In Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Jacob Marley's ghost famously warns Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits. Jacob's ghost says they will come on three successive nights. “Without their visits,” said the Ghost, “you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to-morrow, when ...

In the 2005 sci-fi movie Zerophilia, zerophiliacs are humans with an extra 'Z' chromosome that spontaneously change biological genders after having sexual intercourse. They also can change through masturbation if sufficiently climaxing. There is also partial transformations in the movie but I don...

Harry spends much of Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows thinking Snape is a traitor. However, given that Snape summoned the Order to the Department of Mysteries at the end of Order of the Phoenix, could Harry have deduced that Snape was on his side (or, even further, that Snape was a double ag...

As I remember it was a comedy series on US tv, English language, probably Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. The protagonist was a teen sidekick of a superhero, balancing his normal life with sidekicking. But his superhero, named Mega Man, Megaman, Maxi Man, or Maximan, was missing. Thus the openin...

In Tenniel's drawing of Father William balancing an eel on his nose from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the foreground is easy to understand. Father William has caught an eel in the lake behind and is balancing it on his nose. But on the other side of the lake there is a structure which appea...

It's an early short SIFI story. 1950 to 1960's maybe. 3 people are on an unusual planet that seems sentient. A young man, a young woman, and a little older man say 30 years old. The young woman has a crush on the slightly older guy. He eventually kills her. This seems to bring about his healing a...

I'm looking for this webcomic I used to follow in DeviantArt around 2008-2012. It's a webcomic, done in the digital speed painting style that was so popular back then. It's set in a futuristic dystopia where there are drones and bots all over the metropolis. All the main cast (I think they were l...

Who was the author of the short story titled "The Verdant Reign? AI found the synopsis On the planet Xylos, a vibrant, verdant world, the dominant life form wasn't animal, but plant - a sprawling, interconnected network of sentient flora called "The Core." Humans, forced to adapt to this alien e...

A memory recently popped into my head of a scene from a movie or TV show where a passenger in a vehicle mind controls someone else into shooting the driver, using the exact phrase "shoot the driver." Unfortunately, that line is the only part I'm sure about, and anything else I might be imagining ...

I remember reading a short story / novella a couple of decades ago. At the end of the story, one character says to another that "you can defeat a system by turning its handle further than it is intended to go". Was it in the story "Spectre General" from the 190s? If not, can some kind soul dire...