In season 2 episode 2 of the "Good Omens" TV series, a scene occurs about halfway through with Aziraphale and Crowley. The space looks to me a lot like Ben Hur's home as it appeared in the 1959 Charlton Heston movie - with the placement of doors, the stairway, and other features. Is this co-incid...

what sci fi book was based on a generational spacecraft that sent heavy rain (Radioactive isotopes) to earth because they were angry then later sent a message to earth warning them about heavy rain and also apologizing

In the film 'Interstellar,' Murph initially refuses to send messages to her father, Cooper, both as a child and as an adult. As a child, her reasons for not forgiving him are clear: Cooper's uncertain return: Cooper doesn't know when he'll be back. Secrecy about departure: Cooper can't disclose ...

I remember reading a novel (may have been multiple novels printed in one book) back in the 90s, early 2000s. It took places on a strange planet with lots of weird stuff going on. It is ignored or quarantined by humans on earth but an entire nearly lawless society lives there. The main character w...

I've been re-reading through Dune recently, and I've been considering the prophecy of the coming of Mahdi that the Bene Gesserit supposedly implanted on Arrakis as part of the Missionaria Protectiva. From the perspective of the Bene Gesserit and Jessica, it's not a real prophecy, but rather a sup...

The trope of Ranma 1/2 is that if you fall into a cursed spring in Jusenkyo, China, whenever you get doused with cold water you take on the physical attributes of whoever/whatever drowned in that spring so many years ago. EG Ranma fell into spring of the drowned girl, his father Genma fell into ...

It’s a cartoon from the 80s that has flying ships that are hidden in a barn or something like that. I seem to remember the ships are flown by a team.

This may be a duplicate, as I first learned of it here. Still, I'm looking for a text where people only get to speak approximately 100 words, presumably before they're mute. I want to specify that it isn't a limited range of vocabulary, something that I think was stressed heavily within the text,...

Ray Chan, Art Director and Production Designer for Marvel Films, Dies at 56 Ray Chan, the art director and production designer for Marvel Studios who contributed to Guardians of the Galaxy, three Avengers movies, the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine and more, has died. He was 56. Also, apparently,...

The story was in a written form in a book, or a magazine. Read about 20 years ago. The story starts with a baby in a crib, who gets approached by a bat-like creature, or robot, which implants knowledge in the baby's mind. The baby grows up to be a man, who is a successful inventor and becomes ver...