I know I read this when it was already a classic, as a teenager in the 1990s. The author I think was well-known and male and American, but that doesn't narrow it down once. It was unusually short. It might have been in Asimov's Science Fiction or an anthology? It addresses the reader and explains...

The basic purpose of a personal shield is that it's bulletproof, transferring so little impact to the wearer that unlike modern body armour, the wearer isn't even knocked back or winded. But physically, a bullet is not carrying that much total energy or momentum, with the danger ordinarily being ...

It’s a historical fiction with magic. The female lead was a mercenary in her past life. In it her mom dies of an illness and she thinks her grandfather didn’t care so she kills him. But she finds out that her great uncle set her up and then her uncle kills her. She is sent back to when she was a ...

Some time ago I heard a radio drama on one of the Old Time Radio internet streams and I am trying to find the name of the show. The story is set in a future society which is overseen by a government providing universal social security to all. When a person becomes unemployed they continue to rec...

I think I read this in the 80s. In the future overpopulation is a problem and all families are limited to two children. (It is not the Ender's game series which has a similar restriction on family size.) A husband and wife believe this law is wrong and their third child is born. An announcement i...

I read this about ten years ago but it seemed much older. The martian seems like an innocent sweet old lady. A human girl visits her house and watches her baking something like apple pie. The girl says she heard that in the olden days before humans came to Mars, martians used to kill babies. The ...

I read this short story about 2015. I think it was old at the time. The planet was settled by humans long ago. The indigenous aliens later beat them in a war. Humans are kept as livestock on farms, naked in fields. In cities humans are more like slaves and are allowed to use tools. The alien civi...

I have this very old memory of an episode from a cartoon where our two heroes, a human guy and a blue alien girl, are inside of a giant robot which is hunting them and they have to react a part of it to destroy it. At the end there is a scene with the damaged robot walking towards the sunset and ...

In X-Men '97 (season 1, episode 3, "Fire Made Flesh"), it was revealed that This made me wonder if Sinister's switcheroo might have happened during the events of the X-Men '97 prequel, X-Men: The Animated Series. Is there any information available to pinpoint when, in the original series, Jean G...

I am searching for the title of a short story that is about a newspaper carrier who is a male child that is approximately the age of 10 to 16. In the short story, the newspaper carrier is delivering newspapers to various people on his newspaper delivery route. Due to rain that is falling while th...

In the opening sequence of X-Men '97, Season 1, Episode 3, "Fire Made Flesh", there's a brief clip showing Lilandra aggressively hitting a control panel while Araki and a shocked Professor X look on. This clip appears to be lifted from a scene in the X-Men '97 prequel, X-Men: The Animated Series....

At the time of the destruction, the Earth was 10 million years old. However, in the series, the guide indicates a scientifically recognized age of 4.5 billion years. Is there a logical explanation for this?

Finding a manga as per the title, read it on a manga site no older than 2013-2016 I really don't remember when I read it. Anyway it's about a plain black haired heroine and her beautiful classmate summoned to another world after falling down the stairs. The heroine is thought to have no powers du...

The manhwa begins with the protagonist getting supplies from a store covered in snow, and he comes out with some supplies in the middle of the blizzard with his dog and then is attacked by monsters that are faster than him and almost catch him alone. that his dog fights against them and the boy f...

An evil man wants to hire an assassin. He cannot find anyone who can do the job. For many years every human child has been raised with a talking robot teddy bear. Amongst many other things these teddy bears do is to condition the child to be incapable of murder. So he creates a murderer. He modif...

I remember reading about a story quite a few years ago but I don’t recall the name, format, or to be honest if I’ve actually just dreamt it. It periodically pops into my head and I really want a copy if it exists. I believe the plot is that there is a man with the ability to freeze time. He doesn...