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Time Travel story where an imprisoned psychopath kills people from his past?
I read a story some years ago (probably about 35) in an monthly sci-fi anthology...
It's set in a prison. The main character is a psychopath who has sessions with a psychiatrist - in these sessions ...
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Short story where human explorers accidentally blind an alien race
I read a short story (probably 20 years ago) about a human scientific expedition that arrives at an alien planet. The planet is covered by a thick cloud layer and orbits a dim red star.
The humans ...
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A man takes riskier and riskier jobs (involving a transportation ring) for more money
I'm looking for a story I read in 1980. It is a short story and may have been in one of Asimov's or Bradbury's collections.
It was about a man looking for a job. He goes into an office with, I ...
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Movie with magical book showing events of any day in history, except missing days of the Gregorian calendar change
I once saw a movie on the TV sometime in the 1990s. I don't remember a whole lot (maybe I didn't even see the whole movie), only one particular scene, which made quite an impression on my young self, ...
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Married couple pretend to like each other due to crystal sculpture
Years ago, I remember reading a short story (as I remember it) about a couple whose prized possession is semi-living crystal structure that is sensitive to their relationship; it grows and maintains ...
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Novel about a spacefaring mission trying to reestablish contact with Earth
Looking for a novel I read in the early 90s; it came from a local library so it may be quite a bit older. Might've been a YA novel, as it was in the same shelf as a bunch of William Sleator novels. ...
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Wood nymph (otik style) who becomes a scientist
I am trying to hunt down a book I read in the 90s and lost some time ago. It starts with some children wandering in a wood, and they encounter a wood nymph creature that starts following them around. ...
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Novel about an immortal man exposed by world government relates his life through history
I read the book from my local library in the early- to mid- seventies. It was hardcover (library bound) and the dust jacket had a printed burlap or canvas background. The back flap mentioned that the ...
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A short story about baby on/off switch
I read this short story about 30 years ago. Maybe from Pohl or Asimov...
A mother describes having an on/off switch installed on her baby and it's the greatest thing ever1: they can go to work, they ...
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Sci-fi novel about biological computers put into people's heads, making assassins
I recently had the memory of an old sci-fi novel come back to me (1970s or 1980s).
secret organization making thimble-sized biological computers to implant into wealthy and powerful people's heads
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Identifying a Book From the 70s: Battle/Balance between Light/Sun and Moon/Dark ?
I've had this story rolling around in my head for years, and every so often I Google what I remember...which is what brought me here. :-)
I remember reading it in the 70s, so it could be a YA ...
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We landed a man on Mars, and then all wars ceased
I've been trying to remember a short story.
The trick ending was that when we landed a man on Mars, all wars immediately stopped on Earth... but then we were about to land a man on Venus which would ...
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Complicated story identification from book cover
I really want to find this book again. I had it back in the seventies, the story was complex, surreal, competing realities type.
The cover showed one figure (I think), anyway, their neck was a ...
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Looking for science fiction assassination story with mysterious girl
For years I've been looking for a short science fiction story about a man who was released from a prison planet in order to assassinate a candidate for galactic president. He does this on a space ...
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Did President Franklin Roosevelt appear in Buck Rogers?
Did Franklin Roosevelt appear in the Buck Rogers comic strip, as suggested in the quote below? If so, in what issue, or on which date?
From the In Roosevelt History blog:
FDR: SPACE RANGER
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