I'm trying to find the name of a teen novel that was (what I'll call) light horror sci-fi. It was probably published in the early 90s. As best as I can remember, the plot goes something like: a child is genetically engineered (prenatally) to be smart when he's very young, his intelligence test...

Trying to track down a short story that I read in grade school in the mid 1970s -probably written in the late 60s-early 70s - might be considered YA lit today. A scientifically curious boy reads the ingredient list on his breakfast cereal box and then discovers that the ingredient is in all foo...

With the release of the trailers for Star Trek: Picard we have observed what either a flashback, or an in-universe reproduction or preserved artifact of the Captain Picard Day sign. This also affords us some much higher resolution views of this in-universe object. Original TNG: Star Trek: Pi...

I read this novel like a couple years ago (probably 4-5 years already). It's kinda old I guess and my detail maybe is not very specific but I try my best. The story is talk about a young boy (Maybe the age around 14-16 like this.) trying to survive in a jungle and it end up living in the jungle...

I have been trying to track down story I read in a middle school or high school class about a decade ago. It involves a soldier that was sent to "the end of time" in a gigantic battle for the universe. All of the soldiers in the battle get cybernetic enhancements to aid in their fighting ability....

It looks like all fictional characters from wherever in the universe, event from multi-verse are comfortable with English speakers? Is English a Multiverse Langauge? Or, English is drawn for Simplicity?

It was not clear to me while watching. Do the character speak English with each other? or does each one simply speaks his language and the other understands? It is confusing also to understand since their environment speak English, so is it just to make the show easier to watch, or do we need to...

The viewpoint is from a small girl who is living near to a gas station maybe in the midwest. It's a hot summer and she hears on the radio that there is a another dead child found. She goes to the gas station where a fat man tries to lure her near, but she runs off into some hills, and knows he mu...

I was always wandering why does Barty Crouch Jr. run of of Polyjuice in the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ? I mean, it take litterally weeks to prepare as we've seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and We know that Barty Crouch Jr. stole in the Snape's storage. So he shou...

The viewpoint is from a small girl who is living near to a gas station maybe in the midwest. It's a hot summer and she hears on the radio that there is a another dead child found. She goes to the gas station where a fat man tries to lure her near, but she runs off into some hills, and knows he mu...

I read this short story in an anthology while standing in a Barnes and Noble in the US, probably around 1996. For some reason it stuck with me, and despite several years of intermittent searching, I can't seem to find it. The story was about a man experiencing the afterlife - it turns out that ...

This came up in a discussion of reasonably-hard SF space combat. I probably read this book a bit more than 20 years ago; early-to-mid 1990s. Note that I was buying a lot of used books in that period, so it may date back to the mid-1960s. I only really remember part of the climactic battle scen...

In this story, the narrator describes his day as ordinary objects change their physical properties. The floor might suddenly become fluid beneath one's foot, and you'd better get it out fast before the floor becomes solid again. Food on the plate may turn poisonous without any apparent cause. Mou...

how can I find publicity for my highly speculative imaginative ideas from all genres of sci-fi and fantasy from theoretical magic systems to concepts of the infinite omniverses and beyond to mining the sun ridge energy and many many more ideas to researching time travel Time slips to research in ...

The protagonist is the youngest person on Earth -- the only one to be born in many centuries. Terrestrial society is small but every individual is unique and multitalented, as they are all immortal and have lived for centuries. They live in flying habitats. No one knows how to raise children any...

The amount of information stored on starship computers seems to be vast. Is there any indication that starfleet ships in close enough proximity can access the nearest starbase and download/upload/access information? I understand the convenience of storing it all locally, first, you're not sendin...

It will take several years or even decades before real-world VR/AR will develop into BARF of 2016 MCU as seen in Stark’s launch. And it has improved into a greater, more realistic drone-reliant BARF in 2024 MCU. The reality stone is basically BARF in a stone, with no drones, and no video editors/...

In "The Hope of Elantris", it is revealed at the very end that (major spoilers) so apparently the Elantrians can reproduce. What would the kid look like? Human? Elantrian? Some mix? What would the child of two Elantrians look like? I'm looking for either Word of Brandon or good reasoning.

Main character is a teen girl whose family has powers. They take on the traits of a certain animal. Her sister took on the traits of a rabbit. At the end of the book the main character takes on the traits of an eagle. One of the antagonists in the book took on the traits of a snake. Main characte...

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Most fast ships in the Star Wars universe have very aerodynamic shapes. There seems to be a direct correlation between how sleek a ship looks, and its Hyperdrive class. Some examples: First Death Star: Class 4 Hyperdrive Nubian: Class 1.8 Hyperdrive Millennium Falcon: Class 0.5 Hyperdrive ...

I read this novel when I was in middle school and now I'm trying to recommend it to a friend. Basically the novel starts out with a boy living with an old man (I want to say he was a servant of some sort). When a girl comes to live with them. Shortly after the old man dies, the kids are forced to...

Astral Chain, Mass Effect, Halo 4 (with the Forerunner technology and weapons) and Black Panther are all examples of Science Fiction that make use of floating, illuminated elements in their technology. It gives the technology a futuristic, almost magical vibe. Is their a term for this style of ...

I'm searching for a anime about a virtual reality world in which people "live" in there, because they want to escape from reality and in this world they can become the person they want to be, but the main character and some others want to get back to the reality, but a group of people who really ...