A novel that I read in the 1990's. I think the title was 'Bugs' but I can't swear to it. I've googled for books with that title, and none of the hits seem familiar. Set in the present day. As far as I recall it was only barely science fiction. Protagonist gets a new job, perhaps in a university, ...

I read this as an ebook, probably a Kindle book, in the last five years or so (so read within 2015, although I think the book was older). The protagonist is a teenage male who does something involving saving a girl (I think associated with a prominent politician?) of about the same age in a situa...

When I was a kid I remember going to a relative's house and reading the beginning of a book about warring factions of Dragons. I was not able to finish before the weekend visit was over. I've never found that book and the relative is clueless. Here's what I can remember about the book: This bo...

The British comedy writer P. G. Wodehouse wrote a book entitled 'Laughing Gas', in which a upper class British gentleman, and a boy both go into the dentist at the same time and both are given laughing gas. When they both awake they discover that they have switched bodies. Outside of the 'switche...

This phase have been taken from the fellowship of the ring, book II, chapter II, page(271): Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, we must find councel for the peril of the world.

Newt Scamander was expelled from Hogwarts after he took the blame for someone else's crime. A similar thing happens to Hagrid and his wand was snapped . However Newt still has his wand. How & Why ? Why wasn't his wand snapped ?

Banks' Culture series has a not-insignificant place amongst the debaters of future societal models as a Post Scarcity society. It's given as an Utopian example of how people live and find meaning in a benign, tolerant society where no wants for anything. However, in all the culture novels I've r...

This is probably late 90s early 2000s by Walter Jon Williams. Short story, easy to remember, aside from me not knowing the title. AIs, along with the top 2% of people, basically run everything and provide for everything. People aren't really in need or oppressed, but they don't have much to do...

The British comedy writer P. G. Wodehouse wrote a book entitled 'Laughing Gas', in which a upper class British gentleman, and a boy both go into the dentist at the same time and both are given laughing gas. When they both awake they discover that they have switched bodies. Outside of the 'switche...

In Star Trek: Picard (2020), Synths (AI robots) which led to their ban by the Federation. But, it later turned out that Romulans (a natural species) were behind this to falsely defame Synths so that they can be banned. This wasn't my first encounter with this. In the Doctor Who episode Kerblam (...

In chapter 5 of the second book, we get this: "Professor McGonagall raised her wand again and pointed it at Snape’s desk. A large plate of sandwiches, two silver goblets, and a jug of iced pumpkin juice appeared with a pop." which appears to be creating food from nothing. Is this actually what ...