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For questions about a book of long narrative in literary prose, in order to distinguish it from other types of story. Do NOT use this tag for every question which happens to be about a novel. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the novel and its form in other media.
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Looking for sci-fi novel I read about humanity finding alien station on orbit of Earth
I am looking for a novel that I'd love to re-read it with my wife (my 13-year old self must be proud of me I guess).
Key Plot points
The plot was about humanity finding an alien station on an orbit of ...
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Process management and high technology weapon. Novel name and author?
I am looking for help to point me out at a very old novel (likely from the '60s) about two empires at interstellar war. When it comes to starships, one is technologically very advanced, and the other ...
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Novel about a dragon lord who has to wear gloves at all times
I read this novel when I was young. It is probably a children's or young adult novel. I think I read it in 1997 or earlier. I remember very much enjoying it, but the title and most of the details are ...
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Tiny lifeforms on planetoid that live at accelerated time rate
A book I once owned and read back in late-80's or early-90's that I have not been able to identify title & author for: It was a SF story concerning tiny native lifeforms, living on either a ...
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VR arcade game teaches teenagers to live on another planet
I'm trying to recall the title of a young adult-targeted book. It was probably published by Scholastic, or at least sold through their take-home pamphlets, which means it was probably published before ...
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Looking for book: contact with aliens, five different races, mismatched claws, biological imperative to breed
I read this book when I was a teenager, or in my early twenties, so that puts it no later than 1979. My favorite authors at the time were (of course) Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Heinlein, and a few ...
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Story with multiple 'third planet' races
I'm looking for the name and author of a novel (or possibly novella). I first read this in the seventies, and might be older than that. It might have been written for teenagers.
The story takes place ...
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Story (series) identification: Mind controlling satellite, a return to Earth, and two warring alien species
I'm trying to find a series of stories (a trilogy, I think) with a slew of distinctive features. I can't remember when the books were written (I read them about a year and a half ago), but I can ...
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Trying to remember a book involving a girl from a distrusted race becoming a mage and a dragon
I read it as a paperback around 2009ish. There are at least two books in the series. In the first book, we learn that the protagonist lives up in the mountains. Her people are distrusted by the people ...
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Novel with a class of "Lords" with external databank-type neural implants
I need an ID on a (probably young adult) sci-fi novel I don't remember finishing.
I read it sometime in the late nineties or early noughties. The library book didn't show any obvious indications of ...
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Pre-1972 sci-fi short story or novel: alien(?) tunnel where people try new moves and get destroyed if they're not the correct ones
It might be a short story or it might be a novel. It must be before 1972 because I read it in my youth and I am OLD.
The following is very impressionistic.
There is a multidimensional/not of this ...
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Main character can "manipulate" his own time
I read a book while in the US for a few months back in the early 1990s.
I remember liking the book, and only have loose bits and pieces in my head.
The main character was a male.
I believe it ...
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Distant aliens receive signal with instructions on how to construct humans, long after Earth is extinct
I'm looking for a specific scifi book that I read years ago, I only partially remember the story, and I don't remember the author or the title.
What I remember of the story is:
An alien race picks up ...
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novel identification: alien scientists must save their civilization from future destruction
I'm looking for the title of a SF novel that follows an alien civilization through technological eras as it tries to find a way to prevent the destruction of its sun. I believe the novel was published ...
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Identify this YA book series about dragons, acid blood, and dangerously cold nights
I'm trying to remember the name of a series of books about a boy who works with dragons. Dragon's blood (or maybe it was slobber?) is acidic, and the children who wrangle these dragons often end up ...
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