When I was a kid (around 1981), I once read a short story where the main character gradually taught himself to see with his fingers. He used this skill to read books without looking at them (by seeing the text, not feeling it). And he may have used it for other things, I'm not sure. He was excite...

This cartoon is like Thumb Wrestling Federation, where the casts are fingers from real-life people and talks, but tackles mostly on daily life of people. Every show has different story, and only spans for at least 15 minutes per show. The time the show is being aired is random , and mostly duri...

I am looking for a story I read as a kid. I only remember very little, but the fantastic results in other questions makes me hope you can find the answer. Here is as much as I can remember: It is a fantasy book, or possibly multiple books I am pretty sure it is directed to young readers I rea...

I recall reading this book (in Spanish, don't remember if it was a translation or originally written in Spanish) around 2005, but most likely older than that. It was aimed at early teenagers, if I recall correctly. The details are vague, but I remember there was this kid who was mute (if I recal...

I'm sorry if this is a dupe but I can't find this question on the site if it is Harry spends a whole chapter of the last book in King's Cross after getting hit by the killing curse from Voldemort (which sounds to be like at least 10 minutes or more), however, it doesn't seem like such a long ...

This one is teasing me. I read it somewhere in the mid 1990s, I think, between 1992 and 1998 (somewhere in that middle to high school era). It was in English. The main character was a woman (I think a redhead) from our world who winds up in a fantasy world. One of the first people she meets is a ...

I am new to the whole flash story. But i need help understanding something Regarding the flash and reverse flash. So if Eobard Thawne is a distant relative to Eddie. Does that mean Barry doesn't age? BECAUSE from the looks of it. Eobard thawne is a bit older and from a further future. I mean sure...

In The Chronicles Of Amber series, Corwin states that he lived for 300+ years on Earth, and Oberon, his father, lived for thousands of years. How long do the Amber nobility live? Do they die of old age?

Do we have any information on the motivation for the accent (^) in Chirrut Îmwe's name? Is it supposed to represent something specific? Is it inspired by something in particular? Or is it just trying to look a little bit unusual as many names in Star Wars do? Are there other examples similar ...

I'm looking for a science fiction short story. Humans walk around an empty city that "teaches" them. At the end they transcend into energy? higher beings?

I am trying to identify this character.

I'm sure most of you have seen the occasional cynical comment on questions with things like Because the author/screenwriters didn't think of it or It's just a story or some other such nonsense. This isn't very constructive towards actually answering questions except in the case of extremely slopp...

Now when the Slytherin students were able to escape, they were running and shouting, except for Goyle and Zabini who are grabbed by Malfoy. Where did the House go afterwards? Did they fight the Death Eaters?

I read it in Spanish, at least 10 years ago in the school library. I remember it was set in some medieval age with barbarians. The "persons" in his mind could argue with each other and with the "host" boy / man, about his decisions and life, and sometimes one could go up and control him and then ...

R2-D2 has been around a while. There are a variety of sources online guesstimating his age but nothing (that I've been able to find) that has a canonical answer. How old is he?

I want to identify this movie, which I know just a scene from it. The year i saw it aprox 2000 The year it was released aprox 1998 Language English, a Hollywood movie most probable Colored but the scene was gray (concrete everywhere and post apocalyptic) Plot I just remember a scen...

One of rarely mentioned by Authors aspects of writing is making a research, which makes the creation of plausible worlds possible. I am a big fan of Peter Watts novels, which contains a large list of books/external reading material added at the end of almost every single of his works. Do you k...

I recall a black & white movie from the early 1960's or late 1950's about a satellite that fell back to earth and somehow got wedged in a cave or something similar. When people came in contact with it, they got trapped in some sort of crystalline structure, essentially becoming part of the (radi...

It always struck me as odd that everyone's favorite house (Slytherin) were seen as not wanting to defend Hogwarts. Despite being sent to the dungeons, later in the movie some of them escaped and fought against Voldemort. Since it was only Pansy Parkinson who entreated someone to grab Harry, wh...

Written before 1995 in all likelihood; certainly before 2000. The cover may have depicted a painting of a dragon a wall, but I am not certain. The story, as best I can recall, is that there are a boy and a girl; the boy is ill-tempered and a trouble-maker. Very early in the story they visit an o...

I became an avid sci-fi reader my sophomore year in high school. My school library had a fair collection but since I was not buying books back then I was a bit lax in recalling book names and their authors. That came later. Anyway, I returned to my old high school almost 20 years later in order t...

Seeking a short story I read in a collection at least 5 or 6 years ago, can't trace the name or origin. Please help! Here's what I remember: Race of sentient trees (looks like a normal forest to us). One way they communicate is by changing the colour of their leaves. One is taken by the humans a...