In the novel Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany, the "Invaders" construct an artificial language which renders anyone who learns it into an almost robotic ally of the Invaders. This is obviously in line with the then popular strong Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, as was Vance's The Languages of Pao (1958) The ...

In particular I recall a scene where a man in a classroom, perhaps a professor, starts writing strange characters on the blackboard. At the same time he seems to be trembling profusely and then something like tentacles or antennas, presumably from an alien creature, emerge from his back. It could...

In season 1 episode 6 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we are introduced to R3-S6, a droid meant to replace R2-D2. R2-D2 had been damaged in an earlier scene (and was presumed destroyed). In episode 7, we learn R3-S6 was a Separatist spy. Presumably, the Republic had strict controls and security ove...

Here is the scene from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) which I find some what funny: Why is Harry motionless when Draco kick him in the train scene?

the series was about these 3 kids who were underground, and they used these white tiles to do stuff, and each tile did only one thing, but this one kid got a black tile which could do anything, they went to the center of the earth in book 2 i think, anybody have an idea on what it was called? it ...

Alright so this is what I do remember from this manga. IN this manga the Main character is transported to another world. However he is not the only one that is transported to this other world he is transported with I believe a guy and a girl. The king has the head magician check their capabilitie...

This is what I do remember from the manga. From what I remember the main character is summoned into a fantasy world. However the twist in this manga is that he was already summoned to this world once before but after he saved it the king feared his power so he forcefully reincarnated our Mc back ...

In the beginning of Foundation TV series, Hari Seldon warned Emperors about Clone Dynasty and instructed them to end this program. At that time, I thought that Emperors had authority to do that. They just weren't willing to do it. But, the last episode left me speechless. Brother Day (The Prime) ...

I read this in the 90s, probably in an anthology of short stories (though it might have been a novelette), and it was not new then. A ship carrying colonists had landed on a planet. The trip had taken years or decades without suspended animation. It was controlled by a computer that looked and ...

I was recently trying to track down a book I thought I'd bought as part of a Humble Bundle, so I read it in the last 10 years, probably closer to 5-6 years ago. The book was more primarily didactic than story-based, with each chapter introducing a programming concept. More parable than fairy tale...

I'm watching this series (ST), after a regular vision of TOS and TNG, in a nonlinear way. I have already watched also Enterprise, but I'm still at S5 of DS9, and I've missed Voyager at all. Now I'm watching Discovery (a little critic on this series may be the absurd Klingons' morphology, the exag...

Basically, what the above says; there's this book that I remember reading a LONG time ago in a library that I did read a few times and remember most of the plot to, but I can't remember the darn title or the names of some of the characters. For context here, I would've been reading it sometime ar...

I immediately apologize for my English, I am using a translator. (I ask the moderators to edit my question if required). At the moment I am creating an online strategy. The global map of the world will be a map of Eurasia. The following races will be present in the game: northerners, southerners,...

In S01E09, we see Demerzel violate the First Law of Robotics by How is this possible, if we assume the TV show will be reasonably true to the core story of the books?

Scant details are known about the early life of the Archmage Fistandantilus, the Dark One. One of the few details, and also what had become his singularly driving obsession was that he was able to keep himself alive through magic when he was young. Later after he past his Trial and became a Red R...

On Christopher Tolkien's map of Middle-earth, one feature has always caught my eye, and to my knowledge has never been explained: The mass in the middle of the Sea of Rhûn: Has this ever been talked or written about? Is it an island? Is it a rocky outcrop? Are they supposed to be trees? Sand? ...