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Which was the first sci-fi story to feature nanobots?

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A "Great Classic", but also very confusing, SF novel about dreams within dreams within dreams (but very different from the movie “Inception”)

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Generation ship overtaken by newer technology ship which reaches target planet first

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Why does D.J. translate "liberate me" as "save me"?

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What is the earliest work of SF to mention a concern about time travel causing unintended space travel

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Telepathic plants lure space travellers to a feast

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A Fantasy-horror short story about an old bed-ridden woman who “stole” the body of her young maid, and what ensued

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What's the oldest example of "dinosaurs from Earth went to space and then evolved to be humanoid"?

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A poetical short story about bringing matter from the Sun back to Earth

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Science fiction short story with duodecimal measurements in technical specification

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What does Ben Aaronovitch mean by “…large wading bird…” in “Stone and Sky?”

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Live-action horror short film about a man that saw gore and blood as cake/candy/good instead of disturbing

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Story of an intelligent race of robots that evolved after millennia on an icy moon in our solar system

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Short story about machine that shows clients' fantasies

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Fantasy story from F&SF Magazine about a djinn, and a sheik's descendants and nation becoming wealthy by water transforming into oil

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Yellow King inspired book with an Art Dealer

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What did Tom Riddle pursue after finishing school?

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What's the meaning of "Sling Blade" movie reference?

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Space Opera with the Captain, the Wizard, the Death Dwarfs, and the Star Queen

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What does Wolverine mean by he's "the wrong guy" in Deadpool and Wolverine?

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Sentient starships named after women murderers?

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Landing at a ghost airfield where pilots of both sides greet you

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What's the meaning of this hand gesture here?

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Short story set in a future where an authoritarian government has outlawed psychology and therapy

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Short story: jumping to/from FTL travel affects body and mind at different rates

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Is DS9's s1e19 "Duet" the first/only time the word 'rape' is used in Star Trek?

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What does the "Save the clock tower" lady want?

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Seeking standalone fantasy novel: warrior whose weapons become magical in his hands; guided by a “Blue Woman”; monsters requiring silvered weapons

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A sci-fi novel about a group of space-borne habitats of varying types and a terror-type attack on one of them

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Fantasy trilogy published in the 1970s or 1980s. Female author - The 'Time Lord Trilogy'?

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Movie in which a starship is hit by an asteroid and the small crew try to fix the ship to get home

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Book (I think part of a series) where the protagonist visits a convention (I forget what sort), and learns that it's actually for eldritch horrors

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Short story identification — aliens pick one human to decide Earth's fate; framed by two reporters in a bar

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Game with shrinking one's self as main gimmick/mechanic

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1980s-90s sci-fi book, something like "Tai Shan" about a dystopian China-ruled global dictatorship, reddish cover

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Book about a man who found out he was an alien robot and eventually started running from both his makers and humans

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Looking for a book for teenagers involving heaven and hell

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What was the first story to use the term "artificial intelligence"?

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Fantasy movie (mid-90s or earlier) about a man in Tibet centuries ago

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Woman from future describes dystopian society

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I'm trying to find the author of the short story "allies"

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Book involving surgically modified soldiers, a ring that affects probability, and ape-like aliens with prehensile tails

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Why couldn't all assimilees be liberated from the Borg?

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Trying to remember a book a woman born with no mother claims to be Christ

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What was different about Locutus and Seven compared to other Borg?

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Is "bit of a low point" referring to box-office bomb "The Marvels (2023)"?

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Trying to identify an Analog magazine story where human music contains coded a alien message

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What was Gen 1 Shockwave's alternate form?


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