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Tree of Amalion posted:I'm looking for a post-apocalyptic/somewhat utopian society novel, I think it may be from the 70s or 80s. The plot is basically that the remaining people live in walled cities all named after women (like Elizabethville). They have a thriving society in which the women basically run everything while the men leave their homes at a young age to become warriors. At a certain age, they have a choice to give up their warrior life and move back into the city or stay a warrior. This sounds like The Pelbar Cycle. Maybe? The city names don't sound familiar but the theme does. I remember picking up the whole series in the '90s and enjoyed them quite a bit at the time. ihop fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Dec 8, 2020 |
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There's what I believe to be a Neil Gaiman short story that was turned into a comic (or might have just been a comic the whole time) about a boy who is hated by his family and is the runt of the litter under his two bully twin brothers. He befriends a ghost boy in the woods and wants to become a ghost with him and the boy says he can't do it but "THEY can" while motioning towards an abandoned delapidated house. It ends with the boy heading towards the house I cannot for the life of me put together words to find this on google. I'm pretty sure I found it because Gaiman liked a twitter post thanking him for it around Halloween of this year Edit: it's called October in the Chair someone on Twitter found it for me Aesop Poprock fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Okay here is a tricky one I cannot find with google. Oh boy no progress on this one? Do I have to add this? there is a super gross fetish-esqe bit where the Chinese War Lord smugly shows off asking one of his concubines to pee in front of everyone for entertainment.
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Alternate history/scifi young-adult series where genetic engineering was invented in the 19th century; I think it focused on an alternate World War I which was fought with biotech and artificial war-beasts, referred to as "Darwinist" technology. I remember an illustration of a jellyfish-like balloon creature. There might also have been something about countries that rejected biotechnology for ideological reasons, and they had steampunk-esque weaponry instead. This is a fairly recent series, I think, published early 2000s or so.
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Dec 26, 2020 16:27
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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld.
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Dec 26, 2020 16:38
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Looking for the name of this sci-fi book about an event where everyone on earth hears a voice at the same time. Presumably it was the voice of god and the book deals with the aftermath of that. It was a newish book I'm pretty sure from the 2000s or maybe even 2010s so it wasn't like classic sci fi or anything.
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Dec 26, 2020 18:10
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Was it a bunch of different perspectives, and did it have people who heard vs people who didn't? I think I might have read it. Sounds familiar.
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Dec 26, 2020 18:32
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That I don't know because I only read the synopsis of the book. Wrote the name down so I could buy it later but then I lost my old phone where I had it written down.
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Dec 26, 2020 21:57
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Cool. There's a few in my calibre that it could be. I'll dig around and see if I can find anything. First up, was The Turning by Davis Bunn.
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Erry body hearing one voice synopsis: I knows it’s wrong but that premise sounds a lot like Preacher.
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Dec 27, 2020 04:56
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The Testimony by James Smythe is the one I was thinking about.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:The Testimony by James Smythe is the one I was thinking about. This was the one. Thank you!
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Awesome! Mainly because if that wasn't it I had no other leads... I remember it being pretty good, but I haven't read it in years. I'm gonna have to fix that. It was an interesting idea. There was one I read a while back, kinda semi related, that had some sort of global message where it said G O D I S N O W H E R E, and people were arguing if it was "God is now here" or "God is nowhere". That one might be hard to find too, but I'd like to remember how it was resolved. Mainly I was just surprised god spoke english.
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Dec 28, 2020 02:23
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Awesome! Mainly because if that wasn't it I had no other leads... I only remember that from the short-lived Skeet Ulrich TV show, Miracles. Did they steal it from a book?
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Dec 28, 2020 02:26
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Nah, it's a pretty widely known psychological test/puzzle thing. It was just the main plot point of the book. Don't remember Miracles but I'll have to check it out. Ulritch is always fun to watch.
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wheatpuppy posted:I only remember that from the short-lived Skeet Ulrich TV show, Miracles. Did they steal it from a book? It's just an ancient anecdote. Here's a version from 1884: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/149426797?searchTerm=nowhere
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All right, I feel bad because I haven't been able to identify books for other people, but I keep asking. Anyhow, I'm asking for help with another book: It's Science Fiction, set on a series of habitats called the Archipelago. Theres a plotline about a giant cylinder ship one guy created that has a recreation of the entire landmass of Scotland inside, there's also a plot about a malevolent AI that manages to reinstantiate itself through the use of a book which gives people somewhat abstract roles and duties, and ends up "running" a program on an ersatz processor made up of people. Edit: By "use of the book" I meanm it just distributes the book randomly, and because people are bored in their post-scarcity society they just do what it says for fun. Agents are GO! fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Agents are GO! posted:All right, I feel bad because I haven't been able to identify books for other people, but I keep asking. Anyhow, I'm asking for help with another book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventus_(novel), maybe? I haven't read it, but it has a place called The Archipelago and AIs and people being controlled.
