I've noticed in the Harry Potter series that the most powerful spells ever mentioned never go beyond killing, blowing up a few feet, or knocking someone out. Grindelwald's control of lightning in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the only spell I find to be slightly more destructive ...

Looking for this story for a while. Probably from an anthology. Read this many years ago. Earth is under attack by creatures that I recall are on a non-physical plane. Sentient cat brains are wired into the fighter ships to meld with the human co-pilot, taking advantage of the cat's superior nerv...

Ever since I reached 1000 reputation I've been checking question-and-answer votes. Over time, I've noticed that more questions receive downvotes than answers, even if the question is well thought out and there is research behind it. To upvote a question: This question shows research effort; it i...

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I read this about 6 years ago. It is a trilogy I belive. The story starts off with a girl who is surviving on her own trying to find her family. Later in the book she joins a colony where she becomes a “soldier” for the colony. Later on in the series she is sent to a Texas prison to find someone ...

There's a picture of a plush doll that's making the rounds on Twitter: The tweet wonders whether they are antisemitic caricatures of Jews, which it definitely can be, based on the hats and long noses. However, to my untrained eye, it seems more like a plushie based off a fantastical creature, pe...

I am attempting to write a few stories in the Star Wars setting. I am unclear about the way the laws and law enforcement work in that setting. Do planetary law enforcement agencies communicate with one another? How efficient are they? How do they track down lawbreakers from one planet to another?...

I'm not sure this book is a fantasy but i know is about man giving option of giving up his cat because of the fate universe or something likr that (by the way that summery i remember only) and book cover of man and cat sitting behind on bench like this cover https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250...

The way I understand the One Piece world, the North Blue, the South Blue, the East Blue and the West Blue are either separated by the Red Line or the Grand Line, the Grand Line itself being separated by those Blues by the Calm Belt. In the story, we have met a number of people coming from differe...

In the late '70s or early '80s, I read a magazine of sci-fi short stories (I was an Omni subscriber, but I don't think that was the publication) which featured an utterly forgettable piece with a memorable title: "Sometimes, It's Better Not To Know." I remember nothing else about it, but that was...

I'm not sure what of book is but this all i know and the cover the story about guy and his cat the guy has option to give up his cat or something about his fate as for book cover kinda like this https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250091666/crenshaw but it a small cat and grown man

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The show has multiple references that if you do good deeds while having a self-interest in mind, you won't get points. The two biggest examples were: Eleanor was trying to do good things in the fake Bad Place, but wasn't getting any points. And at some point, they figured out that her motivation...

Hi ~ was hoping someone could help me find the name of a movie that was released sometime between through the '80s and '90s ~ I remember it starting out with a smaller space ship docking to a larger one; the captain of the smaller vessel possibly mentions running robots ( maybe sex androids ) ~ I...

At moments it seems as though the 2 are truly in love, but at others it seems like she's using him. She gets all mad at Hagrid for saying the truth, and lies to him. Maybe she just wanted to get away from Hagrid. The reason she wanted to make up with him was to find out about the 3rd task early (...

I can't find a movie about a guy that finds a strange device (in a parking building , or a a metro passage??) which opens portals to other worlds/dimensions. There's also a young woman that wants the device ,also a bunch of bad guys (one of the baddies was a woman??). The device was created by th...

Popular Mechanics has an article out today which claims that: scientists [have] created the first tractor beam strong enough to manipulate macroscopic objects Neato! While setting the stage for this announcement, PM says: Tractor beams have long been a staple of sci-fi So, what's the first oc...