So my dad was telling me the other day that he used to read a lot of short sci fi stories in the 70s and he mentioned one story in particular but has long since forgotten what it's called and who it's written by. I wondered if anyone else might have read it and could perhaps tell me the name of t...

am looking for a manga that a guy is transported in a dungeon and was forced to work there for a living. I remember there was a part that he made a friend that is a lizard kin and a powerful dragon. Tho the dragon is only supporting the mc because she want food from him. And the main objective ...

I remember reading a story in the nineties, probably published in the eighties or a bit earlier. It involved a sinister villain trapping some kids in a cave full of hibernating rattlesnakes. There was either a river in the cave or a flashflood at the end that enabled the kids to escape, and the...

Many years ago I read an old sci-fi novel - when I say old, I suspect it was from about the 1950's or so. The elements I can remember are an experiment where a cube is cooled to below absolute zero and that it then punches a hole into another dimension. They try to get people to look through t...

I am curious how fast can the Xenomorph to build an hive? Does it only take 1 days? Let's say Alien vs Predator: Requiem. There is a scene that the hospital is target where Predalien Queen start build her Hive and create an army of Xenomorph. It feel like only take a couple hour to make the who...

I heard a description of a book in 2015 or 2016 in school. The target audience was probably 8-12 years old, but the teacher did say that it was more difficult than the other choices to read for 6th graders (which included Dark Life). This book was about a really smart teenager (I believe 17) who...

In S08E03 Was there any real indication prior to this season that she may be the one to do it. I know in the episode that Melisandre quotes herself from S03Ep06 in reference to blue eyes. The fact that it is a reference to earlier indicates that it may have been foreshadowing, but it seems a b...

The iridium was stored in a vault which has an iris scanner. Loki seemed to have gouged out the eyeball of Henrich Shafer to access this. However, I'm wondering why Loki didn't just use his scepter? I see two ways he could've done it using the scepter: Use the scepter to blast the door open sin...

Hi I'm looking for am old cartoon that i watched back in like the early 90s not sure when it was made but it was a short for sure it was about an alien robot insect/ spider? that crash lands some where in an urban environment an there was a superhero that was killed by it an a kid ended up climb...

I would appreciate some help finding a story I read on lightspeedmagazine.com whose title I've forgotten. The details I recall are: The lady had a job involving investigation in some form There is a pre-party which she skips out on Sometime early during the conference a version of herself is m...

This was definitely not a movie I was supposed to be watching for my age. That's the reason this movie is very faint in my memory. I have spent well over 4 hours, on and off, looking for this movie with no avail. This is all I remember (no sure if all accurate) *Movie had robots that some ended ...

In Endgame, after the Avengers (Tony, Banner and Rocket) together work on Is there a reason why they did this ?

In Westwood Command and Conquer Red Alert 1, 2, 3 every theme song, which is basically a remix of the former, has this one lyric: A male voice shouts something like "These warcraft expects" or something... What is it really? It would be weird if it really had the word "warcraft" in it since th...

When Alice escapes the hospital she's barefoot. Then when she gets to the roof she suddenly has boots on. How did she get boots on when the whole time we saw her escaping the hospital she was escaping them barefoot, running up to the roof, and didn't stop? So how did she suddenly get boots on?

This is a short story I read in the late 80s or early 90s in an anthology or collection. Here are the plot points I remember: A human spaceship encounters a ship with hostile aliens (HA). There may be friendly aliens (FA) on board the human spaceship A human (or perhaps FA) telepath scans the ...

What does it take to capture/sack a slave city by conventional armies? Could an army of 8000 Unsullied with a few thousand Dothraki do it by any chance?

We have all read about the prosperous and long reign of Jahaerys I, The Conciliator and Good Queen Alyssane. He is regarded as the best Targaryen monarch. However, the question is how much of his success was due to his own skill and how much was due to people like Septon Barth, Grand Maester Be...

When I was younger, I was a huge Batman fan. I bought his comics, watched the TV shows, and had deep admiration for his story, character, and his lifestyle of day-time billionaire, night-time vigilante. In my opinion, Nolan’s trilogy was the best ever superhero movie trilogy, because it embodies ...

My first SciFi book I ever read was in early 1950's in Europe (prob. 1952) and it had 10 stories about a different form of life on every planet, including the sun. All I can really remember is that the life on the sun was organized plasma streams on the sun's outer layers, and the life on Pluto w...

Everyone read countless theories about season 8 such as Bran being NK, Little finger being alive and many more. Is there anyone who predicted this is how season gonna turn out? Arya killing Night King, bran being completely useless(till episode 5), Danny being Mad queen and any other.

One can easily find criticism of the Resistance's use of MG-100 StarFortress SF-17 to take out the First Order's Fulminatrix dreadnought. While a single bomber appeared to handily take down the dreadnought itself, in general, the bombers were helpless against its starfighter defenses. Critics s...

Arya and the Hound were planning to stride right into King's Landing, but they were briefly stopped by a Northern guard before the duo breezed past him on their way. However, how did they get into the city? At that point, King's Landing was locked down and fortified; the gates and walls were line...

After the Mountain (Ser Gregor Clegane) and the Viper duel, everyone believes the Mountain to be dead. Only Cersei Lannister (and maybe very few others?) know that Qyburn has animated the Mountain's corpse into a zombie. The Mo...

In the film, the Goblet of Fire, Harry is seen waking up at the Weasley residence. But at the beginning of the Order of the Phoenix he is back at the Dudley's. Why did he go back after running away during the events of the Prisoner of Azkaban?

Hogwarts seems to house many ghosts but has it ever been mentioned in the narrative, of ghosts that reside outside the castle? At Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, for instance? Or at the Ministry? It's been a while since I read HP so I might have missed some obvious clues. Rowena Ravenclaw/Grey Lady ...

I think there is a reason for every popular romance to be popular. But when I read the Gambler I didn't find any interesting reason. Such an interesting reason which makes this romance such popular.

What crimes are punished with sentences in Azkaban? Or what must be proved in a trial to merit a stay in Azkaban other than murder?

Herman Wouk, the author of The Caine Mutiny and other mainstream novels, died yesterday (May 17, 2019). I got a real kick out of reading his one science fiction work, a brief novel called The "Lomokome" Papers (1968) (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?157061), a sheaf of loose papers that a res...

After the events of Endgame, are the Sokovia Accords still in effct

Is Stargate: The ark of truth & Covenant are these movies or n the series?

In The Deathly Hollows, Neville reveals how he managed to create a tunnel between the Room of Requirement and Hogsmeade: "It's quite straightforward, really," said Neville modestly. "I'd been in here about a day and a half, and getting really hungry, and wishing I could get something to eat,...