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Q: Looking for the name of a book

David MyersThe story is centered around isralies in space one of which the mc is an inspector general sent to solve a problem.

 
1:34 AM
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Q: Search movie (fantasy) that have a scene - sword repairing

EgorThe film is not modern (1970-1990), similar to Conan the Destroyer, or maybe remake. Or TV series. I was young so I don't remember. The film contain scene - protagonist get a broken sword and forge weld it. Then he performs feats. Bodibuilder, looks like Scwarzenegger (maybe it was him).

 
 
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3:10 AM
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Q: Short SF story. Females use stingers to implant eggs in dayfathers

Danny3414can't think of any other stories in the anthology, no memories of the book cover:- The story is told from an adolescent girl's viewpoint. What appears to be a low tech agricultural society. She lives with her mother, grandmother, a couple of aunts and some younger sisters. Also some man who is ...

 
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@b_jonas Thanks for the response. You say that you don't like eastern european scifi in general. Can you tell me what it is about it that you don't like? I'm so glad to run into someone knowledgeable of the area with an opinion on its scifi.
(me, I've lived in and around China for almost 30 years now, since I was 20, but although the rest of my life happens in either Cantonese or Mandarin I've never enjoyed Chinese scifi - I've found what I've looked at to be either derivative, overly nationalistic, or too heavily reliant on Chinese mythology for my taste.)
@Jenayah pretty sure French vowels would make Cantonese pronunciation easier for you :-)
 
3:29 AM
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Q: Why isn't Vader in the Executor at the begining of Return of the Jedi?

CBredlowWhy isn't Vader arriving to the second Death Star in the Executor instead of some smaller Star Destroyer when meeting with Moff Jerjerrod? Is there any Legends or canon explanation for this?

 
 
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4:48 AM
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Q: 1970s novel, planetary world with 3 gender species, prohibited inter-species procreation

Sandra WilliamsProhibited inter-species procreation - eventually allowed, producing 4th gender. Two of the three genders are bureaucrats, thinkers/builders.

 
5:18 AM
@MikeC Well, US scifi has its own little nationalistic streak.
cough Independence Day
Did you like,Ice Fantasy?
 
6:04 AM
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Q: Should I shave my head bald?

Clarke BarrettA few days ago, my cousin came to visit me and she dared me to play a game and whoever win would shave the loser’s head completely bald. Of course I thought she was joking and I even let her win. But yesterday she came with some clippers and told me to sit while she shaves my hair. I told her no,...

 
6:32 AM
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Q: What species is Mar Vel and Yon Rogg?

Memor-XIn the MCU when we see the Kree they have blue skin and blue blood, such as Yon Rogg's team and Ronan the Accuser. however when we see Yon Rogg and Mar Vel they don't have blue skin but rather more human coloured skin and while this is the same with Carol she was actually human and only has blu...

 
6:51 AM
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Q: Why does Fury blame Thor?

Memor-Xin The Avengers Fury explains that the reason why S.H.I.E.L.D was making weapons with the Tesseract was because of Thor's fight with The Destroyer and the sudden realization that there was aliens and that Earth was hopelessly outmatched Bruce: I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesserac...

 
7:05 AM
@MikeC pronunciation, maybe... Reading... Is another matter :D
 
7:18 AM
@Adamant Oh, I totally agree! The US is one of worst when it comes to my-nation-centric scifi. I actually don't mind that Chinese scifi is nationalistic either - I enjoy it from other countries. It's just, I live here, and am bombarded with the local version of ethnonationalism daily already, so for me it's not an interesting new viewpoint, it's more of the same and predictable to boot. I have nothing against it per se....it's just not the escape I'm looking for into a different world.
 
Ah, and among the persons I missed yesterday, @NapoleonWilson is German (and has very good​ taste in movies :P ); and while he is allergic to books, @AnkitSharma might be able to recommend Indian movies/shows/comics
And by the way, you can reply to a specific chat message by clicking the arrow on the right, which appears upon hover :) (it also autocompletes the ping, and make it a tad bit easier to see what message you're replying to)
On mobile the arrow appears by clicking on the message, on mine at least
12 hours ago, by b_jonas
I can't help much, because I don't really enjoy Hungarian sci-fi. Some people like Nemere István, but I don't.
 
 
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9:55 AM
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Q: Synthesizing mirror life as one of hypothetical explanations of Fermi paradox?

Jarek DudaThere is a possibility of synthesizing mirror version of our life (Wikipedia, considered e.g. in Arthur C. Clark "Technical error") - with cells built of mirror versions of standard molecules (enantiomers), and our civilization is slowly approaching this point - in 2016 there was synthesized mirr...

 
 
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2:00 PM
@Marvin - another tag to exterminate
 
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Q: A story where cities are trains

Barafu AlbinoThere is a vague idea of a setting in my head, and I can not even remember whether I read a story with it, or was it a part of a game. The only thing I remember is that there was a planet where nights (or days?) were so dangerous, that nobody could survive them even with stationary defenses. So...

 
 
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3:48 PM
@Jenayah i found Indian comics mostly derivative and boring but movie I can recommend
 
 
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4:49 PM
@Gallifreyan I agree
 
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Q: Inconsistencies in Awakening

AnthelothTowards the beginning of Warbreaker, Vasher uses his shirt tassels by saying"Upon m call, be as my fingers and grip." Later though he adds the words "what they must" to the command, with a similar addition to the legs command. Why did he change them?

