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Q: Sci-fi novel where main character is a computer tech that discovers they are on earth using antenna shadows

DG76437I'm looking for the name of a novel. I have read it in the last ten years. The main character is a computer technician that deduces that the colony is on Earth by observing the angles of shadows cast by an antenna. The character discovers that his own computer had been tampered with, and he inten...

 
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Q: Old Sci Fi Book where French refused to give up part of their territory to stop the war

byMaelstromerHelp me find this book or short story, from which I remember single scene. I have read book or part of it in Czech around the year 2000. The book is either very convincing steampunk, or very old (pre 1950's). The story takes place during the "late colonial era", theme is an alien invasion. The sc...

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Q: In Superman, many people ask about how he got back from the North Pole with Lois by car, etc…

Superman1978He knew he needed to go back to try and get his powers from Jor-El if at all possible after he got his ass beat at the diner and realized Zod and his crew were here … So the big question I have it Why couldn’t Lois drive him back; instead he resorted to hitchhiking in a Members Only jacket?

 
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Q: Novel about an Earth spy on an alien planet

Alexander KitaevPlot: a spy is sent to an alien planet. He is the only Earth agent on the planet and his goal is to seed and support anti-war riots that should lead to revolt and the aliens to give up and surrender. After a year (or years) of hard work, the agent succeeds and reaches his goal. He returns to Eart...

 
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Q: Isekai manga where the main character is accidentally killed by God and is then transported to another world as compensation

Ero SenI'm looking for an Isekai manga I've read a long time ago. Here are some parts that I can remember: The main character (MC) is a high schooler, aged 16-17, I believe. The MC was accidentally killed by God and gets isekai'ed and given OP powers as compensation. The 'god' is a generic old man with...

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Q: Sci fi story about an AI trained in empathy, and then released into the universe to find humanity

TickolasSo I remember listening to this one as an audio book years back. It started with a police woman, a mother to at least one kid, stopping a robbery or similar at the cost of her life. After she "died" she was informed that she was in fact an AI who had gone through many such "lives" (to teach her e...

 
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Q: Manga where the protagonist goes to an island searching for someone and builds a fortress to protect themselves

Meri YooThe main character went to an island to find someone. It may have been his father or his friend (I forgot) but, little did he know that the island is weird and people from the other side won't let them ride the boat. I guess they built a fortress so that the monster?/people who became weird can't...

 
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Q: Why did Olenna give up Highgarden so easily in S07E03?

TomasIn Game of Thrones S07E03, Olenna Tyrell gave up the castle, Highgarden, to Lannisters. She had to surrender her life, her gold and grain. Why did she give up so easily? Highgarden walls are high, and sieges take time. She could have sent a raven to Dragonstone and in less than a day, Daenerys wo...

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Q: Looking for manga/web toon maybe : reincarnated/isekai/body swap? Mc into a dead kid

Golden JrI’m looking for a manga and or web toon. I can’t remember if it was colored or not, but I remember a little about the beginning, like how the main character’s (mc is a guy btw) father kills his son and then the son's soul gets put into a kid but that kid was dead (apparently he fell and snapped h...

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Q: Animated series where a boy is transferred to another world by an small white-blue alien while he presses a remote with a stone?

Allen WalkerI watched an animated series between 2006-2010 (maybe). In this series a boy with bluish hair finds a remote like device with a blue stone on it. When he presses the button a very small alien appears before him. It had a V shape on its head. He talks to the boy and when he presses the button agai...

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Q: A Story or Novel where Someone Lives in a Replica of the Taj Mahal

M. A. GoldingI remember reading a story or novel, read back during the previous millennium, perhaps by Kurt Vonnegut, where someone lived in replica of the Taj Mahal, probably on another world. Does anyone remember it?

 
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@DavidW I see.
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Q: Manga with a female main character who gets betrayed by her sister

NajaBasically, it was this girl that gets betrayed by her sister. She was super kind and her sister kills her, and then she goes back in time. She finds out how evil his sister was and she decides that she will turn everybody against her sister.

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Q: A series about a planet called Duncan

Donna MPeople from Earth travel through a quantum space fold to colonize other new planets for resources. One is named Duncan after the first guy killed there. Humans survive in a hostile environment. Creatures called questrals (maybe) bite and eventually form trinary DNA in humans. The Earth corporatio...

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Q: Book in which the story was told from the point of view of a tree

Aaron FincherWhen I was in primary school (~1988-1993) I read a novel in which the story was effectively told from the point of view of a tree (possibly an oak?). It went into detail about events that went on around it; one example was one of the World Wars. People have suggested The Giving Tree in the past, ...

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Q: In Tolkien's own visual art, why is it that Bag End has no visible chimneys?

Matthew DarbyI asked this question of Wayne Hammond years ago, after going through J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. He didn't know. I also asked about having to go and he speculatively joked about going round the back of the big tree. But seriously, the fireplace at Bag End is all over the text and p...

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Q: Story where inert, indestructible alien devices appear all across Earth

qazwsxOne day, billions of hovering, featureless alien objects appear out of thin air in a grid pattern across the Earth's surface. Initially, they cause car and plane crashes, but they do nothing for decades. The protagonist's family tries to leave their house when the incident occurs, but run into on...


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