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A couple of years ago I read on the wiki a description of a short story. I'm having trouble remembering the name of the story.
Basically a guy goes on vacation on some beach after his wife has died and meets this girl there who claims to be a time traveller. Eventually they fall in love. This girl is using her fathers time machine to travel back in time but has limited amounts of use.
Eventually she uses the time machine to go back to when the man is younger and changes her name and becomes his secretary and it turns out the girl is his wife.
Sorry about the long post but I really loved this story and want to find it again.
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I'm choosing literature but this is actually a comic featured in Heavy Metal magazine. It was featured about the early 90s, I think (at the earliest the end of the 80s). I only saw the issue being read by a bunch of schoolmates and the rest of the details are all hearsay. From what I saw, it was about a tribe of women on an alien planet. They lure warrior men to go down a huge cliff wall, where the rest of the tribe hide in waiting to capture them. Once the men are caught, the women would tie them up and have sex with them to impregnate themselves; then they would, errr, cook them for the whole tribe to eat. From what I've heard, the planet was slowly falling apart (hence the giant cliff faces) and the inhabitants try to keep it together with cables/rope, and the women follow the ways of the black widow spider (hence their treatment towards men). I really would like to know the title of this story and who made it, and even the issue of the Heavy Metal mag that featured it. Thanks!
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My girlfriend is trying to remember a Young Adults book (maybe in more than one part) that involved both killer sheep and 'zombie' snails (that when captured in a box, would move in the direction of the Big Bad). The protagonists were brother and sister, and their mother had died in a bus crash previously - there's a scene where they revisit the decaying bus and time starts skipping backwards, a skeleton of a goat rebuilds itself. Kind of creepy but offbeat in tone. Probably had a green cover?
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There's a kids' novel I read in the 80s or 90s that I want to add to But You Were There, and You, and You, but I don't recall the title. This girl's sister or cousin gets kidnapped by evil goblins and she goes on a quest to rescue her. Her quest companions include a robot similar to her know-all brother, and an eagle who reminds her of her father. At one point they meet the queen, who has no legs (the girl's mother is bedridden with illness). And the goblins turn out to have been torturing the sister or cousin by brushing her teeth until the enamel thins and scrubbing her face until she loses layers of skin (yeah, good hygiene as Nightmare Fuel. It was that sort of book...)
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There's SF series of stories or novels or whatever, where there are loads of other worlds accessible via some sort of a portal planet, and by entering each world you are being changer into one of the inhabitants.
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Trying to recall a novel wherein the hero would put on a helmet and become a berserker, and he had to gain mastery over the helmet in order to use its strength effectively.
This is for my dad, actually - he thinks it was called "Deathstalker," but that's not turning up what he's looking for.
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I seem to recall a very obscure Fairy tale (I think). It was about a young girl who was kidnapped by an old witch, and Every day the witch would test the girl by sending her to a stream. She told her that if she could fill a bucket with water using only a fork, that she would release her back to her parents.
Any ideas.
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This was a fairly recent novel, last ten years or so. The cover was marked with the "Sci Fi Essential Books" logo, but I can't seem to find it using that. The main character was one of a set of brothers (probably seven, I forget) whose father was a mountain and mother was a washing machine. He befriended a group of young people living in a boarding house or some such, but mostly one girl who had wings constantly trying to grow from her back. I seem to remember this led to a But Your Wings Are Beautiful situation between them. One or more of the main character's brothers were evil, and I think he was the only one remotely "normal" in his family. This ringing a bell for anyone?
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I'm trying to remember a fantasy novel. I think the title begin with an A or E. It opens with a guy assassinating a woman, most likely a queen or other powerful figure, by throwing her off a dragon. Their is royalty invovled. A white dragon is supposed to be a royal wedding gift, but the party taking the dragon to the castle is attacked and the dragon escapes into the wild with its handler. It is revealed that dragons are not dumb, but are highly intelligent with a racial memory. Long ago, Humans and dragons were at war and humans were losing badly until they discovered the drug which is a closely guarded secert. Now, the white dragon is free she remembers all of this plus a couple hundred years of enslavement. The white dragon frees another dragon who dies killing humans or attempting to kill humans. People who raise dragons from eggs are peasants and die of a horrible disease that comes from the baby dragons.I think their skin slowly becomes solid. However, their riders are rich, because the dragons are controlled by the royalty and are really expensive to purchase and maintain. The human characters are mainly bastards with lots of backstabbing and murdering. I think their are three sisters, all princesses, one married, one to be married off, and the other independent minded and loves to ride dragons.
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Swedish novel, which I believe I read for school. The characters were school children, probably early teenagers. The main character was named Erik, he was in love with a girl named Pia but she didn't like him at all. He admired some Swedish athlete, might have been a skier but unsure about that, who had a famous catchprase I cannot recall (wasn't Stenmark, though). He once got said athlete's autograph with a dedication to Pia, who in response took it and burned it to show she wasn't interested. Took place not quite in the modern day, but at least in the later half of the 1900's, probably 70's-80's.
Not that I especially want to read it again, but not being able to remember the name of the book or said athlete and his catchphrase is driving me absolute nuts...
A gamebook I remember stumbling upon in primary school (so early-to-mid 90's) - I remember it for being astonishingly creepy for a children's gamebook, feeling like a gamebook version of Solaris; if I recall correctly the gamebook began with the PC arriving at a moonbase - shortly thereafter World War Three breaks out, leaving the crew of the moonbase the only survivors; a later scene had an NPC be seen as outside the moonbase - but the PC could check and see that all the spacesuits were still accounted for; oh, and it also had a You Fail Physics Forever moment where the PC could choose to fire a laser whilst travelling FTL, causing the laser to curve back past them and hit their own reactor, causing an explosion killing the PC.