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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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Book series with a pudgy boy who goes to a school of magic, I think specifically for evil wizards
This popped up in my head recently. I'm pretty sure I own a Kindle book for this, but I'm not having much luck searching for it. The main character is a pudgy boy who is sent off to a magic school. I ...
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Sci-fi novel of an exploration of an abandoned Earth [duplicate]
I'm looking for a novel that I read several times growing up, from the 70s or 80s. I can remember many story elements, but not the title or author.
A man is the 'pilot' of a living spaceship that ...
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Novel with fog on an alien world and a labyrinth
I am trying to track down a science fiction book I read in my early teens. This would be mid 1980s in the UK. The book was in the school library so I am thinking probably a British author but I can't ...
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Post-apocalyptic book about mutated kid living in an abandoned school with his dad
I read a book around 2021. No idea what it was called, what the covers looked like, or any name of anything, but I do remember the basic story and concept.
The main character is a boy living in an ...
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An SF novel where a very young child escapes being murdered by hiding in the water tank of a toilet
I read this SF novel about 20 years ago. I remember very little. The only scene I remember clearly is rather early in the story. Some kind of massacre takes place and a very young child, a toddler, ...
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Sci-fi novel human-centered, with alien empire using stargates, humans try to avoid overruling
I read this probably in the last 15 years, but might be older (but don't think so), it is on a high probability not one of the Sci-Fi well-knowns like Clarke, Reynolds, Heinlein, Asimov. It is ...
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Near-future novel where a teacher transfers bodies with an assassin
Please help me find a science fiction novel I read about twenty years ago. The main character is a school teacher whose mind has been transferred to a different body. It turns out he's "sharing&...
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SF space colony story where only flowers could be grown
I can't remember much about this story, I think maybe the 1980s in the UK when I read it.
The memory:
A struggling colony trying to establish on a planet, a random assortment of hostile creatures but ...
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Book series that had an evil god like character stolen from his parents [closed]
So I really only remember this book series that had an evil god-like character stolen from his parents when he was a toddler. And there was a hero-like character combating him that turned out to be ...
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Early 70s scifi novel about underground people, caste is determined by the color of your poncho, and everyone eats mouldy grain
It's almost a Shaver story, but it's much newer than those stories. I think stairwells in some buildings continue "below the foundation" into an underground labyrinth? The residents may not ...
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Detective story involving portal trains and parallel universes
I remember reading this novel a long time ago (more than a decade, I think) on school trips to a local library, but I never managed to finish it, and one day I just wasn't able to find the book again, ...
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Science fiction novel from early 90s: something about a Cat's eye, psionic powers, green cover
I read this as a hardback in approx 1991-1993. This is a self-discovery "hero's quest" set in a gritty dystopian world where the protagonist slowly discovers he (?) has psionic powers. I ...
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Sci-fi story or novel with a character named Ship and a human, where the first line is "Ship says I'm to be racked again."
I'm trying to identify a sci-fi story or novel where the first line is (possibly a phrase first, and therefore) "Ship says I'm to be racked again." Ship is a character. I have a strong ...
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One scene in a long and intricate Fantasy novel : a man in a body of water hunted by homunculi riding egg-shells
I remember just one scene in a long and intricate Fantasy novel which I read at least 30 years ago.
One of the main characters (maybe the main character) is fleeing some enemy, probably a sorcerer. He ...
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A novel about imps (or aliens ?) who misunderstand the phrase "to blow a raspberry"
I read this novel more than 20 years ago, probably in a paperback. But it might be much older.
I'm not sure whether it is urban Fantasy or SF.
The novel takes place essentially in our world, but where ...
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