I'm trying to remember the name/author of a novel I read a few years ago. The basic premise is the main character wakes up after being in hospital, to find a chunk of brain missing from a gunshot wound and a cybernetic implant being used to connect the missing synapses. The main character w...

In H. P. Lovecraft’s well-known tale “The Call of Cthulhu” the narrator (Francis Wayland Thurston) tells about strange facts that he has learned from the papers of his recently deceased grand-uncle, George Gammell Angell, and from personal investigation. Among these facts is the momentarily raisi...

I'm trying to find a short story about a writer who has his fiction analyzed by a computer and it tells him the main theme of his work is sludge (or grease or grime or etc.). He's surprised and upset by this. I don't think there was any conventional action, most of the story was back and forth be...

Okay the story goes something like this. The protagonist is a slave in a technologically advanced society. The masters all go nude but the slaves are forced to wear clothing. Through some mechanism our hero gets transported to a realm where magic rules. The word demesnes is used to describe terri...

From them moment Shaddam IV ordered him to Arrakis, Duke Leto knew that it was a trap. He was even aware that there was a traitor in their ranks. Nevertheless when the Duke was attacked by he didn't have any bodyguards with him. Moreover, the shield generator - which one would assume their mos...

Konrad Curze the Night Haunter is able to see the future. At various points during the horus heresy it is shown that he can see the fates or others including how and when they will die and most famously the exact moment he would die and how it would occur. He also predicted the turn of Horus tell...

How did Gandalf's ring Nenya survive with Gandalf during his fight and ultimate death with the Balrog of Moria? "The Balrog burst into flame anew, and they fought at the top of the world. At last Gandalf pushed him off the mountain, and he fell and smashed on the mountainside. Gandalf's body die...

Are there more than 2 creators of a Horcrux, besides Voldemort and Herpo the Foul? Since the book "Secrets of the Darkest Art" states that full remorse restores your fragmented soul and reintegrates it into your master soul (which would be found in your body), assuming they aren't already destro...

Can wizards tunnel under a shielded area? For example, can wizards tunnel under an area of land outside a shielded area, and walk a certain distance then destroy the piece of land above you, and then use a way to get up (like making a ladder appear out of thin air, broomstick, then reappear insid...

According to the Qualifications of Office for Secretary-General of the United Nations, no citizen of the ''Permanent 5'' can be nominated for or elected to the office of Secretary-General as it would cause a power imbalance. I haven't been able to find a part in the series where they mention th...

Why does Riker not have to be Admiral to command a fleet in the last episode of Picard? I would have expected that he gets a field commission and is, during having this, addressed as Admiral.

I remember reading this book maybe 8-10 years ago. It was set in a school and all the characters were named after chess pieces. There was a teacher called Mr Bishop maybe and someone’s nickname might have been Rook. Probably not exactly those but along those lines. We followed different perspect...

Disney's Gargoyles intruded Oberon, the Fairy King, as ostensibly the "source" of most magic in the world. By this, I mean it's his "Children" which became beings of incredible legend, from haunting spirits like the Banshee, to demi-immortals like Merlin, to legendary trickster spirits in various...

First part of a two-part question: When Harry's blood was taken by Voldemort while Voldemort was immortal, was he also immortal? Here's the relevant quote from the books. DH Chapter 35: “He took my blood,” said Harry. “Precisely,” said Dumbledore. “He took your blood and rebuilt his livin...

It has been years of agony trying to find a sci-fi or horror movie I saw as child. The only scenes I remember: a female character who is pregnant and driving a cab-taxi, spiting blood on a cloth said female character either giving birth or being attacted in a bus by/to a octopus-like alien T...