this story was written 1984 or earlier I believe. It was part of the sociological science fiction trend and really had nothing science fiction-like in it other than being set in some unspecified future. An African dictator is being overthrown and rebel forces are arriving, there are some past mem...

A recent Star Trek: Discovery novel, Somewhere to Belong by Dayton Ward, has this passage towards the end: ...I now know that years before humanity made first contact with a nonterrestrial species, your entertainment featured numerous stories of such encounters. These dramatizations ran the gamu...

This a long shot so here we go. In the late 90's early 2000's I read a book with short stories. The one story I remember is about a guy you travels to an alternative earth here he pirates music from bands that are still together or still alive. He finds a one hit wonder that he sung about his ex-...

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore says to Harry, I should explain that members of the Order of the Phoenix have more reliable methods of communicating than the fire in Dolores Umbridge's office. What exactly are these methods of communication and why couldn't Harry and co...

In Chapter Twenty-Five of Deathly Hallows Bill explains the goblin notion of ownership: “You don’t understand, Harry, nobody could understand unless they have lived with goblins. To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are,...

Tom Riddle fears death the most, and a boggart would take the form of his dead body. To evade death, Riddle created horcruxes for which he had to murder someone. But other than the murders necessary to make horcruxes, why did Voldemort start a wizarding war and kills so many muggles, muggle-borns...

Anyone remember about a abandoned alien spaceship colonised by humans? The inmates are mutated and give birth to monsters, who in their turn birth back to humans. Humans are retired a little before they die. All this is known only to the leaders.tye ship is carrying true humans to a new world.

Gambit's (X-Men) signature move is throwing game cards which he charges with kinetic energy, making them explode with the firepower of a hand grenade. However, the power of these explosions is often not strong enough to destroy his enemies, e.g. the giant mutant-hunting sentinel robots. Why does ...

A newish manga to me (because it was still ongoing) about a female regression. She finds out that her adoptive sister takes over the family and possibly even plans for the female lead (FL) to die. The FL dies in a car wreck, then when she regresses, decides to be model student so that nothing cou...

A scene in X-Men '97 where Gambit charges Wolverine's adamantium claws with his powers got me thinking: How exactly was the adamantium integrated with Wolverine’s skeletal structure (which I believe includes his claws)? (I'm curious if Gambit’s power affected only the adamantium or if it extended...

In ATLA S03E16 The Southern Raiders, Zuko, Katara & Aang deliberate on which of the ff to do re Yon Rha: Find and then get revenge eg by killing. (Zuko) Find and then don't get revenge by simply leaving Yon Rha. (Katara/Aang) Don't try to find at all. (Aang) I didn't understand why they didn't ...

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79 On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, 2024, in La Jolla, California. ...

Considering Iroh was against Zhao's killing of the moon, a weather modification war crime and possibly even something ATLA-specific like a 'spiritual war crime' (maybe not so specific. could be like in our world 'don't attack churches or hospitals.' So here, 'don't attack a spirit oasis.'), Iroh ...

Genre: Reincarnation This old wizard lives in a age where there is no signs of science. He seems to be living in the medieval ages. He and his two servants are cooking food in the mountains. This old wizard was has two servants two of them are oni. One of them is a woman and other is man. So th...

The main character is a guy who worked very hard in life and hated it when people praised his talent because it felt like they disrespected his hard work. He dies and reincarnate in a word where only the descendants of the gods can practice magic. He is a normal boy without divine heritage, so he...