In StarCraft 2, the “Infinite Cycle” which the Xel'naga initiate is described as the coming together of “purity of essence” (ostensibly the Zerg) and “purity of form” (ostensibly the Protoss), to ascend as Xel'naga. From the cinematics: ... and one pure of form - a being capable of vast psio...

I can recall reading an excerpt of the first chapter of this work. I believe the rest was hidden by a paywall, even though the story was primarily online. It was about a police officer (or maybe a fireman?) responding to a call. He's suddenly shot by a psychotic ex-military sniper who decided to ...

Given how durable and adaptable the Borg are, could they survive a transporter malfunction?

This was a short story in one the readers we had in grade school. Gist of it was that humans had semi sentient robots for almost all tasks, but humanity has died out and the robots are looking for purpose. The robots leave a city and go out to do whatever. Some get damaged and left behind, they f...

This picture shows ten people holding Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. The ones in the front are Blue Eyes White Dragon and Dark Magician, and the sleeves make it seem like they are being held by Seto Kaiba and Yugi Moto respectively, both of whom are from the original anime. What are the rest of these Yu-G...

Edited after over a year with additional details. Read around 1997: In it, a man escapes slavery, gets to a space colony with deadly entrance tests, gets bitten by a mutated bug, develops superpowers, and uses them to overthrow a government. Relatively soft sci-fi. It had an adult male as the...

Are there any known examples of the chaos gods turning a non-astartes into a demon prince in warhammer 40k? I know other Xenos races like the Laeren do worship them and they have normal human followers, but to the best of my knowledge only astartes and primarchs have become Demon princes. As fa...

In the movie there was a woman running away from some plant creature and she was knocked out and it tried to breed her, I remember it tried to rape her and riped her shorts as it's vines grew bigger. I love think she managed to cut off the vine and run away and I'm trying to figure out that movie...

When Odin died in Thor Ragnarok Hela was released from her confinement which was caused by Odin. So she was released because Odin's power had failed to confine her anymore when he died. So did Odin's other powers also die with him?

The story is about 2 war robots who have survived a war that wiped out humanity world-wide. There may be more of the robots functional elsewhere, but since the long-distance communication robots broke down they have no contact with anyone else. I don't recall if there was an accompanying illust...

In Final Space season 1 chapter 8 Gary goes to visit the imprisoned Titan, Bolo. When he first "meets" Bolo he sees multiple versions of himself and comments on a few: Construction Hat Gary Eagle Face Gary Cookie Headed Gary Little Micro Gary Amazing Moustache Gary There are many others in th...

This is a short story in which aliens land on Earth and track, follow and observe animals. For reasons I forget they follow a chain of increasingly belligerent animals. Near the end a wolverine faces down something large (a bear or wolf?) and when they follow the wolverine it goes to a cabin with...

I need help finding an old animated movie I think was from the 80s. I can only remember one scene off the top of my head which was about the time traveller being in the past and going for a surf and the people who saw him thought he was Jesus as they thought he was walking on water.

In the movie, Doctor Strange learns the mystic arts for entirely self-interested reasons, in order to effect healing of his hands and to be able to resume his surgical work. As matters escalate, Strange finds himself fighting for his life against Kaecilius and his acolytes. However, he still fig...

A friend of mine is trying to find the source of a story she uncovered a few weeks ago. She probably copied it from a book or a magazine in late 1960/early 1970 in the Netherlands, so the text is in Dutch but it's highly likely that the original was in English. The title in Dutch is "Heel goed, z...

I wanted to ask what the life span of a vampire was, but as undead that did not seem like the right question. What vampire has the longest existence?

I was researching earthquake resistant buildings and saw one that look exactly like the Polis tower. I did some research and discovered it is in LA.

An alien who has stolen something valuable from a creepy black and white lady (also an alien) crashes on Earth. He has a pet that looks like a black and white fox-like creature with no mouth. The alien looks like a young boy. A young girl finds him and let's him live with her. At one point he sh...

I just remembered a scene from a somewhat old sci fi cartoon series or movie but Google only brought me here so I'll give it a try. What I can remember: a lot of robots walking down a tunnel or corridor in line, chanting some name or something (of their god?). After they stopped, the corridor be...

It's famous that Will Smith was initially offered the role of Neo which he rejected. Later, he regretted his decision after the movie turned out to be a blockbuster. I just stumbled upon this funny video in which Will Smith tries to casually give the reasons which don't seem legit: ...

I read this story in an anthology in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I don't remember the name of the anthology (that will be for a future question) but do remember it also had the first chapter of the "Stainless Steel Rat" as a stand alone short story if that helps, I'm pretty sure that Harry Ha...

This has been eating at me for a few years now. I believe I read this in one of the 'best sci-fi of the year' aggregations. The plot centers around an old warrior living in peace in a small town. He was once part of a unit or army that had been fighting a war for hundreds or thousands of years. ...

Throughout Words of Radiance, a lot of Kaladin's arc is dedicated to his struggle to come to terms with Elhokar's incompetence as king. He listens sympathetically to Moash's arguments about why the world would be better without Elhokar around, he feels enraged when he finds out about Elhokar's i...

The page on Melkor tells us: When the Ainur sang the Great Music before Eru, Melkor wove some of these alien thoughts into his music, and straightaway Discord arose around him. Some of those nearby attuned their music to his, until two musical themes were warring before the Throne. To correc...

In Short Circuit, Newton Crosby is contracted to develop and build five robots armed with a laser that can destory a tank. He is indignant when the military has war related applications in mind. What did he think they were going to be used for when he was building them?

Since they are related ideas (many times an orbital ring depends on a space elevator, though not always a space elevator has an orbital ring, neither always an orbital ring has a space elevator , apparently) and since we have one of those questions here, Which was the first story to feature space...

The Knables went into the satellite dish at 10:30 pm, as we know from Helen’s broken watch left behind. The implication is that the Knables were sucked in the following night, and they meet Murray well over 12 hours in, which should be far more than the 24 hours necessary for redemption. At the...

The Infinity Gauntlet is the way that Thanos and others have wielded the six Infinity Stones. In comics, it looks like this: In the comics universe (not the Marvel Cinematic Universe), what material is this made out of? Gold? Cloth? Some exotic metal in the Marvel Universe?

I'm trying to identify a science fiction short story I read many years ago. Briefly, Earth receives an emissary from the galactic government, who informs us that (our sense of self-importance notwithstanding) Earth is in a remote backwater and has only recently come to the attention of the gala...

This movie looks like its was from 2013-15. Here the first scene starts with a party. the cops show up where a gang of some boys and girls escape them and they end up underground. Under the ground there'll be some monsters that are kept in water for preservation... some die and then the protago...