The one thing I specifically remember is the boy wishes for the ability to change shape but instead of changing his own form, he kinda possesses other things while his original body disappears for the duration?
Can anyone identify a short story, published in the last 20 years I think, with the following qualities?
It's a Last Man on Earth story -- everyone dies except for one man (the protagonist) and one woman. I think the cause of the mass deaths was a disease, but not sure.
The protagonist is a UPS...
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In episode S05E11 of "Stargate: Atlantis", Sheppard & Zelenka must hitch a ride on a Traveller ship. The captain takes them to the Engineering room, which is a horribly chaotic mess of hoses, tubes, & wires, She then introduces them to Mila, the 15-year-old mechanic who keeps the engine running, ...
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When uploading an image in chat (SE), the link posted to chat is http instead of httpS.
Tested on Opera and Firefox in private/incognito sessions, connecting to chat both through http and https.
Shouldn't be a difficult fix.
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Several sci-fi stories show a person alone on a planet.
A World Called Solitude
Hobbyist
Exile of the Eons
Enchanted Village
Which story first featured a person alone on a planet? (It could be either somebody stranded on a distant world or the last person on Earth.)
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In the movie Shrek the Third (where as usual for the franchise the traditional roles in folktales are subverted), Prince Charming appears as the main antagonist.
Prince Charming in a position if power terribly reminds me of Suetonius's account of emperor Nero: vain, theatrical, erratic and murder...
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In World of A Song of Ice and Fire, we know that Knighthood is an Andal institution which is why they are very rare, but not unheard of, in the North and Iron Islands where people worship the Old Gods and the drowned God instead of the the Seven. The Knights there are exceptions such as Ser Haras...
Numenoreans are known to have leveled large forests in Eriador and in (the later) Gondor in their greed for shipbuilding-wood. Did they ever had trouble with the Ents?
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What is the SciFi story where a guy has to traverse a deadly alien 'trap' (it says in the story that it's possibly a trap or a puzzle but the tech is so advanced that they can't understand it) where the man dies a usually grisly death but is reanimated to test it again and again, each time gettin...
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There is a particular scene in I, Robot that raises an interesting issue. Will Smith is telling the story of how he lost his arm. He was in a car accident, and found himself and a young girl underwater about to drown. But Will was saved by a robot that was passing by. The reason given as to w...
Game of Thrones opens with Robert asking Ned to become his Hand of the King, Ned accepts (grudgingly) and some of the Starks go south to King's Landing while others remain at Winterfell.
While Ned is away
and to my knowledge
Much of this during the War of the Five Kings.
If Ned had refuse...
The Sorting Hat says:
You might belong in Gryffindor
Where dwell the brave at heart
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart . . .
Sorcerer's Stone - Page 118 - US Hardcover
Are there any canon examples of Peter Pettigrew displaying any of the aforementioned trai...
Star Trek-DS9, season 4, episode 19, "Shattered Mirror", all the Klingons in the alternet universe have such beautifully straightened teeth. Is that something peculiar to the alternate universe?
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In the MCU, we've seen the Asgardians heavily involved with the infinity artifacts. They possess a gauntlet, they had the tesseract, they knew about the aether and fought a war over it, and Loki wielded the mind stone (though admittedly since it was a gift, he may not have known about it). How ...
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I was watching the Fellowship of the Ring, during lunch time. In the Prologue scene, The armies of Men and Elves march against the armies of Mordor. When Sauron came to kill the armies of Men and Elves, Elendil comes by. Unfortunately, Elendil was killed by Sauron's Mace. When Isildur came to his...
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I have had a friend give me a rough description of a film and I'm curious to find out what it actually is. I don't know very much. I understand this will be difficult, especially since every time my friend explains the tale it's different so this description is likely to contain some inaccuracies...
I'm thinking of a very short story that ran in one of the big science fiction magazines--Asimov's or Analog, probably--maybe a decade or so ago, about a disease epidemic that created puns. Anybody know what it was? Thanks!
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I remember about a character from a movie or a tv show which was an alien I believe, and he fell in love with another character and we learned that this alien specie's heart was made to fall in love only once for the rest of their live.
I don't even know why I tought about this but the fact I ca...
I need help identifying a movie. I watched this in the late 90s when I was a kid. It's probably a tv movie but it could be theatrical.
Here is all of what I remember about the second half of the movie:
There is an alien in disguise that has infiltrated a family of 4 or 5. It is pretending to b...
In Philosopher's Stone, Hagrid says,
'Oh, well - I was at Hogwarts meself but I - er - got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wand in half an' everything. But Dumbledore let me stay on as Dumbledore. Great man, Dumbledore.'
This presumably means that Hagrid...1
In the Wheel of Time Lanfear shields Asmodean so he is not dangerous, but can still channel a trickle. I don't think something like this is done in the entire series, but it seems quite like normal shielding, only more complicated. I would actually get the feeling it would be easier to break free...
I just watched First Contact again. It's so great. And then I reflect back on Voyager. What's going on here? Are they gone? Is the queen finally dead or forever lurking?
I already have the "Edit Questions And Answers" privilege. Yet, if I approve someone else's edit, I'm told that more votes will be required before the edit is accepted.
This seems a bit peculiar to me, since I could just copy the edited version and paste it myself.
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Many times we see the Captain of a Starfleet vessel ask for a probe to be launched in order to scan/examine some debris/star/anomaly/planet etc. Then a member of the crew, usually at the science or tactical stations, press a few buttons on their panels and moments later the probe is launched.
H...
When A New Hope was made in 1977, many British actors, such as Denis Lawson, portrayed x-wing pilots and others in the film. However, they seem to have all been dubbed by American actors. Did George Lucas or anyone else working on the original film give a reason for doing this?
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In the Legend series by Marie Lu, there are two countries side-by-side in what used to be the U.S.
One is a hereditary military dictatorship that controls every aspect of its citizens' lives. The other is a state where large corporations wield outsized power. The analogy to North Korea and South...
