As a kid, I started reading the original New Gods comics around the same time Darkseid first appeared on the Super Friends television cartoons. One of the peculiar differences I noticed between the comics and the show (I could see why the roles of Kalibak and Desaad were different for the cartoo...

This story was in a 1950s anthology of classic sci-fi stories. The aliens are friendly, and recommend planting a certain hedge, I think, to solve a problem. When the hedge becomes a problem, they recommend a solution that in turn creates a bigger problem, until ultimately the humans find the plan...

I need help finding a manhua where a women transmigrates into a game where she is the second female lead in the game. After finding out she became the second female lead(she transmigrates in the beginning as a child I think) she thinks of ways to get out of the village and steer clear of her seco...

In Interstellar, wouldn't Miller's planet be fried by blue shifted radiation? The 61,000x time dilation multiplier would make even cosmic background radiation photons into Extreme UV photons.

I saw Star Wars in the theater seven times during 1977 and know for a fact that I saw the scene of Luke and Biggs on Tatooine on the big screen during the first showing that I ever saw. I also clearly remember noting that the scene was not in any subsequent screenings that I saw that year. Folks...

My understanding is that the second Children of Ilúvatar are called to Mandos when they die and then move ... elsewhere. I think this applies to all men, halflings, etc and the only way to avoid it is not to die (which Gollum managed for a while). Also I think all second children move on, unlike ...

I am wondering if there is anything mentioned in LOTR canon that Sauron had once given thought to the possibility that the Valar and/or Eru Ilúvatar may not allow him to conquer Middle-earth, and due to this possibility, that it may not be worth it for him to try to do so. During the Second Age, ...

Concept artist Colin Cantwell has passed away at the age of 90. Cantwell contributed to films including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and WarGames, and also wrote two sci-fi novels, but his biggest and most famous contribution to sci-fi was to Star Wars. Cantwell prov...

It’s a short story about two astronauts who land on a planet. They think they see green hills, flowers, breathable air. Despite the warnings coming from their base, one of them removes his helmet. At the base they see his head explode, instead the second astronaut sees his companion running free ...

In the video game Detroit: Become Human, many of the deviants become obsessed with something (or someone) called "ra9". Has any source, either in-game or out of game, definitively established what ra9 is?

In Morbius Michael and Lucious have blood born diseases and as a result Michael tries to develop a cure. He first comes up with synthetic blood.

From what limited things I’ve seen on the internet, the lightsaber rifle consumes lightsabers as ammunition. I don’t know exactly which comics it’s in, but I know Jocasta Nu uses it against Vader, but her lightsaber is drained of power before Vader is hit. Is there any sources that explain how th...

I read a story once about a murder, where the killer got caught and executed. After the execution, a video (I think) was released showing that the first murder was suicide. I believe that both the 'victim' and the 'killer' were terminally ill and decided to show that dead penalties are wrong, bec...

I am reading the Lord of the rings. But as a non-native speaker, I found it particularly hard to visualize in my head the settings of the scenes and also the landscapes established by the author. Has anyone else encountered the same issue?