I read this book back in the 90s but it could have been published earlier. It was a fantasy novel and begins in a city. It think i remember it starts with an assassin killing a few guards and then getting ready to kill a king or duke, but then is killed himself by a witch or female demon with mag...

I read a science fiction book a while back, and want to read it again! It had something to do with humans that had evolved into bird/lizard-like people that were taller and lived in the trees. Also standard humans that were considered short and strong by the bird people, I think they called the s...

Are there any in-universe explanations that could explain the actions actions attributed to the lord of light, other than the idea that he exists and is behind them?

At the end of Game of Thrones S08E06, we see that But why does anyone want to vote for him to be King? The world of Game of Thrones has always been a very pragmatic one: those in power take actions to further their own power, not for some idea of a "common good". They are certainly not likely ...

Someone receives an artifact which is the model of a ship. He immediately is teleported on top of the ship which becomes life-size and drops in a large ocean. There are two sides in the ocean, one which represents males and one which represents females. I read this maybe 10 years ago, but I thin...

Is there any reason why she is alone in the throne room? What if someone was waiting to ambush her? It makes no sense.

In one episode of ''Orphan Black'''s 5th season, Rachel drinks several glasses of vodka. How is she still standing, let alone walking and talking with no sign of inebriation?

In Orphan Black, Henrik Johansson orders Mark Rollins to kill Why?

When Daenerys first acquires the Unsullied none of them knew how to speak the common tongue. This is primarily exampled by Grey Worm having to take many lessons from Missandei (ex. S04E04), as well as Daenerys always speaking valyrian when she address them. (And at no point do we ever hear/see th...

This is a question about the fantasy background of a video game. In the 1990s, Capcom produced a large number of side-scrolling beat-em-up video games. Many of these had science fiction or fantasy themes, and the most elaborate ones were the Dungeons & Dragons games Tower of Doom and Shadow Ove...

In the last episode of game of thrones, Sansa asks that the North becomes independent and Bran allows it. Seeing this, Why didn't the other rulers ask for the same thing? Especially Dorne and the Iron Islands.

In S0806 of Game of Thrones, we see Daenerys speaking to the hordes of living Dothraki from a high dais. Are these random words spoken out of blue or do they have any significance?

Deductively Jon and Deanerys in the Game of Throwns were of the same blood and were able able to ride a dragon. Jon was resurrected by the God of Light and Daenerys invincibility to fire seem to align indirectly. Is it feasible that Daenerys could also be brought back in the same way by Bronn if ...

YA trilogy. The first book has 2 clones living in a very controlled environment but separate from each other. They eventually find out about each other and escape. Vaguely remember that the first book had a title like race against time. Second book title had something to do with the number 2; th...

The Targaryen banner in S08E06 had a dragon with 4 legs. This is contrary to the official Targaryen sigil. Have we seen seen this banner before? Or is it the first time?

Worf was born in the Klingon Empire to Klingon parents, orphaned, raised by humans, and became a Starfleet officer. Which citizenship(s) does he hold? Klingon? Federation? Both? Sources, please (not speculation). This answer claims he is (at least) a Klingon citizen because he was born on t...

I'm looking for a book that I read in the mid 90s. It was about 3 sisters meeting Morgan le fey in modern times and training to be witches. The overall plot assumes the legend if king Arthur was wrong, and Merlin was the evil one. The three sisters all had one unique power to each of them, one of...

Earlier Jon didn't touched his dire wolf Quote from the huffpost: Episode 4 director David Nutter told HuffPost that Jon just gave Ghost a look because the dire wolves are CG creations. “We felt it best to keep it as simple as possible,” said Nutter. “And I think that it played out m...

It's been years since I read it. So I'm not sure when the book was published but I read it sometime before 2006. It was a single novel. Not a series. I remember that the protagonists - humans are travelling in space, encounter this planet with aliens. They slowly work with the aliens to learn th...

The last time someone seriously considered crossing the Sunset Sea was Elissa Farman. She took a year to build her ultra-ship using gold she got from selling three dragon eggs (absurdly expensive). She had the best crew with her and support from the Hightowers who were the second best sea farin...

In all their dealings with the Borg, why did they never think of directing them to Organia or in the direction of a Douwd? It would have solved the problem quickly.

Before going out on missions, the Bad Girls dress up in stylish uniforms, do their hair, put on makeup, and so forth. These outfits don't involve masks or anything, and are mostly just nice clothing. But nor are they uniforms for the purposes of identifying the group, which isn't really their goa...

How Strong is DCs the spectre if he is beyond strength?

I am quite confused about Avengers: Endgame. If Doctor Strange was able to watch all possible future combinations of winning, why didn't Thanos use that trick in 2018 after killing 50% of the population. He could have travelled to the future, especially to 2023, and prevented the Avengers to kill...

Given that The Six Kingdoms are a democracy (of sorts), is there any history in the GRRM world of any other democracies?

As we know the Doctor, regardless of his total age, has the ability to regenerate into the form of a body seemingly older or younger (in terms of physical appearance) than the previous one (Doctors such as the 11th, 10th and 5th started out looking rather "young", while others other incarnations ...

