How do wizards normally learn their spells/rhymes in the “wizard in rhyme “ series? It’s not very clear to me how they go around doing it.

I remember this anime vaguely but it made me feel quite creeped out, I don't think it had multiple parts but it certainly could have Possibly people were cryogenically asleep or something? I seem to recall maybe a black goo involved with the antagonist but maybe not (No, not the episode of cowboy...

This question about magic in Discworld set me thinking a bit. The earliest books in the series are qualitatively different from the later volumes. The Colour of Magic is an episodic tale, parodying a number of other famous fantasy (and science fiction stories). In The Light Fantastic, Pratchet...

I read this paperback sci fi in the early nineties. I have a jumble of memories but not sure of the running order in the book. Two worlds, one slave owning, grim and brutal; the other pastoral but high tech nucleus. On "grim world" they use the near human natives as slaves and are very strict w...

DC's website lists print subscriptions for some titles but I can't find if it's possible to subscribe to ones not listed there. I am looking into subscribing to Red Hood and the Outlaws and getting it in the mail/from UPS but can't figure out if it is available at discount prices like that.

I read a book or part of a book many years ago. I cannot recall the title, author or anything other than it was about humans (probably) living in a hive. Marriage was arranged and sealed by a machine stapling your and your mate's papers together.

I started watching Doctor Who (the 2005 series) sometime during the 12th Doctor's run (and was caught up before it ended), so the regeneration from the 12th to the 13th Doctor was the first one I got to watch "as it happened". What surprised me was that the person playing the role of the 13th Doc...

First some background info. The Krell were an ancient race that were peaceful, very intelligent, and possessed of superior technology to anything humans made. The Krell lived on Altair IV until they all mysteriously died one night 200,000 years ago. The Krell had created a vast cubed-shaped mac...

J. R. R. Tolkien wrote: For of the Maiar many were drawn to his splendour in the days of his greatness, and remained in that allegiance down into his darkness; and others he corrupted afterwards to his service with lies and treacherous gifts. Dreadful among these spirits were the Valaraukar, ...

When I was younger (20-15 years ago), I accidentally watched something on TV where there's a group of people at a party, dancing. A person comes in with a boombox and turns on his music, which causes people to die, with foam coming out of their ears. This scared me at the time, and it has staye...

I am trying to remember the name of a movie when I was a kid (90s). This is about an alien (I vaguely remember being a black scorpion-ish type) that was moving from human to human (as they got killed) and controlling their mind, making them act violently. The only scene I can clearly remember is...

I remember watching a movie where a young girl (16-21 probably) is blind. Even though I don't remember the whole movie the ending of the movie was that there's a house where this takes place, it's that there are three guys trying to kill her. I think she is left upstairs and these guys they come...

In Deathly Hallows, chapter 'Xenophilius Lovegood', when Mr. Lovegood summons death eaters, they arrive using broomstick instead of simply apparating to his house. I did not understand this part. I know that upon arriving, death eaters discuss that they were not in hurry and it could be a false a...

The edition of Artemis Fowl: the Eternity Code on Google Books, a 2014 collection of books 1–4 of the series by Penguin, reads at a certain point: Juliet had put on her best cutesy voice for the security guide. As quoted in a question. But in the comments on that question, it transpires tha...

As best as I can remember the story is about a female protagonist who has grown extremely discontent with her (now) immortal life, she was one of the original programmers who helped create this omnipotent computer which once built, became self-aware, and made “the change”. Where everyone in reali...

During ANH, Han, Chewbacca, Luke, Obi-Wan and the two droids have left Tatooine aboard the Falcon just in front of the search troops (they fled under blaster blows). At this point, the Empire know that the "two droids they are looking for" are on board in the Falcon. Did the Empire knew the Falc...

The details are very vague in my mind but I'm looking for the name of a book I read probably 7-10 years ago. It is about a young man/teenager that lived in a technologically advanced society where everyone had telepathic or holographic animal familiars. His was a cat. They all lived in a cave or...

Please help, I'm trying to remember the title of a book I read when I was young, so must have been published before the mid 90's. It was about a young boy who discovered a baby dragon on the corpse of its mother who had been hunted by (I think) the boys brother. I think the boy then tried to take...