Unanswered Questions
5,693 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
54
votes
0
answers
2k
views
Story about enemies in a space battle sharing their last moments over com as their ships die
I am looking for the title of a short sci-fi story which I read sometime around the mid '80s.
It is about a man and a woman talking through some communication system during the last moments of their ...
45
votes
0
answers
1k
views
A Novel About Time Travel Into The Future
So this is what I remember, and it's very specific, but even so I can't seem to track down the novel:
a man discovers a portable time travel device that he can carry around with him. He gets caught ...
43
votes
0
answers
2k
views
Looking for science fiction assassination story with mysterious girl
For years I've been looking for a short science fiction story about a man who was released from a prison planet in order to assassinate a candidate for galactic president. He does this on a space ...
- 36.8k
38
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Humorous sci-fi book with a quirky space captain where everyone is turning into "glass"
I posted this question on another website, but I've yet to find the name of the book. I remember some very specific details, but nothing I can type into a search engine (I've tried).
Here are the ...
- 11.1k
37
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Story about Galactic authorities confining humanity to the solar system
I'm looking for a story I once read, in which Humanity sends out a space ship to try leaving the Solar System, and it is promptly destroyed by a military ship belonging to the Galactic Empire, which ...
- 191
33
votes
0
answers
2k
views
A space story about a desert planet and a cup of water
I read this story over 15 years ago. It is probably a lot older. I read it in Serbian magazine (Politikin Zabavnik) but I think that the language of the original is in English. It's a short story, ...
- 4,116
32
votes
0
answers
727
views
Futuristic world where reality is humanity's plaything and God is in a zoo
This is a novel I read in 2015. It was an older book. The cover was black and hardcover. Don't remember any specific details. The book was in English. I believe it was from the 1980s or ‘90s.
It was ...
31
votes
0
answers
767
views
Does the movie described in Flowers for Algernon actually exist?
In Flowers for Algernon (by D. Keyes) there is a passage describing a movie that main protagonist was watching:
A psychological film about a man and woman apparently in love but
actually ...
- 1
31
votes
0
answers
572
views
Short story about a man in a madhouse who asks the guard for a cigarette and tells him his story about having swapped bodies before
I am searching for a short story about a man locked in a madhouse who swaps his body with the guard/doctor while he tells him the story about his own body being swapped.
I remember the following:
...
- 311
31
votes
0
answers
963
views
Old SF novel, set on a military ship, one character can't order spaghetti and meatballs because of sudden mid-voyage rationing?
This one is a real longshot. I won't be surprised if nobody can identify it. I read this book sometime in the early-to-mid-1980s. Science fiction novel, checked out from a public library, written in ...
- 947
30
votes
0
answers
279
views
Short story where the stars are eyes
A short story I read several years ago in either Analog or Asimov's Science Fiction, probably between 2011 and 2013.
In the story there's a 4th spatial dimension whose axes are skew, so that things ...
- 351
30
votes
0
answers
790
views
Story about man unable to wake up from dream
I am looking for a story which I read a long time back but cannot recall the name. The plot line was:
In a futuristic world, there are dream parlors which provide sleep with dream services. The ...
- 79
27
votes
0
answers
416
views
A story about a doctor who travels to a parallel universe to seek a cure for bubonic plague
Recent news has been reminding me of various things I've read about the Black Death, including a story I believe I only saw once, and never stumbled across again. I encountered it over 30 years ago, ...
- 692
27
votes
0
answers
457
views
Short story about an elite that has mentally regressed due to assistive AI technologies
I came upon a comment describing a scifi short story where reliance on technology meant to improve appearance and demeanor has led to mental regression and AI control of the upper class that employs ...
27
votes
0
answers
649
views
SciFi Short Story about an immortal man digging through an asteroid to meet a woman
Short story from the 80's or 90's, I saw someone asking about this on another forum but never got an answer. I've been curious ever since.
The story is set in a decadent future where everyone lives ...
- 86k