In the last episode when Jon tries to reason about why Danerys did all that and to no avail at last ended up killings Danerys. At this moment Drogon arrives filled with rage, he goes on burns the iron throne and does nothing to Jon Snow. What did he leave Jon harmless?

In episode 240 of Dragon Ball Z (episode 123 of Dragon Ball Kai), Bulma gathers the Dragon Balls and calls Shenron. She wants to revive the people that Majin Vegeta killed in the World Martial Arts Tournament Stadium. She doesn't know how to phrase the wish and Yamcha does it for her: "Bring...

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, why didnt Cornelius Fudge, while being the Minister for Magic, do anything to prevent Voldemort's 2nd rise to power? However, why, in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Rufus Scrimgeour do everything in his power to stop Voldemort? What are the...

During the Majin Boo Saga, in Dragon Ball Z, the Dragon Team thinks that Gohan is dead, even after they revived all the "good" people that have died that day. If Gohan was really dead, he would have been revived, like Kibito was. In episode 243 of Dragon Ball Z (episode 125 of Dragon Ball Kai),...

Drogon almost immediately found out something was wrong with Daenerys. When he discovered she was stabbed by Jon Snow, why didn't he rip Jon Snow to pieces? Or vaporise him? Or better yet slow roast him? Was nephew Jon Snow wearing the thickest plot armour yet?

After watching the first episode of the season 6 of Agents of Shield, there's something not right. Why is everybody still there? Why has half the team not gone or at least have a little clue that they all survive but not half of humanity? Does the series occur in another reality as they trave...

Everybody knows that, in fiction, Nobody Poops unless it's being played for humor. I have a vivid memory of reading a Star Trek novel (I'm pretty sure not based off of a TV series episode or one of the movies) where Captain Kirk is executing some important maneuver, a moment of high drama, and he...

I remember seeing in the MCU's Wikipedia page that there is going to be another Guardians Of The Galaxy movie. Now I see it's gone and the last one there is Spider-Man: Far From Home. Is it canceled? Where is Phase 4?

I am not looking for a particular story, but I am interested in ways in which emotions and feelings and affects are dealt with in various sf stories. Can you give me examples of some such stories - emotions surpressed by government (eg. script to equilibrium), various scientific experiments with ...

I listened to Le Guin's story "The Matter of the Seggri" in the anthology The Found and the Lost, which purports to be a collection of all Le Guin's novellas. However, on Wikipedia and ISFDB award history, it seems to be pegged as a novelette. I know currently, Hugo award categories classify a ...

How does Daenerys' army keep multiplying in size after every battle in game of Thrones? Example: S8E3 Battle with the NightKing - Dothraki 1000s present, Unsullied 1000s S8E3 Last 5 minutes - Dothraki - below 10, Unsullied - below 10 S8E4 Cremation Scene - Dothraki 100s, Unsullied 100s S8E5 K...

Francis Ngannou has the most powerful punch ever recorded. Deontay Wilder is a knockout machine who is 49-0-1. Could they beat MCU CAP in hand to hand combat one on one ? What about 2 on one ?

Now, I'm not a Game of Thrones fan, but a number of facts are floating around the internet which I will outline below as I understand them. (I could dig up more citations, and I would appreciate if someone else did, but I personally can't invest the time right now for facts which don't seem to ...

While I'm rewatching Clone Wars, there have been multiple times that one of the bad guys slowly parks a ship on a landing platform before starting trouble. I'm not talking about giant armadas - this is often a single ship (for example, Dooku landing on one of the Pike planets in s06e10). Are th...

In the Tenth Doctor episode Voyage of the Damned, the Doctor meets Morvin and Foon, a couple who won tickets aboard the Starship Titanic. They have this conversation: Morvin: They're just picking on us because we haven't paid. We won our tickets in a competition. Foon: I had to name the ...

By definition, sully means to tarnish, stain, blemish, disgrace, dishonor, etc. When Daenerys first inquires about how the Unsullied are trained, the merchant has Missandei explain how every solider is first trained, degraded and punished until they're fully obedient to their master and don't fea...

Young teen has a grandmother who is seen as crazy, she talks to people who aren't there and moves around the house miming different tasks to air. The teen sees her grandma talking about a birthday party and doing something birthday related but specific. Then a few days later its her birthday and...

In S07E7 Tyrion finds out Cersei is pregnant, Jaime being the father. Tyrion then leaves King's Landing. In S08E1 Euron wants to sleep with Cersei, but she says that he must wait ("You want a whore, buy one. You want a queen, earn her"). In S08E4 Cersei, having finally slept with Euron, lies to...

From the fight in the Mos Eisley Cantina bar we see the bad guy Cornelius Evazan who threatened Luke ("He doesn't like you"...). He also bumps into one of the characters on Jeddha in Rogue One. Do we know how Cornelius Evazan got his facial deformity / scarring? It almost looks like it could b...

On Orphan Black, did Alison and Donnie have any reason to become dealers in black-market prescription drugs? Were they just being rebellious? Currying favor the make Alison popular (and electable) in Bailey Downs?