Trying to remember the name of a book. It was about a male slacker/loser who is captured by an alien because he won't be missed. The alien has a machine on his ship that input information directly into his brain. Things like card tricks, basic wound treatment, karate, and so on. He is taught all ...

When Jophery Brown is killed in the beginning of Jurassic Park something very unrealistic happens, look at 2:48 and 2:58 it looks like he's being sucked by a huge thing (just like when a big fan sucks something). If the raptor have grabbed his leg he would not be able to fly like 2:58, so why did...

I am using the Tengwar Annatar font to write out the inscription that appears on the pommel of the movie replica sword, but one character is tripping me up. According to this website: https://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie_inscriptions.htm#narsil the inscription written out looks like this: This mo...

Superman has been trained in two forms of Kryptonian Martial Arts, Torquasm Rao and Torquasm Vo_. Both arts seem to have a heavy emphasis on their mental aspects (Rao being a means by which he can push his brain into a Theta Wave state, Vo being akin to psychic training to allow for mental proje...

(I was directed here from r/scifi, where I asked this question, to no avail but some interest. I am posting a copy of what I posted on that subreddit.) I am trying to dig up this novella, I believe, that I read once about 20-30 years ago. It's about a computer scientist who is trying to build an ...

Can someone help ID a book please. I probably read it in the 80s, but can't be sure it was early 90s. It was the story of a lone human in a mech suit who explores an alien planet where much of the life is crystal based. They smash through everything, overpowering the vegetation in the mechsuit un...

I'm trying to recall a story I read as a child, probably in the late 1980s, though it may well have been written before that. I think it was a short story in an anthology, but I don't remember anything about the book it was in. The plot, as far as I remember, is that a person (probably male) is s...

Trying to find this book I read probably something like 15-20 years ago. I can't recall if it was a full book or just a short story in a collection. I think the later. It's also possible I read it in French (can't recall), but maybe it was translated. God has to come up with explanations as men d...

He is working his field and digs up a large object that seems to by humming. There is an opening in the case so he inserts a piece of lumber and it spins with such torque that it almost kills him. I cannot remember how the story ends. I read it in the mid 1960's.

A few days ago I remembered a short story that I was thought in high-school, and I'm trying to find from what book it comes from. The story goes something like this: A roman senator was at a dinner party, he was bored of the people there because he thought that no one matched his intellectual sta...

Whice sci-fi space movie has a one-person crew? They would be punished for disobedience (by the computer) with electric shocks?

In Harry Potter 5, Harry has a vision of himself attacking Mr. Weasley. Harry explains to Dumbledore what happened and the Dumbledore does this: Dumbledore now swooped down upon one of the fragile silver instruments whose function Harry had never known, carried it over to his desk, sat down faci...