I remember that back in 80s I read a short SF story about aliens who crossed interstellar distances to arrive at Earth, and somehow managed it with only vacuum tube technology. The story was definitely written after vacuum tubes became obsolete because part of the appeal of the story was "ooh, ho...

In Tolkien's universe, what happens if, for example, an elven Ring of Power is worn by a dwarf, or vice-versa? We, seemingly, only have mention of this happening to One Ring, but I also don't remember any mention of it being made for a specific race.

I remember seeing this video on youtube, I think it was a Top 10 Nerd video where this female character would find rapists and burn their dicks off with her heat-based power. Does anyone know who that is? It keeps coming to my mind but for the life of me, I don't know her name.

The book was about a girl or perhaps princess who could not either touch people or be touched. Then later she meets a boy and they fall in love then accidentally end up touching but nothing ends up happening. It was set sometime in the past I believe royal-esque times. It is not Shatter Me.

Kat: Cannon Place, 3:00. Probably nothing, I'm... Why did Protagonist want Kat tell her location to him at the end of the movie?

Wolverines (Logan) healing properties are well known. In physical training, there is a condition known as Overtraining: Overtraining is a result of not properly recovering between workouts on a repeated basis. Some types of workouts and training will make you more susceptible to overtraining, bu...

According to the map included in the 20th edition of the Philosopher's Stone, there are tracks after the Hogsmeade Station. Does that mean that the Hogwarts Express continues past Hogwarts?

The Hogwarts Map included in the 20th anniversary edition of Philosophers Stone claims the Hogwarts Station is called "Hogsmeade Station". Does that mean that other trains besides Hogwarts Express use it? Are the tracks used for non-school purposes?

I read a book to my cousin two years ago which i would like to revisit. It was a book about a girl whose mother goes to jail after being accused of stealing drugs from the pharmacy she worked at? I think the girl's name was Lucy, or maybe Lucy was her dog's name, but I'm not quite sure. Anyhoo, a...

I've always thought that the name of the Lovecraft deity Shub Niggurath was intended to sound vaguely Semitic, but I recently noticed that it seems to encode a certain well-known English-language racial slur, namely Is it known whether or not H. P. Lovecraft intended for readers to make this con...

This is intended to be an out-of-universe question I recently learned of Thanatos the Greek god of death, and I could not help but notice how similar the name Thanosis to the name Thanatos. This got me wondering if the original writers did this intentionally, especially considering Thanos' relati...