I remember reading a short story about how your mind can be uploaded after death, but you either have to pay for all the IP you remember (e.g. books read, TV shows/movies watched, music listened to) or it gets deleted. Anyone know what it might be?

I know very, very little about this book, so I apologize in advance and appreciate any insight. I read the book over 10 years ago, probably longer. It was a library book, if that helps. Fantasy series, but seems a bit more dark/adult than some with drugs/sex/violence being prominent. The main ele...

This is a book that I read in the mid-to-late 90s. It was from a bin of books that the library was throwing out, so it is probably from the 80s or early 90s. There are halfling or hobbit type characters who live in relative peace, one of them being an inventor who is working on building a flying ...

Bear with me a moment. I was watching the James Bond parody "Our Man Flint" (1966) starring James Coburn. At the end, he puts all of his female companions into steel barrels and sends them into the sea off a cliff, so they will not be blown up when the whole island explodes. Then he realizes that...

I'm looking for a book I read in the early/mid 1990s. All I can remember is it focused on a girl who was maybe stuck in a dream? To leave the dream, she had to learn to cast four magical shapes. Each shape was taught to her by an animal. I'm fairly certain one was a goldfish, and one was some kin...

In the original Star Wars, the trash compactor walls were magnetically sealed and when Han Solo tried to blast the wall, the blaster bolt ricocheted off the walls until it hit some detritus in the garbage water. I never understood how this worked or if it was ever explained in another Legends or ...

I’m looking for a book I read maybe 12 or 13 years old. The cover was blue with characters using powers on it and one of them was girl with black hair with blue streaks. The characters were in a club of people who had powers (I think they could create things they could imagine). The club was atta...

In the Netflix series Dead Boy Detectives, Not only is Death one of the Endless, possessed of great cosmic power, but knowing where dead spirits are is basically her main job. It seems somewhat unlikely that she could be fooled by the old "hiding just outside the window" trick. Furthermore, she ...

This is what I remember: Mc, his sister, and her two friends are all transported but mc was mistakenly transported. Mc is transported somewhere in some forest when the other three are elsewhere. The gods that accidentally transported him meet him and give him some perks to make up for accidentall...

Back in the early 80s I "inherited" a bunch of comic books from some older neighbourhood kid who'd grown out of them. I would have been 13 or so. They were not my usual fare. I was into Richie Rich, Archie, Peanuts, Spiderman, these were a little bit darker. For example, I remember one of them wa...

I'm trying to recall a short story where each chapter has a different character waxing nostalgic about the previous era of exploration of the planet they are on and how they wish they had been able to experience the planet before blah blah blah happened. The next chapter will be someone from that...

It was a multiple book series (4 books or more) where in the beginning it was a kid who played a sport (I think basketball) and people were disappearing from the town. Then his dad/uncle (not sure which) came into the picture and presented him with a ring which helped open portals to different u...

The story is basically about boy who is raised by another family and works as a servant for the prince of his kingdom. He’s eventually kicked out the kingdom for being worthless is threatened with death if he doesn’t leave by day's end. He’s picked up by a famous group of adventurers and taken to...

In Dune, the first novel in the FH cycle, the condition sine qua non for the Imperial Sardaukar to take part in the venture is that the Harkonnens provide plausible deniability to the Emperor. In the final package, 5 legions of Sardaukar would complement the Harkonnen forces, fighting under Harko...

Three specific examples from the movie adaption of The Two Towers come to mind. When Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli chase the Uruk-hai to rescue Merry and Pippin, Gimli is constantly out of breath and falling behind the others. At the battle of Helm's Deep, Aragorn has to toss Gimli onto the walkwa...

Looking for a short horror story about a secret fiercely guarded by the church. The secret is that EVERYONE who dies, good or bad, saint or sinner, goes into eternal torment, consumed by a giant beast over and over again continually forever. The church guards this secret to avoid worldwide ch...

Around 2005, I read in a "Best of the Year" anthology I think, a short piece (novella or shorter) in which Blondot really did discover N-rays in the early 20th century - and the technological jump that this gave to France led to France dominating the world later in the century. I thought the tit...