I am trying to find out the title of a book. I read the book sometime between 2004 and 2010 I believe. It was a science fiction book about genetic engineering. I know in the book they were mixing human and animal DNA after I think the main character was using to to cure a disease. I just remember...

I'm thinking about the culture and sociology here. So, if one species changed sex at the age of 25, what would their society be like? Let's say there are two groups. One is born female; the other is born male. However, the females change into males at the age of 25, and the males change into fema...

The objects created by a Green Lantern power ring- unless the ring bearer 'erases' (for lack of a better word) them- do they exist for a finite period of time?

In the acclaimed Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Visitor", Ben Sisko is killed in an accident prior to the Dominion War, before Jake Sisko resets the timeline. However, the episode takes place on Earth in (I believe) the Louisiana bayou, and Jake is living what appears to be a comfortable...

I remember partially watching a movie on an airplane. It was about a woman who is able to see the ghost of a Samurai or some other warrior who was beheaded, I think falsely for being a traitor. Anyways, I think the woman and the ghost set out to do...something. I don't remember, but I think it wa...

In Liu Cixin's novel The Three Body Problem, astrophysicist Ye Wenjie is snatched up by agents of the Chinese government to take part in a special weapons programme involving the use of high-energy radio beams to disable Russian and American satellites. Later we find that this is only a cover sto...

After defeating the Balrog on Zirakzigil, the summit of Celebdil above Moria, Gandalf's soul left his body as if he died, and went to Valinor. Why did Gandalf do that? Did he actually die? If so, what would be the cause; Gandalf obviously wasn't injured (except nose bleeding) when he defeated the...

How was Gandalf able to return to Middle-earth and get to Fangorn that fast? The most logical explanation is that he either took an eagle of Manwe, or travelled, like, "spiritually" similar to how he travelled from Celebdil. By ship it would take multiple weeks to go from Valinor to Mithlond. Fro...

Why was a power button put on EVE in the Repair Ward? Why do the reject robots have them?

In case the line of the Kings of Númenor would have gone extinct, would Elrond Halfelven, being the brother of Númenor's first king Elros Tar-Minyatur, have had a right to the throne of Numenor, or was this right forfeit as he chose to be an elf, not a man? If Elrond wouldn't have the right, woul...

Alright, so the book is probably older, because it was few years ago that I read it, maybe around 2016 or so, and it was for a class that I read it. I cannot remember the title or many details about said book's cover, but I do remember that it had details of space on it, but this is a VERY vague ...

I don't get it. They are in no rush to do their experiment on her, what difference does it make if they find the cure one day later? Even if it takes a week, or a month, who cares? There's no deadline. A major argument for why Joel was right to break her out is that the Fireflies never sought...

In V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic series (2017), the protagonist is named Kell Maresh. I just recently finished reading the Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006), by Brandon Sanderson. In this book, two of the most important characters are brothers named Kelsier (who goes by the nickname Kell) and Mar...

In Book 4, Frodo (maybe Sam?) says that since they've been separated from the Fellowship, especially Gandalf, they must find their own path to the Cracks of Doom. I don't think this is in any texts, but how would have Gandalf brought Frodo into Mordor? Would they have come up through Nurn?

The whole idea of the Borg is that they're in a constant state of assimilation and improvement. However, has there ever been any point in the franchise where the Borg were shown to have become more technologically advanced than they were earlier? Unlike, say, The Federation, I've never gotten the...