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openSci-fi CYOA Book Literature
A Choose Your Own adventure knock-off from the 80's. All I remember is that one ending involved a bunch of bat-aliens cornering you and asking you what you think of bats, and when you choose to tell them you love them they're so happy they turn YOU into a bat, and another involved you being exposed to some sort of energy that basically turned you into a superhero/He-Man ripoff and easily beating the Big Bad.
Edited by CivanfanopenA book from my childhood Literature
There's a book i remember reading at the school library when i was a kid. It was about this princess who was supposed to be offered to a local vampire (who i think turned out to be her uncle or something) for some reason, but the parents don't want to give her up, and end up finding a poor girl who looks really similar and tries to send her instead. I remember the poor girl being super excited over the princess's toys,before she got sent off. I think she ended up being bitten, but i can't remember well enough to say for sure. I also vaguely remember a green cover, but covers change all the time (and i could be mixing it up with a different book) so i don't know if that would be any help. I think it probably took place in transalvania too, but again not sure.
openBook about humans with tentacles? Literature
There was a book I read when I was younger, on the cover I believe was a human arm with tendrils coming from the hand. I think it was named something along the lines of "Human 101" "Bio Human 101" or "Human .01"?
openchildrens book explaining how snakes got venome Literature
I remeber there was this childrens book that had a myth explaining the orgin of venom in snakes. In the beginning snakes were stepped on and evem chewed on until god(or some other entity) gives them venom to defend themselves. Can anyone tell me what the name of this book was?
openKid's book about a monster who wants to eat the kid Literature
This book is about a kid who is captured by some kind of monster. The monster is going to eat him, but the kid convinces him that he would be tastier with a certain recipe, which requires the monster to go out and gather outlandish ingredients, like bicycles and bricks. This repeats until the kid has got enough equipment from the recipes that he can brick up the monster and escape.
openBook thingy Literature
i was browsing this very wiki, and i found this book series i really liked. it was something like a future colony being cut off or something, and regressing to a feudal era, and then a ship with people in stasis wake up and see this dutur, and try to make it right. Thanks!
openShort Story about a Game Library Literature
I can't seem to find it anywhere. It's a short story about a man that dies and leaves his game library to his nephew. Among the books, the nephew finds a stack of unpublished RPG books that detail a very simulationist system which his uncle used to play god with.
openDo you remember this book? Literature
I read this book around 2004 or so. The main character was an android, and I'm pretty sure he was the first one developed. His family (which included the creator/inventor) named him Andy. He's in a kid/teen's body, and so he goes to school. He gets bullied and discriminated against but he's not allowed to retaliate. Androids are considered very second class citizens and (I think this happened) when his class gets an android teacher, a lot of students get switched to a human teacher's class by their parents.
His best friend is an android girl who wants to go to college, but she's not allowed unless she's switched into a different body/college age body. She's been rebelling a little. One day she vanishes and when she gets on the bus for school a while later it's a different android, but in the same body-her family had her wiped or returned her or something and another android is now using that body.
At the end the scientist inventor guy is forced to realize that the androids have developed feelings, real feelings, and he's in shock or something. And Andy goes off to college without having to change bodies. And he finds his friend, who it turns out somehow survived but ended up in a different body.
It's really hard to search for something about Androids (with phones) and Andy the Android (which just brings up children's books).
I was about 12 when I read it, but it was part of my teacher's personal collection that he kept in the classroom, so I don't know if that was the age range it was aimed at. I don't think it felt particularly "adult" to me, I thought it was a kid's book, but I also read The Color Purple the year before that, so my judgement may be off.
openCan't find this book... Literature
I read a book a couple of years ago that I don't remember and can't seem to find online. It was about putting on Fiddler on the Roof to save a dying performance hall? I'm 99% sure that's why it was done, either that or some unrelated fundraiser, either way they put on the play for a good cause and it was entirely put on and starred in by the townspeople. If I remember correctly, the main character did not live in the town, but was staying with her aunt and uncle for the summer or something, and she had a weird cousin who also happened to be a mathematician. The main character was female, as was the cousin. Also I distinctly remember an old guy named Bucky who was a great fiddler.
openLine from a book Literature
There's a line I remember reading, almost certainly in the last 10 years, and I can't remember where I read it.
A villainous character is indulging his scientific curiosity about another character's condition (I don't recall what the exact situation is) and when they become uncomfortable with the situation he says something like "Just think of me as a doctor, except that I have no interest in whether you get better."
Since I read it, it's almost certainly science fiction and probably stands a good chance of being a Star Trek or Doctor Who novel.
openHPDM Fanfic Literature
Um, so, there was a Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy slash fanfic I read a while back, but I can't find it anymore.
It's an after-the-war fic from Malfoy's POV, and at least part of the story takes place during Eight Year, but I think the story starts with both Harry and Malfoy working at the Ministry of Magic. Harry tries to talk to Malfoy and ask him out, but Malfoy rejects him.
It's later revealed that Malfoy and Harry were somewhat in a relationship during the summer prior to Eighth Year, but on the train to Hogwarts, Harry hides from and ignores Malfoy, because he didn't want to deal with his friends' reactions.
