Roughly 10 years ago, I started reading a YA novel from my school library that I believe was some kind of low fantasy/distopian story. I remember almost nothing about it, except that the main character was a girl (possibly with a younger sibling, though I'm not sure of this), and that the city sh...

My English teacher in high school handed us a 1- or 2-page short story and I can't remember the title/author. The story is about humans crash landing on either Mercury or Venus and quickly evolving/adapting to the shorter days/months/years and living by seconds/minutes/hours. The story begins w...

I asked this question, over 4 years ago but despite the attempts of several people couldn't get the correct book found. Is it okay to reask the question in order to try to get other people to have an attempt at it?

This was a while ago and I can't remember very much, but I really loved this book but it was lost in a car crash :( Anyway, so the main character was grown and genetically engineered. At one stage he is walking along train tracks with another character deep in thought but never loses his balance...

People from Earth (I believe) settled for some reason I forgot on a planet where they were in constant danger. Everything was carnivorous, including plants, even trees. In fact, the only way to survive a night was to climb into a certain tree. The tree was in fact also carnivorous but vey slow,...

In the season 6 episode of The Flash TV series, we see that Flash enters a black hole and returns back. since it is scify I can understand him going inside and speed force aura protecting him, but how does he turn around and come back? Doesn't he need a medium to run/turn around?

In the Disney+ edit of Star Wars (1977), yet another change has been made to the "Han Shot First" scene in the Mos Eisley Cantina. Greedo now yells "Maclunkey!" before shooting simultaneously. [Video Clip] This is the only non-subtitled word of Greedo's language. Possibly spelled: "Maclunk...

In William Sleator's House of Stairs we find this passage at the end of the book: Peter and Lola were watching each other. Lola knew that their secret, the secret that they were about to give in when the elevator had come, was safe. And Peter knew that his own secret was safer still. What w...

In Goblet of Fire, we see the Daily Prophet has no problem criticizing the Ministry: "I knew it,” said Mr. Weasley heavily. “Ministry blunders . . . culprits not apprehended . . . lax security . . . Dark wizards running unchecked . . . national disgrace . . . Who wrote this? Ah . . . of c...

A common trope in the Duckverse is Daisy double-dating Gladstone Gander and Donald at the same time, never fully committing to either one. During the times when he wasn't with Daisy, has Donald Duck ever had any love interest besides for Daisy?

This is a short story about a AI controlled transport starship that suffered from an accident and becomes lost in interstellar (intergalactic?) space in such a way that it would take a prohibitively long time to return to civilization. The ship in its despair moves further into the emptiness and...

Like the title says I'm trying to find a series or movie that involved a team of people from which I can only remember this one guy always doing some hand motions and getting electricity to spark between his hands. I also remember that he had 1 ring on each hand that helped him conduct the electr...

I'm trying to identify a show I saw on TV in the 80s (in the US). It was a single viewing, and felt like a television pilot rather than a standalone movie; ISTR the final scene dangled the possibility of further adventures. The plot resolved around a handful of people with powers who are teamed...

A few decades ago I read a story, I think possibly about first contact or solar system colonization conflict, which included an interesting sociological setting. The premise was that, as automation replaced human labor, ultimately the entire populace either consumed or was involved in the creati...

Examples might be: a conversation where one person communicates clearly with one set of conversants while misleading others; or a conversation where the individuals misinterpret each other, for effect.

I'm looking for the name of an author and an old sci-fi book about a genius test tube baby born to a scientist. He that becomes so smart but lacks empathy and is a killer. He also starts making doubles of himself in a lab and starts making synthetic cocaine. Later he plots to kill his mother and ...

After more than a decade listening to Iron Maiden, for the first time, I have wondered if the scenes of the songs "The trooper" and "Aces high" are real. I searched Google, but nothing.

In a sci-fi series from the late 1970s to mid 1980s I recall an episode in which two alien midgets could allow high current electricity to pass through their body without harm. There may have been more than two of these aliens though I only recall seeing the two. Apparently they were friendly al...

While trying to find out if there has been a Dreadnought Chapter Master (there has been btw, Daggan of the Blood Swords), I read the following here (emphasis by me): Daggan was a Venerable Dreadnought as well as the Chapter Master of the Blood Swords Space Marine Chapter. Unlike most Dreadnou...

In an episode from a late 1970s to mid 1980s sci-fi series, the story revolved around an odd couple: a child-sized adult alien and an adult-sized child alien. What else I recall of the story is that the aliens' maturation follows the opposite path of that of humans. Children are adult sized and ...

I'm trying to identify a story I read in the last 5 years. The central character was an alien who develops a microscope and remotely operated limbs so they can examine their own brain. They discover that thought processes are patterns of pressure differences and/or vibrations within the brain. ...

Prices on prebuilts have come down so much, I'm finding it hard to even buy all the components for the prices of the prebuilt systems. Are the days of saving by building it yourself over for good? Thanks.