I'm looking for a TV series I watched years ago, maybe in the '90s or in the 2000s. The main character is a girl who travels to the past through a mirror. The mirror is at the exact same place in two time periods, and opens a passage between them. She lives in the present and the past is around 1...

I am trying to find a story which I think I heard on a podcast sometime in the last ten years or so. The protagonist of the story was the proprietor of a shop which sold advanced sex toys which could interface with the human nervous system so that once strapped on they could transmit sensation -...

The book Lady Hotspur is a take on the play Henry IV, Part 1 that adapts some plot elements, but goes in a more fantastical direction. For instance, several characters are gender-swapped, there is magic, and so forth. Some of the inspirations are obvious: Prince Calepia "Hal" Bolinbroke is Prince...

In Lady Hotspur, Vindomata's anger over her belief that Queen Celeda had assassinated her sons during the rebellion was a major motivating factor in her joining Banna Mora's side, which in turn was the only way that Innis Lear had the support needed to invade Aremoria. On the one hand, Celeda den...

How old is Doctor Emmett Brown at the end of the Back to the Future trilogy?

What is the suggested reading order for all the Rivers of London material? Where do the short stories from Tales from the Folly fit in chronologically.

In Doctor Who, S6E7, we learn that we got the word Doctor for being a healer / wise from the doctor: RIVER: This was exactly you. All this. All of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who ...

At the end of the first Back to the Future film, we see Doc Brown picking up Marty and Jennifer in 1985 to come rescue their kids in 2015. I've always assumed him to be a 1985-ish Doc, who had traveled into the future and kept an eye on Marty and his family. But it occurred to me that we can't be...

I remember having seen a very-well-done anime movie where the main characters were human but a key character was their intelligent tank, which ended up giving its life to protect its crew. I saw the movie the late 70s or the beginning of the 80s and its script was not childish, but a relatively m...

For years, everywhere (including Canon/legends) it has been said that a total 30 Rebel ships were deployed in the assault on the Death Star during the battle of Yavin. Most of the sources list the total number, type and squadron color of the ships, but mention a few names, as follows: 8 Y-Wings (...

Intelligent Protozoa living on Jupiter or Mars. One is curious about the universe and wants to space travel. It eventually does get off the planet, but smashes against the window of a space ship. It dies knowing that it has found life outside its own world.

The answer to this question suggests you should read The Silmarilion and only then go on to read the three "great tales", which are The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien or The Fall of Gondolin. But is it really important to read The Silmarilion before you read The Children of Húrin, Beren and...

I'm trying to find a short story by Asimov–I don't think it could be anyone else–where a mid-level office worker brings an underling in to see the boss, and asks the underling to demonstrate to the boss that he can actually add numbers by making marks on paper. More astounding, the underling has ...