I recently asked a Terminator-related question here and a misunderstanding that I made inspired this question. Question: could one go back in time and impregnate their mother? As an example, let's assume that Steve goes back in time to 1980 and encounters his mother, without realising it's her....

This would have been a late 50s, early 60s story in a pulp such as Galaxy or Worlds of If. A research team is trying to locate the vector for a lethal plague which is sweeping the world. They are, as I recall, in a sealed lab with a waldo-equipped autopsy room for dissection of cadavers. Despit...

Does Isaac Asimov give enough clues in Pate de Fois Gras for the reader to figure out the series of nuclear reactions that produced the gold eggs? According to the link above: In a commentary on the story, Asimov wrote that it was his intention for there to be a single solution discoverabl...

This question is inspired by another question about the movies, The Thing. An assimilated person knows he is a Thing, but would that person recognize who else is a Thing? Please provide quotes from the movies, links to video snippets, or comments from the actors, producers, or directors support...

By 'in space' I mean the interstellar civilization that Guardians of the Galaxy and its characters all exist in, and the worlds that they frequent, of which Earth appears separated from. In Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill still carries with him his old Walkman and Awesome Mix tape he had w...