I'm looking for a short story where a short-circuit causes a factory's main computer to become self-aware. The computer reprograms the robots produced in the factory to search for signs of alien life instead of working. The plot was kicked off by a researcher (or possibly an engineer) eating lun...

In Black Lightning, Agent Odell, the head of the ASA, lives in Gotham. The commission to examine the truth of the ASA's involvement in Freeland is also held in Gotham, not Freeland. Former ASA agent Lady Eve, similarly, was offered the chance to relocate there. In real life, the head of a feder...

Does The Stress of Her Regard have sparkly-skinned vampires? The other information I'd easily believe, and I know both vampires are made of stony materials, but do the ones in The Stress of Her Regard, sparkle? Preferably with a quote to confirm... From TVTropes: OlderThanTheyThink/Literature: ...

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore gives us insight into the Room of Requirement by recalling his experience with it: “I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnif...

Looking for the name of a short story I read at least 20 years ago, and was likely older. Never subscribed to the magazines, so would have been in a compilation at some point. The background is that the (country? World?) became obsessed with time, to the point where there was a revolt and clocks...

Does anyone know the title and author of an alternative history from the late 70s-80s with a plot based on a scenario of British victory in the Revolutionary War? I recall a scene which took place in what is now Washington D.C. describing the entrance to the Dupont Circle Metro. It might have b...

Does anyone recall an anthology with these two stories in it? Stumbled across as a teenager in the 80's in the school library, vaguely recall it was an old hardbound book... Story #1 An elf like alien infiltrates enemy territory, hiding the fact he's terrified of riding in a vehicle, because me...

There is a movie i watched in childhood about a girl who was half goat and said " l don't want chicken soup,I want a man's soul!" I am pretty sure the film was black and white and was a horror film. My friends and I have searched high and low. we still joke using lines from this movie to date. gi...

A few years ago, I saw a (possibly student) film on youtube about a scrap metal robot. I will attempt to recount what I can remember about the plot, including some specific details about the world setting and art style Protagonist: A small dog-sized robot made of scrap metal whose original func...

On the edge of my memory, a 1960's children's book about a group of boys being taught to build a spaceship by an unusual neighbor. They learn the neighbor is from Mars, and eventually take a trip there to fulfill his mission. One odd detail I remember is that the boys capture a jar of Mars air, ...

I have in mind an old scientist, dressed in a white robe with round, dark glasses and gloves. Physically he looks pretty much like this But with very little hair. I remember seeing him I think on Cartoon Network but I might be wrong, sometime between 2009-2014. I can't remember anything else abo...

I noticed today, after being reminded of the episode in The Fellowship of the Ring, when Strider and the hobbits are crossing the Midgewater Marshes, where they here countless noisy insects, There were thousands of them, and they squeaked all round, neek-breek, breek-neek... for which Sam c...