end. An elderly booth attendent asks the star for a rock which he does not have. The man obtains a discarded.ticket to survive along with others laying down.

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Q: isekai manga where main character is weak and meets stong blonde knight girl

Rey Solanowhats the mame of this manga where mc gets isekaied and is in a demon forest and somehow makes it out and then he meets a strong female knight that he cant understand cuz they dont speak the same language so she takes him to a priestess to put a spell that lets him understand them. thats all in t...

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Q: Story with vortexes or storms moving stuff to parallel worlds

Jeff ZeitlinI recall reading this story post-2000, but I can't pin it down closer than that. I'm fairly sure it was in a collection, but I don't remember any of the other stories in the collection, or any of the authors (which suggests that they were mid-list authors). This particular story took place in New...

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@Donald.McLean Ahoy! What's new?
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posted on July 20, 2022 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: There should be a safe word for TAing. Today's News:

@DavidW Not much, work is mostly just the same thing in a slightly different form.
15:04
Shouldn't you be all excited about James Webb reporting for duty?
We partied and then got back to work. Got to get ready for the Roman Space Telescope.
The Romans already built these things? How'd they get them in the air?
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@Donald.McLean After 20+ years spent on JWST, can NGRST really get done in just 5 more years? (Less than 15 total?)
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Q: Is Doctor Strange's "Power" Just a Skill?

taylor.2317In Doctor Strange, Stephen Strange learns magic after seeking to fix his hands. When he is training, there are large numbers of people training alongside him, as seen below. In the video below from Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness, America Chavez is learning magic. IMO, this implies ...

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@DavidW Do you have a copy of Crosstime Traffic. I'd managed to work out the story was Storm Trooper from searching Google Books, but I wasn't able to find a copy online to verify it.
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Q: Why does Doctor Strange Become 'The Sorcerer Supreme'?

taylor.2317In a piece of the script from Spider-Man: No Way Home, it explains how Wong becomes Sorcerer Supreme, since Doctor Strange blipped. However, I don't think it is explained why Doctor Strange becomes Sorcerer Supreme, after The Ancient One dies; he was only a student for (around) a year, when other...

@JohnRennie I don't actually have a copy of the anthology; I read the story in Asimov's. But I found a copy (to borrow) on archive.org.
Aha, that's where the quotes came from!
Yep.
IA is a decent resource once you know what you're looking for. :-/
(Searching it is pretty dire, but if I do a Google books search and, for example, get a hit in F&SF, then I can go and check it out there.)
Yes, I've struggled to search archive.org effectively. Unless, as you say, you're looking for a specific book and you know its title.
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In this case I knew I'd read it in Asimov's and the Pulp Magazine Archive is now organized by title, so I could search "New York" "Internal Security" within just Asimov's and get an immediate hit.
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Q: A Geographical Contradiction Between The Hobbit and LOTR

M. A. GoldingIn chapter II, "Roast Mutton", the group camps in the wild during a rainy evening. ...So far they had not camped before on this journey, and though they knew they would soon have to camp regularly when they were in the Misty Mountains and far from the lands of respectable people, it seemed a bad...

I don't think I've read the story. I suspect I was misremembering the Holdstock book "Where Time Winds Blow" and in searching for that I found the Asimov's issue it was in by chance.
A lot of the time finding story-ids is highly dependent on serendipity. :)
I'm currently debating whether to buy a copy of Ackermanthology to check the answer to Sci-fi story about tunnel in wall that leads to the same location.
It's not expensive but buying books on the off chance they could be the answer to a question is something I do far too frequently :-)
It's not on archive.org as far as I can see.
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Not only is Ackermanthology not there, the relevant issue of Perry Rhodan (no. 107) isn't available either. (Though a fair number of the earlier ones are, interestingly.)
My issue with buying books isn't so much the expense of it, my problem is where to put them all. :) I have several cubic metres of books in storage, and that's not convenient.
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Q: Why is Pippin thinking "mostly" of Frodo, ignoring poor Sam?

AugieIt seems that even in thoughts and prayers, poor Sam is thought of as "lesser than" Frodo, if even included whatsoever: All now took leave of the Lord of the City and went to rest while they still could. Outside there was a starless blackness as Gandalf, with Pippin beside him bearing a small to...

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Q: '90s sci fi novel with a female main character who is the only member of her ship to survive a space battle with pirates/aliens

Meg2289Book was read in mid-'90s. Female main character was on a mission in space; she was either the pilot or gunner. She sings (unconsciously) under her breath in high stress/battles. Battle with pirates/aliens had the whole crew killed but her. She is sent back to Earth and on leave or discharged. Pi...

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Q: Can you identify a show that inlvolves a character cloning his collegues and making them into videogame characters?

praveen krI vividly remember the plot of a show which I think I might have watched long ago but have completely forgotten its name or where and when I watched it. It involves a nerdy character who is a failure in real life. But he is able to clone his collegues and make them into video game characters in w...

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Q: Show that involves a character cloning his colleagues and making them into videogame characters?

praveen krI vividly remember the plot of a show which I think I might have watched long ago but have completely forgotten its name or where and when I watched it. It involves a nerdy character who is a failure in real life. But he is able to clone his colleagues and make them into video game characters, in...

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Q: What are the statues at the Eternity gate?

OrangeDogAt the Eternity gate there are a few statues lining the chamber. I assume there are all known Marvel characters. Who were all the ones we saw? (no images yet, I guess wait for the streaming release)

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Q: Identifying a novel about floating islands, dragons, airships and a mysterious machine

MattI'm looking for the title of a fantasy novel I started reading but never finished. I would have read it in the late 90's/early 00's and I checked out of a library in the UK. Here a the plot details I remember: The setting was a series of islands that floated in the sky on which were built various...

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Q: What do they usually say picotechnology does in the few sci-fi sources it appears in?

AaronI know pico is right under nano and sci fi is proliferated by nanotechnology but very few sci-fi stories feature picotech. I would someday like to use it so I was wondering what it could do (theoretically) based on sci-fi works and nature of objects at that size. Pico usually refers to smaller th...

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Q: Snape finds blind harry potter and adopts hi

AriI read a fan fiction awhile ago were the dursley abandon blind harry and snape finds him, and eventually finds he is a potter (the potters are alive btw and had left him at the dursleys) and snape adopts him. Also voldemort knows about it and was fine with the adoption. Harry is also friends with...

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Q: Fairly recent super claustrophobic chapter/short story

Steve H.Looking for the name (or website) of a chapter (or short story) that I saw on-line only a few years ago (c. 2014 to 2019), but cannot find any trace of. Might have been on io9 in an article on new sf/horror stories, but maybe not. Anyway…it fascinated me but was too horrific (body horror, claustr...

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@xkcd suckers!

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