I am trying to remember a book I read years ago. There were a large numbers of planets, with different races. A militant species located an alien and started trying to train it to use as a weapon. It was black, misty, goopy, maybe? At one point, it tried to escape and they electrified it with the...

Here's another one I can't find, but somebody will probably recognize right away. A young man has been thrown out of respectable society. To make sure he stays away from people (and they stay away from him), those who have condemned him alter his body so that he always smells bad. Of course, no o...

How can Zane stop moving unless he's directly under Vin? But if that's the case how does she get thrown backwards and not upwards? The two stood opposite one another for a few silent moments. Zane had to know of her questions, but he offered no introduction, greeting, or explanation. Eventually,...

I'm doing some world-building for a couple of sci-fi/fantasy stories that I've had bouncing around my head for a while, and lately I've been spending a lot of time thinking about what to actually call things (schools of magic, a navy-type military branch which operates in the astral sea, and so o...

At the beginning of the DS9 episode Necessary Evil, a Bajoran woman named Vaatrik Pallra approaches Quark, enlisting his aid in recovering a box hidden in what used to be her late husband's shop on Deep Space Nine. In addition to promising Quark some latinum she offers "Her personal gratitude". W...

I have a deep interest in knowing what the characters in the Wizarding world would see in the Mirror of Erised. Is there any indication of what Remus Lupin would see in the Mirror?

A recent example comes from The Witcher, whilst I believe it is true of the books, we get an explicit backstory to Yennefer in the TV series and we witness her transformation that makes her sterile. Yennefer: Leave my eyes. These as well. Giltine: There is a cost to all creation. A sacrifice tha...

Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower could be powered with earthly power source (Tesla just lacked funds). But, when The Doctor powered it with TARDIS in the recent episode Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, she had to turn off force field. Maybe, to destroy the spaceship, Wardenclyffe Tower needed more power...

I am looking for the short story that features a man describing a Mars settlement and how the new generation of Martians are so great and wonderful and whatnot. And at the end of the story, the Mars kids reveal their plan to kill every single remaining Earthling on their planet. Again, I read t...

If Durmstrang Institute doesn't accept Muggle-born students, where are Muggle-born wizards/witches from the area supposed to study then? Do they don't go to school at all and don't learn magic?

I watched this movie 5-6 years back, I remember the story but not the title. This movie starts in a train with a AI heavyweight robot and a girl, both return after completing a mission. This is an animated movie, and the animation looks like the one you find in games. The cybernetic robot clears ...

I have watched this movie 5-6years back, i remember the story but not the title. This movie starts in a train with a AI heavyweight robot and a girl, both returns after completing a mission. This is an animated movie, and the animation looks like the one you find in games. The cybernetic robot cl...

Timeline: Gringotts vault 713 Hagrid's coat ??? Harry's pocket It was destroyed after this, so presumably still existed. Was Quirrel's guess of it being inside The Mirror of Erised correct? Can't be physically, because then breaking it would have yielded the stone, and Quirrel wouldn't've had to "

Just curious but I really love manga where the MC gets reincarnated or teleported to another world as a kid and later on uses magic and goes to school. Any suggestions? I like fantasy, comedy, adventure, demons, action, school life, reincarnation. THose topics would be helpful please! I don't rea...

There are many mountains in middle earth, From the harsh Misty Mountains to the humble Lonely Mountain. This made me wonder, what's the tallest mountain in: Middle Earth Arda (Tolkien's Universe) The tallest mountain on middle earth might not be the tallest in the entire Legendarium, which is...

In Harry Potter 6, Malfoy tries to get death eaters into Hogwarts through the vanishing cabinet. couldn't the death eaters use an elf instead? we know the can teleport in and out of Hogwarts- Harry sends Kreacher to Hogwarts at the beginning of book 6: Kreacher--I want you to go to Hogwarts and ...

There's a film from the 1930s (+/- a decade.) All I remember is that there were multiple levels of flying cars zipping around New York (I think) and that all the brands had jewish-sounding names as a tweak to the notoriously anti-semitic Henry Ford.

I'm looking for the title of a book. I have few details other than that people were being rescued from the surface of an alien planet which had something which was attracted to metal. They were being hoisted to safety, but something metal on the cable was being attacked by a swarm of small possib...

In the story, an officer describes an ongoing war between humans and aliens. The aliens have less advanced technology so they assume they will easily when. However, the officer remises on how much of the new technology used in the war was unreliable and could not be produced in high numbers, an...

I ask because I've been rereading Le Guin, and came across this interesting passage in Wizard of Earthsea: “In Matter of the Dragons, which Ged read very closely, there was a tale of an ancient Dragonlord who had come under the sway of one of the Old Powers, a speaking stone that lay in a far no...