I read this book a while ago, and there was one thing I remembered strongly about it: there was a plot twist where we learn that everyone is on a generation ship. However, when I found the book again and saw its title I realized that maybe this shouldn't have been such a surprise: The book wa...

In the Borderlands video game series, Roland, one of the playable characters in Borderlands 1, is shot and killed by Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2. However, throughout the course of both games, there are these stations called "New-U Stations" that respawn the player if they are killed in almost ...

I read this book around 2010 and I need help identifying it. The first scene was of a woman who had just given birth (?, she had her newborn) and it was raining. A wizard (who have been called something else) knocked on her door and she let him in. He was there to give a gift to the child. He wa...

In Avengers: Endgame, Captain America is able to wield Thor's hammer because he is worthy. What I don't get is why he was able to use lightning bolts! In Thor: Ragnarok, Odin tells Thor that Mjolnir was not the source of his powers. It was simply a tool to control his power. That means that Mjo...

I’m looking for a sci fi magazine that is ongoing as of August 2019 that publishes a magazine monthly and each issue has a feature where they spotlight a far future/sci fi technology like a Faster than light space drive or a teleportation pod. Does anybody know if such a magazine exists?

I was watching this on UK television one afternoon in the 1980's. Subtitles and I think they were speaking Spanish (or Italian/French maybe - poor ear for languages) but my first wife came home and insisted on watching some soap so I never saw the end of the film. A priest finished his service i...

I watched that (B&W) nuclear movie in 1988 on TV. Post-apocalyptic family survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their house, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic. After days waiting for radiation level comes down the man gets out b...

I apologize in advance for how vague this description will be but I'll take the gamble. I am trying to recall a movie I'd seen circa early 90's (via a pre-'tweenified' Disney Channel) and what I recall of it involved kids on a beach or some kind of coast discovering a magical creature (not a mer...

While (I think) there is no argument over the Istari being originally Maiar - are they still Maiar? Did they cease being Maiar when they incarnated themselves? Clarification: many official (e.g. UT) and unofficial (e.g. wiki) sources say that they were Maiar, but not that they are Maiar. Are Sar...

I know he made Snapes life miserable, but he seemed to particularly hate him in book three, hunting him and calling dementors to destroy his soul, even going against Dumbledore to punish Sirius. Did he hate him then because he thought Sirius had sent You-know-who after Lilly.

I know it's very little to go on, but I've had the Latin phrase nihil superbus, meaning 'nothing above us'* knocking around my head for a while now but can't place it. It appears in some book within the context of an extract from a (fictional) old text (possibly Biblical/fake-Biblical) at the en...

I have had about a dozen Not An Answer flags on this site disputed or declined. In most if not all of those cases I thought that it was pretty straightforward why the post was not an answer, and in some cases I left a comment explaining why. I would therefore like to understand where I am going w...

I read this book in Dutch in the early or mid-nineties. I believe the plot had to do with a human male landing on a planet where catlike aliens had to travel around the entire planet where heavy winds were blowing regularly. They use their tale with a hook on the end to move forward in heavy sto...

In The Way of Kings, Shallan’s notebook pages shown between some chapters have the writing in English. However, Navani’s notebook is still in Women’s Script, transliterated from English. Is there an in-universe reason that what Shallan writes is in English but not what Navani writes, even though...

In the comic book Thanos wins, you see Thanos defeating the living tribunal, infinity and he says he killed all life. That would include abstracts, Franklin Richards and whatnot, all without infinity gems or cosmic cubes. How did he ( as the comic says ) ‘grow’ more powerful.