British mini-series about a man who has published a small book of poems. He is known as a "writer" but doesn't write another story. The series begins as he is cleaning out his isolated home and burning its contents except for materials related to his four (I think 4 - may be more) wife's. These ...

I believe it is either a mid-90s or possibly later, US 'Sci-fi original movie'. I am fairly certain I watched it on the Sci-fi channel, though I tried browsing through a list of old Syfy (Sci Fi at the time) original movies and could not find one that matched. The plot is something along the lin...

I just finished The Shadow Rising and am wondering what happened to Bian and Chiad, the two Aiel accompanying Perrin and Faile. I'm not sure if I missed something in the end of TSR that concluded their character arc. Please do not spoil anything from later books.

Could somebody reveal an animagus by incanting the Homenum Revelio spell? Let's say somebody shouted Homenum Revelio in the presence of a nine-toed rat named Scabbers. Would that person suddenly know that Scabbers is actually a human in disguise? Or expose a ta...

When Remus and Sirius transformed Scabbers the rat back into Peter Pettigrew, Peter had clothes on. When Peter transformed himself back into a rat later that evening, his clothes didn't become part of him. (Unlike other animagi whose clothes become part of their...

For example, could a witch or wizard cast it on a trunk, or something else you could plausibly lock? To the best of my knowledge, the books and movies never show anyone cast Colloportus (or Alohomora for that matter) on anything other than a door or window, but I'm not sure about Pottermore, Har...

Or think Harry would want to be friends with him? 'My name is Draco Malfoy. I am a racist, I despise gingers and mudbloods, I hate Gryffindor house, and my parents work for the man who killed your parents. Do you want to be my friend?' I mean WHY Harry??

I am trying to remember the name of a 1980's science fiction book where the protagonist is a guy who is enslaved on a large plantation-like region of a planet. He escapes via a spaceport/airport for jetson-reminiscent aircraft either to another demense, or even off-planet. Eventually, after becom...

The Galactic Republic was corrupt. Many of its Senators and bureaucrats were corrupt. That became clear when the Senate would not lift a tentacle to save Naboo from attack by the Trade Federation when its people were dying. Surely the Jedi knew the Republic was a democracy in name only, and that...

Thranduil lives in Halls under the mountain, in halls built with the aid of the Dwarves. But do the rest of his people live in the mountain with him, or do they live outside in the wood. From Legolas' description of the Galadhrim (the tree people) I assume the elves of Mirkwood do not live in th...

I recall having seen only parts or a trailer of this live-action movie, probably made in the 70s or 80s. The plot revolves around everyday electrical appliances that "come alive" and attack people due to presence of aliens in the vicinity of earth .

I am thinking late 90's definitely American Basically, what I remember is there is this green demon/monster thing that grants visions or wishes to a boy. The thing only talks to the boy and no-one else. When the boy goes to bed his bedroom turns into a forest filled with fog and he encounters o...

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Peter Quill: There's one other name you might know me by... Star Lord. Korath the Pursuer: ...Who? Peter Quill: Star Lord, man. Legendary Outlaw Why does Peter Quil expect everyone to know who this Legendary Outlaw is, and what did he do/achieve to earn this name?

1980s or 90s sci-fi novel about earth colonists on a new planet. They arrive in a sleeper ship called National Geographic. Many have "hibernation instability" after the trip. Colonists must deal with deadly reptiles called grendels.

From what I can tell in both the Harry Potter books and the movies (cards on the table: I paid very little attention to the movies), wands appear to act as a conductor of magical energy rather than being magical in and of themselves. A witch or wizard can, in times of great stress, perform rudim...

Based on a quick internet search, the volumes involved are: Thor: God of Thunder, vol 4 Thors: Battleworld Thor: Goddess of Thunder Mighty Thor: Thunder in Her Veins These stories are about the female Thor. I'm not sure if the story of the female Loki is in here. Did I miss any stories/volum...

