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Q: How could Dune's sandworms get so large?

bob.sacamentoI mean, they spent their entire lives in the maybe the most barren desert in the galaxy, right? There wasn't much to eat. How did they get to be so large? Has there ever been any discussion of this in the "Dune canonical literature?

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Q: Has any sci fi ever tried to explain how conservation of momentum and energy would work with time travel or other similar teleportations?

user14094230Where one just shows up in one point in time and space, whether through time travel or teleportation, has anyone ever tried to explain the conservation of energy and momentum in such scenarios?

 
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Q: Novel about a female detective investigating a crime in a society where mind reading through brain scanning is done

donaldDI remember lines in the book describing the dark neural paths of the criminal being investigated and the female detective describing that she enjoyed the hunt through the twisting pathways and maybe something about the sudden changes in memories from light to darkness of thought, ( although that ...

 
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Q: Short story about driving remotely operated vehicles on moon. A Student(?) drives one to rescue shuttle crash victim

NJohnnyMan has established bases on the moon. A lot of work is done with R.O.V.s (Remote Operated Vehicles) Exploring, mining, hauling, and transportation? (Like busses or Taxis. Not sure about this one.) A high school student was able to get in on the ground floor of operating these types of vehicles, ...

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Q: Did any of Lovecraft's stories actually have a protagonist who keeps writing even as they are about to die?

user73910I came across a funny article mocking the supposed format of some of Lovecraft's stories where the protagonist continues to write when he really, really, should be running. The article goes like this: A common tic among the heroes of H. P. Lovecraft's short horror fiction. Many of his works are ...

 
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Q: Fantasy book series with a school for magical hero children

LeonI read one book from a book series while I was in primary school over a decade ago. There was a school of kids in a fantasy world of monsters and a trio of these kids go on a quest to save their school/world from danger. Along the way in order to obtain a critical item/power they must each sacrif...

 
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Q: I need help finding a manga or manwhua

LoloSo I remember part of the beginning plot a brother and sister live with their abusive uncle and he plays a game and is not pay to win and first place but his uncle also plays and deletes the save of the brother and then they get Isekaied into the game and he becomes op again to find his sister th...

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I finished Children of Ruin, and I've started Fractal Noise. I love CoR, it could have been better but it felt more than just a rehash of the original. Fractal Noise is ok, but I'm seeing a pattern in Paolini's protags...
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Q: Short novel about a generation ship run by a group of elders

CristianIt's a sci-fi/fantasy novel I read some years ago and I can't find it. I don't know the title or the author. It's about a multi generation star ship that is run by a team of 10-12 elders. They are running the ship in turns, while the rest of the elders are in cryogenic states. The story is about ...

 
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posted on January 29, 2024 by Zach Weinersmith

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: Actually if you can run the trolley into ALL humans, the notion of sadness ceases to have meaning, so it's all good. Today's News: Fun interview about A City on Mars with Jordan Harbinger.

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Q: Short science fiction story about a dead scientist who invented a telescope without a lens?

AnnikaI've read this story years ago und haven't been able to find it ever since. I hope i remember it right and don't mix it up with other stories: Three scientists go through the things of their old friend who just died. They talk and drink and if i remember it right they find a little device/object,...

 
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Q: Book/series about a kid who goes to a school in space in some kind of exchange program

jonathanI read the first two books around 2017-2020ish and the first one was about a kid who goes to a school in space in some kind of exchange program with different alien species. Essentially there’s a traitor among the school faculty and so the kid and his friends kind of break the rules to find and s...

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Q: A children's book with a rhyme naming cities in western England

M. A. GoldingI remember reading a few details about three children's books I read in elementary school, presumably borrowed from the school library instead of the local library, because I remember them in connection with a school I attended in November 1961 to June 1962. And it is possible that maybe those de...


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