In a piece from his non-fiction collection Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012), William Gibson writes: A friend of mine wrote a short story, a decade ago, in which the protagonists were Soviet equivalents of Predator drones, but literal cyborgs: small fighter aircraft controlled by brain-in-b...

Hi all new around here. While looking for a show or movie to watch. I was trying to remember the name of one from 80s or 90s. I was very young then and haven't seen it in years. But here goes: From what I remember the movie was about aliens. I can't remember if it's on their planet or ours. One d...

Let's pretend for a moment that Maul never goes to Tatooine looking for Kenobi like he does in Rebels and survives the entire Galactic Civil War. Sidious and Vader die aboard the DS2, and at this time Maul doesn't consider himself a Sith. Afterwards though, as cowardly as it would be, could he (l...

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011), wounded Neville limping towards Voldermort: Voldemort: Well, I must say I'd hoped for better. (People laugh) What's the joke in Voldemort's words?

It is about a girl who reincarnated into a young girl and she knows she will be the villainess in the future. she has to be engaged to the male lead (black hair) but she's smart enough to know the male lead does not like her. she told the male lead it will be a win win situation for them if they ...

This memory of a scene from a book/movie/show/comic popped into my mind and I can't figure out what it is from! It's a beheading/execution scene on a castle/tower/skyscraper over a waterfall/into a sewer. The person being beheaded is the (anti?)hero, and I guess the person in charge of beheading ...

I read the story in a hard bound science fiction anthology which I purchased after 1968 and probably in the 1970s. The anthology was rather old when I bought it, so could have been printed in the sixties, fifties, or forties perhaps. Most of my books are now packed up. In this story a doctor, d...

Another one I posted on Goodreads, but haven't got anywhere with. Age group: children / teens Date: 1970s / 80s (read it late 80s / early 90s). Nation of origin: unknown (but probably not Australian). Plot details (so far as I can remember): The book starts with the protagonist forced to work on ...

Let's start out with a complex question that everyone should have a view on, that of 'resleeving' or having your conscious self departed from your physical self and placed into another. >Altered Carbon is an American cyberpunk television series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 no...

In the WH40K universe, a lot of High Gothic is depicted as Latin. E.g. the different branches of government: Adeptus Administratum (administro, latin for minister), Adeptus Munitorum (munitio, latin for fortification), Adeptus Ministorum (ministro, latin for serve), Adeptus Sororitas (soror, lati...

If I'm recalling correctly, a man takes a vacation by putting his consciousness into a horse or dog brain (I think), and he loves it so much—specifically, the freedom that animals' simplistic consciousness grants—that he keeps going back into that animal's brain. By the end of the story, though, ...

I'm a bit confused, since reading the book and watching the movies and shorts makes me wonder if Rachel was, from the start, able to get pregnant. Because if she is, then it means the technology and knowledge is already available, so the 2049 part turns (to me) pointless. And if this was results ...

In the third episode of The Book of Boba Fett, TV Tropes notes that, near the end of the episode: Is it confirmed that that is who attacked the settlement? I don't remember any evidence in the episode of who the attackers were, but I acknowledge that I might have missed something, or there might...

In chapter 16 of “A Fire Upon The Deep”, Straumli Realm Perversion attacks Vrinimi Relay, and everything becomes dark. And in the end, it says Groundside, and its sun was gone. How does that happen? And which did technologies the Perversion use? Please no Spoiler for the rest of the book!

In Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), during the battle at Why wasn't injured by this explosion?

The adjectives Steampunk and Cyberpunk are well known and invoke very specific stylistic visions. The Star Wars universe seems to mash up a variety of technologies from different times, such as a land-speeder having both anti-gravity repulsor technology for lifting off the ground, yet is propelle...