This short story was in a Sci-Fi or Fantasy anthology I read in the late 1960s. It involves a scientist who invents a small device with a circular cable loop that is capable of slowing time almost to a standstill for anyone inside the cable loop. The scientist's bad-guy lab assistant steals the d...

What is the name of the early to mid-1950's sci-fi short story in which an asteroid miner and his wife decide to have their pretty, intelligent daughter dumbed down and made less attractive?

I read a sci-fi story in a collection of shorts about 10 years ago, I believe they were stories from 70s possibly and have been trying to track down the title. My recollection is that a number of ships encountered problems with a black hole or similar timey-wimey space object, and the ship belon...

I read this short story maybe about 5-7 years ago, possibly longer. I'm fairly certain it was part of an anthology. It stuck in my mind because I haven't run across that many Christmas horror stories. A woman and her family go to pick out a Christmas tree. They go to the same place every yea...

In Bumblebee (2018), Sally gifts her daughter a helmet: Sally: So, I keep hearing about people on mopeds getting run over and their brains smashed in. You got to wear this from now on. I don't care if it's not the law. It's our law. Why did she say wearing helmets isn’t included in the law ...

I've been trying to find a web-original short story I read a couple years back. I found it on Imgur, text on an image, fairly long, it may have been a 4chan greenpost. The essential premise was a reminiscence from the point of view of aliens encountering humanity. Everything goes really well bu...

Back around the mid-late 2000s I discovered a web comic (it could have been a scan of a physical comic) about a dog and his boy who go on adventures, either in space or underwater - perhaps both. I say 'dog and his boy' because the dog could talk and it was possibly the smarter of the two. I thin...

My children asked me about the oldest movie I can remember (as a kid). It is a movie from before 1977 (probably mid 60's - early 70's) about a house where (children? owners?) were not taking care of the home appliances (I do not remember how exactly, but I think by not cleaning them, etc.) This ...

I don't know where do post this question. Please migerate to appropriate community if possible. Okay I have to post something regarding Black holes since it has been a trend for last few hours and people have been sharing wrong information and praising Interstellar for having accurate simulation...

In The Lego Movie (2014), it seems to be a running gag that the in-world TV show "Where are my Pants?" consists solely of the main (pantsless) character asking his wife "Honey, where are my pants?" in every episode, with the 'pants' part drawn out comically. In the later part of the movie (after ...

It was a comicbook series about fantasy creatures published in the 80s or 90s definitely not online since I was a kid and Internet didn't existed to me. The graphic style was European (bande dessinée) or American. These creatures were bare chested, or wore light clothes, because I remember them ...

I'm looking for the title of a novel. It's about a soldier who returns to Earth after the lunar station he served at was surrendered to the Martians. This was after a long war between the two planets. In New York City, the soldier meets a woman with her daughter who accompany him to his house up...

Given Tony's resources, why hasn't he found the Defenders? Especially considering the fact that all four reside in New York City (the same city where Spidey lives) and three of the four have done precisely nothing to protect their secret identities. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand shoul...

In the book Eona, towards the end, it is revealed that (major spoilers) If the dragons didn’t make this rule, who did? Why did they limit the Dragoneyes’ power?

In the past I always thought that the Constitution class was the pinnacle of human technology at the time of Kirk and slightly before (Pike's time). It represented the best both in terms of technology and in terms of combat capabilities that the federation had to offer. The first season of Disco...

In season 14 episode 18, Jack has killed Mary by disintegrating her. He goes through lengths to get Rowena to create a spell that will bring her back. The body that was eventually brought back was just a replica. Why couldn't Jack have just used his powers directly to reconstruct Mary's body on ...

I'm referring to Pickard, Riker, Data, Worf, Geordi, Dr. Crusher, Wesley Crusher, Chief Obrien's family and self, Deanna Troy, Guinan. I know Pickard and Worf show up on DS9, though I haven't seen it myself. I'm curious what happened to the characters after that last episode of TNG?

The story opens with the protagonist as the 'Mayor' of a town, engaging in some standard actions (cutting ribbons to open a mall or some such.) It turns out he's traveling around and taking whatever role he feels like in each town, as he's either the last man on Earth or one of the very last. (...

During one of the Divination lessons with Firenze in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, he mentions a prediction of a war they were going to have. When leaving the classroom, Ron says: I mean, I could do with a few more details about this war we’re about to have, couldn’t you? Is Fi...

Any ideas what story this might be? My Grammie told me about it and I'm trying to find it. TIA

This question reminded me of a very vaguely recalled short story, most likely from the early '00s or '90s (and probably in a magazine like F&SF, Asimov's or Analog), of a space ship that can easily travel incredibly far, galaxies clusters away, in some far future when humans commonly can and do p...

Why do all the names of the converted characters in the Adventure Time miniseries Elements (2016) who were changed into elements rhyme? Like Marshmalline the campfire queen And I'm sure there are others, why is this?

This is held by someone in the trailer. It looks familiar but I can't place it. Is it something from existing Star Was lore?

How did shermy get the Finn sword? Wasn't it destroyed and turned into fern the human? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSKlRcpZx1_vI3BkNf_tPnRMsoOqlZiWP5xAzAM9Ir15S5djYDH

He lived in the only way available to him (and an interloper human decided to question 800 thousand years of evolution which the Morlock clearly thought presumptuous) and explained very lucidly to Alexander why he could not change time. He could have simply killed him but instead offered to let h...

Other than the TOS black star, the naked singularity of the Romulan engines, and the Enterprise episode "Singularity", were there other references to black holes in any of the Star Trek TV shows?