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70s book/short story, Man wakes up from suspend animation or cryo and world has collapsed
In the book, the protagonist wakes up from either suspended animation or cryo (Probably supposed to be a short test), After 10-20 years have passed.
He finds the facility abandoned (and looted?), ...
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A ruined USA, where protagonists are captured by a biker bandits encamped in a zoo
It was written in English. I read it around 2013-2014 in British Columbia, Canada when I was in middle school.
It could have been a short series, or one book.
The protagonists are young adults, and ...
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Looking for a children's or young adult novel about three kids travelling to a fantasy land
I've been trying to remember the title of a children's or young adult book I read as a child about thirty years ago. (So it may be from '70s or '80s). I don't remember many of the details.
There ...
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Post apocalyptic short story
When I was in grade 10 back in 1990-1991 in Ontario Canada, there was a short story that we read that as I took place in the aftermath of some catastrophe (nuclear war I think). (I know it is not the ...
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A book about life as a ghost but being a ghost is only temporary
This was a book I read around ten years ago. I read it in Swedish, unknown if it was translated or not. I remember getting it from the "youth/young adult" section of the library, though that library ...
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Post-apocalyptic music video
In the early to mid 90s, I saw a music video on (United States) MTV or VH1 (back when they still showed music videos) with an intriguing narrative. I only saw it once, but it left a lasting impression....
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Survivors pursue a myth that there is a machine that can immunize them against radiation
Decades ago I read a book that I want to identify. The plot, as I recall it:
The world had been destroyed by a nuclear war
There is no place safe from radiation
Survivors pursue a myth that there is a ...
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Future primitive society. Tribespeople find a rocket labelled USA. Protagonist's young child brother is important to plot twist
I read this short story online, maybe in an online magazine, about 2020. The magazine artwork looked very professional.I think there was an orange drawing of the rocket. SF Magazines I remember ...
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Lone fighter in a post-apocalyptic world with AI companion on a stick
Sometime in the early or mid 1980s, maybe even late 1970s, I came across a SciFi story on a PBS channel about a lone fighter dress in pseudo-samurai clothing with a sword. The guy was in battle with ...
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Teen/Young-adult sci-fi book about a man leaving Earth by order from an alien entity
I read the book around 2006-2008 and it was aimed at teenagers. I read it in Swedish if that helps.
The story is set in the future and I think it begins with a man leaving Earth for a new job maybe. ...
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Child/YA sociopolitical dystopia with kids who find an underground source of powers
As a kid, maybe around 1982, my parents read a book to me about a group of kids forming some kind of (cruel?) society. I cannot remember much of it; maybe my parents stopped reading because they felt ...
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Paperback YA novel where protagonists assume ghost's unfinished business is charity clothes drive
I read this somewhere in the 1990s, almost certainly as a Young Adult paperback, in English and in the United States. I might have gotten it from the library. There was a ghost that the main ...
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Fantasy Book - Unrequited Love, Female Protagonist Not Human?
I read this book in middle school or before, which would mean publication in 2002 - 2003 at the latest, though I couldn't tell you how old the book was when I read it. I started writing down books I ...
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Children raised collectively, girl taken to be translator for aliens
I read this book somewhere around 1996/97, probably on the earlier side, and I'd like to track it down. It was in the school library (Durban High School, South Africa), but for the policies of that ...
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I want to identify an old movie or television show about psychic powers
During the late 1960s and early 1970s there was a spate of movies and television shows about extra-sensory perception. I recall two connected scenes from one such program. In the first scene, an older ...
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