So I know there is already a panel for this but all the answers are because he needs to destroy half the universe which need more than one stone. But the main question I have is why didn’t he just make a reality where the avengers weren’t born.

It seems to me that a lot of the denizens of the Star Wars galaxy don’t really seem super impressed with technologies that we would give our left foot for (literally). All concepts, even exotic like teleportation or time travel are usually shrugged off by the characters as just another day in a G...

There was a book fair in my grade school in Philadelphia - we moved away in November 1961 so it was before then. I saw the book cover with a picture of two boys who had obviously been miniaturized somehow. And maybe a read the blurb about the book. But I didn't buy it and don't remember the ti...

I am currently rewatching the Matrix in its entirety and when Agent Smith's monologue in the first film to a captive Morpheus came about a big question arose in my head. When discussing the history of the Matrix's iterations, Agent Smith says: Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to b...

Sometime in the 1960s I read a paperback SF novel with one or more Earthmen on the Moon. There was a nonhuman Moon civilziation living underground. It may have been a dystopian society and water was very rare and precious. And that is about all I remember. It was an old science fiction novel f...

I am seeking the title (and author) of a novel whose chief character travels through time (and space?) to a place where he is alone in a large environment but cannot escape from it. At one stage he glimpses another distant person but cannot make contact. It eventually turns out that the other per...

I just finished the 2014 Ms. Marvel series. In issue #17, Captain Marvel tells Kamala that the strange, red planet-like thing in the sky of Manhattan is an "incursion zone", and, in the following issue (#18), Carol Danvers left Kamala to go take care of it I'm looking for the series/issue/event t...

Looking through my copy of "The Lotus Caves" by John Christopher (one of the pseudonyms of Samuel Youd), I noticed that is was dedicated: To Julia for the spark that broke the log-jam Do we know who Julia was? The book was published in 1969, and at the time Christopher was married to Joyce Fair...

For years, since I was a kid, I was only able to read a compilation of Dan Dare stories that were translated to French. In this book, the last story is about Dan being abducted by someone that built a second version of a special ship that used a new kind of engine that was very fast (it's the gr...

A black hole thing was created by an alien species and it inhabits a whole world in it that can fulfill a person's desires through the manipulation of space-time or creating multiple dimension layers. I forget the specifics, but it basically requires a lot of energy to run. This creates a black w...

Red Darkling page 1: A croaking sound floated through the air.Red froze for a second,then relaxed and rolled her eyes.Was that supposed to be an orl?Idiot.She’d told Buck a hundred times to pick up a different signal.He couldn’t do an orl cry to save his life,and besides,orls didn’t even live on ...

I remember reading an issue of a Spider-Man series that had Spidey fighting a villain in a white costume with black spots. The spots were actually a kind of portals, which meant that the villain couldn't be hit there. He could also detach the portals and throw them at Spider-Man, then punch throu...

In the book Signus Daemonicus, 21th book of the Horus Heresy, we follow what I believe is the very first large scale battle between Astartes and Chaos, more specifically Blood Angels against Khorne's army. However, from what I remember, there is absolutely no mention of any Mechanicum units/machi...

In The end of Eternity from Asimov, the possibility and potential problems caused by seeming yourself is not that important (from my reading), but comes up quite often. It happens that one of the character sees himself in a reality. However, it did not seem to have any effect on the story. If my ...

I would like to know if Rowling uses the technique of free indirect speech in this piece of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, in particular in the bold part. Harry was silent. Judging by the fact that Draco Malfoy usually had the best of everything, his family was rolling in wizard gold; ...

Harry is an alien who can appear to be a human. But the rules seem poorly defined. Early on in the series, it's made clear that Max has a rare genetic condition that allows him to see through Harry's trick, which makes it seem like an illusion. But later, several times, Harry seems surprised o...

The story is about an astronaut who went to some distant planet and inadvertently collected a rock or pebble that knew the answer to every possible question that anyone could come up with. So the government decided to turn it into a business and allowed anyone to ask it any question for a very e...

In Star Wars Prequel moves, we see the Jedi Council convening remotely from all across their galaxy for basically a Teams meeting with holograms. This implies that there exists a form of low-latency communications across interstellar distances. The wiki explains that there exists a network of sta...

In the movie Avengers: Infinity War Dr. Strange saw 42,000,000 futures; in Loki Kang and the TVA coordinate just one sacred Timeline. Then were the other 41,999,999 futures terminated by the TVA? Did Dr. Strange see that future and know about Kang and the TVA?