I think it was the first book of Zelazny's Amber series where the main character Corwin has a chat with his retired military buddy while on an excursion to our world. The buddy wonders aloud if we're all characters in a novel, and Corwin replies, "If so, I'd like to shoot the author." What was t...

I guess I should clarify that I'm looking for an overview here in regard to changes in the presentation of real earth objects, flora, fauna, culture as alien. One early example would be Herbert's Dune which makes a hodgepodge of different cultures while projecting their continuation 100 centurie...

When J first sees K use the neuralizer in the initial movie, he indignantly blurts, "Have you ever used that thing on me?" This seems like a simple defensive question, but in the third movie we see that K used it on J when he was a little kid who witnessed his father being killed during the clima...

I've never actually played any of the Halo games so if these questions were already answered please forgive me. Anyway, although I've never played Halo I have always enjoyed the Forerunner Structures. As a sci-fi architecture nerd, Forerunner Structures are simply among the coolest alien structu...

I'm looking for Tolkien's descriptions of Mordor, as written in the books (not interested in the movies). I've been looking online, but I mostly found generic scientific descriptions. I have so far: "Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools. The reek of them hung stifling in the s...

I was looking this question Why did Mace Windu and the Jedi Council refuse to raise Anakin to the rank of Master? But the only way to downvote a comment is to flag it. That seems very counter intuitive, as the comment may be valid to a certain extent , but I just don't agree with it. How do I ...

A man and his son swim at the beach. Afterward, the man lies down to dry in the sun, and the boy obligingly scratches his back. The salt is making the man's back itch as the seawater dries, and the man suddenly realizes that the boy has to be telepathic, because he's scratching all the right spot...

Who is better I love both but I want your answers

We established here: Who signed the Captain Picard Day sign? That the Picard Day sign from Star Trek: Picard is not the same as in TNG. However we've also seen Which props in Star Trek: Picard are reused from the original TNG show and films (if any)?

The famous Superman line is It's a bird, Its a plane, no it's Superman Who was the first person in the comics to say that?

On the Wikia for Hotline Miami, the player character of the first game is referred to as Jacket. I just beat the first game the other day, and I don’t think this name was ever actually mentioned in it. From where does this name originate? Is it official, or made up by fans Where was it first use...

I was reading a review of Color out of Space at Ars Technica and some of the commenters were really up in arms about Lovecraft's racism. Now, I don't doubt the man was racist and that above the average for his contemporaries, which was itself a depressingly high bar to match. He had a high outp...

In Frozen 2 we saw reindeer packs are inside of the magical mist with in the forbidden forest. I don't remember seeing them before though. If that is the case how Sven escape the magical mist of the forest? Since we never met Khristoff's parent(even when he was small boy he seems to be alone) ...

I am looking for an old sci-fi book that takes place in the future. People are living to be hundreds of years old and a man gets the nobel prize for inventing a new video game to prevent boredom. He meets a girl that works at a government job and they discover a secret. As they are trying to get ...