This was a short story/novella I read around 2000-2010. I believe it was in some anthology, but possibly it was in a SF/fantasy magazine that I read it. It may well have been from several decades prior to that. There were various fantasy elements, but it has a somewhat SF-ish premise. In ancien...

This one is on the tip of my tongue. It's a manga that I read online somewhere between 5-10 years ago. The main character is a high-school-age boy who comes home to find his father dead, I think either drained of life (leaving him skeletal) or with his head bashed in. There's also a girl with ver...

I recently got into reading Batman comics. I found a reading order here https://www.comicbookherald.com/reading-dc-comics/batman-reading-order/#batman3 I decided to start with Batman year one and got all the way to Batman & the monster men but the way this order is presented is far from ideal. ...

In SE comments elsewhere 1, 2, 3 I talked about barriers of mixing advertising and spaceflight at NASA. In one I said: ...I'm not sure if Kubrick include any advertisements in his visionary extrapolation of what spaceflight would be like in this century in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey....

Okay, in Rick and Morty, obviously a lot of logic is pushed aside purely for it's fun and humor value. But some stuff doesn't make any logical sense for the smartest man in the universe. In this instance, in The Ricks Must be Crazy, Rick creates a tiny universe to power his car battery. A litera...

I read a book about 40 years ago that I would like to read again. I can't remember the plot but it had a policeman who needed to get some information from a criminal. Some aliens were involved and they could read the memories of people even if they were dead but only for a short while after death.

I don't remember any of the plot, only two scenes, and mostly how it made me feel. I think I saw the film in the late 1980s or early 1990s on some German children's TV programme. Whether the original language was German or it was a dub I don't remember. I'm pretty sure it was a stand-alone film,...

Between the days of the Old Republic and The Attack of the Clones, mandalorian armor changed drastically. Here is what Mandalorians looked like in their old armor: Here is what Mandalorian armor looks like now: While I understand that armor may change over time, every Mandalorian save Mandalor...

In Star Wars: A New Hope, the next morning after R2-D2 got away on his "mission", Luke Skywalker and C-3PO (piloting the X-34 Landspeeder) headed off looking for the astromech until they track and find him using a scanning device. After doing some research about this device, I have found that ...

Recently I have got started messing with VR when I went over to my friends house and I loved it. We played some simple games like superhot and beat saber, after realizing how much I loved it I thought about the Assassin's Creed Series and the Movie they released. I want to attempt to do some rese...

To my knowledge those wearing Mandalorian armor have always had a proper name (e.g., Boba Fett, Jango Fett), as well as other works I'm not familar with, referenced here in a Wikipedia article for Mandalorian. Now that the new Mandalorian series is 5 episodes deep, we've had at least two recurri...

In the movie Willow (1988), Fin Raziel has been turned into a possum and trapped on an island by the Big Bad, evil queen Bavmorda. She's been trapped there for around 15 years, since Bavmorda took control of Tir Asleen.  Sorsha is 18 in the present time (according to the novelization) and accord...

In Episode 5 of "The Mandalorian", Mando uses a form of sign language to communciate with two characters. From an out of universe perspective, do any of the signs he is using correlate to ASL (American Sign Language) or any of the other formal signs used around the world?

I'm 99% certain I read this as a Kindle book in 2019, but I think I acquired it before that. The main character is a witch, with her mother and sister having the same abilities. She wasn't great at magic, being bad at remembering the properties of herbs. Her mother was more accomplished. Her sist...