I’m looking for a book I read in high school that I very vaguely remember. The things I do know are that a girl goes to a kingdom and there is another girl that makes fake friends with her. They wear gems and jewelry to enhance their beauty. The fake friend somehow gets turned old and gets thrown...

Probably aliens, or unusually advanced mutated humans, living normal lives among people in nineteenth or twentieth century America or Europe, could mold their body shapes to fit the prevailing fashions. They were always very human, but were always the most attractive humans because they could be ...

Has anyone come across an image from a Stargate Universe Set Prop model or CGI image developer which shows a close-up of the Obelisk model? I am interested in trying to apply thought toward understanding the meaning behind the Obelisk artifact in the given context of the show. If the Obelisk sc...

I read a Sci-Fi novel a few years ago, it concerns a world with early iron-age technology that is a giant disc supported on an immense pillar. A cyborg is sent to study the people and report back to someone about them. They called the disc "the drum" as it made a certain sound when horses ran on ...

Three teens, two boys and a girl, construct a computerized monitor that as they increase the power, allows them to see farther into the universe and ultimately, another life form in a far galaxy. One kid is the genius, another provides the money. At the end, they conjure images of aliens.

Minor Quantumania spoilers ahead: In Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, we find that Janet spent an unknown amount of time all alone in the Quantum Realm before Kang showed up with a broken MacGuffin that needed fixing. After this point, they spent a really long time fruitlessly trying everythin...

I once read a comic version of The Odyssey in which the main characters were portrayed by characters in the Duck universe. Can you help identify the story? Here is some information: The story was likely published some time before 2007. I presume the copy I read may have been several hundred A5-p...

This is a short story from an anthology published before 2000. It was told from the point of view of an alien who was a friend or side-kick to a human detective. The alien walked and talked but looked like a large celery plant. Humans had nicknamed its race "Celeries", and at one point a bowl of ...

Someone posted this page on Reddit wondering if it was referring to a well known media personality. Unfortunately, they did not share what book it was from. Anyone know?

once I saw a TV movie, probably stelarised by Dennis Farina, in which the Voigt Kampff test was used as a detective tool. I didn´t annotate a thing about and now I am asking myself if that film really existed. Did anyone saw it, have anyone data about that TV single movie (was not a serial). OK. ...

I'm looking for a short story, perhaps in a volume of Year's Best SF or The Year's Best Science Fiction that involves "Time Tower minds" which have a stretched consciousness across time, allowing an approximation of prescience, though with negative impact on sanity.

When i was a kid i used to read this german book (but maybe it also exists in english) where this two guys would travel a lot and search for something (i don't really know what they searched for, maybe a magical flower or something) while they traveled they defeated a lot of dangers, for example ...

In my answer here where I suggested Danny Dunn and the Voice from Space, I mentioned the image that the protagonists receive from space via a radio telescope, which was decoded in part because they recognized that the signal consists of 559 "bits", the product of two primes, 13 and 43. Someone c...

If I remember correctly, the story is set in an academy where the main character fights the hero but remains in second place. I remember a specific scene after the battle where the main character loses again, and then takes a shower. The main character accidentally discovers that the hero is a wo...

I read this manhwa ages ago and stopped reading because I lost interest but now I wanna start reading it again but I can’t remember what it’s called. It starts with a girl from the cultivation world and I think she gets betrayed by a guy before being reincarnated (can’t really remember). She then...