I'm trying to find a short film I remember seeing about some kids that are fooling around in a warehouse and find a room with a light bulb inside. They go in and close the door thinking it would be cool to play with the light in the dark. They start playing with the light. Then the light starts p...

I saw a statement a couple weeks ago that the terminology of ages "of the Sun" in Middle-earth appeared nowhere in Tolkien's actual works and that it was invented by fans. This seems plausible to me, since I don't recall ever seeing mention of the "First Age of the Sun," say, in The Hobbit, The ...

At one point in Tress of the Emerald Sea, the title character notes to herself how up until that point, she had been almost ridiculously lucky, and that events had seemingly always aligned in her favor. Of course, Tress does have a tendency to downplay her own intelligence and courage—much of her "

I read this book in the mid '90s, but it's likely older, from a couple of decades before that. It was in English, possible American English. What I remember is a scene in which the protagonist takes part in illegal street races. Stacks of books are tied to the bumper of two cars. Drivers then rac...

I am looking for a book for young adults. I have read it in the past and that must be some years by now. I guess I read it 2010 to 2015. The plot is about a girl that first gets some "bumps" on her back then these rise to real wings. She tries to hide them as she continues to claim to be a normal...

Does anyone know anything about this sculpture? Artist? Name of sculpture?

In Scanners Live in Vain (1950), Cordwainer Smith explores a society where space travel is only possible if the pilots undergo drastic surgery. The so-called "Great Pain of Space" makes it, well, greatly painful to be up there. Crew have their senses, aside from sight, cut off; they have a chest ...

There was an yutube video that stated she is most powerful fictional character

Very likely to be an early Galaxy story, 1950s. Very short. The navy finds a giant iceberg that turns out to be a bar of soap, then a submarine finds a plug at the bottom of the ocean. No plot. Story ends with fearful speculation that soon it will be Saturday night and time for something to takes...

The story takes place very far in the future. Space travel and alien conquering has split the human race into distinct breeds. There are humans who live on some moon in the solar system (possibly Jupiter) who are extremely intelligent, wild humans that live on earth, bull humans that were bred by...

I know that the average galaxy has over 400 billion stars and most stars have planets around it so it seems foolish to think the writers would ever run out of planets. It’s just for the suspension of my belief; Star Wars adds new planets constantly all the time and eventually it’s going to get co...

When I was a kid, somewhere in the late eighties or the start of the nineties, I got a glimpse of something my older brother was watching. It was on tv, not a rented video, so it probably was a series of an older movie. 4? astronauts went to space. There was an incident and only 1 returned to ear...

I was recently reading something, and suddenly had a page from a webcomic pop into my head. I remember that it was earlier (maybe when the time travelers were more friendly to the protagonists?) that the primary time traveler trick involves going back in time, and being someone's parent, and then...

When I was a kid I watched a black-and-white American SF movie. A spaceship returned to Earth. Two astronauts died and one was burned but still alive. They had to pour water on the door as it was so hot. He died and scientists found a small starfish-like creature. It escaped and started to grow e...

Back in the day, in 1999 there was airing a sci-fi classic called Seven Days of which I watched (when possible) almost all episodes. Plot recap: an ex-CIA agent Frank Parker is recruited by a top-secret government organization to travel 7 days back in time to fix the timeline. The traveling is do...

Read 2017-2020 Science Fiction Book about: Kids who live through a time where this plague/virus takes over humans. The virus basicaly kills the person & takes the form of them but has all the persons memories. At one point, I remember the virus took over a girl who was the daughter of a military ...