I remember only one small part where one of the characters, disguised as a clown, notices a small robot spying on him and throws an object at the robot, destroying it. The robots were the antagonists in the story. I believe the book was illustrated.

I'm looking for a scifi book I read in middle school. I think it was published in the 70s. It's about this one dude who was born as a Soldier, but gets bought by a beautiful young Aristocrat. (Aristocrats and Soldiers are races in this book. Aristocrats are the wealthy who buy and sell Soldiers, ...

I remember reading a non-Deathly Hallows-compliant HP fanfiction a while back. I particularly liked at the time, and I'm trying to find it again so that I can re-read it. Plot: the final battle ends with both Harry and Voldemort dying. They wake up as dry skeletons in the afterlife, portrayed as ...

I'm looking for a book I read at least 20 years ago with a female main character. In their world, only boys and men really have magic but the main character does as well. She goes to a magic school and ends up getting in a fight with one of the kids and has to leave. I remember she underwent some...

I'm trying to re-find what might be a short story or a real-life account by a well-known science fiction author. This author was talking to a retired aerospace engineer about a secret lab coming up with the absolutely most hideous rocket that could be conceived. The idea was to troll the Russia...

In the streaming series adaptation of Invincible, Robot initially fights with a series of drones, which has the advantage of keeping his actual body safe from the fighting—so safe that apparently nothing had ever threatened it. However, after creating a body modeled on Rex with Robot's personalit...

In X-Men '97 Season 1, Episode 1, a quick shot of the Daily Bugle front page appears prominently after Cyclops blasts villains in a warehouse. The headline reads "Benetton's Mutant Fashion Show" and features characters who seem to be nods to existing mutant characters. (This isn't the only mutan...

Looking for this old movie with stop-motion effects. I have seen it TV in early 2000's in Czech dub, original language probably being English. I remember only isolated scenes from the movie, but now after the years I'm intrigued by the idea of blending of Roman style intrigue and ancient mytholog...

At the start of the collected edition of Spider-Geddon we follow Superior Spider-Man from Superior Spider-Man #19 on a trip to the future, linking up with Spider-Man-2099 before starting to collect all the other Spider-Men. One of the Spiders we collect is Amazing Spider-Man from Amazing Spider-M...

In order of phoenix there is a slight allusion to voldemort's horcruxes, especially salazar slytherin's locket. Does this mean the plot of the Deathly Hallows was predecided while writing order of the phoenix?

OK. I'm an old guy and maybe my memory isn't so good but I could swear I read a version of the Diamond Age more than thirty years ago. It ended abruptly, completely like a cliffhanger that called for a sequel. I remember Mr. Stephenson promising a sequel. The sequel never came. I just reread the ...

In Harry Potter, someone's soul is fragmented if they commit cold-blooded murder without remorse. Tom Riddle didn't create horcruxes immediately when murdering Myrtle or the Gaunts, but those murders fragmented his soul and allowed him to create the diary and the ring horcruxes a few months later...

I'm looking for a series I read a while ago about a boy who has the ability to see/go to the future when they sleep or get knocked out. Some details I remember are : There was a love interest/friend who was a blonde transfer student The series was full colour There is some magic but only a bit M...

When doing research on Khajiit and learning about their Furstocks, I started wondering if there was a predictable lunar cycle in the elder scrolls that you could put on calenders and use to predict what type baby Khajiit at a certain time will be what type. Is there one?

In the USA, non-magic people are called "No-Maj(e)s" rather than Muggles. What is the term used in Canada and Australia? Since they're Commonwealth Realms, it's likely they also say Muggle. OTOH, Canada or most of Canada attends Ilvermorny and Australia is believed to have an own wizarding school...

It's a show about a boy who meets this like blue tiger like animal that was bonded to his grandfather or something and ends up having to save this alternate world and he travels back and forth between the worlds by like a portal in a tree or something. Sorry I know it's not very specific, but I w...

I think I read this in the 1980s in F&SF or Amazing. This short story is told from the point of view of a woman (probably in her thirties) who is a punk rock (I think) performer. As the story begins, she's contacted by a former friend from high school who went in a different direction - one detai...

In the German novel Er ist wieder da, translated as He's back again, and released in the English speaking market as Look Who's Back. Adolf Hitler suddenly wakes up in 2011 Germany, with no knowledge of his death. No-one believes that he is the real Hitler, (but he is) and Adolf sees the changes i...

I read it about ten years ago but I think it was written quite a while earlier. He has a lot of trouble looking after the elephant in zero gravity. He finally gets to the customer and tells him he has brought a specimen of Earth's largest mammal as requested.

I started reading Wax and Wayne recently and I noticed that Atium and Malatium were replaced with Cadmium and Bendalloy, and Atium was changed to a god metal. I have several questions about that: A: why does Malatium no longer show up on charts? B: I noticed that Cadmium and Bendalloy, ability-wi...

I read this book in early 90s while in high school. I don't recall much except the protagonist being in a prison camp and falling in love with a girl that was raped and abused by a prison guard. I think she died. When the protagonist escapes with others they kidnap this guard and castrate him. N...