I've just watched the first episode of The Expanse. I notice in a couple interior shots set in, I presume (by political content) Ceres, the producers/director took care to include a small bird, which flew very oddly. This bird would flip its wings, then fold them, then flip again -- much like c...

Humans in a spaceship orbiting an alien planet have a machine that they can hook their heads up to that lets them take telepathic control (and receive the senses of) of massive (I think at least something like Rhinoceros-size) six-legged leonine creatures on the planet below. Not direct muscle co...

In a movie trailer for the new Spider man movie coming ut soon, they played certain key scenes and showed Spider man kicking butt, but the thing that got me is when he landed on a metal crossbeam outside on a construction site with one arm extended out and with that: Captain America's shield in h...

Re-listening to A Memory Of Light. I might add direct book if it helps the question, but it's squirreled away somewhere so it's not handy right now. Anyway, I don't think this is a spoiler, but in Chapter 4 there's a scene in which Pevara Sedai has one of the Ashaman bound up in air and deafe...

Just now i've finished watching a movie called Life. It was a good thriller movie. I loved it. I'm bit confused about how calvin got Hugh's leg? Since Hugh and his crew members were together. Do you have any idea?

Harley Quinn was first created for DC animated universe (DCAU) and then made her ways into comic and become quite famous. In the comics she has shown various love interest ( Joker, Batman, Deadshot, Poison Ivy etc) which make her bisexual (maybe Pannsexual). But did DCAU ever shown or hinted ab...

I recently came upon a short story, Death of a Foy (1980), in the compendium The Winds of Change (1983). In the intro, Asimov states that he was "hardly able to stop laughing", but I just can't seem to get the joke. In particular, it's a two page story that ends with the paragraph "Give my b...

In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, there is that famous scene where Yondu and Rocket try to tell Groot what Yondu's Fin look like and for him to go get it. The point of all this is for Yondu to be able to control his arrow and get them out of the cell. But later in the movie Yondu tells Peter: I ...

... bought by a space traveler visiting an unfamiliar planet. The scarf pulls him into another dimension/realm/universe. Very spooky tone. Read it decades ago in an anthology. Any clues? Thanks.

Looking for the title of a book published in the late nineties. It was an anthology of science fiction short stories by Canadian authors, where the stories had Canadian involvement, either via location or characters. Some of the stories included: an Adam and Eve couple in an enclosed environment ...

In The Mask, Ipkiss at one point goes to Dr Neuman's office to get his opinion on what the mask is and how and why it works However Dr Neuman thinks that Ipkiss is crazy, and when Ipkiss puts on the mask to show him that he's not, the mask just doesn't work Why didn't the mask work at that ...

In the Doctor Who episode "The End of Time Part 2", (has it been long enough I don't need a spoiler? eh, I won't take the chance) Gallifrey is visually several times the size of Earth, as is shown here. http://it.virtualarena.wikia.com As you can see, Gallifrey is no laughing manner. But ...

I just noticed that we have an environment tag. It's used on 12 questions, 11 of which are ID questions (ten story-identification and one episode-identification), the last one being Where does the water to transform Dune into a non-desert planet come from? The tag wiki excerpt says: Works foc...

We see a fair number of wands in Ollivander's shop. When Harry visits to be chosen by his first wand, he sees "thousands of narrow boxes". In another answer it is estimated that Ollivander sells about 160 wands each year. It appears he has a great surplus in his shop. How long does it take Olliv...

I read this book in '93. I have been looking for it for ages now. I remember a young man living in the modern world and I believe he jumps a fence and is in a magical world. all of a sudden he is introduced to an old hag/witch who is going to teach the man magic. The teaching is tough and he is p...

Can you identify every character and spacecraft in this poster? Please mention the episode(s) if you can. The poster is for the 30th anniversary of the TV series. (First aired on September 28, 1987.) I got many of them (along with episodes), but there are plenty I don't recognize. A few occur...

Let's say I am a wizard, and I possess the ability to become an Animagus. Could I choose a Phoenix to be the animal that I transform into? And would I acquire the Phoenix's power of regeneration?

I only remember reading it as a child, so not sure if it was published in 90's or 2000's. In it, a girl is aware of mythological creatures and people who feel an affinity to them, such as banshees, unicorns, harpies or kraken. Each kind of creature is assigned an element, so kraken is water, harp...

Major spoiler alert for those who have not read the book. In the second episode of American Gods, we see Anansi give a speech in the hold of a slave ship in which he reveals detailed information about America's future. This seems to suggest that the Gods have some knowledge of the future.

I read this book somewhere between eight to fifteen years ago. I believe it may have been a young adult book, but cannot be certain. I do not recall the length of the book. It was definitely medieval setting, not modern. I do not recall what the cover looked like. The point of view character was ...

I am trying to find a short story I remember reading probably in the sixties, about a reverse career path where the ultimate goal and privilege is to be a classroom teacher.