Entries tagged with genre: sci-fi

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90's sci fi novel, megapolis, space travel, transhumanism.

I read this sometime in the 90s
The primary setting is a huge city far off in the future, the only one on that planet, I think:
protagonist is a young man, a space pilot (involving some kind of hyperjumping with expanded awareness to see all the possibilities) I think he was finishing up his pilot education at the beginning of the story.
Father is famous, mother stole DNA (I think she scratched him) and used the skin material to impregnate herself.
Girlfriend who is an anthropologist or something, goes undercover in a primitive tribe to gather samples and the like, uses body sculpting to fit in with the different (but still human-like) and larger built tribe members, him and his father joins her for some reason their relationship is fairly antagonistic though.
She starts sleeping around with the male tribe members to get those samples, he becomes jealous and starts also sleeping around. Father and son fight at one point, the protagonist is afraid they might kill each other since they are a lot stronger than their normal bodies.
While flying, he crashes on planet and is in grievous condition he is healed by someone, he gets back, starts slowly evolving (transhumanism) as a consequence of the healing, can manage some superhuman feats, moved very quickly at one point out of need, perceived as slowing down time, I think it was to save somebody.
He sees clearer, understands the inherent 'programming' in people around him that rules their behavior,
even those walking around with the "burnt of (self)mastery" are not completely free.

That's what I remember, I have no idea about the chronology unfortunately.

Current Mood: frustrated

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I need to find a book

Hello, I registered on this site because I've scoured the internet for hours in search of a book that I know exists but has no traces. It is science fiction. It starts out on a spaceship, the female main characters father is from Earth or a planet and he came to the space tribe ship and had a daughter with one of the women of the ship. People that live on space ships are pale white from generations of living without sun, but the main character due to her father has tanner skin. Per tradition another space tribe ship comes and everyone believes she will be married to the son of the other captain. So she gets close with this son and they end up making love in the ships lake or something and are caught. It turns out she was meant for the other ships captain even though he has many wives. I think they end up deciding to kill her and the other ships captain is angry and they leave and he intends to punish or kill his son. Likewise the captain of her ship I think decided to kill her, they bring her to a room and try to suffocate her to death or something by draining the air, but during the time she figures out how to breath some liquid or something some fish or something live in that has oxygen of some kind. Eventually she survives and somehow gets off the ship and I don't really know what happens between, but she ends up on a trash island on Earth and gets taken in and helped by a mother and daughter, they bond over time and eventually a storm destroys the island and the mother dies, but in a small ship the main character saves the girl and they get away. I think they make it to another planet at some point and they somehow find the main characters grandmother, and she takes them both in. They go to school and the younger girl learns and adapts very quickly but the girl from the ship fails badly and gets in with the wrong sort/ so says her grandmother or something. Then I don't remember much, but she leaves and I remember the ending to the first or second book she runs into someone from her or the other captains sons ship and she says things are different, and things are more fair for women on the ship now. (I probably got many details wrong, but I'm going mad, I know this book/series exists, but I can't find a trace of it on any book site or on the internet itself.)

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Dragon ranch on another world

It’s set in another world on a farm or ranch where they raise dragons. When a group of dragons was about to hatch the main protagonist, a young boy steal one of the eggs and hides it then makes a mini farm with some type of firegrass that dragons eat but if humans touch directly it burns them. Later in the story it’s found out that he stole the dragon, and I think some other child was introduced as well, they were then hunted by the people who owned the ranch. The dragon got injured but they got away. However the nights on that planet are extremely cold so the dragon which was dying made a choice a cut open it’s stomach so the children cold hide from the cold. The book ends with the children coming out of the stomach and finding out that the dragons blood changed them.

This is all I can remember about the book. If you know or can find out the name of the book or author then I thank you deeply for the help.

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I can’t remember!

I read a book back in 08-09 that was a book about a cyborg and a princess who fell in Love all the while fighting against some big villain all I remember is I started reading it and to my surprise found out it was an adult book lol and the princess was younger than 18 and there was magic so that underage people did not know about sex and would get in trouble if someone did it but the princess was one of three sisters and she outmaneuvered the magic by magically aging herself and seducing the cyborg I remember they had a child and it came from a stork. Anddddd that’s about it haha lemme know if anyone knows this book! Thanks!

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Book Series. Clocktower, Red Train, Bed floating in the ocean

Looking to find a sci-fi book series i read as a kid. The premise as i can remember it, is a boy that leads a troubled life and when he dreams, he is pulled into these dystopian/nightmares of some sort.

The plot revolves around him collecting relics in these dreams, but i forget why.

The covers of the first three books (as i remember) is a Clocktower, the second has an old red steam engine at a crossroads, and the third is a bed floating in the middle of the ocean!!

There are more books in the series, i just never got to read them!

Thanks!

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Sci-fi from late 80's about sibs modified for space life

I'm looking for help with the name of a book I read in the late 80's. The main characters were a brother and sister that discovered the often used "this could change everything" thing. Gene mods were a large part of the book as many characters were adapted to life in space... The brother had three arms but I dont recall the sisters.

I do recall that the brother played guitar. There was one point where he was playing a jam session and the lead singer was ripping up his throat trying to sing "half cord" or "off cord". That's about all I recall and I know its not much but any help will be appreciated. It's driving me crazy that I cant recall the name.

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SF book or poss short story about a guy becoming god or god like

I think it was a short story or novella by Stephen King but I haven't been able to find it so I may be wrong. I read it at least 5 years ago so its not something newly published. In it the main character becomes increasingly ill over the course of the story. Throughout the story he and two other characters who are either his friends or colleagues try to find out whats happening to him. At the end of the story they are in a car, the main character is in the backseat and in an immense amount of pain and his head growing and becoming grotesquely large. As the story closes his eyes and mouth start expanding and becoming black holes. I think he realizes he's becoming a god or something godlike at this point. I distinctly remember him either saying or thinking 'I fear I will not be a loving God', or something similar as the story ends.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Its drying me crazy that I cannot find it.

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SF short story about history & myths

I've been searching for a story I read in an anthology quite a few years ago. In the future someone invents a machine to bring people from past to the present. When people get bored with that, he brings back the myths. Some were outright myths - gods & goddesses. Others were historical myths, such as JFK as a bloodied martyr, which confused the real JFK.

I don't remember title or author.

Thanks in advance!

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Young adult novel

This is my first request so I hope I'm doing it right!

Maybe about 8-10 years ago I read a YA novel about a boy who, after being threatened by his alcoholic father, found he could "jump" to the public library - his safe place. With practice he found he could go anywhere he had been before. He uses his gift to help others, including saving people in a hijacked plane. He had a cave he had fitted out with everything needed & (of course) met a girl.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

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Asian Themed Post Apocalyptic Fantasy

What I recall was Asian royalty living with space and privilege while cities were super crowded and couldn't be left. I think some part of the story revolved around discovery of what was beyond/under the city. This was a very long time ago, maybe more than 40 years that I read at least one of the series and its all very vague. An odd symbol on the front of the book and I want to say the author last name began with a W, but I can't be sure.