Throughout Dune Paul has moments he calls nexus points where decisions he makes draws the Jihad he is trying to prevent closer. Some of these moments happen only after he has made a choice he doesn’t understand. Has it ever been explained what these moments are and what Paul could have done. In t...

i am looking for old sci fi movie. It was about young student who is filming his own sci fi movie. I remember two specific things - he wanted a deer shooting lasers in his movie, and has friend with large yellow snake as pet. Plot twist is someting about that famous director steel his idea of thi...

The story is told from the viewpoint of someone who seems to be a lone human survivor of an attack by formerly-domesticated cats who became intelligent and whose forepaws mutated into "hands." It's not a long story. The protagonist reflects back to a previous time when he discovered a litter of k...

Short story where aliens provide choice of escape from earth to all the species. All leave except for dogs, which remain with behind with humans

The first law is that a robot shall not harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. The second law is that a robot shall obey any instruction given to it by a human, and the third law is that a robot shall avoid actions or situations that could cause it to come to harm itself. How...

How did Iron Man become so rich? Since he's a superhero, I hope that he wouldn't do anything illegal such as tax evasion. I understand that he's one of the big leaders among the Avengers, but it's not like he's getting paid to do his job...is he? Perhaps I don't know enough about the Marvel Unive...

In She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, it is revealed that the Fright Zone used to be the realm ruled by the scorpion royal family, before Hordak took over. While talking to herself, Scorpia suggests that her family simply voluntarily handed control of the Fright Zone over to Hordak, a stranded a...

In the last pages of Dragon Lords of Melnibone, a 3rd edition D&D supplement based on Michael Moorcock's Elric Saga, there is a section titled Rumors, which describes much of the magic of the Elric universe, including other planes, various magic artifacts (including the swords Stormbringer and Mo...

I was reading about what the cast of Babylon 5 was doing recently, and stumbled onto a TV show called Space Command that some of them were involved with. Delenn (Mira Furlan - I can't help it) was involved in this show until her death earlier this year from West Nile virus. So was Bill Mumy. Ther...

They had to wear protective suit s, that if were torn, they person would dissolve. The suit gets torn on the protagonists and he stops to smoke a cigarette. He realizes that the nicotine makes you immune he runs off screaming

In the TNG episode Justice, their seems to be a problem with the way the transporter is being used, and I was wondering if it's an error in the episode or my misunderstanding. Picard, one of the Edo women, and Troi beam up to the ship. Both Picard and Troi have their badges, the Edo woman obvious...

I have read that Andrzej Sapkowski is writing a new Witcher book as of 2018. Has he ever mentioned a desire to build more universe, much like Tolkien has done with The Lord Of The Rings series? Not necessarily about Witcher's, but maybe a history of his universe or how the multiverse works.

In the fourth episode of Marvel's What If, an alternate version of Doctor Steven Strange learns that he must consume mystic beings in order to reverse an absolute point in his universe. One of these consumed beings is a dragon that looks very much like the dragon in Shang-Chi that protects the vi...