I've recently seen some stuff written about connection between Naboo and Sith. Overall, the guy said several things: Exar Kun is a very distant relative of Padme Amidala Jedi are hated in Naboo Naboo has long history with Sith, it belonged to the ancient Sith Empire The dark side is strong on N...

This book I read in maybe 98-2002, so from around that era. It focused on a prince and his group of friends in a medieval setting. The land is magical and anyone can summon clothing or shelter temporarily as a jet black material. However, something happens to cause an increased amount of use of ...

In passengers when a passenger wakes from hibernation sleep, they are greeted with an orientation program. However, it states that they are only months from their destination and told to do what ever it is to recover from the hibernation. But when he goes to the...

In ANH, Uncle Owen asks C3PO if he understands the language of moisture vaporators and C3PO replies with something like 'Vaporators? It's like a second language to me! It was one of my first jobs!' But how can this be true if he had his memory wiped after ROTS? I'm sure the rebels would have no u...

I'm curious to how good, perhaps wealth of knowledge is a better term, Hogwarts teachers were in their respective fields? As there doesn't seem to be a University level of education in the Hogwarts world (from what I gather it seems to be "on the job" training after NEWTs). Would the Hogwarts t...

There was a book that was read to me when I was a child. Probably in the region of 20 years now, so please forgive the vague information. All I can remember about it was that it was set in a world that was very heavily drought ridden. I think there were legends about a river, or a river mouth. A...

I remember reading a short story about someone who travels to the/a future where everyone is equal. It was discovered that equality could only be achieved if everyone looked identical (they found people with blue eyes considered themselves superior to people with brown eyes), everyone wore the s...

Could you help me identify this movie? I don't really remember much about the movie but I remember this: -the girl rode a motorcycle on a side of a building while being shot at -the building was from glass -the genre is action / science fiction -I think the movie was set in the future -there wa...

I was just discussing Back to the Future with a friend of mine (I've never seen it), and he described the grandfather paradox to me. I told him the term for it, and he told me that BttF invented it. I told him that he was wrong, and he asked me where it came from. Wikipedia's earliest mention is...

In the Djinn graphic novels by Dufaux and Miralles, in the ninth part, "The Gorilla King", what actually becomes of the character Jade, the eponymous Djinn, after her encounter with the Gorilla King?

In the Djinn graphic novels by Dufaux and Miralles, in the ninth part, "The Gorilla King", what actually becomes of the character Jade, the eponymous Djinn, after her encounter with the Gorilla King? Does Jade become a literal legend? Is she reborn as her daughter or granddaughter Kim? Or is th...

Please forgive the vague details I have here. I heard about this story in passing and wasn't able to learn the title. From what I gather, the story is set in a future time where food is so scarce that currencies as we know them have been replaced by calories. People trade them for actual food. P...

In the climax of The Spire, How did Tavi ever learn about them? She was only a newborn child then. No one but some people did, and those were told to keep their mouth shut.

I'm looking for a hard copy or ecopy of a book I bought in florida sometime in the early 90s. It was about a boy from a nomadic biker gang who survived the massacre of the gang and was taken into care by the city state that massacred the gang. The book follows him from orphanage to adoption thr...

I read The Dark Knight Strikes Again recently. I remember being confused as to why these so-called "Superchix" continued to appear. Are they supposed to tie in to the larger story of heroes and government? What's the deal?

Why didn't Newt just apparate to Arizona where he needed to be? By going on Muggle transportation, he not only needed to get to America, but then to Arizona, which ended up leading to unforeseen problems. Why not just apparate as he did throughout the film?

On most questions regarding Star Trek TNG, someone will eventually quote the technical manual as a reference and it does sound and look as a very comprehensive guide to TNG and Star Trek universe. I'm interested to know how that manual came to be in the first place. Was it thought in advance and...

There are currently 66 questions tagged with [ghost], and they are really inconsistently used. We have: Story identification 30 Harry Potter 22 Mythology 2 “Force ghosts” in Star Wars 3 Doctor Who 1 Deadbeat 1 The Crucible 1 A creepypasta (story identification?) 1 Supernatural 1 Portrayal of gh...