When a person gets "infested" with a Denarian shadow, does the Fallen from who that Shadow is a copy of have access to any knowledge about what that shadow then goes on to learn/do? For instance: Shadow Fallen knows Fact A and therefore Actual Fallen also knows Fact A automatically. Or is the ...

Because if you think about it, he technically might have, without knowing it. If Farquaad succeeded in marrying Fiona, he may be happy about inheriting a much larger land and would want Far Far Away more Duloc-ish and get rid of the magical creatures there.

This brief story is a future chronicle that looks back at the previous few decades. After the first Martian samples were sent back to the Earth, one plague after another decimated the population. HIV was nothing compared to these afflictions, which ruined lives and devastated society. By the end ...

A cautionary tale of the "if this goes on..." ilk. The government, which includes all humanity, sets down a law that copyright and royalties apply to any musical theme, and with the aid of computers manages to keep track of them. Although at first this is seen as a boon to composers, as the centu...

A new art form has captured the world's attention: the reconstruction of past personalities based on their works and historical records. When the Richard Strauss, composer of such works as Also Sprach Zarathustra [the theme music at the beginning of "2001: A Space Odyssey"!] is resurrected, he un...

I remember reading a novel about a city that moved across the landscape by continually being disassembled at the rear and those materials used to build at the front. The inhabitants had to walk from the back to the front when they were displaced. In the story the city has stopped, and eventually ...

Beginning in Third Year, students take elective courses in addition to the core courses they had been taking the previous two years. From Chapter Fourteen of Chamber of Secrets: The second years were given something new to think about during their Easter holidays. The time had come to choose ...

A boy is resting in bed when he feels an insect sting. Now he is paralyzed and anaesthetized, and he watches in horrid fascination as a stream of antlike insects digs a hole into his abdomen. Presently there is one stream of insects going in empty-handed while another stream leaves carrying littl...

I remember a very creepy short story by Lord Dunsany, set more or less in the real world - the reader will hope it is less. I read it during the previous millennium, probably in a book of stories by Lord Dunsany. I think I remember that the story was a Jorkens story, but unusually told not by J...

This was a series of books published prior to the mid-seventies: Trilogy; Full colour illustrations; Adult central character, not a child; Aliens schooled in water, but were, individually, very small; Possibly brought to Earth accidentally in some form of probe/research rocket.

I would have read this about 20-25 years ago. I believe the subject was an alien individual, but it could have been a non-standard human instead. The hook of the story was that the subject lacked an organ like the Corpus Callosum that allows the halves of the brain to communicate efficiently, a...

In Avengers-Endgame after all superheroes return with infinity stones from their respective timelines, We see that Hawk-Eye returns with soul-stone and Rhodes return with power-stone. Here Nebula and Natasha fail to return. Everyone is so depressed and concerned about Natasha but no one gives ...

I am forced to watch these Marvel Movies in the following order (I have seen every other movie already, only those remain): Captain Marvel Avengers: Infinity War Ant-Man & the Wasp Avengers: Endgame Reasons are limited remaining airing time of Captain Marvel at my local theatre and difficulti...