As a kid in the late 60's or early 70's I remember seeing a fictional drama on PBS of several people who were on a deep space journey. A young person said something like "I grok that." When an older man asked what the word meant, the youth said "to dig, without hang-up." I was a child and I ne...

I'd like to read Sapkowski's The Witcher book series. Unfortunately, I can't understand Polish; so can't read the originals. Fortunately, I am fluently bilingual in English and Russian; so have the luxury of choosing which of the two translations to pick to read. As someone intimately familia...

I remember this from my younger years, and now I've been searching all over the internet and can't find it. Here's what I can remember: 1- The game is designed by the girl's father (I think). At some point she enters a place/room that is all white, and she says that this part of the game has no...

As noted above, I read this as a paperback book in the 1990s or so, somewhere around 250 pages. I think the cover was dark with a crude but colorful line drawing of a child. The main character is a computer programmer who has moved to a new house with his son. I don't remember why they moved, but...

In the ninjago masters of spinjitsu series Why doesn't jin the nadakhan take out the ninja when they sleep?

After writing The Anarch has the author said anywhere that this is his final book in the series? I mean the last 3 books are together called "The Victory"...

I don’t understand why the predator bothers using the dissolving liquid? He is leaving his own evidence everywhere, skinning the cop? Why bother dissolving everyone that has had a Xenomorph burst out of their chest? Also, no markings showing he is a hunter, no carved tusks? Lame.

After finishing Dark Imperium: Plague Wars i found out that Robute spoke to the Emperor at some point after coming out of stasis. Has this happened in any book or is this just something that has not yet been penned??

In the book the heroine was living in a Covent ,but then some gods became greedy for power and fought they war caused Jade to be unleash on the earth so she had to travel with companions to restore balance and take back power from the gods on her way she met a boy who can shape shift but cannot t...

Occasionally, the resolution of a movie is that all the scifi or supernatural elements turn out to be fabricated with some conventional technical tricks. For instance, "ghosts" may have be en simulated with light effects, etc., possibly to make one or more characters erroneously believe they are ...

Is the Marvel anti hero/villain Taskmaster a really good actor? He can portray that he is simply "a man" and not who he actually is and the way he does it "though as elaborate as DC's Batman but without the malice of the bat". And similar but unlike Batman, Marvel's Taskmaster can make friends q...

At the very end of Neuromancer the matrix (the AI combination of Wintermute and Neuromancer isn't given a name) says that it's talking with another AI in "Centauri system." The end of Mona Lisa Overdrive says that contact with the (non-human-derived) Centauri AI is what caused the matrix to frag...

In Dishonored and Dishonored 2, the Abbey of the Everyman’s Overseers are a really powerful anti-Outsider, almost militant, group that is shown to like to murder people for such small things as having Bonecharms and Runes. The Abbey is the state religion. However, Emily gets the Mark in the secon...

The computer's name wasn't mentioned very often during the movie. It had a role like "mother" in Alien. I think the main character was a mid-30s military woman. This was a cheaply-made b-movie set in the future but I can't remember much plot. I saw it at the latest in 2015 and would guess I wa...

What was the body count in the fight scene between River and the reavers near the end of Serenity?

I remember a book from about 25-30 years ago. The main character was a young girl in possibly her early teens. She was in a fall-out bunker of some kind alone, but had learned a lot about survival and science from her father. When she leaves the bunker, she initially thinks she is alone, but dis...

As we know that cats have a very short lifespan and Goose in Captain Marvel looked like an Earth cat but was an alien species. What is the life span of a Flerken?

I am dimly remembering a short story (?novela)in a Hollywood 1940s or 1950s movie set where an actor discovers the weapons and 'aliens' are real. I can't remember even approximately when it was published. An actor hired for this movie as a last-minute replacement finds out that the movie set is...

I've been trying to find this one short (I think) story, in which a man is touring a Japanese man around the states, trying to sell him historical/cultural sites. Eventually he realizes (with some definite disdain/racism) that the man doesn't care at all for these pretentious sites, and wants som...