I think I read this no later than the year 1986. English language, hardback, available in a public library in Indiana in the mid-1980s. I don't think it was by any of the Big Names of 20th Century science fiction, or else I would have run across it again by now. It was a stand-alone novel; no cli...

In Iron Man 2 when Tony is working on trying to create a new element for his arc reactor, Coulson finds a familiar looking shield which Tony uses to prop a coil Agent Coulson: [Pulls a familiar looking object out of a box] What’s this doing here? Tony: That’s it. Bring that to me. Agent C...

I knew before that the Black Riders and Ringwraiths and Nazguls are one and the same. But even before that, when I was little and saw the movies when they first came out, I thought the Nazgul referred to the fell beast or flying steed of the wraiths. But recently, I'm reading the books and it jus...

Genre- Children fantasy Story: Start: Mian lead is a girl who believes in fairytale characters like a fairy from Cinderella story or might be Pinocchio etc. They all visit her when nobody is around but vanish if anybody comes. They play with her and cheers her up when she is low. Middle Her fr...

Why does Sumos dad have a pedophile friend in the desert in the episode "stump brothers" in the TV show "Clarence"?

What does Thanos mean when he says "This day extracts a heavy toll" when he meets Doctor Strange on Titan in Avengers: Infinity War? I used Google Translate and it didn't really mean anything in my language.

Throughout fantasy literature there exists enmity between dwarfs and elves, depending on the author it can range from distrust, through to outright racial hatred and war. Where have these historic issues originated? Has it been taken from the fables and stories that Elves and Dwarfs first appea...

What would happen to super powered people on Zur-En-Arrh that are human? E.g. Blue Beetle, Major Force, Shazam, Green Lantern, Planet Master, The Flash, The Spectre, Raven?

I mean it's not like the USA people doesn't know it. It's a timeless classic. I mean they manage to adapt one of the impossible to make series, Game of Thrones, why not this timeless classic?

General This UK-based short story was from a horror or scifi compilation I read during the late 80s/early 90s (but was almost definitely from earlier). I have a feeling the compilation was probably aimed at early teens as I'd likely have found it in the school library. Plot The story was based a...

What's the best way to write a great science fiction book? What should the author be careful about?

In Shrek Forever After, there is an ogre voiced by Brian Hopkins who The Internet identifies as Gnimrach. The name is a reference to the original script where Gnimrach was Brogan’s original name. But in the world of the film, could it mean that Gnimrach is the ogre version of Prince Charming? I...

I mean, she LOOKS like a Fairy Godmother. She even has the wings.

I read this book in English in 2002 or 2003. The book had a black cover with some circular symbol in the center, I can't remember the shape that was in the symbol. In the book, the witch tried to murder every living human on earth, by targeting people one by one. She was able to make a body disa...

This is a stand-alone novel I read in the early 90s, probably around 1994. More space adventure than serious extrapolation or idea SF. Despite the setting it didn't have the noir aspects that became popular later, or with other authors. My recollection is that it was close in feel to something...

Why couldn’t the Disney Shops sell Ken dolls so that kids could get another chance at buying them? I mean, what if they didn’t get a chance at buying them when Toy Story 3 was still new?

Because she wanted to marry Anastasia or Drizella off to the Prince, but only for her own sake. And if this is the case, shouldn’t she be an example on the tropes Mother Makes You King (female equivalent) and God Save Us From the Queen?

Has it be stated in another epsiode or the shows productiom team, how Sloan can circumvent DS9 security and get into Bashir's room? From the episode Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges: BASHIR: Odo's checked all the security logs. There's no indication of how Sloan got aboard or where he went. ...

In a comment to another question, DavidW mentioned a story about hunting giant lizards on an extrasolar planet for their glands and hides. Exporting lizard hides reminds me of a story, possibly in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Adventure Magazine in the 1980s. IN a future of interstellar coloniz...

In this question: [Old SF novel about Earth as a prison planet; newly arrived convict has a secret agenda There is a comment about hunting giant lizards on a planet and exporting their hides. I remember a story, possibly from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Adventure Magazine in the 1980s. In ...

Iron Man's suits displays a wide array of amazing technologies: super-durability amazing artificial intelligence, virtually unlimited energy via the ARC reactors, and repulsor technology The repulsors enable flight as well is providing an offensive weapon which can be used to fire damaging b...

In the Season 2 episode "Aurora", Sheppard's team discovers an Ancient warship by the same name. They learn from the Ancient crew whose consciousness is in some sort of virtual world that they are responsible for delivering information about a weakness of the Wraith. CAPTAIN: Nothing is lost....

I understand the Deep Space Nine station was able to move, although with many difficulties and limitations. So my question is, why haven't the Cardassians just taken the station to Cardassian space while they were withdrawing from Bajor? It seems to me that Cardassian space wasn't that far from...

Short story or folktale from before 1972. Could be decades earlier. Two boys are pursued by monster who says something like, "Rum, rum, Sally Drum! Tearing up trees and throwing them as I come!" Boys take brief refuge with residents on their journey through the woods who tell them frightening t...