There was a book I read several years ago and can't remember much about. I read it as an e-book but I'm pretty sure it was published after 2000. The main detail I can remember is an exchange that goes something like (The characters discover another character is doing good stuff for shady reasons...

In 2023 series The Fall of the House of Usher, the mysterious figure, Verna, is mentioned as having been around various historical families, with the heavy implication that a deal with her was responsible for their success. These are families who in real life, while they may have experienced the ...

In the 2023 series The Fall of the House of Usher, She even goes out of her way to ensure that some people who are not in the terms of the deal survive; she explicitly gets the waiters at Prospero's party to leave, and even Morella's "lucky" survival out of all the people at the party despite eq...

I read this short story about 3 to 5 years ago, either online or in some book of collected best sci-fi stories of the year. It's about a humanoid in California (I think) who's forced to fight forest fires even though he doesn't want to. He's bred (or retrofitted or mutated) to have fire-resistant...

I don’t remember much but it was like a bakugon type of show with a lot of car either beetles head and they each have owner/tamer using them for battle

I dont remember very much of the manhua. For people who dont really know, manhua is not Korean. Manhua is Chinese. What I can remember, the female lead has white long hair. She is very good at self defense, fighting, etc. She actually wears a binder, and cross dresses as a guy. She is trying to h...

This question reminded me of a book I had in the early 80s. I am in the UK and the book was in English, but may have originated in the US rather than the UK. It was a series of short stories, each with a scientific theme. The main character was a young scientist in school (I think may have been n...

In the fifth book, Sirius sent Harry a letter saying "Today, same time, same place." Hedwig was attacked delivering this letter to Harry. Harry had sent Hedwig to Sirius earlier in the book once but she had returned with Sirius's reply. So she was at Hogwarts. How did Sirius get to use her to sen...

I read this book series (trilogy??) in high school, about 5 years ago. The cover was maybe pretty monochrome, with silhouettes of the main characters faces opposite each other. From what I remember, the world had an android model for every letter of the alphabet. The female lead was from a planet...

This question reminded me of a book I had in the early 80s. I am in the UK and the book was in English, but may have originated in the US rather than the UK. It was a series of short stories, each with a scientific theme. The main character was a young scientist in school (I think may have been n...

As stated in the subject, I am trying to find a book series I can not remember the name of. It is about a guy who works in a mall the has each store run by a different supernatural being. I think each store is considered an embassy for those kinds of supernatural beings. As for the main character...

I'm trying to remember a book with a conceit that struck me deeply but that I'm now realizing I remember almost nothing about. The conceit in question is that the setting of the story is a star system that's so impossibly far away from any other star that while the civilization has achieved space...

I checked Potter Wiki and there's no details, nor do I remember anything in canon. I think the implication (if not fact) is that Meropa Gont probably used it on Tom Riddle Sr, and at some point stopped and the effect stopped?

I read this middle-length fiction (short novella or maybe long novelette) more than 20 years ago in a collection that might well have been older. It is about time travel. There is one character who is not so old but knows he is soon to die (from a visit of a time-traveler from the future, IIRC). ...

I read this book a while ago but I can't remember the name or author. It's been about 20 years since I read it and I'd like to reread it. It took place in our immediate future and a long time from now, jumping back and forth. Humanity destroyed the Earth in nuclear war and the moon-base, after a ...

Many years ago, I read a short science fiction story about aliens who were beaming philosophy to us humans. The main protagonist of the story was an IT tech guy who lived in England, but was visiting friends in Germany. The alien philosophy, instead of revolving around good versus evil, like we h...

Assuming we take Evil Dead 2 (and its depiction of the events of Evil Dead 1 during the opening few minutes) and Army of Darkness as a continuous sequence of events, how many days does Ashley Williams experience between arriving at the cabin and taking the potion to return to his own time?