The term “space opera” implies far more than merely being set in space. It is patterned after “soap opera” and has implications of melodrama and so forth. Is there any term for scifi set in space that isn’t a space opera?

I have a newborn son who's having a harder time with thermoregulation, and it made me flash back to a book, a fantasy novel I think, where a character finds his wife sleepwalking and piling more and more blankets on the baby, mumbling that they're cold, or maybe that they need to be hidden, but r...

Please What is the source of these pictures from star wars comics

According to the episode Prey, Hirogen culture and mythology revolve around hunting dangerous aliens, and in the previous episode Hunters, One Hirogen says a rare trophy would make him "envied by men and pursued by women"- so is hunting strictly a "boy's only" club among the Hirogen species?

It was a movie I saw as a kid and like the kid I think was crawling on the ceiling and it was horror. I asked my dad and he said it involved crows, but nothing is pulling up.

Please, what is the source of these pictures from Star Wars comics?

I cannot remember name of the story with a plot like this. First of all, chronology is reversed, story is started from the end (it's a pretty short part I), then follows a big middle (part II), and finish is the chronologically beginning (part III). In a part I it is told, that some guy living in...

This may sound a strange premise for a science fiction story, but maybe it has a resonance for any of the physics educators who contribute to this site. At a meeting this morning, one of my colleagues remembered a short story dealing with a professor doing some dull demonstrations in an electrici...

According to Wikipedia, the name 'Warcraft' was chosen for no particular reason other than that it sounded cool. The Wikipedia links to this article that discussed the origin of the name in more detail. I played all of the games, except for the original Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, and I cannot remem...

This is a picture from "Top Secret", a games magazine from Poland published in 1989. Some of the pictures in the magazine they drew themselves. But many others were just cropped pictures from movie/game posters. I believe this is also a cropped/modified poster. They used it as a background pic fo...

Action Movie Kid is a Youtube channel of visual effects artist Daniel Hashimoto aka Action Movie Dad, where he publishes short video skits of his two superhero children, James and Sophia. In 2015, the author also published a book, also titled Action Movie Kid, based on the superhero adventures o...

Would the Hulk be dead because he is a failed super soldier and Zemo shot all of the other known super soldiers. Wouldn't he have shot Bruce too because he is a failed super soldier?

In The Expanse, when Miller is we can guess there's a fair bit of acceleration and plenty of G's yet Miller is unaffected by this acceleration. Why? Is it that's able to dampen inertia?

So, I know that a fan fiction is a fiction made by fans of course and that it can include anything that you would like to happen in a original story. My question is if a fan-fiction has to be off an original work, or can it be just a fictional story of your own. Does it have to be your hopeful ve...

In Dean Koontz's The Bad Place Does Koontz reference or reuse this location in any of his other books to date?

In the movie Alien (1979), there is an alien creature that appears to be growing out of a chair that sits in a large chamber. Over the years, it has become known as the "space jockey". Where did that name originate?

A princess is assigned a body guard to go to an all girl magical with her. He then finds out that she doesn't have any so he shares some of his with her. Later on theres a school competition that her and her bestfriend are apart of. Later on they are stranded alone because it was infiltrated by w...

In the new MCU series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier we can see Sam Wilson perform a lot of stunts with his wings. What is the metal which is used to make his wings?