Trying to find this book. In it, over eons of time, a sun actually begins to think. He becomes self-aware, and then, one day MOVES itself, and its system.   I read this approximately 10-15 years ago, in paperback format, I believe.  Any help is appreciated!
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One of whom destroys the Earth, perhaps accidentally, while fighting another... the plot also involves a human colony ship or planet that loses contact with the Earth; I think a small boy is also involved with the plot, although it's been 20-30 years since I read this story.  Any help would be appreciated!  It's driving my brother and me a bit batty.  Here's the batty brother's take: the main being has created others who are now at war, exploding stars. To escape, the main being accelerates the star of the human colony as a decoy. However, most of the story centers on some guy who winds up living forever, as they keep sticking him in cryogenic sleep and reawakening him. If memory serves me right, they abandon the colony planet for a while and move to asteroids as the star is weakening because it is using it's energy to accelerate. When it decelerates, it is the only star left in the universe. The one "being" was almost reduced to living off the energy of a black hole when it appears, and he sees it and sets off to go there, with a cryptic ending that the humans very well might fight him off.
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I've been trying to find the name of a book/novel that I read a few years back (although I think it was published in the 90s or earlier).  The main points that I remember are: the story is set in a future where humans have outlawed eating meat (among other things, possibly) due to its "animalistic" nature or something similar.   Everyone also has to follow this ritual of sorts at the end of every day where they drink a certain beverage (water mixed with crystals of some sort), which causes them to lose all memory of the previous day when they wake up the next day; the reason is something along the lines of forgetting the past and looking forward to the future.  If they stop this daily dose for a few days, they begin to regain all the memories they've lost due to the drink.   There's also this device called the Memory (if I remember correctly, that is), whose purpose I've unfortunately forgotten.  The protagonist is a boy, most probably a teenager. In the first part of the story, the protagonist observes how the time of the setting of the sun at dusk changes around the solstices. Later he befriends a girl of his age, but forgets her due to the daily memory loss.  The last part of the story had something to do with the protagonist and the girl being sent to a farm of sorts due to them not following the memory loss ritual.  And the ending... I wasn't able to understand what the ending was about at all when I read it, so I can't comment on that.  I've tried searching for this book with the information I have, but returned empty-handed.
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I need help with identifying the comicbook, what follows is my best effort to gather whatever I remember from reading it years ago (circa year 2000, but I'm positive it was older than that):   The main character was a guy with white hair, who wanted to become powerful.  Through some training and a deal of some kind he was able to become a mage of sorts. The training was set on some other world, or possibly even parts were happening in different dimension. His powers might have had something with travelling between dimensions, but I'm not  100% sure. Also, I seem to recall there was a hard limit of how many times he could use them. Then followed a part where he was famous, but someone framed him into a scandalous plot (it was a sexual scandal, I think) using his clone or a doppelganger. At the end of the issue     the main character is seen trapped in some strange state, unable to move or escape using his powers (this might have to do something with the deal he made earlier). I remember the scene at the end as this: he is suspended in mid-air, his friends look at him in disbelief while some malevolent figure explains to them that he is now trapped forever.  His name was the title of the comic. The second and third parts were set on futuristic-looking planet.   Rings any bells? I'd like to read it again only I can't google it out.
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My son was telling me about a book that he read last year in class that had a picture of a bee on the cover, but where its abdomen is a syringe (with the needle in place of a stinger). It was kind of post-apocalyptic where people were being driven insane by bee stings or something. Somehow he's not even sure of the major plot points. :)  Anyway, we would like to figure out the title and author of this book. Apparently it is fairly recent, and a second book in the series was released this year.
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I'm looking for the name and author of a novel (or possibly novella). I first read this in the seventies, and might be older than that. It might have been written for teenagers.  The story takes place on a planet inhabited by a primitive humanoid race, roughly stone age if I remember rightly. Visiting this planet is a small team from a more advanced race, also humanoid and with spacefaring technology (obviously!). They are either there to help or observe, no nefarious purposes. I think they are avoiding contact with the primitives, at least initially. It's explicitly mentioned that the planet they are visiting is the third one of a medium sized star, just like their own homeworld. Also orbiting round the planet is an even more advanced race, using high tech to remain hidden from both the others. They are observing the whole situation, and again its mentioned that this is a 'third planet', like their own homeworld.  I'm a little bit hazy on the rest of the plot, but I think the super-advanced race end up revealing themselves, even though they are not supposed to.  The story is told from the viewpoints of both the second and third races (maybe also the first, I forget)  EDIT: For the record it turns out my recollection was faulty, and the second race are indeed coming to the planet for nefarious purposes. And the planet is at the medieval stage, not stone age.
