Here in the late 80's, they aired Grendizer. I knew there was another cartoon called Mazinger airing in another network, there were toys around and everything, and that Mazinger looked like Grendizer, but I didnt know which the relation betweeen the cartoons (animes) was. Then with internet, I re...

In the summer of 2019 a professor of mine described a text based game wherein the goal was to learn enough of an alternative chemistry system to synthesize fuel before your ship lost power. He said that it was immensely difficult and barely any fun at all due to the complexity of the task. I cann...

At Orgocorp, Ura has access to species patents owned by Orgocorp. So, under the threat of Gamora’s gun, Ura acquired the patent for 89P13: X: Heads up, heads up! Peter Quill lays his hands on the 89P13 patent. Who is saying, "Heads up, heads up!" here?

I had this short story about a scientist who discovers his wife is cheating and invents a way to travel back in time to kill her lover before they met or something. I believe the scientist ends up the one who is killed, though.

As they are approaching the location that Gamora shared for pickup, Ayesha is addressing her son Adam, who’s currently looking after Blurp: Ayesha: Gamora is here. Which means the squirrel is also. To save ourselves, we must bring it to the High Evolutionary before his own people do. How does t...

So I read this book in elementary school and middle school, it was never assigned. The copy I read was bound as 1 book, over 1k pages, for what I think were 4 parts (basically 4 books). The brother and sister have parents that are archaeologists and it starts in Egypt or something where they’ve b...

I read this story (IIRC novelette length rather than "short story") about 10 or so years ago, probably in a collection. It is a hilarious spoof of an academic article. This "article" is about an American poetess of the XIX° century. I remember that at that time I did check that the poetess has re...

Short story, possibly from 60s, 70s or even 80s. There is a galactic community of aliens. Alephs are at the apex with what appears to be telepathy and teleportation that may be innate or from biotechnology. Daleths rank low, and humans are somewhere in the middle. Some humans use Daleths to captu...

Back in the 90s, I recall a scene, from an Image Comic I believe (I thought Vanguard #1, but it appears not) where a convicted killer has been sent in a small habitat out into the solar system to collect data. Essentially a life sentence without parole but an attempt to serve society, still. The ...

This is an Analog story I think - I'm not sure from when. It has a contrived setup, involving massive unemployment caused by the existence of humanoid robots, solved by someone coming up with a simple solution that no one else saw: something like "Only individual humans can own robots (and no one...

Mantis and Nebula heard that Rocket is alive: Mantis: Rocket, we love you very much, and we're happy you're alive. Rocket: Well, that makes you the idiots then. Why did Rocket insult Mantis and their group?

On the comms, High Evolutionary demands that Peter return what belongs to him and threatens the lives of all Peter’s friends. In response, Peter bashes him severely. This provokes High Evolutionary to destroy the comm. After this exchange, the High Evolutionary and Recorder Vim have a conversatio...

its an anime that no older than 2012? i think Its from my childhood and i dont remember much but the things i remember are 2 girls, 2 boys. They have watches that can summon animal mechs from another world. Th said mechas are a red trex, white tiger, yellow bird, and a blue rhino. The mechs could...

Cosmo witnesses Hall-spawn entering their Knowhere and informs Kraglin. Following this on Arete Lab, High Evolutionary commands: High Evolutionary: Open the pit. Vim: Sire, our bargaining power will be gone. Then, the Abilisks are unleashed towards Nebula, Mantis, and Drax. How will opening the...

I'm seeking for a Star Wars Legends story (most likely a young adult novelette) that I read in the early 2000s. The narrative was about a human princess (I'm almost certain it wasn't Leia or Padmé) and her handmaid who were imprisoned by the Empire (I can't recall why they were in prison or where...

One had a man who found himself on an island with small women with pointed teeth. Another had a man who woke up in a department store where people posing as mannequins turned him into one...

My father and I are trying unsuccessfully to locate a science fiction short story we both remember reading but can’t identify. The detail we remember is that some human crew members meet who they believe is an alien. The alien informs them that they are the same species, but that the human form m...

In economics, the law of diminishing returns states that in productive processes, increasing a factor of production by one unit, while holding all other production factors constant, will at some point return a lower unit of output per incremental unit of input. Outside of economics, I've heard it...