I remember reading a manga around 2010-2012 where characters have to fight historical figures that they are the reincarnation of and the first chapter features a fight against Jack the Ripper. It must have been a short serialization and dropped after a few chapters as I never heard of it again. T...

I'm trying to recall the title and author of a science fiction novel written in the past 10 years. The plot involves a future human civilization where slower than light travel between the stars is common. In order to synchronize the lives of citizens living on or travelling between the many world...

Can you identify this game? This is a scanned picture from "Top Secret" games magazine from 1991. It was used as an illustration for the game "Purple Saturn Day" but nothing in this game looks like this. Here you can see what "Purple Saturn Day" looks like: https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/detail...

After watching Arrival, and reading Project Hail Mary, I've realised I really enjoy reading about how a few scientists (possibly from both sides) go about initiating communication and information exchange. In Arrival this mostly takes the form of glyph and linguistic analysis, which was so detail...

In the first episode of the Loki TV series, we encountered the TVA (Time Variance Authoity) whose charter is It is clear that the TVA exists While they do possess a mixture of technologies and the buildings are futuristic. Why then do the interiors have a clear

In this story, there are several portals to other places (and possibly, as speculated by characters, times). I don't know if they 'just happened', or if there was a technology involved in opening them. I also don't recall if there were a permanent thing, or if they could be turned on and off. I t...

In Star Trek, what is the difference between the navigator and the helmsman? Generally, the helmsman seems to be much more important, or at least does much more manual work. Memory Alpha's descriptions seem to be pretty congruent in both its articles on helmsman and navigator. In the series, the ...

In SG 1 Season 10 Episode 20 Scene 1 Timestsmp 1:10 frame 22 Thor appears on the bridge of the Prometheus successor in front of SG1 and friends and this conversation occurs: Gen Hammonds successor: What can we do for you? Thor: with your permission the asgard will begin installing various technol...

In Japanese science-fiction stop-motion movie "Junk Head", the protagonist meets three individuals named "Alexander, Julian and Francis". It is surprising because all other characters have less traditional, more futuristic names ("Hokuro", "Ponta", ...). Are those three names a reference to some ...

I am slightly rusty when it comes to all the details, but let me summarize my doubt and mention a few relevant evidences. Throughout episodes V and VI, it seems as though Vader is seeking to recruit Luke for the Emperor's sake. Not only does he declare that intention in the Emperor's presence, bu...

I've been trying to find this for years. Its about these shape shifting creatures invading earth, and a team building a cobbled together train to go and find a way of eliminating them. I remember the train had a holly wreath on its front. I must have read it 20 odd years ago.

There is a twitter account called ThanetGuide that posts microfiction in the form of dystopian journal entries. diaries of a survivor in post-apocalyptic #thanet, written after the 2025 flooding of the river wantsum. @joebaxterwebb is my dad Clearly this is science fiction, but it's hard to tel...

Mods: Can you please add tags for The Conjuring 3 movie and its cinematic universe? Spoilers ahead! In the movie Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It, a priest named Kastner explains the strategy of The Occultist, the villain of the movie. So who is The Lover? Arne. But, there's a problem. Becau...

I read this in the late 1970s, but have long since lost the comic. The villain in the story is a Walt Disney expy, and the story takes place at a serial-numbers-filed-off version of Disney World, with Micky/Minnie Mouse expy minions. "Walt Disney" is using "Disney World" to harvest people's life ...

In Shrek the Third, Rumpelstiltskin appeared in the Poison Apple and had dusk Red hair, a trimmed hat, black facial hair and dull clothing. But in Shrek Forever After, he appears as the main antagonist and has a bigger head, no facial hair and brighter clothing. Why this? Are they 2 separate peop...

There exists a character that was cut from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (the book). Her name was Mafalda and she was a cousin to the Weasleys on Mrs Weasley’s side (the Prewetts). Due to being on Mrs Weasley’s side of the family, lots of YouTube comments (the ones on HP Folklore’s video on...