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This book came out of the 1970s (early 1980's) at the latest. In it the protagonist, a not so diligent student, gets turned on to computer programming and creates (I think..) a weather program.   Eventually he moves on and years later the program contacts him. It has become an AI and he is its creator.  I forget what the setup is post contact which is not helpful at all..
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Plot Summary/Details  The sharpest memory I have of this one is that it was unusually dense reading. Much more difficult going than most of the sci-fi stuff I'd read by that time (I was 10 or 11, I think).  What I remember in terms of plot is that there is a starship, sent either to explore, or colonize, a distant star system.  I don't remember the names of any of the characters, but I think maybe they discover they are clones?  In any case, something happens to the computer system that the onboard AI becomes sentient and develops a measure of omniscience and omnipotence.  It effectively becomes a god of sorts.  The next part I can remember, and I'm not sure this is the same book or not, is that the ship has forcibly settled the crew on a hostile planet.  All sorts of nasty indigenous life forms live here, and guards are post on the wall outside the settlement to destroy them as they try to enter.  I remember there is a female character standing watch, and she goes over the bestiary in her mind.  One particularly nasty creature paralyzes you, and then burrows up your spine into your brain (or something like that) if it gets a hold of you.  That's all I can recall.  Not a lot of detail, unfortunately, but I'm having a tough time remembering much about this one.  I never finished the book(s), as they were mostly "over my head" at that age.
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I read a very special book a few years back. We follow a boy who lives in a world where, if one moves far enough in a direction, that person gets distended and changed in size.   The boy works on laying tracks for the train, on which his city is. The city has to continually keep moving or it also will get squashed.   It's like a world like if one end is pinched and then dragged out like a piece of rubber string or bubble gum.   The book is not older than 10 years I think.  Hope I was clear enough...
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I read it as a paperback around 2009ish. There are at least two books in the series. In the first book, we learn that the protagonist lives up in the mountains. Her people are distrusted by the people in the plains, and I think have either dark or olive skin. She leaves home to learn magic, something I think is rare in the world she lives in. When she arrives, there's a crazy power-hungry man at her destination and she has to hide who she is because otherwise he'd have her killed to prevent her from surpassing him. At some point, she winds up in a set of chambers set into the mountain where she finds a pool of water and carvings about dragons. Somehow, this leads into her learning to become a dragon, I think perhaps after meeting one. I want to say that the sequel got into her having dreams that turn out to be partly prophetic and partly communication.  One of the reasons the book sticks out in my memory is that, despite the mentions of the protagonists dusky skin, the cover depicts a fair-skinned blonde girl, I think holding a glowing globe of light.
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I remember this book from my early teen years, although what I remember makes it seem incredibly bizarre, but from what I remember, it was really enjoyable. I'm sure I read it before I read the "Mister Monday" series, by Garth Nix. I don't believe all of the series was available, if that helps narrow down a time frame.  I have a feeling this book was part of a series too. And it is based around a young male protagonist and, soon, a girl and another boy, whom he befriends.  I believe the first chapter of the first book starts with the protagonist answering a phone call. One of the questions he is asked is; How did the dinosaurs die? He initially believes this to be one of those radio shows, so he tries to be funny in his answer, which is; they died laughing. I'm sure they ask him about his sleeping habits, and he admits to falling asleep very easily, almost on command. This leads the boy to being recruited by an organisation which uses sleep as a way of entering and exiting some sort of world, or other time. There is something dangerous about it too, as I remember something about: trying to go deeper, or further, caused the person's heart to race to the point of an attack.  When he first travels to this place, it's like the beginning of time. The place is beautiful, and untouched. The protagonists male friend befriends a black panther cub, which I'm sure follows him around when they return.   This is when I lose track of the story and just remember snip bits;  The male friend is a skilled drummer and is able to tap into the 'beat' of the world, and stop time from travelling backwards - I believe this is in the second book.  The female friend is a skilled debater with unmatched logic, and during an argument with (some sort of boss bad guy), she uses the argument of a never ending cycle, a snake biting its tail. I'm sure she also had a bracelet of a snake biting its tail too, with green eyes?  There is a point where they are traveling through a cave of jewels. The protagonist collects some. They then come to a seemingly dead end, however, by giving up everything they  covet, such as the jewels, the characters are able to ascend to the village above.   Sorry for the long post, but I thought adding as much as I know might spark an answer from someone. :).   Thank you for your time.
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Looking for title / author. A thin book I read in the early '60s. Maybe 100-125 pages.  Protagonist alone in fog/mist in a featureless place. As the book progresses more people show up and are as confused about how they got there as the protagonist. People spend time trying to explore this "non-place". Near the end of the book an explanation is given about some "field", fixed in space which travels over the surface of the earth as the planet rotates. If you're at the focus, you're transported to this non-place.  Thats about all I can remember. I'd love to find this book again and re-read it. It stuck in my mind all these years.
