I think the story was in a magazine. All I remember is political candidates who were not doing well in polls would visit a shaman type person who would give the candidate's family member a real ailment so that voters would feel sorry for them and vote them into office.

I believe I had read the book around 6 years ago, and around this time the second book had just come out. If I remember correctly,the protagonist was a young boy who just moved to town, and found a weird shop that had given him a weird old vintage item. I don't remember what the item could do, bu...

I read this short fiction (not very short, probably novelette, maybe even short novella, rather than short story) about 20 years ago. In was in a collection, not sure it was in English, possibly in French translation. It definitely does not sound like a French original SF. I don't remember much. ...

I'm looking for a book I read in the 90's, though it was much older than that (70's or 80's, maybe?). Humans discover a planet of primitive aliens and send a team to investigate. For some reason I can't recall (maybe they need their help to fight a war?), they need to advance their civilisation. ...

A short story about a time bomb being detonated in London (a bomb that stops time). Everyone outside the affected area thinks everyone within it is dead, but they are not. An agent of some kind has to enter the area and do some science fiction things.

The mc was living in a village with his family and he ends up finding a beast that follows him. He is trained in magic and one of his family members works as a mage for the king he will find that out later tho. Some people try to kill his family to take his beast. Eventually his village comes und...

Basically in the title. Kids crash their ship and start living off the land without their normal rations and they start feeling things like normal kids. I read it in a reading text book but it was a text book that was a sample from a publisher and not adopted by the school because it was sort of ...

in star trek the FTL method of travel employed by humans is warp drive. This is possible by 2 major components. a) a huge power supply - in this case so closely linked that often its dimply referred to as the warp core - how ever this is just the power supply. b) warp coils and, it is this item t...

The main protagonist is a male barbarian class warrior who can use shamanic magic while using a red gem and had a relations with a harpy who bore him a rare male harpy son. I know this isn't much. The cover, I remember was yellow with the barbarian protagonist holding the magic red gem. This has ...

I remember a SciFi movie from my youth (mid 70's to early 80's) that was primarily directed at children. In it a boy invented all sorts of gadgets. I remember one scene where he had a gadget to open the gate door at a bank. He went on a number of adventures with his friend while causing havoc wit...

This manga takes place in a fantasy world where the protagonist has been raised and trained from birth by a group of elite S-Class party members, the most powerful individuals in the land. Among them, one of his teachers, who is strikingly beautiful, often flirts with him. The protagonist is incr...

In Harry Turtledove's Atlantis Series, most of the East Coast of the North American continent separates differently during Pangaea's splitting into modern continents, resulting in an 8th continent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, dubbed Atlantis by settlers. The cover of Opening Atlantis depi...

I've seen this movie in the 1990's. The man is under the care of a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist used a codeword antwerp in a hypnosis session. The man dreams that there are no racial tensions in the world and everyone lives in harmony. The psychiatrist tries to manipulate the man.

I don't know where I saw this anime, but I remember it faintly and this doubt triggers everytime I see a mecha anime. I remember a little boy wandering in the woods maybe with his sister? And he found a dead giant or robot. I don't remember al of it but he got a "cube" or something that seemed to...

Sci-Fi show: Time from a child can be given to add time to their parent. Everyone knows how much time they have from a watch received at birth.