This should be an easy identification, but my google-foo is failing. Late 70's/early 80's. Two brothers. One a magic user, the other a technologist. They fight a war, I don't remember who wins. Hopefully I'm not conflating two novels here, but the magician sees magic as threads, which can be wove...

Tea is an element of (at least) Radch, Orsian and Nilter culture. However, according to Breq, the different cultures mean different things when they say 'tea'. Based on Breq's description of a thick, chalky liquid, it doesn't seem like Orsian tea is the tea we're familiar with. Is there any evide...

The Ghost in the Shell franchise is a long running cyber-punk manga and anime classic, which often blurs the lines between man and machine. While looking at its ensemble cast, the central character, Major Motoko Kusunagi, is a full-body prosthesis augmented-cyborg and field commander of Section 9...

Both of these characters have caused Superman no end of torment, and a case can be made for either as his most constant cosmic-level enemy. Difference being Myxy only wants to torment the Man of Steel for pure fun; Darkseid does so basically because he's an embodiment of evil Tyranny, and Superma...

In Black Mirror Bandersnatch (2018), Stefan poured tea on his keyboard because the game he designed failed to execute. In the next scene, a video of "Stefan pouring tea on his keyboard" played so many times in one of the two CRT monitors that I thought my computer caught a virus. I only realized ...

Superman has many abilities one of them is superspees. He can run at a very fast pace. What is the maximum speed achieved by him? The answer must be based on comics only.

I know death stranding copied these features in a film I saw a while back.

The One Ring provides great power, but its power is primarily to dominate others. Sauron already dominated, it is implied, nearly all of Middle-earth without the Ring. It is implied or stated at various points that with his limitless armies of vassals, he would be able to easily overwhelm the hol...

In the series Mortel, the god Obé seems to be looking for mortals to kill someone for him in order to return to his own realm, which is why he tries to pressure Sofiane, and later Victor, into committing murder. Except, so far as I can tell, his face started to look decayed, presumably signifying...

For some reason, the genius L only said not to report that information to the media. But in the previous episode he had already concluded that Kira had to have access to police information. Episode 3: L concludes that Kira can control the time of death and is flaunting it, concluding to himself t...

I played this game in the early to mid 1990's on a 486 or pentium, with a souped up diamond viper video card. To put this in the sci-fi genre, it involved a space race with fancy hovercrafts flying through a variety of alien landscapes. Each hovercraft had distinct differences in terms of capabil...

In the RotK movie, The Witch King breaks the Staff of Gandalf ( a Balrog slayer and Maia ).But how ? The Witch King was a man but Gandalf is a Maia. Gandalf slew a Maia ( Balrog ) , yet he was defeated by a man ?

This poem is taken from The Fellowship of the Ring, book II, chapter 1 (page 263): Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien; He built a boat of timber felled In Nimbrethil to journey in; Her sails he wove of silver fair, Of silver were her lanterns made, Her prow was fashioned like a swa...

what sci fi film has the same "alien" detecting backpack powered by a baby in a pod?

In Star Trek: Picard, you can see big farm and cool futuristic farming vehicles on Picard's estate. But, given, small replicators weren't exotic devices limited only to starships (in the beginning, it was shown in an apartment to produce food), why was agriculture still in existence? Talking abou...

Anime where guy is shooting a normal looking revolver but there are little creatures riding the bullets yelling and making the bullets bounce crazy ways to shoot people

The basic story was that there was a medical treatment (maybe a vaccine) that made you live longer and not age, but some people had a different gene that made them revert to a primal human state and become violent. the humans who had a successful treatment live in a secure city, each person have ...

Science fiction (sometimes referred to as sci-fi or merely SF) is a type of speculative fiction which typically deals with creative and innovative concepts like innovative science and engineering, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial existence. It's been known ...

I wasn't even out of Power Wheels in the hey day of the Knight Rider series, but a number of episodes stuck out to me. One I vaguely remember was when KITT somehow was turned Rogue, and Micheal had to climb through the roof as the car was moving and insert a computer circuit board of some kind to...

Most people would be more than familiar with the Marvel movies and shared Cinematic Universe (MCU), of which everything from The Avengers to Black Panther to The Incredible Hulk to Guardians of the Galaxy, to Spiderman: Homecoming are apart. Prior to this, in the early 2000s, there were the Sam R...

In the expansion of Skyrim, Dawnguard, one has to escort Serana to her family's castle. Upon arrival, her father Harkonen says that his covenant is one of the oldest vampire covenants in Skyrim. Does anyone know if there are truly others old vampires in Skyrim? I'm not counting the mother of Sera...

when the children left the Light House on the Saoirses birthday to go to the sea because she found her mother’s coat when the grandmother was staying over how did the grandmother know? Is it just a sixth sense the grandmothers have?

I was in Dollar Tree the other day and passed a woman in a (formerly-) Marvel Comics tee which actually impressed me. Unfortunately, I neglected to immediately ask its origins and when I did come back to catch up with her, she was getting in her car and driving off. It's a white tee with characte...