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I read part of the series in 2005, a young man was the protagonist, he was traveling to different worlds. I think he was telepathic and the most identifying thing I can remember was he had a flying snake or asp as a pet which possibly was his protector? He was in danger for some reason. Also there was a romantic interest female. The books were very distinct from one another. The second or third book he visited a planet that was extremely bio-diverse, where he was on top of all this vegetation and he realized how many layers of vegetation he would have to get to before he got to the ground and it was vast. I never finished it and it's been driving me nuts.
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There is a book I read in the 1980s or 1990s from a Ca.  library. It was a hard copy not a paperback. It is not "To Outlive Eternity/Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson (I have that one). It may have been written by a woman or someone whose last name starts with an "L".  A large crew of men and women are in a new super fast space ship. They are being chased by someone and they outrun the collapse of the universe, but they have lost their home planet. They watch as the universe is reborn. They go into orbit around a planet that looks like it can support life like theirs. They are moving super fast. They look like a ring of radiation going around the planet. They put down 10 super metal markers with scientific info onto the surface of the planet. They watch the planet develop and form life like the dinosaurs and then evolve into human like life forms.  There are 2 warring countries on the planet. They block or turn off the sun to freeze the planet and force the countries to form one world government. The planet gets freezing cold and the people start to freeze. The countries agree to form one world government. The people on the ship are welcomed to the planet.
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Things I remember   I read this book in elementary school, but I don't know how much of a "kid's" book it is. Main character was male, and I think the title of the book may have been his name. I picture him as owl-like, but I know he had talons and wings at least. The book possibly started on his race's home planet, and they had to leave to live on space stations for some reason. Once they leave their home planet, there is a comment that their children will be born with flatter feet to accommodate walking on metal of the space station instead of gripping branches. I'm forgetting a chunk of the book, but the main character becomes separated from everyone else, possibly left behind somewhere on purpose. Somehow the main character becomes extremely powerful. He is able to fly through space on his own without a ship. Near the end of the book, he engages in a prolonged battle with some other hyper-powerful character (The fight might start on a water planet). Their fight spans the galaxy. Main character ends up in a black hole, omniscient and observing a planet (possibly Earth?). A boy from the planet dies and shows up where our main character is. Main character and boy talk about whether anything in life has meaning or affects anything.
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A group of people are exploring a huge spaceship. They are worried about supplies until they find cubbies that duplicate anything put into them. They discover this by someone placing their hand inside one of the cubbies and it duplicates their hand. Specifically, once something is placed in the cubby, whenever it is removed it is immediately replaced. So there's now always a hand in the cubby.  Definitely True   Everything in the above paragraph Read it more than 10 years ago.   I think...   I read it approximately 15 years ago. I have no idea how old it was when I read it. The ship was discovered in a glacier, or the arctic or something, which was reflected on the cover. It may have not been a spaceship exactly. I think there may have been interdimensional/tranporting doors and they were unable to go back the way they came.   I did not finish the book and would like to now, so I will not be able to answer clarification questions about later plot points and would prefer to avoid spoilers.
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So this is a bit of a memory game of my behalf, but I'm trying to remember the name of a (presumably) Sci-Fi novel with only a recollection of the following:   A man owns a (yellow?) car parked outside his house along with a cat The car goes missing or is stolen The man decides to be cryogenically frozen for 75 (fairly sure, could be 50?) years along with his cat (I might be muddling up novels but I'm sure there was a cat...?) He takes a walk along the street X years in the future when he wakes up and the currency he has in his pocket is now worthless   I don't think I got that far into the book and all the above happened relatively early.  I read it about 10 years ago and at a guess, it's an 80's novel - all of the above details might be inaccurate, but I'm certain about the cryogenic freezing and the currency aspects.  I'd be surprised if this one gets anywhere!
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I vaguely remember a SciFi novel from my younger days, where scientists discover "alternative" forms of power beside electromagnetism.  I do not remember the specific forms, but it was something along the lines of "electrogravity", "magnetogravity" etc. -- you get the idea. If I remember correctly, the effects of these power forms were basically psionic / magic in nature.  Unfortunately I remember very little of the actual plot, and couldn't put it into words with any coherency. Some treachery from within the group of scientists, perhaps some involvement of aliens? I cannot really remember. I just remember I enjoyed the story very much, and would like to re-read it.  The title could be "The fifth column" or similar -- then again I might be confusing two seperate novels.  I know that's not much, sorry. Anyone remembers this?