In the original magazine version of Bester's The Demolished Man there was a several page introduction that discussed the invention of antigravity, the development of telepathy, the ancestors of a few major characters, and the origin of a book and a weapon that play a role in the novel. But this i...

I remember having seen this on German TV in the beginning of the 1980s or maybe at the end of the 1970s. I'm pretty sure it was a movie originally shown in cinemas, so it must have been a few years old when it was aired on TV. (For some reason I think it was maybe a French movie, but I'm not su...

What is the name of an old film where a the main character's friend is a wizard/mage and they are chased by cyclops? It is for sure one of those sword-and-sandals or sword-and-magic films. In the film, the main character (a younger boy) and his friend (wizard) are chased by cyclops. And the main ...

I watched a movie some years ago. In the movie the human race faces a threat from aliens, and decide to go to the aliens home world to destroy them once and forever. This movie I am sure is a sequel or a part of movie series.

I read a very funny short story about 15 or 20 areas ago, in a collection. A few people were discussing, over a few drinks, about genetic manipulations allowing to create versions of existing animals, very larger, or very smaller, than the natural ones. One of them suggested that elephants, in ve...

In China Miéville's "The City and the City", the reader soon learns there are two city-states, Besźel and Ul Qoma, which coexist geographically in almost the same location. Citizens from one city are socialized from childhood to ignore the citizens from their "twin city" even though they might wa...

When I originally saw Star Trek VI in the theatre, I distinctly remember the universal translator being broken, as the rationale for using the physical translation books to speak with the Klingons. Every time I've watched it since then, we hear Chekov saying that the use of the translator would b...

I did read it maybe 5-10 years ago but on the internet, in English, so I cannot tell you which magazine it was from. There was some of exposition about two sides preparing for a space battle. Both sides are managed by computers. The computers tell them about positioning, reinforcements, and the l...