I once read an interesting short story about the possibility of a set of intelligent machines creating philosophy. Unfortunately I can't find the book that contains this short story. All I can remember it was an author from the so called Soviet bloc -- someone from the USSR or from Poland. Maybe ...

In chapter 33 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Dolores Umbridge, Harry and Hermione went to the Forbidden Forest. There they encounter a group of centaurs. Umbridge relentlessly insults them out of her prejudice against them. Then they forcefully take away Umbridge far into the woods...

While discussing "Apollo 13" recently, I remembered of another film I've seen but have mostly forgotten. I think it is also set in the era of the space race, and three astronauts are sent to... orbit? Moon? At some point during the trip they have a conflict between themselves (possibly due to que...

I'm looking for a survival,rborn,revenge manwha Where the MC is killed by his village priest and wakes up in a giant room where he doesn't age but has to fight for his life every after 10 years

I’m looking for the name to a manhwa/manhua that has a young girl as the female lead. She is the youngest, with 2 older brothers. She has blue-green hair and red eyes. Her main talent is cooking.

Looking for the name of a short story and its author where, in the future, only machines make music but a man inside a computer plays the music at a concert and, when the crowd finds out that it wasn't the machine that made the music, they are angry. Ray Bradbury? Isaac Asimov?

My question was closed two years ago as a duplicate, pointing some other question as a possible source of information. I was asking about connections between seven listed Steven King's books and his The Dark Tower serie. My question was closed because supposedly I should find an answer in the lin...

I'm trying to remember the name of this sci fi movie. I'm pretty sure it's at least 2000's movie, not earlier. What I remember of the plot is, a married couple goes out on a date. 2 siblings stay home. When they get back, the younger sibling is missing. They end up blaming the either the other si...

I'm currently about halfway through Dune and I'm curious about the speculative ecology therein. I'm going to disregard the Sandworms/Sandtrout because (a) they're stated to not be native to Arrakis and have desertified it after being introduced, and (b) they are not real (to my knowledge). Howeve...

So, on watching playthroughs of the more primitive DK games on Youtube it occurred to me- if these games predate Super Marion bros, the mushroom kingdom and Princess Peach, who is the woman that Donkey Kong abducts and Mario sets out to rescue?

“May I take you through to the dining room, Mrs. Mason?” said Dudley, offering his fat arm to an invisible woman. “My perfect little gentleman!” sniffed Aunt Petunia. “And you?” said Uncle Vernon viciously to Harry. “I’ll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I’m not there,” said Harry d...

When Ciri finds herself in the domain of the elves (book: The Lady of the Lake), they make every effort to keep her there. She is very important to them because they believe they need something of hers to ensure the very survival of elves from earth. But in the year or so before, when Ciri is kic...