A father has a job checking the bunker reserved for important government figures in the middle of nowhere. He brings his daughter along to spend some quality time with her. They stay in the lavish bunker, but while they are underground, aliens attack with a weapon that breaks carbon bonds. They f...

The Maiar Melian had a child with King Thingol of Beleriand, Luthien Tinuviel, the most beautiful of all the Children of Iluvatar and gifted enough to put Melkor to sleep with a song (altho who knows, maybe Eru using her as an instrument to upend Melkor's reign). In-so-far as I know, Melian's hav...

The story starts with a man living in modern civilization as we are about to embark and leave the dying world and there are more people on the planet than seats on the fleet leaving for the new home world. For the main character, he was not selected and was left behind by everyone he knew includi...

Ok I have a very hazy memory of reading a book with an obsidian pyramid. I think I probably read it in the 90's but it could have been in the early 2000's. There was something evil about the construction or existence of the pyramid, but other than that I can't remember anything else about the boo...

I'm trying to identify a paperback book from memory that I bought in the Petersfield, UK, branch of John Menzies some time around 1990. The details I have are as follows: Date: pre 1993 - The earliest I could have bought this book would be 1989. My suspicion is that I lost this book pre-Aug 1990,...

I am not sure but as far as I know there have only two romulan families been mentioned, the wife and daughter of Admiral Alidar Jarok and the wife and daughter of Telek R’mor, but there has never been suggested that there would be another boundmate. Have you heard anything about that?

In Tolkien's legendarium he was very clear that there were three unions of elves and men. Which were those of: Beren and Lúthien Tuor and Idril Aragorn and Arwen Tolkien also describes at least two other potential/actual relationships between elves and men. Túrin and Finduilas Imrazôr and Mith...

I've seen this claimed repeatedly, but no authoritative evidence, and I am not convinced. Was Proxmire really that famous as anti-space crusader by May 1961 (minus however long the story was in the pipeline – it is ironic that its publication more or less coincided with JFK's "before this decade ...