In the Dune film adaptation, Duke Leto Atreides possesses a pug (a dog) that appears in several scenes. At one point, Gurney Halleck, as portrayed by Patrick Stewart carries it into battle. I don't remember reading in the book that Leto had a dog at all, although I could be mistaken. In-universe,...

In La Passe-Miroir (The Mirror Visitor) series, by Christelle Dabos, there are various arks, or floating isles. Each has a family spirit with various powers, inherited in part by their descendents. Now, Farouk of the Pole has mental powers1 of all sorts. We know that among these powers must be ...

During the Elseworlds crossover for the CW shows Arrow, Flash and Supergirl the android Amazo is activated. Cisco and Caitlin determine that the robot was built to track (and copy) metahuman powers. But Superman and Supergirl get copied as well. Their powers are not meta in nature at all, are ...

Having read Lloyd Alexander's best known works, The Chronicles of Prydain, when I was six or seven, I sought out the rest of his then-existent oeuvre a few years later. For whatever reason, I read the rest of his books roughly in the order in which he wrote them. So I finished The Marvelous Mis...

Itching question that has been in my brain for years. Read a comic from the library back in 1993-1994. Short story, colorized, likely anthology format. Story line along the veins of Conan with heroic male protagonist and a female companion on a quest. Both scantily dressed. Fighting enemies that ...

In Ep. VI, Luke is captured by the Empire and brought before the Emperor. The Emperor taunts Luke, telling him "Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen" and that he has specifically foreseen the doom of the Rebel Alliance. Of course, we find that this is not the actual outcome. What is the a...

I’m not a comic book junkie as most who follow the MCU, but I’d like the storyline to make at least minimal logic. Here’s my quandary... Ego was alone in ALL of the Universe for millions of years as he began to learn without being taught by any older being. That’s odd in itself, but not the ques...

Hello everyone and thanks in advance for any answers you can provide! I'm struggling to get the title of a young-adult vampire horror/romance short novel that was written in the 90s about a teenage girl named Christina (I believe) who moves to a new creepy town where she meets a vampire and invit...

At the end of The Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers, Sam puts the Ring on to hide from orcs and then follow them, and afterwards passes out. Now the flicker of approaching torches and the clink of steel ahead was very near. In a minute they would reach the top and be on him. He had taken too lon...

In this scene after Bilbo leaves, Gandalf seals the One Ring inside an envelope. He seems to fear touching it. He very briefly touched it when it lay on the floor inside Bilbo's home. That provoked the ring, or allowed Gandalf to sense some malevolent presence w...

After the duel between Saruman and Gandalf in which Gandalf is bested, he is sent to stay on the pinnacle of the Orthanc. Gandalf then whispers a message to a moth that happens to appear. I know that the message involves the calling of an eagle, for that becomes obvious ten minutes later. H...

I can’t remember the name of a book and it’s driving me crazy! It’s about a girl who discovered she had powers when she was a kid while she was dancing she started to float. When she goes to college she meets an Irish exchange student and falls in love. She goes with him to study abroad in Irelan...

The story is from a comic book I read in the 90s. The X-Men discover a mutant boy, maybe 6 to 10 years of age, whose mutant power is pyrokinesis. I faintly remember that the boy was a sweet little kid who seemed to take a liking to the X-Men but after a mob assaulted him he caused serious havoc...

There is an invading force on the shape of a crescent. Supersmart aliens gather as many aliens from the galaxy as they can. The main character is told he needs to form bonds with the humans to make him a better fighter. Then he is put on a space ship with other aliens. The human fights all and wi...

Quenya, the popular Elvish language is used in all the Lord of the Rings books and movies and appears very beautiful due to its flowing letters and has a charismatic visual appeal. How would I go about learning the Quenya alphabet and word definitons?

I remember reading a novella or novel about a group of colonists deliberately stranded on an alien planet. There are almost no resources on the planet but they survive by eating a native plant from which they gain a superpower. When the ship returns they use the superpower to capture the ship and...

