We have seen them being taught the most stupid of spells, like turn something into another color, or sprout legs on a teapot or things like that... Why don't they teach them basic healing spells? Like how to mend a broken bone or heal a cut. Ok maybe it's strictly on the 7th year for which we kno...

Novel from the late '80s - early '90s. Can't remember much about it - didn't finish it. About a humanoid (Alien? Time traveler? Can't remember) who visits Earth in the Middle Ages & gets involved with two people. One of them is a Norman knight who tries to take advantage of the traveler's advance...

That's pretty much it. I really enjoyed reading it as part of an anthology.

Per discussion in chat and reception on my answer to the chat name suggestions, it appears that there's strong support for rotating the chat name and corresponding feed names on a regular basis. This adds to the SFF-nal ambiance of our stack (that's my argument and I'm sticking to it!), and gives...

I read this when I was a kid, so some time in the 80's, may have come out earlier, though. I don't remember that much about it, other than that it was set in a post apocalyptic earth (I think United States, for some reason I've got California in my mind) where forest and wildlife has overgrown al...

In the tv show they go on about how they can't carry weapons in the sacred city I know their might not be a canon explanation for this but I thought someone may know! I was just thinking there looked like a hell of a lot of people lived/stay in the city so there must be a weapons store somew...

I don't know what to add except that the creature is able to get ahead of him no matter what. The story is probably about 15-20 years old and in English.

i read this book once when i was in middle school where a girl solves a murder or a mystery on a spaceship. it was one of those paperback thin books. all i can remember is that they talked about an alien. and that there was this movie star or actress or famous make up artist on the ship traveling...

The man is a convict about to be released despite his dangerous insanity. This was I think 5-10 years ago. One of the characters from Goodfellas might have played the policeman who tries to unravel the mystery. There were I believe numerous killings.

While re-reading the whole original series, I noticed that at the end of God Emperor and repeatedly through Heretics, Frank Herbert speaks of multiple universes. Example 1: No Ixian machine can do what we, the descendants of Duncan Idaho and Siona, have done. How many universes have we popul...

In Unsong, But much later in the book we find out that he's been hiding under a fake name. What exactly happened in the duel?

In the Tv show The Handmaidens tale we see a dystopian future where people live in classes. I have heard of: Ant - A worker Eye- Spy/Secret Police Aunt - Keeper of the handmaidens Commander - Boss f some kind ( dont know if it is political or military ) Martha - housekeeper Handmaiden - Wa...

In a book, written in 90's or earlier, a group of people is sent to a remote planet. This was possibly a punishment for a crime. They were sleeping in the space ship, and they wake up after landing. I don't remember what happened to the ship after that. I think the planet was quite primitive, pos...

I would like to use this hollow Moon picture on my site (from elarcadelosdioses.wordpress.com): Here is a similar contrast photo of the Moon from space.com: It appears often and w/o any credentials. Depicting some engines inside of the Moon and looks medieval. Who is the author?

In the beginning of the mission, it's mentioned that 12 pioneers went out to try to find a new world for humanity. During the duration of the film, they only visit 3 of those 12 planets and respective astronauts. What happened to the other 9? Did they communicate back to NASA that their planet wa...

In the episode Extremis, the Doctor "borrows" sight from his future self so that he can see temporarily. But we later find out Clearly the answer to this question might depend on what happens in the next episode, but does this mean that there is no real need for this vision to be "paid back" l...

Read Order of the Phoenix again, and I thought of a question about the patronuses the Order uses. This "talking Patronus" spell seems to be an Order of the Phoenix invention, as I didn't notice anyone on the Dark Lord's side using it against the Order in the War. Who invented the "talking Patro...

The protagonist is a male blind warrior, has one sword and is really good at fighting. I don't remember if he has some special power or something like this... The history is set in a medieval world and in some comics in a glacial terrain. This warrior has one apprentice with him, but I don't rem...

When Marty escapes the Lybians using DeLorean and jumps into 1955 we can see at the end of the movie that the van with the Lybians crashes into the photo booth. If they remained alive they would keep on chasing Doc and Marty on foot. But that is not the case. We see that Marty-from-the-past and ...

Amanda in the American TV show, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has this Pararibulitis disease. I am curious how does this disease work. In the show, we see that Amanda has some visions and she is really desperate and needs to take a pill. I can imagine that the visions aren't exactly p...

Looking for a science fiction short story I read a while back, where the last human is connected to his star ship which is programmed to save him as much as possible, in a time where humanity is hunted down by other space faring species. It was almost poem-like and kept repeating something like...