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Engineer who has read thousands of science fiction books and short stories. Can recommend stories on specific subjects and comment on technical feasibility. Especially good at older out-of-print books and authors.

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2011-10-10 Please help:

Sorry - I never read this book.  Good luck finding it.    I can recommend other books that you might like where girls get powers, and unexplained things happen.  For example, the Harper Hall series by

2011-09-30 Sci fi book with either Lion/Tiger men:

My favorite cat-people sci-fi is a three-book series by Anne McCaffrey about the Catteni cat-people.  The first book in the series is Freedom's Landing.  Here's what Wikipedia lists:    The Freedom series

2011-09-18 Lost time travel story:

I read this short story a LONG time ago, but can't think of the name.  Sorry.  Like you, I also thought of Sound of Thunder.  Suggest you try the world's largest SF library and see if anyone there knows

2011-08-21 Old Annapolis Town short story:

Couldn't find it by this title in the Locus Index.    http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/0start.htm    If you know which mag and which issue, you can get a Xerox copy from the MIT Science Fiction Society

2011-08-02 Wells short story:

According to my sources, there is no such story.  I found The Flying Man by H.G. Wells.  Here is a link to all his stories listed by author.  Click on Next to go to the next page of H.G. Wells stories

 

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