This was a uk paperback, somehow the protagonist was on Venus with two or three companions. They discovered that 'The jungles' are populated by tribes of wild humans transplanted from Earth. Venus has long been ruled by Martians who stomp about in tripods and hunt the humans for sport. The prota...

I read that story in the 90's or early 2000's. I'm quite sure it was a series, but I read only the first book. It was the French translation, so it is very possible that the story dates from earlier. What I remember so far: The aliens had created a vast network of underground tunnels under the...

A couple years ago I watched an anime on Netflix.. maybe 2015-2017... it was about a girl who’s mom I think worked at some government or intergalactic facility that kept an eye on aliens (who looked like regular people but just weren’t living on earth). The girl for some reason goes into the site...

I read this story in the 70s or 80s (it might however be older). I think it was a short story, and not a novel. These are two scenes i remember: In the beginning of the story a guy (lets call him A) sits in room, when suddenly a disk appears and somebody (B) drops through it (it turns out it is...

I am trying to remember the name of a short story (or novella). It is about a lowly menial robot that collects trash or something like that in Chicago who gains some measure of self-awareness. Eventually, we learn that a central AI controls everything, and humans are kept in stasis. The robot ina...

In DC comics, Steppenwolf is uncle of Darkseid but their relation was not made clear in Justice League (2017) film. I read many CBR and other sources which contradicted about it, few claimed that their relation is same as comics and few claim that it's just opposite. Did they ever clear their rel...

We see some of the characters showing up in different story lines. The setting of most if not all comics seems some medieval / fantasy world. But do all comics actually share this same world? This was prompted by the comic "Clumsy Fetish", which is NSFW, so I won't link to it. It does seem to...

In the final episode of Orphan Black, we see Sarah, Kira, and Felix go fishing. How much time has passed since Sarah witnessed Beth's suicide in S1E1? And for bonus points a bounty, what's the entire timeline for all events, including those seen in flashbacks or photographs?

In Ready Player One, completers of the second gate received a choice of a giant Robot: Then something strange happened—something that had never happened when I’d beaten the original game. One of the “wise men” from the dungeon appeared on the screen, with a speech balloon that said, “Than...

While Star Trek has had android characters for some time (most notably Data and his Soong-type brethren), and we do see that such androids do take part in combat from time to time, I realized that I can't recall ever seeing any purpose-built artificial combat creatures - that is, creatures that a...

I can remember that the colony at Barnard's Star is eventually dubbed "Sorrow" by Conrad Mursk and there's a colony around one of the Wolf series stars called Pup but I seem to remember that there are half a dozen colony Stars listed in Lost in Transmission what are they and more importantly what...

Shai Alyt Shakiri of the family Kort. Was that a deliberate joke referring to the Family Court tv show?

I'm not sure i really need to elaborate on this question much, master's Tigress, Viper, Crane, Mantis and Monkey are all named after the animal that they are when almost no-one else in the fictionalised setting seems to be (indeed actually no-one in the first movie) , not even Po, the only known ...

Can someone who becomes a Red Lantern become "good" again i.e. control the anger and return to normal?

Ages ago, I read a sci-fi book about an alien telepath, very human in shape, who can suck knowledge, experiences, and personalities out from the brain of humans, killing them in the process. He tries to climb up the 'social ladder', getting a high-profile fiancee, using the skills he 'learned' fr...

I was just thinking about Ascension again and realized that there appears to be a rather bad plot hole. Perhaps I don't understand the context though? Early in series, Christa is on the observation area and looks up through the dome. She then says something about how the red nebula is bad and th...

A common plot device in the 1980's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon is the Dimensional Portal, which operates in a similar manner to a Stargate, except for the fact that it links parallel dimensions rather than different points in a single dimension. Most of the time (at least 90%) of the ti...

If we take into account if he IS an ogre. I mean, the Magic Mirror was seen in Far Far Away in the AU, so people have guessed that Rumpel also took over Duloc.

A recent Q&A brought up a particular quote that made me wonder about Professor Quirrell's character. The quote is from Dumbledore: Quirrell, full of hatred, greed and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by somet...

In the Death Note anime episode 30, Near has a call with L2, aka Light and the task force. When he gets the information that a Shimigami is in the room with them, he concludes that Kira must be in the room. Why is it so? Or, if it's logical, why nobody else, especially Light thought about it?

Its pretty well known in Stephen King fandom that most if not all of his works are connected through The Dark Tower series. But I'm curious if there are any of Stephen King's works which are not connected to The Dark Tower? Either because we don't know exactly how or because its explicitly known ...

Was the cryptozoological creature known as “Bigfoot” ever a good guy in films/tv shows outside of “Harry and the hendersons”? I’m asking mostly for curiosities sake and I’m not sure if this question had ever been asked before. I would ask it on the movies and tv list,but I’m no longer allowed to ...

Im pretty sure that werewolves are magical creatures and by extention, have magic in them. So if a muggle was to get bitten by a warewolf and survive to become a warewolf, would they be able to learn magic or at least have the ability to see other magical creatures such as dementors? Edit: werew...