Can't remember all of the details, but it was a comic book story about Earth in a future war having reached a stalemate and there was a time machine involved. I vividly recall the ending, which had a family out for a walk and they come upon a time machine sphere. When the father investigates it, ...

Would a Weeping Angel float through space if it was in outer space due to no gravity or would the quantum locking stop it from being able to float? For example, some astronauts are studying the anti cyclones of Jupiter and a Weeping Angel appears outside their rocket, would it float or would it s...

During the mausoleum scene Leta reveals the Lestrange family tree whilst recounting the events of what happened to Corvus. I had the impression that as the family tree was growing it was developing into it's current form and that is why the Corvus node withered at the end rather than straight awa...

I read this book a while back and probably found it in the young adult section of my library. The plot revolved around a future world where people could live in VR and earn money become famous. It follows a teenager as he figures out the truth about the system and I think he had an evil manager t...

I don't have much to go on but... I watched this some time between 1998 - 2003. It was a TV miniseries (maybe 8-12 eps I think), about a boy (age 11/12 I think) that gets transported to a magical world. At some point he pairs up with an older (or possibly just taller) girl, who is from that wor...

So I had a couple good answers yesterday and were fortunate enough to receive a large number of up-votes. I continued along with daily activities that did include some down votes on answers. My total activity ended looking like this: As you can see I totaled 199 reputation... why is this not 2...

In The Half Blood Prince during the potions class Slughorn claimed that the prize of Felix Felicis was won only once before by a student. Who could that student be? What could they have done with the potion?

I remember reading a short story on the internet where teleportation technology is invented. The main character decries the new technology and refuses to use it because it causes a gap in consciousness, and thus results in the death of the person who uses it. He eventually has the realisation (...

Is it possible to use a Hemalurgic spike to affect people with other Investiture, like stealing someones Breaths for example?

In this story the low tech rebels on the outer worlds gradually win small peripheral battles, but at the centre the empire is initially unconcerned as it is about to roll out bigger and better weapons, but each of these has a small but fatal flaw and ultimately they are defeated by the low tech r...

George R. R. Martin brought the world of ASOIAF (henceforth called Planetos) to the public when he published his first book A Game of Thrones in 1996. He would go on to write 4 more books over 15 years with at least 2 more in the works. There exists a comic book adaptation which released four vol...

Are these books strict novelizations? Do they show any significant divergence from the final version of the films? Were they written based on the theatrical releases?

Is this book a strict novelization? Do it show any significant divergence from the final version of the film? Was it written based on the theatrical releases or earlier scripts?

As far as I can remember, there were several Maiar that lived in Middle Earth. There were: Melian Ungoliant Huan Lúthien (Mother was Melian) Sauron Balrogs Istari Were there any others? What time did they 'live' in?

I need help trying to remember which movie this is 🤦🏼‍♀️ The only thing I can remember that stood out was the ending. A lady and another adult or large child arrives to a place that looks like a safe haven and hands someone what looks like a cure. I can’t remeber anything else about the movie e...

I came across a New York Times article today with the title "No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job)". I have remembered that I read a short science fiction story a while back where the main character was buying something and the salesman convinced him to buy the ...

It was an SF Book, that I've read around the early 2000s, written by English-speaking author. The action takes place in the post-apocalyptic USA, but no one is really sure what was the real cause of the change: some blame war, some aliens, others believe it was a natural catastrophe. But in the ...

Was Thanos able to defeat Thor in the beginning of Infinity War because he used the Power Stone?

As seen here Mraize has an Aviar. The problem is that First of the Sun, the planet that Aviar come from, does not have a Perpendicularity, as stated in Arcanum Unbounded. This being the case, how did Mraize get to First of the Sun to get an Aviar?

White Walkers seem intelligent and they even produce sound. Can they talk? How do they communicate with each other? Talking about education, the Night King was once a human who can teach other White Walkers, if he still retains the skill. Can White Walkers talk? What do the books say?

When luke resues leia in a new hope he introduces himself as luke skywalker, leia then questions him by saying who? Which suggests to me she has heard the name before. So where does she recognise the name from? Seems unlikely that she would have known anything about anakin. Mtfbwy

In the pilot episode of Game of Thrones, when I first saw a prostitute fully undressing in front of the Imp, I almost jumped because my mother had just walked past the TV. I proceeded to turn off the TV and swear to always take 18+ notification seriously (Initially, I had thought that 18+ meant e...

I mean if it's about who sits on the Iron Throne is it really about one person winning or how people will always be fighting over that perceived position of supremacy? I get the feeling the vision Daenerys has is actually the conclusion cos in the fight for the right to lead (be it for good or ev...

In an answer to this question https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/452592/if-visible-light-has-more-energy-than-microwaves-why-isnt-visible-light-danger/452981#4529811 I wrote: I remember a story by Arthur C. Clarke in which a character criticized the way that death rays in science fi...

The only reason Luke, Leia, Han and Chewbacca were able to escape the Death Star is because Stormtroopers left their stations and ran like a kid to watch lightsaber duel between Vader and Kenobi. Why didn't stormtroopers act like professionals? If they were so much interested, they could watch h...