Science Fiction Aficionados discussion

It happens, you read a book that sticks with you, but when you try to find it years later, you can't. Maybe you remember a couple of details but can't remember the title or author or what you do remember seems to be wrong.

Post what you remember in this thread and as a group we can help each other find those lost books.

Good idea. There is also a dedicated group for finding lost books:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

Dylan wrote: "Good idea. There is also a dedicated group for finding lost books:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1..."

Cool. I hadn't seen that. For this particular thread, I was thinking of Sci-Fi books specifically. Since we have a somewhat narrower audience, there might be a better chance of getting a hit.

A book I want to find...

I could have sworn that this book was titled "Glory Road," but it isn't the Heinlein book, so I must be mistaken. What I do remember:


It was written in the '80s
One of the main characters dresses in punk and has a mohawk (green, if I remember right)
One of the first scenes takes place in a bowling alley when the main characters are attacked by aliens
There is a prissy girl who, I think is either related to or a former girlfriend of the mohawk boy
They go on adventure to several planets
There is some kind of alien with them that may be a shape-shifter thing or something, and I think it produced some kind of energy which is why the "bad" aliens were after them to begin with
They meet a neanderthal at one point, who *SPOILER* tells them that neanderthals left earth a long time ago
They visit some kind of space market filled with aliens
The mohawk boy becomes proficient on an alien instrument (I think)


The book was one of my first introductions to Science Fiction and I'd love to read it again, so any help finding it is very much appreciated.

I can see why you thought Glory Road - that's Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster.

Serious! Dude, you are awesome! I have been looking for that book off-and-on for at least 5 years!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

You're very welcome.

OK, here's another book. Read in the 1970's so probably published in that decade, but maybe the previous 1960's.

Sci fi book; main charicters are not human or humanoid, they're some kind of spheres. but not planets or stars; in fact they make and play with solar systems but are not part of them.

Biology; Males and Females of the species have different colored lights inside their bodies. I think females have 3? Males have one. When the beings enter puberty after thousands,(or millions ? ) of years a female entices a male to dance with her up through various levels(?)~ (dimensions?)
At the top one her(of 3) lights shoots out and melds with the male's (one) light and an offspring is made. Male dies. Female goes back and raises the offspring,later has maybe 2 or 3 more offspring with other males,then dies.

One male figures out how to avoid death this way and ends up living an unbelievable long time. Then he or his son, (don't remember at this point) goes across the ~ a. galaxy, or b. universe, or c. dimension, to a new one. His name is Vanguard and the story goes on from there.

I don't remember the rest, just that it was a good read! Thanks for any help!

This is a book I read in middleschool, one of my favorites that I keep trying to describe to my mother but I can't seem to track down a copy for the life of me!

I want to say the title was 'Triage'; its cover was white and showed a fat man in a white suit holding a scythe above his head, one hand on the handle and the other supporting the blade. It told a story about some kind of mass governmental shakeup, and then the resulting population-culling program that ensued---through such ingenius methods as creating a super-nutritious food additive, which had the side effect of either increasing or decreasing a person's natural intelligence. This was a harmless change, and not likely to be noticeable--only a few degrees' difference in either direction. Then they (the conspirators in this new shadow-government, who are communicating in letters to each other explaining the plan) devise a new carberator add-on for cars that removes all emissions and makes the car get super-high gas mileage---the only catch is, you have to keep the key in the ignition a few extra seconds or the engine will explode---killing those whose IQs they've just lowered, thus performing a societal triage.

There were many such examples, and I really think my mother would adore this book but I can't seem to find it! If I'm misremembering the name or suchlike please let me know! Thank you!

Ammie wrote: "This is a book I read in middleschool, one of my favorites that I keep trying to describe to my mother but I can't seem to track down a copy for the life of me!

I want to say the title was 'Triage..."

Replying to myself to add that shortly after I posted this I found the book---it IS called Triage, and the cover is more or less as I recalled, but it's by Leonard C. Lewin and not....whomever I thought it was by. Can't wait to put up a review for GR!

This is probably too vague a memory of a book... But when I was younger, I read a book about an English woman kidnapped and assimilated by Vikings. She married a Viking and i think had a child. She joined the colonization of Greenland (I think, maybe Iceland or even Canada? But I think Greenland). And somehow she went back to England and discovered her family or something.

Watching the Vikings show in History Channel has reminded me of the story, I'm going to do some googling, maybe I can find it. I think it was YA, and that I read it in middle school. But I was also reading Stephen King and The Dark Tower series in middle school, so maybe not YA.

... Never mind, I found it. I did not expect it to be so easy. Wow. The book is Avalon by Anya Seton.

Ooh, I read that years ago! Glad you found it :)

hi im sorry to disturb you but i've been looking for a book to and i'm lost i swear it was called darkness
and its about a boy that live on an island with only his mum and he is a good sketch artist and he has a friend that is very secretive but gets abused by her dad, thats why her mother runs away with her...
and close to the end the two friends decide to go to a lighthouse to hide and something about eating cooking chocolate and how its disguesting.
i know you guys only look up scifi
but im having a problem looking for this book if its no trouble can someone post up the real title and the author cause i read this about 7-8 years ago and lost it.
thank you

Perhaps try this group https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/... which is dedicated to finding lost books.

non-fiction hardcover book, about UFOs, Psychic Power, strange creatures, spirits and haunted places.
Cover of the book is a UFO ship directly above a car