Probably 1980s. I remember a book that was one of those story-within-a-story novels. The 'outer' story was about a girl that lived (possibly captured) in a magical tower with a spiral staircase and a magical library containing all the books in the world, including those books that hadn't been wr...

Did the writers of the Star Trek movies or series have a major part in writing the technical manuals? How much of it was not from video or the script?

In The Menagerie, we learn that traveling to Talos IV isn't just a bad idea, it can literally get you killed under General Order 7 Starfleet General Order 7 was a directive that forbade contact with the planet Talos IV. It specifically stated, "No vessel under any condition, emergency or othe...

Is there some meaning to that symbolic message? If yes, then what is that?

I read this short story maybe 10-12 years ago, about an explorer who discovers or goes looking for a mysterious tribe, I think in South America or possibly Africa. There might be something about shrunken heads or they know the secret of making them. He refers to their queen as a ‘Venus’ with da...

It's not Star Trek Into Darkness.

It was about this boy who meets this guy. Something happens where the guy is killed by bad guys as the kid escapes to a pocket dimension. It turns out that the guy and all the inhabitants are versions of himself, old, young, male, female, even a few animals(?). He is an outcast here and few peopl...

We see Sam revealing Jon's true identity to him at the crypts of Winterfell. There he refers to him as Aegon the Sixth. However, Aegon VI was the son of Rhaegar and Elia Martell and was born before Jon Snow. So Jon Snow should be Aegon VII Targaryen. Am I missing something?

One of the Showrunners in the Behind the Episode interview said: Obviously in the books we learn about the Dragonseed and House Velaryon dragonriders. Have they been removed from the Show's history?

I’m building a group of magical civilisations, in which there are seven suns, orbiting a much larger sun, each with their own planets. There are forty planets in total. Some are moons orbiting gas giants. The civilisation was built as a kind of zoo by a now departed alien race, and humans were on...

In Infinity War, when Thor first talks to the Guardians, he told them that Thanos killed half the people on his ship. Untrue. He killed everyone except Thor. Nobody was moving except for Thor and Loki, and then Loki got killed. Thanos then blew up the ship. Nobody was alive on that ship except Th...

I asked why there are differences between the models of communicators shown here: Why do these communicators from Star Trek differ? How can I be more clear?

In season 07, last episode, we saw that the Night King broke the Wall and invade Castle Black with all its troop and White Walkers. Maybe I haven't caught it, but how could the Night King break the Wall but was not able to do that in the past?

This question contains spoilers for Season 8 Episode 1. So my question:

In the picture below, the communicators buttons and pattern in the center differ from each other. Was there any direct intent to make them look different from although still similar to each other? It could be random but the middle button the same. Remember, they didn't have cell phones then. A...

Why did they make characters like Gendry to have blonde beard when he has black hair? Or Daenerys to have black eyebrows, when she has silver hair.

In S07E07, “The Dragon and the Wolf”, of Game of Thrones, We see Tyrion noticing this & there is a worried look on his face and clear disapproval. In S08E01, “Winterfell”, when Ser Davos proposes their marriage, Tyrion comments that they make a lovely couple. Earlier, when Dany is sai...

I want to know here is there any logic, law or rule where Thanos determines that these set of people will die. As in the movie some people get died while others were alive. Is there any dna-algorithm or anything likes that which removes half of the population or it is just remove half of the wo...

At the very end of Philosopher's Stone we are told the following: notes were handed out to all students, warning them not to use magic over the holidays ("I always hope they'll forget to give us these," said Fred Weasley sadly); This makes it seem like not giving out the notes would have ma...

WARNING: this question is about the latest novel in the Gaunt's Ghosts series by Dan Abnett. It's really hard to ask it without spoiling anything about the story arc set up in Salvation's Reach and continued through The Warmaster and The Anarch, so if you haven't read those, please stop reading h...

The prolific science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe is dead at 87. He is probably best known for the "dying Earth" tetralogy The Book of the New Sun and the rest of the Solar Cycle, but his career spanned six decades and many award-winning and award-nominated novels, novellas and short st...

I'm not too far in to the series at the moment, but so far every time someone has ordered something on the replicator it tells them about its nutritional properties. Why would it do this?

I know the palantír can be used to see afar or communicate with other palantíri, but is there a device, character, or magical ability that allows one character to possess the consciousness and/or body of another being?

In The Final Empire, noblemen are mentioned frequently to have “dueling canes” on them. What were these used for? Were they just canes, or did noblemen use them in duels, as the name suggests?

In S08E01 of Game of Thrones, we see this message: We have seen this several times, the symbol drawn with horse heads, the stones around the weirwood where white walkers are created and in some caves, drawn by Children of the Forest. Do we know the meaning behind this symbol? Does it or some...