In Larry Niven's The Ringworld Engineers, Louis Wu, Chmee, and Harkabeeparolyn But there they run into Teela Brown, who But it's weird: "Furthermore, there is a solution that does less damage, yet it is too much damage, and I cannot permit it." Although Teela Louis and Chmee'...

In a recent question of mine, I encountered what I think is a bug when I trieed to put a regular blockquote between two spoilers: Text: !This is spoiler 1. "This is the regular blockquote". !This is spoiler #2. As you can see, it renders everything as one big blockquote as wel...

If it had not been for Q saving them at the last minute, what would the Borg have done?

Unrelated note, but I definitely think the Borg are truer Terminators. But for semantics cases, aren't they Terminators in every sense of the word? After all the Collective programs each Borg, and if the it's the interest of the Collective to kill someone (although I haven't seen all Borg product...

If they were saucers, why were the actual saucers hidden in the darkness? And just the lights. I always believed they were as the lights seemed to form saucers that for some reason were hidden.

Since voldemort has already broken his soul into different horcruxes before attacking the baby harry, there is no part of soul left inside him to create new horcrux. How can harry be a horcrux?

It is often said that many of the English translations (especially the ones written in the nineteenth century) of Jules Verne are not of very good quality. What are considered to be the best English translations of works of Jules Verne?

I'm rewatching this season of Futurama. In Futurama Season 7, episode 3, aired on June 27th, 2012, there is episode, and a part that I copied from subtitles: "Decision 3012" is the third episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom Futurama. It originally aired on Comedy Central on June...

I always felt given the incompetance of the Romulans that they were more a comical disturbance rather than a genuine threat that they were often trying to portray themselves as. This was rather evident with Tomolak. Whereas other Romulans were genuinely serious, Tomolak fit the trope of a bad lia...

This story takes place over an outstandingly long period of time, seeing the Doctor stuck in a recursive cycle during which he repeatedly perishes and comes back to life. In the following episode, Hell Bent, it is estimated that this cycle lasts for four and a half billion years, My question is...

Of the science fiction I have read, a lot of it takes place very or somewhat far into the future, but, even among quite recent stuff, a large majority of it makes no mention of what the Earth will be like after climate change's more major effects if we don't do anything, such as droughts, floodin...

This just randomly popped into my head because I was thinking about adding this to my GitHub repositories, and it occurred to me that I could add it to my StackExchange profile, as well! I encourage everyone to check out the SayThanks Project and add a badge to their profile page. These badges lo...

I've been trying to find the name of a book/novel that I read a few years back (although I think it was published in the 90s or earlier). The main points that I remember are: the story is set in a future where humans have outlawed eating meat (among other things, possibly) due to its "animalisti...

In the 1982 film The Flight of Dragons, the Green Wizard Carolinus writes a letter to his allies, the Yellow Wizard Lo Tae Zhao and the Blue Wizard Solarius. We hear the wizards reading from the letter, and also see a brief glimpse of the letter itself: The writing system looks like it uses t...

In the fate anime series, the word 宝具 "hougu", literally "precious tool", the special ability of the Servants, is translated as "Noble Phantasm". What are the reasons for translating it that way? I don't mean to suggest that a literal translation is necessary, on the contrary, I am very much for...

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry discovered that the 3rd man in his dream was Barty Crouch Jr after he saw one of (Dumbledore's) preserved memories in the Pensieve. Also, it was only after this that Dumbledore gets a strong hint that there is now another man active in Voldemort's tea...

I'm visiting my girl this week (long-distance relationship, different country) and at some point she told me about being a big fan of Anna Karenina. However, the copy she had read was old and falling apart, so it lacked one specific scene of her favourite character which was very disappointing to...

I remember reading a short story (or novella?) that had a girl who was raised by some terrible relatives because her father went missing. She was befriended by an alien who was stranded on Earth and made a device for her that protected her from rape. When the alien tried to go home, he ended up ...

When young Anakin Skywalker first met the Jedi Council, Yoda told him the Jedi could read his mind and see his inner thoughts. See through you we can. If the Jedi can read minds, why they did not know grown-up Anakin had secretly married Padme Amidala. Are Jedi trained in how to block mind...

I must have read his in the nineties. I think it was a series of books. The first book starts off with a woman in a cabin in a modern day american desert. I think a biker dude turns up and then a wizard appears with baby and transports them to a parallel medieval world. The woman joins the cit...