I'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...

Help 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...

He 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?

Plot: 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...

I'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...

So 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...

The 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...

In 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...

I’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...

I 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...

I 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?

Basically, 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.

When 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, ...

I 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...

One 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...