I recall when I was younger loving this one anime about a main character girl who lived in a sweet town where she lived a side life where she had to fight monsters attacking her and her school. She also has a master of some sort who encourages her to follow a light she sees in her mind. In the en...

All right y'all, I made this account specifically to ask this question because it's killing me trying to find this story. I thought it was an Ursula K Le Guin thing but maybe not. It's set on a space station, and the MC/narrator is some kind of officer in some space agency (Starfleet-style). An a...

In Octavia Butler's Wild Seed, there is the following exchange: "Can my concealment be a lie if yours is not?" she asked. "Mine is," he admitted. "Then show me as you are. Give me the trust that you asking me to give you." "You have my trust, Anwanyu, but knowing what I am would only frighten you."

I remember reading this book over and over as a child. The protagonist is a bit of a troublemaker, and loves games and jokes. An accident happens (I don't remember what exactly) and he wakes up in a giant board game. Helping him along is a devil his age with horns who introduces himself as Bub, s...

One of the first SF stories I liked was The Planet of the Apes. Obviously, it was taking the transatlantic slavery trade as a subtext. I was too young then to know that when I watched it. Another series I liked was Star Trek. However I don't recall it ever tackling slavery - which would be a stra...

I mean, on Vulcan or Chronos are there "primates" that resemble the humanoids that correspond to humans on Earth?

In Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), Bill & Ted time traveled to 2025, San Dimas: Bill: Dude, look at where we live! Ted: One song did all this? Bill: Ted, what if it wasn't just one song? What if after we wrote it and saved the universe, a dam broke and the songs just kept comin' and comin'? W...

In the Eye of the World, we are told in a speech that "Halfman, Lurk, Fade, Shadowman; his name depends upon the land that you are in, but they all mean Myrddraal. Fades are Trolloc spawn, throwbacks almost to the human stock the Dreadlords used to make the Trollocs." In what way are Fades 'thr...

I'm sure the book was from a well known old-school sci-fi writer. Looking for a book, or maybe its a short story within a collection of short stories, where disputes are settled by roving Jurist/Judge who have been trained to be completely objective and have been authorized to have absolute final...

I have recently been recommended a book, but I don't remember its title, nor its author. It's about an astronomical event that makes all humanity experience/see their lives some exact number of years in the future for a short moment. Afterwards, everybody goes back to the present and we are prese...

When Spock is in front of the ministers being told that he was accepted into the science academy, they appear confused or irritated by his application to starfleet. Spock says that "it seemed logical to cultivate multiple options". A minister replies that it was "logical, but unnecessary". Thei...

I'm looking for a short story that I believe is only a couple of pages long in which the narrator describes his friend who does not speak English falling into a sort of trance and writing down (in English) a cry to help of a man who is trapped in a dream or something of the sort. The story ends w...

In Halo 3: How did the UNSC clean up or contain the contamination? Given its past record, even on advanced Forerunner worlds the parasitic organism wasn’t easily contained or extinguished without the “nuclear” option, if you catch my drift.

Damon and Stefan both belong to Klaus sireline then why do they repeatedly try to kill him knowing that if Klaus dies then they will die too?

I've recently rewatched Star Trek - Deep Space 9 - S03E03 - The House of Quark. At the end of the episode, Quark goes to his knees and says that this is no combat but an execution. He therefore wants to have it that way and taunts D'Gor to execute him. When D'Gor wants to proceed, Gowron stops hi...

As I'm re-watching TOS, I notice 2 cases within the first few episodes where Kirk defeats Spock in chess. At least 1 of the 2 times, if not both, Spock failed to see a checkmate that was only 1 move away. I'm surprised about this as both a Star Trek fan and as a FIDE Arena Master (and chess coach...

We all love Jack, right. So is he going to come back for another series of Doctor Who, or are going to be left in the dark