Plot: The teacher finds an island with very sophisticated civilization. There is a volcano on the island which causes quakes every so often. I also do recall something about families being lettered by the alphabet and making food based on their letter. Format: 70% chance of paperback | 30% chanc...

In Star Wars canon, Grand Admiral Thrawn appears to be an infallible, near-perfect character. Although there are people in the Empire who hate him because of his race or because he was seemingly handed his position for no reason, most of the Imperial higher-ups laud his competence. Besides in For...

Peter Dinklage portrayed as Eitri - The Dwarf King in Infinity War and Bolivar Trask in X-Men Days of Future Past. Are there any actors who played different roles in multiple MCU movies? The answer found here is related but not same. Stan Lee's role doesn't count as it is the same character th...

We saw the episode called "Silence in Library". We also know that some later events in Doctor's timeline are fixed. My question is, if Doctor dies in random episode (Let's say in The Time of Angels - at Byzantium) how could those time locked events happen? Shouln't Doctor move free, without a...

Quite some time ago (I can't really say for sure, but I think it was in the 90s) I've read a story about a car chasing in a traffic jam, and I can't figure out now what this story was, or in which book I read it. It might have been a story by Stanislav Lem (an author I was reading a lot at that ...

In A.E. Vogt’s Slan, there are mutant humans named Slan hiding amongst humans. Some of them are revealed in the novel but is this major character?

I never understood why Sauron was not looking for the Ring actively in the Lord of the Rings films. The Nazgul know that Frodo has the ring and they should be knowing where frodo is heading. Saruman has sent his orcs to find the ring, but why was Sauron not that interested? The Ring was not hidd...

I watched this anime 3-4 years ago in which a super girl while beating some guys kill an innocentboy she then merges herself with the boy until his body is properly restored It would really be helpful if any finds this anime

I stumbled across a story-a-week-style science-fiction site many years ago, read hundreds of pieces from the archives, then somehow lost track of it. I'd love to find it again but have no idea where to start looking. I think it had a number in the name—something like "1000 Futures", but that spec...

Published within last ten years. Guy enters machine. Comes out. World is slightly different. Goes home, another guy is living his life. Oh my god, he realizes, “i’m in a different timeline” and tries to get back. But copies are made of him each time. Eventually in remote Wisconsin in winter, each...

I’m trying to recall the name or author of a series I read in the 1970s. Cast included a team of characters that were paramilitary and each member had special talents. Two distinct characteristics I can recall include a needle or flechette gun that was lethal but left almost no entry wound, and ...

I read a story many years ago about 2 knights in the English moors waiting for a dragon that has killed previous knights. The dragon turned out to be a steam locomotive. Does anyone know the title and/or author?

Book where teenager discovers he has fire powers. A boy a little older than him has lightning powers. They train together and become best friends. They fight someone with metal powers. They discover that they are in a simulation and there are other teens with different elemental powers. The boy w...

I read a very short summary of a short story. Soon after the July 1969 Apollo 11 flight, extraterrestrial(s) examine what was left behind at the landing site. They remove the two backpacks. Those objects are later returned to the site. Plot twist: the ETs inadvertently returned to the site three ...

Palantiri need to be oriented correctly to See: To communicate with another stone, the viewer would orient himself and look toward the location of that stone, and the two stones would automatically connect with one another unless one was being used in another conversation. What would happen...

When Bianca Castafiore sings quietly, her notes are fine: Here's another example: In nearly every panel depicting Castafiore performing, however, the notes are drawn in a jarring and misshapen fashion: Here's another example: Is Bianca Castafiore actually a good performer?

In Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, Geralt helped Meve, the queen of Lyria and Rivia, to fight the Nilfgaardians. I expect witchers tend to be neutral in wars and don't kill humans unless humans want to kill witchers (except for witchers from some schools such as Viper or Cat). Witchers are trai...

Looking for a fiction story, probably YA, about a man who fell through time down the time worms in the story. It almost killed him, and he slowly kills himself with vicious alcohol of sorts that allows him to actually experience the memories of his beloved family. At the behest of a princess-like...

In the 3rd edition of the game, the Dark Angels have a few special rules, to reflect their differences with more vanilla Codex Astartes-compliant Space marines Chapters. One of them is the presence of the Ravenwing and the Deathwing as special units, and special rules about the Fallen. Another ...

We see in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that Tonks and Moody use magic around Harry in the beginning: “Don’t be stupid, it’ll be much quicker if I - pack!” cried Tonks, waving her wand in a long, sweeping movement over the floor. and “Ah, well,” said Tonks, slamming the tru...

In The Way of Kings, one of the bridgemen is named Earless Jaks. Was it ever mentioned why he’s called that odd name in any of the books? If not, is there a Word of Brandon on it?