You Are Old, Father William is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is a parody of Robert Southey's poem, The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them. I recall once seeing a version of "You Are Old, Father William" that could perhaps be described as a pa...

I remember reading book a while ago (maybe about 20 years) about a boy who decides to wear a helmet that he stole from his teacher, who happens to be an alien. This helmet makes him much smarter and allows his mind to also pick up TV and radio frequencies, which almost drove him insane. His alien...

I am curious to know if there is anything mentioned in Star Wars canon that explains why the first Jedi Temple, located on the planet Ahch-To, was built on top of a Dark Side cave. I personally can't see any advantage the first Jedis would gain by building their first temple at this particular lo...

Set in the UK, the story opens with unidentified lumpy parcels on an airport baggage reclaim belt. As I remember it, they become or contain monsters. An armoured train is built to combat the monsters. The train is both solar- and either stellar- or lunar-powered (so it can operate at night). One ...

In the movie: Godzilla vs King Kong (2021), whistleblower Bernie, shower with bulks of bleach to prevent him from organic tracking technology. How much reality in it?

Several years ago, I heard a brief summary of a sci-fi story (though it could be a movie) where humanity is facing (or is warned about) the threat of alien invasion. A program is set up that is overseen by the president's advisor and a military guy. The advisor promotes a plan for mustering a lar...

I can't find any pictures or information on this grenade. It was used by 1 of the rebels to indicate the start of the ambush.

It's an old story, read long time ago. During a loong, interspecies war some Terrestrial officers, now POWs, are send to a prison camp and change other (extraterrestrial) prisoners behaviors and feelings about being POWS. The interaction with other species is comic and ironic.At the end of the st...

I'm looking for a beauty and the beast type short story where the beast wears a mask and wins beauty playing cards with her dad. I remember that the beast cries diamonds or some type of gem and gives them to her to attempt to woo her. At the end beauty becomes a beast instead of beast becoming hu...