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When was the first time that a science fiction story mentioned the concept of a “prison planet”?

history-of science-fiction-genre asked May 12 '17 at 1:53
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51 votes

Old story about two cultures living in the same city, but they are psychologically blind to each other's existence

story-identification short-stories asked Feb 9 at 3:05
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44 votes

Short story about a slower-than-light interstellar ship carrying the last seeds of humanity

story-identification short-stories artificial-intelligence asked Jul 31 '17 at 2:42
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44 votes

Story about a world where “performance of old literature” seems to have replaced the concept of “composing new literature”

story-identification asked Feb 23 '17 at 2:03
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37 votes

Looking for an old time travel story which has a doctor pulling a gun on her new patient when he says something weird

story-identification time-travel asked Aug 16 '16 at 1:10
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37 votes

Searching for a particular “pact with the devil” story where waiting for your lawyers to vet the fine print still doesn't help

story-identification short-stories asked Jan 12 '18 at 1:34
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37 votes

What is the practical difference between “a Wizard PC” and “another worker of arcane magic”?

dungeon-world asked Dec 29 '17 at 1:36
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36 votes

An old SF novel about interstellar war fought without FTL drives

story-identification novel asked Jan 6 '18 at 1:11
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33 votes

Old science fiction novel about a man of the near future awakening from suspended animation to find himself in a technophobic theocracy

story-identification novel post-apocalyptic cryogenics asked Jan 26 '18 at 3:45
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Old story where aliens sell humans some machines to heal anything, and then disappear with their loot before we realize we've been scammed

story-identification short-stories first-contact asked May 19 '18 at 6:54
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Story in which a stranded astronaut is saved by a golden humanoid, and later realizes that it could have killed him
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Book about a man fired because his hyphenated last name was too long
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Story: The problems of two worlds could be solved by interstellar communication
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Which Asimov story has malevolent 3-law AI?
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Looking for 1950's era book US is surrounded by a force field, and a British pilot lands and finds US degenerated due to radiation
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Fantasy novel about kid who controls magic through coin changer device
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Short story where Earth is given a racist governor who likes species of a certain color
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Book where planets are on different levels of development
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Looking for a story about a woman historian with a “useless” science fiction degree, accompanying star-traveling merchants
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Why doesn't Rey sell BB8?
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Looking for a story about a giant lost ecological ship, and the quirky guy who became its captain
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Sci-fi novel from the 70’s or earlier about a space rebellion and a small craft
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Was there a Star Trek novel in which Klingons had a short life span?
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SciFi movie (or miniseries) of the afterlife
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Child who travels to space in his imagination. When old, travels again but nobody cares because space travel is now trivial
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80's post apocalypse book, two biological catastrophes at the end of the war
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Does any version of Bruce Wayne give him a Jewish background?
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Do Batman villains typically have super powers?
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Old short story where humans deliberately pick an insane man to lead a contact mission with an alien species
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Are Aes Sedai capable of becoming pregnant?
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1990s(?) story. Someone is killing people who have special abilities (super powers)
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Sci-fi/fantasy book - ships on steel runners skating across ice sheets
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Series of novels involving a galactic empire in slow decline
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Short story from 80s or 90s about man waking up from stasis
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What was the Free Trader society's debt to Baslim in Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy?
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need book id, written before 1996, it's about a teleport company that sends students learning to become colonists to another world
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Robot who becomes poetry critic and won't do assigned job
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Nuclear war but bombs drop vertically
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How can Matt Murdock read something that isn't written in Braille?
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60's book with purple-haired protagonist journeying into increasingly technologically advanced societies, saves the day with a sword throw
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