trying to locate a old book I read before. I vaguely remember reading a book years ago about a guy sent to a prison planet. It was no ordinary planet he was sent to. The walls of the prison was black, absorbs all light and is known to make people "crazy". While there, he was able to meditate and "...

When I was living in Newark, Ohio between 2002 and 2006, I frequently saw this at one of the local libraries (If it's relevant, I believe it was at the 101 W Main St location) as one of the movies to rent, but I never got around to it (I don't remember if it was VHS or DVD). I remember the back o...

I read this story in the 1990s or early 2000s, I believe. It was about a world with three layers or zones, and in order to travel from one zone to the next, travellers could only do so naked, otherwise a force field in the tunnel would prevent their passage. The second layer had many voice-activa...

I am looking for a book that I have only scant memories of, but I think one of them will be uniquely identifying. It is: A book, hard cover, published in English in the United States Definitely science fiction, not fantasy or a blend Likely time of publication would be mid to late '90s, if my m...

I feel like I'm going crazy here. Very possible I dreamed this or something. I remember reading somewhere that there was an alternate version of Bruce Banner's backstory of child abuse, one that got significantly darker than the ones that were released, which went unused by Marvel. As such, the w...

How far and how clear could the "Eye of Sauron" see? Could it see through the whole of Middle-earth or is it limited to only Mordor? Could it distinguish the human face, the small artifacts like rings, or not? Saruman says the "Eye of Sauron" "sees all — his gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth and...

If Biff takes the time machine and goes back in time to deliver the Almanac to young Biff, how does old Biff return to his original time line if in the future he altered he became rich? Wouldn't he end up in the rich Biff future? Chronologically... he comes back from the past to his original time...

In Xenoblade Chronicles X, a human colony ship crash lands on planet Mira. Most of the game is spent trying to find a portion of the ship (the Lifehold) which detached from the rest during the landing, which contains the stored consciousnesses of all the ship's residents. Throughout the game many...

I remember when I was young I watched this tv show about a little girl who throughout the show you watched grow up. She was abused by one of the people who adopted her (she was a fat blonde lady). I think her name started with an A or an S but she has brown hair and a red dress. She also had a bl...

In Chapter VII of My Boyhood Days, Tagore describes how the narrator as a child became interested in music and singing. The "family friend Srikantha Babu was absorbed in music day and night": He never taught us songs, he simply sang them to us, and we picked them up almost without knowing it. Wh...

Basically, I recently stumbled on a story identification question that lacks sci-fi element in the way it's described (though until OP specifies whether or not it did or didn't have any sci-fi element, we can only guess). On the instant, my reflex was to write an answer, since the story sounded l...

My memory is hazy but I saw this anime around 10 years ago roughly 2010. The mc collected a couple of gems that were shaped like yings and yangs of different colours and fought mech monsters, one of them was a monster train. I distinctly remember the last episode where the mc returns to the norma...

I'm currently reading through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Chapter 9 has left me with such confusion that I have somewhere in the region of 7 questions worth of content to ask about. They span several topics, such as how certain events could have happened, why characters made certain dec...

The book is about girl (young adult) who lives with her dad in a coastal village surrounded by mist and fairies take her past the mist to their land. The fae who finds her traps her in a fae bargain to keep her. He is a prince, I think, and he takes her to the queen/court. Once she is there the q...

Fan consensus is that if Hermione's claim in chapter 9 of Deathly Hallows is not a continuity error, then it means that she was wiping the two Death Eater's recent memories rather than modifying them. The relevant block of text, conveniently using the word "wiping" is as follows: "We just need t...

I haven't read this story in ages but I recently remembered it and couldn't find it on my bookshelf. I'm not sure if it was originally a graphic novel or a comic series that got put into one book. I do know that it's from a western setting as the book was printed LTR and it was printed in A4 rath...

I have watched the live-action Star Wars movies many times, but have never played the games, or watched the animated movies, nor read the books. Ever since I started watching The Mandalorian, especially knowing so little about Ahsoka, I wanted to get the whole experience and watch the Star Wars s...