(so, I edited this to include the other theories I started to develop in comments. PMar's answer states the "obvious" but is actually quite plausible. So, theories to follow are assuming Hogwarts could have spares, but just won't.)
(after-writing note: so it's quite long, and sometimes biased, b...
I remember watching (on TV) an anime with a young boy (black hair) and a robot (all grey). The robot was not huge, like being able the pick the boy up in his hand. He was more like ten feet tall. And they were friends.
It is probably like 15 years old.
I can clearly recall this book featuring a princess who spoke with a very distinct accent. The main issue I'm having now is that I remember very little of this book now.
I know that I read it sometime between 2012 and 2014, but I'm unsure as to how much older the book was than that. That being s...
“What does your dad do at the Ministry of Magic, anyway?”
“He works in the most boring department,” said Ron. “The Misuse of
Muggle Artifacts Office.”
“The what?”
“It's all to do with bewitching things that are Muggle-made, you know,
in case they end up back in a Muggle shop...
I know alot of you say Flash is faster than Quicksilver but is he really? Is he really what you say he is?
I have seen a website, wired.com, that did the math and said Quicksilver is faster.
I got gold tag badge for both support and feature-request here on Meta Stack Exchange. When voting to close a question tagged with both as duplicate, only one of those is selected as the hammer:
At first I thought tag popularity (number of questions asked with that tag) determines the tag ...
This other question asks if attuning to a Belt of Dwarvenkind grants the following benefit (and literally nothing else):
you have a 50 percent chance each day at dawn of growing a full beard
if you're capable of growing one, or a visibly thicker beard if you
already have one.
My questio...
Does anybody know what book this is?:
People can become beings who can travel through time by inserting a temoral segment of themselves into a kind of suit which allows them to "swim" "above" the surface of the "sea", where the sea represents time as we experience it. The time travelers can manip...
Any one know of this book I thought it was called the Last Simolean but its like unexisted now??
Theres like a amazon lady that bonks her head and like ends up a troll after being haunted by a talking sun and a troll queen who uses her fathers corpse penis or somethings and theres a part about t...
I read in another question that Fox produced the film I, Robot because they had just acquired the rights to the Asimov collection and wanted to get a big budget movie out of it. I would have thought his books are old enough to already be in the public domain, but obviously I'm not very familiar w...
Years ago I read a shared universe trilogy a world in a great empire had discovered gunpowder just as they were discovering gunpowder.
The first novel took place just as the empire fell to barbarian invaders, and focused on a group of researchers who were just working out how to make cannon work...
I just finished reading "The Dark Forest", second part of the Three Body Problem Trilogy.
My question is, (spoiler alert): When the droplet finally made it to Earth, why did it chose not to kill Loigi, and instead settle on the Lagrange point?
It seems like it could have done away with him on...
I have never read any Asimov book; all I know is that it's "alien sci-fi". Is there a book you suggest I read first?
I am aware there are similar questions here, but they seem to deal with users chooing between 2 different series. I'm asking for absolutely any Asimov book.
I know this is a long shot, but here goes. I have been looking for a specific science fiction/horror anthology book for years. I do not recall the cover art, the publisher, the title, or the author. I am only able to recall bits and pieces of different stories in the book.
The main one I remembe...
A friend told me about this once. I think he later allowed me to listen to his audiotape copy of it. Maybe. But this was in the late 1980s -- call it "thirty years ago" -- and my memory is far from clear. I have no idea of the name of the comedian who had performed this.
Here's the basic idea:...