 
5:06 PM
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Q: In what year does "Captain Marvel" take place?

Captain BuckIn what year do the events of Captain Marvel take place?

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Q: What happened to Captain Marvel's cat?

Captain BuckCaptain Marvel's cat, Goose, is a Flerken, and maybe one of the deadliest aliens the MCU’s ever seen. What happened to Goose after the events of Captain Marvel? Nick Fury has kept him in this office. But that kind of deadliest creature was never mentioned before in the MCU or in Agents of S.H.I.E...

 
5:36 PM
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Q: Looking for a time travel movie name. What is the name?

Dubi DuboniThe movie starts with a man in a basement with his dog, and then he transfers his dog to a parallel universe, and then the dog comes back. Then two friends come to visit him in the basement, and then the door transfers again but not back. So the two friends are transferred after the dog, to where...

 
In Harry Potter, do we have a question about how the Dark Lord's chosen name is pronounced? Apparently there's a JKR interview answer on this, but all I can find on SFF is scifi.stackexchange.com/q/114325/4918 "Which names (besides for Voldemort) do the movies pronounce wrong?" and scifi.stackexchange.com/q/112401/4918 "What is the correct pronunciation of Hermione?"
 
5:51 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): Why did Tom Riddle change his name to Voldemort? by Paras Sharma on scifi.SE
 
@SmokeDetector for the record @b_jonas I found this answer by attempting to reply to your question and brought it to Cahrcoal... congrats, you helped uncover a 5-years old spam :D
 
6:14 PM
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Q: Movie: boy escapes the real world and goes to a fantasy world with big furry trolls

Isak IsakIt's about a boy who escapes the real world and goes to this fantasy world where he befriends these big furry trolls, the trolls are animated, but the boy is played by an actor.

 
6:51 PM
Oooog, axelwchan posted an answer
 
7:07 PM
For the first time in forever...
 
7:23 PM
@MikeC I'm not sure really. It just that I read a lot of Asimov and nothing else stands up to that.
@MikeC With the three Strugackij books I've read, I think my problem is that the novels aren't going anywhere. They start with some fantastical concept and explore what would happen if such technology existed, which is a good way to write a sci-fi novel, but then there's no proper ending. Some of the other sci-fi books I've read feel that way too.
@Adamant Jenkins has minor complaints about those in asimovreviews.net/Stories/Story015.html and asimovreviews.net/Books/Book003.html . In the first case it's easy to ignore; in the second case the whole novel is terrible.
@MikeC I think the books I read, like Asimov and Verne, just feel more like classical adventure books. They let me escape the real world.
 
7:51 PM
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Q: How big are the Starbase on Star Trek

Carl M Lavalliere JrI know of Earth Spacedock being very large about 3.8km in diameter & 5km in height. The capacity of this is over 100 thousand!! What I would like to know are the Lya Station Alpha & Starbase 74, 84, 133 the same sizes. Also what are the personnel capacity for each Station. Thank you

 
 
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9:27 PM
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Q: What did Lexx eat for sustenance in the SciFi series?

chasly from UKLexx is an organic spacecraft. I can't work out what it eats for its everyday sustenance. Is it garbage, humans, animal life, vegetables? Is it simply an omnivore that can eat any organic matter or perhaps eat even inorganic stuff. The one thing I am sure of is that Lexx can re-eat moths that it...

 
9:54 PM
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Q: Starkiller Base and its Power Sources

Olivia BoismierWe all know that Starkiller Base used the power of the sun in the system it was currently in, but after it drained that power, did the sun ever come back? Did it re-gain its light?

 
10:05 PM
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Q: Looking for a YA book read in the 90s

user112742I believe I read this book in the 90's. I doubt the book was published much past 1999. I believe the protagonist is a female character who might be a stowaway on some kind of intergalactic vessel. I don't remember how she got there. The bulk of what I remember involves the girl overhearing a conv...

 
10:24 PM
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Q: short story about a man's bomb shelter

user112744During the cold war, a man has built a bomb-shelter and stocked it with just enough supplies for his own small family - wife and kids. The whole neighborhood constantly ridicules him for being so paranoid. But then one day the bomb-sirens go off and the man starts to load his family into the sh...

 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer (80): What was special about Batroc? ✏️ by Roger Lee on scifi.SE
 
11:03 PM
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Q: Is the novel Dune sexist?

veritessaIs the novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert sexist? Does it have equal treatment of male and female characters? While there are many commentaries about the novel in general, most of them ignore the gender issues in the novel.

 
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Q: Short scifi story where reproductive organs are converted to produce "materials", pregnant protagnoist is "found fit" to be a mother

Yeshai MoskovitchI read this story I think in an Issac Asimov short story collection - not necessarily his. It’s about a world where reproductive organs where converted to produce all kinds of materials. The protagonist is pregnant and kept the option to give birth and nurse. She studies something. In the ...

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Q: Help about late 90s or early 200X anime with sticked photos in ending

asdroninI have been trying to remember the title for quite a long while and well I remember in the ending credits there were some photos sticked on a board and maybe after each episode there were less photos until in the last one there is only one photo remaining there, like some characters died or maybe...

 

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