I read this short story only a few years ago. I remember it was in a SF collection but I don't remember anything about the other stories. It is about a young girl who thinks she is ugly. There is no evidence about whether it is true or not. She is in a hospital, where she repeatedly manages to ge...

During the War of the Last Alliance - or basically as soon as Sauron's spirit limbed back to Middle-Earth after his body got lost alongside Numenor and he got the One back from its hiding place where he had wisely put it before he surrendered to Ar-Pharazon - what the Elves fear to happen at the ...

How to translate to Black Speech phrase "Eye of the Sauron is always watching"? or more simply: "Sauron is always watching", or even more simply "Sauron is watching". and how to write it in tengwar. As I try to translate words: Sauron - Shakhbûrz. always - arkû. watch - gon-. I used Black Speech ...

I'm trying to find an animated film or a series which I saw once in mid/late 90s on a TV. It might be even older. I remember a huge ship was found in the desert and the whole humanity is trying to make it work. There might be some alien race.. I remeber a scene where this ship is start ascending ...

Should be easy to find. A novel. Read it in early 00s. More likely it is much older. A fleet of traders traveling through space from star to star. They trade technologie. It might be a series of novels. The captain of this fleet is more likely from Earth, he mostly immortal, cause he bought some ...

Back in the very early 90s, my father worked in Germany. The previous tenant in his apartment left some 80s/early-90s 7" vinyls, floppy discs and some horror/crime stich-bound short novels. Although the records and floppies are still around, the novels/magazines seem to be long lost (probably rec...

In the prime MCU universe, the one in the same universe as the movies, what level of knowledge does the general population of Earth have about the snap/Blip. For example, do they know that it was caused by an alien warlord using mystical artifacts from the dawn of time, and that the Avengers trav...

Cliff McNish's first book, The Doomspell, was inspired by stories he made up for his daughter, Rachel. My edition states in the blurb "The Doomspell is his first book, and was written as a response to a request for a story from his daughter Rachel." There's a similar passage on the author's websi...

I read a set of sci fi books during the early 1980s. The population were escaping a cataclysmic event using star gate type portals and there was a decline into a galaxy wide interregnum.

This was a science fiction short story about the captain of a ship that sails from port to port on an alien planet. I'm not sure whether the captain is a human or the native alien species, and if he is a human whether it is the case that the planet was colonized or it's supposed to be some kind o...

I was reading this question and was reminded of another story with a virtual or augmented reality nursery. It might be a short story in a collection or it might be just a sub-plot of a novel. It's been probably 20-30 years since I've read the story (likely paperback), so the only thing I really r...

looking for a novel, probably in the fantasy genre. from the pov of a girl, who was abducted by some crazy and cruel supreme being, whom she calls 'father'. she, along with other kids, was raised by this god. every kid was taught a different skillset. they lived in a village which had zombies for...

I get that they would be aerodynamic in-atmosphere, but so would cigar shaped or pyramidal shaped ones. Is is a rule of cool thing? Preferable to cite some Star Wars reference. Legend/Cannon doesn’t matter, I’ll accept what ever gives a better reason.