I have read this short science fiction story in the early 90's and am trying to find the author and the title. I hope someone can help me based on the outline of the plot: Aliens land on Earth and make contact with humans. They start giving away technology that leads to dramatic technological g...

This one should be a lot easier to ID than my inquiry about a movie or show featuring robotic termite-like creatures with some similarity to Zanti Misfits (please see that post if it you have even the vaguest recollection of it). For this inquiry, here is what I recall: A typical housewife (in ...

I remember reading it online about 10 years ago, someone linked the story. There were two sides fighting, one from the future and one from the past, and instead of fighting for land they were fighting for time. The faction from the future was winning because they had better tech, and the line of ...

Are The Adventures of Pinocchio a fantasy and therefore on-topic?

I have been giving a thought to this statement: If Pinocchio’s nose grows whenever he pronounces a false statement, it would make a marvellous tool for science, and Pinocchio could test any hypothesis easily and instantly. source Naturally, Pinocchio is not all-knowing, therefore a questio...

I’m trying to find an anime I use to see about two years ago. It’s similar to attack on titans but different plot to a point. The story line was where these kids get this bracelet embedded in his wrist that connects to his nerves I think and Wields a weapon. There’s five other people with differe...

This was a book I read around ten years ago. I read it in swedish, unknown if it was translated or not. I remember getting it from the "youth/young adult" section of the library, though that library was sometimes confused about what goes in that section so that might not mean much. The story is...

There are numerous episodes of Star Trek: TNG where Captain Picard uses a shuttlecraft: Time Squared Samaritan Snare Liasons Final Mission Timescape Genesis The Enterprise-D also has a Captain's Yacht, the Calypso. According to Memory Alpha, although it was portrayed on display screens, the ...

It was a cartoon with somewhat anatomically proportionate human characters. In one episode (I think) a girl is feeding a plant with (maybe) meat balls until it grows out of control and becomes too dangerous. Then they somehow solve this. I think this episode took place around their home or a res...

Anime where a lot of people had to defeat a demon boss but the main character defeated the demons then the demon boss gave his power to him by going inside him. There was a triangle pyramid with a door on it that opens in the center but when he tried to go inside people tried to kill him with a b...

It was an animated show with somewhat anatomically proportionate human characters. In one episode (I think) a girl is feeding a plant with (maybe) meat balls until it grows out of control and becomes too dangerous. Then they somehow solve this. I think this episode took place around their home o...

This question got me thinking Did any muggle (full blown "pure blood" muggle with no magic; not squib or any wizard with majority muggle relatives) actively fight against Voldemort? Many of the witches and wizards that fought in the BoH (Battle of Hogwarts) were the husbands, wives, relativ...

I saw this movie when I was a very young kid with my grandpa circa 1995-1997. I don't remember when the movie was actually produced, but I have a feeling it wasn't a very old movie, like pre 1990s, or an 80s, 70s movie. It should have been made around 1990-1996. I remember the graphics of the ali...

So a new tag was created the-adventures-of-pinocchio (1 question asked). As of now there is no usage guidance for it. The adventures of Pinocchio has a whole list of adaptations in all forms of media like Movies, Theatre, TV, Musicals etc. So what shall be the scope of this tag? Should it cov...

As I know, the Aurors are trained to fight and capture Dark Wizards...If they guard Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, how come the Auror Office was compromised over the summer between Book 6 and Book 7? How come the aurors ceased to fight Voldemort and Death Eaters when they we...

I'm looking for a collection of short stories that was read to me some time in the late 90's- early 00's (between 1997 and 2001). I recall a number of stories from this book being read to me, but only one story stands out in my mind. I have no idea when the book was published. The book itself was...

One thing I miss in our new theme is our field of stars background image. Now I've noticed that the Mathematics Stack still has its background image, even though it already has the new theme. Can we please have our stars back? The left-nav is in black, so that would need another colour for it ...

Of course you've taken the Tour, read the entire Help section, and know our Code of Conduct by heart. But have you read the Frequently Asked Questions here on meta, that will help you make better use of the main site? You can browse the questions tagged faq, but here are the most important ones,...

So the new theme has launched to beta and is available for testing. One of the most obvious things that is missing is that the site no longer has it's star field custom image background. There is a hint of it left in the top right corner and in the footer (though not the meta footer) but overall ...

This applies to the original fairytale as well. There are tons of little boys at Pleasure Island/Toyland, but not one little girl. However, with the Disney version, one YouTuber said that they heard from their brother that bad girls DO go to the island, only they turn into those big black shadow...

News of the discovery of a potentially habitable planet around the star 40 Eridani A (about 16 light-years away) is interesting for reasons including a 1991 letter described below in Sky & Telescope's recent article Super-Earth Discovered in (Fictional) Vulcan System, part of which is shown below...

This was a short story. Possibly in OMNI magazine, though it could have been elsewhere. Probably published some time in the 1980s. Viewpoint character is a nurse in a special military camp, modern day, constructed near some sort of intermittent time warp. At random intervals, soldiers from a R...

I was trying to find a list of the lengths of the Great Rivers of Middle-earth It would be interesting to see some size comparisons between the Great Rivers of Beleriand like Sirion and Gelion and the ones of Middle-earth in the Third Age. There are different maps showing how Beleriand and Third...

On Ice Fantasy Destiny, some of the characters are reincarnated. For instance, Luo Luo, clearly, is Li Luo, and Feng Suo is Ka Suo. There are also some characters who are not reincarnated at all (Feng Tian, Ying Kong Shi), and at least one character who was reincarnated with all her memories in a...

I was quoting Rouge Angles of Satin (Warning: TVTropes link!) to someone and it made me flash back to a fanfic I read, possibly on the FFML (FanFic Mailing List) around the year 2000, which had a story about the X-Men, but using common misspellings for their names and giving them powers that matc...

I read it probably 15 years ago (1998-2002), while in college. It was on a website devoted to fanfic, but might have originated on the FFML (FanFiction Mailing List). It started with Rahne being trained by Wolverine in the Danger Room shortly after the whole Genosha mutate thing (she was struggli...

In one of Li Luo's past reincarnations (before Luo Luo), she's speaking with one of Ka Suo's reincarnations and says that he was able to escape death by writing "a poem in seven steps." This is clearly a reference to "The Quatrain of Seven Steps," suggesting that Ka Suo's preincarnation is Cao Zh...

Looking for a novel series I read in the 1980s about 4 soldiers (the leader was a US Marine Force Recon member). There was also a Navy Officer, Green Beret soldier and Air Force fighter pilot. They were some sort of special team put together by the last president before the war...and now travel ...

In Star Trek the Wrath of Khan, it is revealed that all starships have a prefix number, allowing other ships to order a starfleet vessel to lower its shields. This was created in case a vessel is captured by an enemy. By the 24th century and beyond, is there any evidence that starfleet vessels s...

So I watched this move a while ago about this dude who is some sort of a police officer or something like that.I don't remember the specifics but i think people where implanted with some sort of a chip or given some sort of a drug to distort their reality.For instance i remember this one scene wh...