What's the Name of That Book??? Discussions Mentioning Arthur C. Clarke

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Sci Fi Short Story in The 80s? 16 960 Jan 22, 2022 12:24PM  
SOLVED. Sci-Fi Short Story about Sci-Fi writer who created alternate world in his mind. [s] 31 86 Sep 29, 2013 09:06AM  
ABANDONED. Science Fiction short story, 50s or 60s, island where children are left to grow alone and develop without input from adults 11 289 Nov 27, 2015 05:28PM  
ABANDONED. Sci-fi, quite old, islands drifting over land 9 235 Jul 02, 2016 06:33PM  
Books where animals like squids, octopuses, or sharks are major themes, like Benchley's work. 35 1188 Nov 08, 2022 07:58AM  
Hard SF set on earth/in orbit paraplegic has legs amputated 26 792 Jul 26, 2021 09:29PM  
I don't know if such books exist but 10 160 Apr 26, 2017 12:47AM  
ABANDONED. Science Fiction. Man can't sleep, suddenly time is frozen by a watch. Entity will give him the watch if he collects certain artifacts. Read about 30 years ago. Spoilers ahead. 9 129 Oct 19, 2018 05:50PM  
SciFi NOT about war - suggestions please? 32 835 Sep 13, 2019 09:41AM  
SOLVED. Science fiction, set in near future. Large asteroid or ship approaches Earth on semi regular basis. When it appears teams or solo players go to the ship and try to get through the defences, read in early 80’s, possible series. [s] 8 31 Jan 07, 2019 01:13PM  
SOLVED. Science fiction book from my dad's childhood about immortals, androids, and space. [s] 6 38 Jul 22, 2019 10:57AM  
ABANDONED. Sci-fi book. Earth colonizing other planets. New world mostly water. Elections for highest leader by lottery system. Read around 1990s. 23 1501 Jul 27, 2023 05:18PM  
Adult Science Fiction. Space Elevator built using carbon nano-tubes. 8 60 Oct 27, 2020 10:41AM  
SOLVED. Adult Science Fiction. Humans find spaceship humans orbiting somewhere. They board this ship that has whole environment and ecosystem with plants and water. As they are on it, the whole system changes and crazy things happen. [s] 4 19 Nov 20, 2020 02:38PM  
Adult SciFi Short Story/ Novel. "Criminals" are put in isolated prison cells until they "die," but they actually get a new personality instead. One man knows he's actually going to die; others don't understand why he's afraid of death. Read in 1980s. 17 770 Oct 18, 2024 03:43PM  
Adult Science Fiction. Futuristic, US Political/ Election habits are very odd. Everyone's name put into Lottery, loser had to be president. Anyone who wanted to be president was considered crazy and should not have the job. Read about late 1960s/mid 1970s. 14 1190 Aug 25, 2024 12:54PM  
SOLVED. YA - Sci Fi. Isolated underground cities, boy breaks law to contact another. [s] 4 26 Dec 05, 2022 05:57AM  
SOLVED. Adult Sci-Fi story. An exploration space ship arrives at the empty planet with traces of XX century civilization that is about to get destroyed; team investigates and finds out that every person has left on board of a rapidly-made spaceship. [s] 4 22 Dec 18, 2022 09:13AM  
Science Fiction. Aliens show up to Earth and start to change humans (from their space ships in the sky). Babies no longer rely on their parents. Read in 1999. Spoilers. 5 35 May 10, 2023 08:22AM  
Adult Classic Science Fiction Story (Ray Bradbury?) read probably in the 1980s. People all have the same dream that there will be some horrible apocalyptic event. Spoilers ahead! 8 109 3 hours, 43 min ago