I recently came across this passage in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, chapter eighteen. They hurried along the corridor to the place Dobby had described to Harry, a trench of the blank wall opposite and an enormous tapestry depicting Barnabas the Barmy's foolish attempt to train trol...

T I am looking for the title of a book I which the MC is a professor who dying of cancer is on a cruise and traveling when killed by a meteor. He is then reincarnated into the body of a cat like human. It turns out thT the planet is earth thousands of years in the past

She has short hair; she goes to school and ends up befriending all of the male leads. Shes always seemed a bit distant, and they end up learning that every year, she disappears one day and nobody remembers her. Shes scared she'll never see them again or something, so she stays distant? It was pre...

I think it's under novel length, maybe a short story or novella. It may also have been in analog or Asimov.

Thanks to this ID Q&A, I recently found out about the film The 27th Day and watched it online: Brief verdict: very interesting premise, some parts well made, but there was a lot of Cold War anti-Soviet propaganda, and the ending was a bit of a letdown for me. Anyw...

Like the title said, the adults are zombies and the still living kids make up the main cast. I remember one specific character who is basically a still sentient zombie because he’s young, he has a room full of decapitated heads from friendly adults in his past and one of the heads was smiling sti...

My recent answer included a photo for illustration. I had done like I always (try do) do and added a citation under the photo. However, an edit was made that moved the citation into the photo's alt-text. This made the citation invisible to a casual viewer, although if you were scraping the page ...

This has always bothered me. Whenever I watch star trek or other scifi movies where I see spaceship holding hundreds or thousand of individuals moving peacefully in space. Meaning we are human and such we will always have emotions of anger jealousy hate kill self destruction etc. If humans were...

The short story was in a 1960s anthology book. A ragged man appears at a shoemaker's business in England. His sandal is damaged. The shoemaker isn't sure if the man is a weaver type, which makes me think the story takes place in the early 1900s thru 20s. They discuss how only children wear sandal...

I read a novel or story years ago about stars being harnessed for energy and it turns out that the stars are living things which are dying from the practice.

I'm looking for a book set in the far future. A boy is considered magical. They have no fundamental understanding of our present time. They refer to mistakes of the distant past (our time). They warn against ratios that they do not understand but consider to be part of the end of civilization. Th...

(Note, I realize that later versions had the anti-alzheimer's virus which increased ape intelligence ironically damaged human minds. How neatly explained that was -- I am interested in the original series and novelizations.) In Planet of the Apes, humans have no only lost the power of speech but ...