Hogwarts is definitely not wheelchair friendly

There are lots of planets in the cosmere. However, it's not clear which one has the largest population, or how it might compare to the population of Earth at an equivalent technological level. Roshar seems like a good candidate for the most populous planet, since it seemingly has dozens of coun...

So, i've read the book Hammer and Anvil by James Swallow and i'm a bit confused. I really like the Adepta Sororita, but even so i'm still puzzled as how a simple sister could actually win against an army of necron or win against a necron warlord. In the book, at the end: As i know even a who...

There is a book I saw once in the bookstore and have always regretted not reading. The concept was that society is so advanced that everyone has a computer linked to their brains to help them process the overwhelming amount of information they encounter. Crimes are punished by disconnecting that...

After Voldemort is defeated at the end of The Deathly Hallows, it's mentioned that all the people under the Imperius Curse were freed. Does that mean that Voldemort was controlling all the Imperius'd? Considering people like Stan Shunpike wouldn't have come into contact with Voldemort til later ...

In the opening scene of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, we see a submarine crew discovering their submarine is not the largest thing in the bay. If I recall correctly, they weren't worried about that initially, figuring that there wasn't anything large left alive in the bay. How long after the e...

We Know that Harry Potter Got one cloak from his father, James Potter. We also know from the fourth book of Harry Potter that Mad-Eye Moody also has an invisibility cloak. I was under the impression that there was only one invisibility cloak that was made by Death and given to one of the Peverall...

I have just watched the Spiderman: Far From Home trailer, and I'm confused. If this is an MCU-connected film, does Disney/Marvel own the rights? Or does Sony Pictures? I thought Disney/Marvel owned the MCU films/stories, but the trailer is put out by Sony Pictures, which I didn't think Disney o...

I read it as a teen between 1989-1991, and have ever since wanted to re-read it. I think it was normal, adult fantasy fiction rather than a "young adult" book. These are the few images I retain from the book: - Published either by a feminist publisher or otherwise as part of a showcase of wo...

Does Jules Verne ever say where the Nautilus was built or constructed? Maybe in another book that i have not read it is stated the location.

I was watching Zeta and realized that characters seem to walk or even run around fine for the most part, but then when they need to move quickly or ascend, they simply jump and float to where they need to go or grab onto one of those handrails. if the gravity is low enough to float around like t...

In Harry Potter and The chamber of Secrets, Dobby tries to keep Harry out of school, and when that fails, dobby tried to injury Harry so he would leave. we know that he tampered with a bludger so it would aim only for Harry, but how could dobby have gotten to the bludger and cursed it? The bludge...

They learn through Cassian that an Imperial Pilot defector was sent by Galen Erso with a message to Saw Gerrera and that he claims the Empire is building a planet killer. Why didn't they just contact Saw directly or just directly go for Galen to either question or just kill him (like they tell C...

The trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home has just been released: With Tom Holland being in this film it gives some interesting insight into what might happen in Avengers: Endgame. However, that depends on when it is set in the in universe timeline. Where does...

Is there a name for the element Tony Stark rediscovered during Iron Man 2.? And is it being actively and currently used to power all his suits including the latest nano tech bleeding edge armor mark 50?

What was the name and author of the sci fi story about a group of big game hunters in Canada who end up being hunted by an alien panda with tentacles? I read this story when I was a boy in the late 1960’s.

In Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Dooku fights Kenobi and Anakin in front of the 'captured' Palpatine. At the end of the duel, Anakin disarms (and dis-hands) Dooku and takes his lightsaber (and uses it, along with his own saber, to decapitate Dooku). Anakin then 'pilots' the ship...

Who is the Water villain being shown in the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer? Is that Hydro-Man or an Elemental?

I don't quite understand where in MCU events of Spider-man: Far From Home take place. Are they before Avengers: Infinity War or after Avengers: Endgame?