I've seen several books, blog posts, etc. with titles of the form "Sadly, X" over the last few years, enough that I imagine this must be a reference to something with a title (or notable passage) of this form. The most recent is a section header in a Bloomberg column today. But I can't seem to Go...

Some years ago, I read a collection of short stories published in India (though the author had a Western-sounding surname). It was about a (if memory serves correctly, slightly bizarre) inventor/scientist who had developed a number of products/ideas, spanning a fairly wide range of disciplines. I...

In this particular episode, there was a 'Black Market' where types of contraband were sorted in different aisles with signs marking where each type of illegal items was, in a similar manner to a real-life supermarket- with criminals going down each aisle in actual shopping carts.

Everyone takes Potions in Harry Potter . . . but why does everyone make a giant pot of potion? The final result is a small vial that is nowhere near the size of the cauldron. Besides the disproportionate potion vs. vial amount, making such a large amount seems like a waste of materials. Is there ...

Slughorn makes a giant cauldronful of Felix Felicis. Harry is the only student that gets some due to his exceptionally brewed Draught of the Living Death (while following Snape's written notes). Malfoy desired Felix Felicis due to the luck that it would give him. So why did none of the students w...

The guy and the girl are classmates and the meet up to play the videogame. They then discover that the game is kind of alive and the one of the characters can hear them. They end up trying to manage the game as gods of some sort and give blessings to characters etc...

More than a decade ago, I began reading a book. The book got lost before I could finish, and I only remember very few, vague details. I'm pretty sure it was set in a post-apocalyptic climate. Most likely post-atomic. Also pretty sure there were lizard-people. Like those were the people mutated by...

30+ years ago, as a child, I saw a movie, and I only remember a very short, but very specific scene. It is set in the cockpit of a modern civil airplane cockpit, looking towards the right of the plane. Someone, somehow, remove the scalp from the head of the person sitting on the co-pilot's chair ...

The book features a group of characters who are members of a fraternal organization, and call themselves: the Jacks of All Trades, or the Knaves, or by other names. We go back an extremely long way. We know ... we remember things that most people have for- gotten. The Old Knowledge. There are f...

I was hoping to get help to identify a time travel story. In school, in the 1980s I read a novel where the protagonist gazes into a shiny ring she is wearing and she time travels. It starts with her visiting an old lady who teaches her how to perfect her time travel. She continues traveling until...

I read this many years ago (probably in the 1980s or 1990s and I’m trying to find it again: A woman is in a mental institution in California (?) for killing a man with a samurai sword except she was in a kendo practice with him and everyone saw that she had a bamboo sword. Shortly she is transpor...