At Hogwarts, during Eighth Year, the Slytherins are mistreated by students from other houses (and even some teachers, I think) who blame them for the deaths of their loved ones. Harry frequently rescues younger Slytherins, and even Draco's friends, from bullies, but Draco wonders why Harry never comes for him when he needs help. (Later, we find out that Harry was the one who found Draco after he passed out from getting hexed, and was the one who took him to the infirmary.)
In the end, Malfoy forgives Harry, and agrees to go for drinks sometime with him. (Or something like that. But they do get together again, somewhat.)
I might have gotten some facts wrong, since it's been a while since I read it, and I was reading a lot of Harry Potter fanfics during that time. But does anyone remember reading this fic? Thanks in advance!
Edited by Dahlia1112openLooking for a book Literature
I remember finding it on tvtropes but I can't recall the name. It's high fantasy with defeating evil overlord and such but it had a standing out character - a humble elven alchemist/mage (sorry memory is wonky here) who was in love with a princess but so was the Hero. I remember the elf also died. It involved a tower and stones and a ton of enemies. Might or might not be a stand alone novel.
openYA horror about a female teacher Literature
When I was a kid, I read a lot of paper back horror, one of them I think had a name like 'Substitute Teacher' or 'Teacher' (something simple like that which makes it hard to google, but I do know the cover had the teacher scratching her nails on a chalkboard). It was about this girl who everyone calls 'garbage girl' because her single father is a garbage man. She's dumpy and unpopular, but one day a new teacher comes. The teacher helps her, by telling her to eat better and gives her acne medication, and I think she runs over one of the guys who was bulling her? Then the teacher demands the girl helps her kidnap a baby, and somehow the teacher gets run over and the girl goes to jail, but gets out quickly because it turns out the teacher was a wanted criminal. I could be wrong about the title, but I think the word 'Teacher' was in it. I know it was a paper back horror novel, like Fear Street or the other Point Horror books, but I couldn't find it in the Point Horror lists and I know R. L. Stein didn't write it.
openShort story on the moon Literature
A short sf story, I think I read it in the late 80s, early 90s, but it's probably older than that, set in a future where the US, UK and Russia (I can't remember if it was called the USSR or not) all have lunar cities. I don't remember the actual storyline, what I remember is an aside that the American and Russian cities all have regular grids of numbered streets, and the British started out doing that but, being British, ended up with negative numbers and fractions, because regular grids of streets are anathema to us.
openScary Story series or collection with one story about a snake man Literature
I remember reading a scary story book that was either three scary stories in one book or part of a series of scary stories that didn't include the same protagonists (a la Goosebumps). The story I remember was one about a girl who lived on a military base (I think?) near a swamp in the south. The main girl meets and befriends a young native american girl whose grandmother warns them not to go into the swamp after dark (or at all, I forget) because of the snake man who lives there. I want to say his name is Lakoti, like the Lakota tribe who I think is mentioned as being the tribe the other girl and her grandma belong to, but I might be wrong. Anyway, of course they don't listen and go into the swamp and manage not to get eaten or killed because they can hear the snake guy coming because he makes a "Sss... click... click" noise. I've tried googling it but all I can find is the legend itself from the Lakota tribe IRL, but not the short story. Not sure if it helps, but I'm pretty sure the snake guy himself was on the cover, and was either gray or purplish.
openchildren's prehistory series Literature
Ok, this I believe was a series of around 7 books, where sometime in the future we invent a time machine. Two kids win a competition, and they get to go back in time along with a bunch of adults to see prehistory, each book dealing with a specific period - so the first book was something like the primordial sea, whereas the last book was the ice age and cavemen.
They were kiddies books, so they were only about 30 pages long, square with lots of beautifully painted illustrations.
The time machine was in a ship that was triangular in shape, came to a point with the wings extending all the way to the point and the back, whereas the fuselage was a sort of hexagonal cone. It was white with a darker tip, and a dark stripe along the back edges.
I'm pretty sure there was an AI onboard the ship. Something to do with rings the kids were issued, as well? I think. At one point the kids are allowed outside to explore in the primordial sea, and one of them nearly gets eaten, as always happens in this kind of thing.
Any help would be appreciated
openClay Dragons that are somehow alive? Literature
I'm looking for a book series that had dragons that this woman mode from clay and gave them souls? I just remember that the copies my library had had a dragon eye on the cover and they kept a snowball in the fridge. Sorry for the vagueness, but any ideas?
openSipping chocolate Literature
Me and my sister are trying to remember a book we both read. High fantasy, kinda medival and it has a scene where the girl tries chocolate for the first time. It's sipping chocolate not candy but beyond that we can't remember what it was.
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In the first book, protagonist goes to another planet (Mars?) and hangs out with furry bear-like creatures. Don't remember what happens in the second one. In the third one, the same protagonist spends time in an English university, while it being taken over by a fascist regime (the regime's symbol if a naked forearm and a fist). People talk a lot about England's true nature and Logres.
I read this a decade ago, and now can't find it. It's really bugging me. Please, help.