The fanfic chapter in question. (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5189535/3/Of-Gods-and-Mortals) The passage in question follows below. "HEY!" yelled someone. I jerked back as a series of crashes landed on the TARDIS doors. I moment later I realised that that it had been Haruhi knocking. Can't tha...

"The Shunned House" is one of my favorite stories by H. P. Lovecraft, although that is probably a minority opinion. One of the things that is notable about it is the detail with which he describes the eponymous haunted house, starting right near the beginning of the story. Despite Lovecraft's r...

In "All Our Yesterdays" Spock says something like "Arrrghhh, I've eaten animal flesh" with much regret. It indicated that traveling that far back in time messed up his Vulcan mindset. So I assume he's normally either vegetarian or all out vegan. McCoy flashes smuggled Klingon ale at Kirk from ...

In Philip K. Dick's dystopian sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, bounty hunter Rick Deckard is assigned to track down, identify, and "retire" six rogue Nexus 6 androids (or "andys") that have illegally escaped to Earth from Mars. He is provided with equipment to perform the Voigt...

I've seen Blade Runner many times but I'm currently reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep for the first time and I find myself wondering something I've never considered before: Why does Deckard need to use the Voight-Kampf test on the remaining escaped androids? I know he needs to use them...

Science fiction short story in an anthology or omnibus, about a space salvage tug called the Dido, which salvages a passenger ship, but loses control of it during reentry to earth orbit, and it crashes onto a bomb factory owned by a totalitarian regime, who claim it was deliberate. The story c...

Not being an english native speaker, sometimes it's hard to understand the joke in a few comic strips. I believe that this is one of those cases. What's the joke in this strip? The most I can understand, is that the sound Calvin's shoes are making is the same as their name, but I'm not sure...

Anime in which a boy who follows a goddess and has some fire ball powers. The powers are like images on his back which only the goddess can read. He goes into the tower to kill monsters which turn into crystals with size proportional to the monster's size and the number and ferociousness of monst...

In the special edition, you see his one-with-the-force ghost, but he didn’t disappear like Obi-Wan or Yoda. Any good explanations as to why this is the case?

Termina is the land where the story of Majora's Mask takes place However, if I understood the story line correctly (I might not have, so please correct me here if I'm wrong), MM takes place after the events of Ocarina of Time In the beginning of OoT, kid Link lives in the Kokiri forest. At ...

Voldemort was in the center of the battle, and he was striking and smiting all within reach. Harry could not get a clear shot, but fought his way nearer, still invisible, and the Great Hall became more and more crowded as everyone who could walk forced their way inside. Harry saw Yaxley s...

I am trying to discover the name of a book recommended to me by my school physics teacher some 48 years ago. The premise of the book is that the proponents visit a world where the speed of light is comparable to the speed of sound and how this affects all aspects of life.

I’m looking for a Harry Potter fanfiction wherein Harry is adopted by Original Characters and has an LGBT Original Character sister, I don’t remember anything else, but I need to know the name, and wheaher it was good, so please find it for me...

In the most recent season of Venture Brothers, we've learned more about how the OSI and GCI handle 'protagonist' and 'antagonist' relations respectively. They say a 'mad scientist' falls under the GCI's control, even though the scientist was at one time a normal scientist. Where do Anti-Heroe...

We know that Vulcans are non emotional most of the time and consider any expression of passion unacceptable. Except from when they experience pon farr every seven years - which apparently the way for them to procreate. We also know pon farr is going same way for males and females (reference T'Pol...

I remember from the TV series Lost in Space in the 60s about the use of a hydroponic garden as a method of plant-growth without soil but I ask when hydroponics was used successfully or not in a sci-fi movie.

looking for a scifi/fantasy book main character is a human boy with his arm replaced with a magic one, and his companions are his vampire girlfriend and a barbarian girl whose skin is turning to stone

In The Magicians by Lev Grossmman, My question is, what bull is she referring to? And who is she?

Based on the first Mistborn trilogy, it seems that unlike Allomancy, if you were a Feruchemist, you were able to use a Metalmind made of any metal. However, in the Wax Wayne trilogy, it is clear that most (if not all) Feruchemists can only tap into one Metalmind. Was Feruchemy always like this -...

As noted many times in the Mistborn trilogy (I can't remember any exact text), Feruchemists used to keep Metalminds on their bodies - including earrings - to store Feruchemical attributes. It was later revealed that Ruin was able to control any being who's body was pierced with metal which means ...

I work in a library and we had a young patron give us a description of a children's picture book that she can't remember the title of. She's been looking for this book for a long time and no one seems to be able to make sense of what she's provided. It would have been helpful to have a date on t...

I am afraid I may ignore new series which could proove to be good reading, and I may have missed many in the past. Could any of you be so kind to make a list of 'musts' (which may encounter my taste....)? I liked : 'The saga of pliocene exile series' (perhaps aka 'the many couloured land) 'The wh...

Why does Naruto run like this? It looks silly to me, and I'm not seeing the advantage.

Is there a Dr Who stage play available for production?

This series follows a tattooed protagonist through progressive attempts to escape the maze that his race was imprisoned in.

Why do, in movies and tv shows, humans die after being killed and /or bitten and instantly awaken as a fully decayed corpse within a matter of seconds. It just doesn't make sense, wouldn't there have to be a significant amount of time between death and reawakening for such a drastic change to occ...