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That actually sounds cool as heck, but that's not it (I am going to read your suggestion now, though.) Edit: actually it looks like it's one of that author's other book lol thanks a bunch! 
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Jan 5, 2021 00:20
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Which one?
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Jan 5, 2021 01:46
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It's not lockstep or sun of suns
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Awesome! Mainly because if that wasn't it I had no other leads...
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Punk rear end GotG giant head
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Okay, I have two obscure ones from my childhood that have been bothering me. The first was about a bunch of kids finding some sort of magical adventure/ land in their garden. There are gnomes and fairies involved, and the bad guy was an old groundskeeper who lost a leg to gangrene. It may also have included something about a magical rose and/or key? No idea how old this book was, but I read it in the nineties. It was in Dutch, but I have a feeling it was translated because it had a very British feeling about it. Case in point, no one in their right mind would be familiar enough here with the concept of a grounds keeper to make for a good bad guy. The second book was Dutch or Flemmish, published somewhere in the early nineties or late eighties, and featured a boy who was obsessed with gas stations. A gas station at the edge of his village has just installed a new automatic pump, and the boy is so impressed by the independence and autonomy of this new mechanism that he goes there every day to watch the gas pump. One day he runs away from home, decides to follow his dream, and goes to the gas station to become a pump himself. What follows is some weird chapters where, as the boy's conviction grows, his body slowly starts transforming into a gas pump. He's humanshaped, but shiny and chrome with a pump handle for a right arm. He takes great pride in this transformation and so does the book, which lovingly describes the changing seasons that bring rain and darkness but cannot lay a finger on his metal perfection. I want to say I just imagined this, but I distinctly remember it being one of the first books that 7 year old Sobatchja didn't want to finish and trying to return it to the school library. But the teacher didn't let you return books until you finished them, so it was back to the old gas pump for me. A Worrying Warlock fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jan 9, 2021 |
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The first one sounds like something E(dith) Nesbit would have written, maybe? I have no idea about the second one but I'm pretty sure someone asked about the same thing several months ago in this thread. No one was able to track it down then either, but maybe you could compare notes? Dell_Zincht posted:I think I posted my request in this thread ages ago, but I can't find it. I've been looking for this for over a decade now, everyone I've spoken to about it thinks I made it up, and I was convinced I was until I found someone on Goodreads asking about the exact same book.
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wizzardstaff posted:The first one sounds like something E(dith) Nesbit would have written, maybe?  What the gently caress. This is definitely the same book. Didn't know it was English, though. That might help me out. Wizzardstaff, if you're reading this, you didn't make that book up.
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Posting for a friendquote:Ok hive mind, give me a hand. Every time I watch The Matrix, I recall that as a child (this would be the 90s-early 00s) I read a short story that definitely heavily inspired it. Can't seem to find via google. Gonna place what info I remember from it below. If anyone recognizes or remembers anything relevant lmk:
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:Posting for a friend
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Splicer posted:Wake Up To Thunder by Dean Koontz He said that wasn't it 😕
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:He said that wasn't it 😕
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I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down"
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I’m looking for a book I read a long time ago. It’s about cave explorers that find a giant door deep underground. The climax of the story is that it ends up being a door to hell
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Jan 16, 2021 06:01
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That sounds like “the descent” or maybe “deeper” by Jeff long
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Jan 16, 2021 06:06
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are there books about caves where its not a portal to hell??? this is news to me
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Less Fat Luke posted:Which one? Lady of Mazes.
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Agents are GO! posted:Lady of Mazes. Thanks!
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oldpainless posted:That sounds like “the descent” or maybe “deeper” by Jeff long I don’t think either of these are it. I specifically remember a part where they use sonar on the door and determine the chamber beyond has no end.
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RCarr posted:I’m looking for a book I read a long time ago. It’s about cave explorers that find a giant door deep underground. The climax of the story is that it ends up being a door to hell I know it's not what you're thinking about, but there's an early episode of The Real Ghostbusters where this literally happens.
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Yea, that particular idea gets used a lot.
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There was an Image Comic (whose title escapes me, and only lasted one or two issues) about a military team that was being sent to Hell through a doorway discovered in a cave.
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