I read this very short fantasy-horror story several decades ago, probably in a collection but I don't remember anything else about that book. The POV character finds himself (he is definitely male) in a room where many paintings hang on the walls, all representing people. I don't remember how he ...

I read a sc-fi novel many years ago with a plot similar to "Flowers for Algernon", but the protagonist was a bank teller (???) who struggled with his work because he was not particularly intelligent. The plot mentions a society where status and jobs are based on how well you perform in tests. The...

The series I Woke Up A Vampire has frequent references to the work of Rick Astley. Most notably, at the end of the first season, Carmie and the other kids perform a cover of "Never Gonna Give You Up," after which Rick Astley (possibly played by the actual Rick Astley) does a video call to reveal ...

Daniel Fernandes seemingly refutes the claim of supporting Palestine over Israel based largely on Hamas' actions on 2023Oct07 by bringing up an analogy of watching Game of Thrones starting at episode other than the 1st episode (or reading A Song of Ice and Fire in the middle) in that there's a pl...

On Aprilt 25, 2019 I asked a question: Dictionary or Encyclopedia of Fantasy or Fairy Tales from the 1960s Stormblessed's answer identificed it as: Byfield's Book of Weird (1967) by Barbara Ninde Byfield, also called The Glass Harmonica: A Lexicon of the Fantastical. The Wikipedia article on Ba...

Ye Wenjie devises a method to enhance radio signals by reflecting them off the sun, enabling her to send a message to space. Is there a scientific basis for this? I was wondering if solar pressure mode pulsations could theoretically be used to modulate the amplitude or frequency of information si...

In Part V of the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, Vader grabs the first ship that is taking off instead of the second ship. It's safe to assume that Vader is too tired to grab the second ship after the first one takes off, but why did he grab the first ship at all? Shouldn't Vader be able to sense Obi-W...

How is Why not BOTH destroy the dam & evacuate the people? anymore opinion-based than my other questions which ask why certain characters didn't implement (or consider) alternative strategies? Why didn't Glory simply "taste" all of the Scoobies? Since Joffrey was a minor, why the urgency? Why ...

The war has been going on as long as anyone can remember. The aliens have an advantage in that they have living creatures that are spaceships and can reproduce so do not need to be built. The humans want to try a spaceship directly controlled by a human brain wired into it. They are not sure wher...

I watch a show that is just like Power Rangers but it's not one of them. That show featured 12 members. There were three teams and each team had four members. Together they could form a giant robot. I've searched for many hours but I couldn't find that. Can anyone tell me the name of that show. T...

In it was a story about an astronaut who is sent to the edge of the galaxy only to find there is an invisible barrier there like being inside of a fishbowl. As I can't recall if it was in fact an anthology, there may have also been a WWII story where an American GI has a premonition about being p...

I'm looking for a short story I've read a couple years ago, but forgot where. It starts with the temptation of Jesus as described in the Bible, but then it has a plot twist: the devil shows the future of Christianity, that there will be billions of people who will believe in Jesus, but due to the...

I've checked out the audiobook for Thrawn: Treason without reading/listening to the first two books (in my defense, my library only seems to have Treason – the third book – which I mistook for the first.) I'm already almost halfway through and I'm a little lost between the Grisks and the Chiss. I...

I read this short story after 2017. It may not have been new but did not seem very many years old. It was in a magazine. I read the magazine online. The protagonist has a trading post that I think exists outside all the alternative timelines.He seems to be trying to re-evolve humanity during the ...

This XKCD reminds me of a story in Asimov's magazine from the 1980s or 1990s about a meta-universe in which actions affect the "settings" of our universe - how the laws of physics, etc. work. I think the main character winds up in this meta-universe, and finds that a primitive human has been the...

There was a book series I used to read as a teenager, about 15 years ago, where the girl (queen) and the boy (wizard) later get married and have children. One of the daughters(?) chooses the dark side and the father (wizard) dies. The series end with the queen having a feast of some sort and ther...