A private company will sell trips into space -- the ship returns with one dead body. The 3 remaining ppl on board are suspiciously evasive. But 2 investigators discover the dead man had been shot on the ship, out of fear that there was not enough oxygen for all 4, then pushed out into space, be...

I remember reading a children's book when I was younger about some nurses (i.e. nannies) with a baby who needed to get through a portal or something which only worked every few years, but missed it. Anyone know what this book was?

It is an old cannibal movie. There's a guy cutting the wrist of another guy and tying his arms so the ants can eat it. The next day, they saw the guy dead with just bones on his wrist.

I have very faint memories of a TV movie I watched in the UK in the 1980s. There's (I think) a montage of short clips near the start,the one I remember shows a runner is jogging along in a tracksuit, the next image he is lying on a hospital gurney staring in horror at two bandaged stumps where hi...

The story was part of an anthology I read in the late 70s or early 80s. The main character is hit with fragments of something, then over a course of days, his health begins to improve. He is prevented from doing himself any harm (ie shaving with a straight razor). Eventually, the symbiots begin ...

In the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith movie, Padmé went to Mustafar to confront Anakin after learning bad things about him. But, how did she reach him? Earlier, Anakin had only told her he was going to Mustafar. Mustafar was a big planet. How did she know where to land? Some guesses: She followe...

Chapter one show all of his classmate getting summoned and he didn't, but he got abilities too just in his world. He then fights a dragon and an angel too i think. He has a sister

This book was published some time in the UK between the 80's and 90's, and is set in a fictional star system where the good planets are being rapidly overwhelmed by evil invaders. The book is completely linear and the challenge is to spot as many as the instructions provide. The art is pulp style...

I used to watch a TV show in my youth, I'm pretty sure the show was 90s or early 2000s, which I can't remember anything about it, neither its name. I remember the main character was teenage boy trying to return home to earth. There was a female character which was a warrior/ assassin who had two ...

Ship crashed on a planet with poisonous vegetation,the crew is followed by unfriendly alien, trying to catch them. The vegetation helps the crew to reach ship, vegetation turns out to be sentient and working against the alien. Anybody knows this book, I red it in seventies in Czech translation.

Folks, I'm desperate. I saw this story in several collections, and now I can't find it, hopefully it was in reality and not in my dreams. A man (apparently called Lester) was very mean to his wife, constantly yelled at her and disliked their nephew. One day he gets sent to a (geological?) expedit...