In the early to mid 1980s I recall that on BBC1 (I think) there would be a series of episodes from a kids drama, lasting about 6 or 7 episodes and possibly broadcast on a Friday afternoon. There's one particular series I was taken with because it seemed so eerie and "next level" (to me, the 9 or ...

Treebeard is said to be ; 'The oldest Ent alive' This suggests that Treebeard might not have been the first Ent. If he was the first ent, then he would be Three Ages old! This sounds rather unlikely unless Ents are immortal like elves (see my other question) . So , is Treebeard the first Ent ...

Treebeard is the oldest ent. And many of the other Ents are considerably old too. Now, if Treebeard is the First Ent (see my other question), He must have lived through 3 ages of Arda : When the Children awake, the thought of Yavanna (ents) shall awake too. 3 ages of Arda seems like a stretch...

I read this manga maybe 2/3 years ago. He is given targets (usually women), which he at first thinks he can do anything with them (ie sexual assault). However, the system tasks him with actually figuring out a dark secret with each of his targets. He has the ability to 'scan' people, revealing so...

We see alien invasion of Earth in fiction all the time, but reverse is a rare sight. There's only one example of this on top of my head right now: Avatar (2009) I don't believe that Avatar was the first to show human invasion of an alien planet. Or, was it? Which Sci-Fi work first showed human in...

I really need to know the name of this book I read a long time ago! I'm 25. I read a book when I was probably 13-16 years old. I assume it came our around that time because I believe it was in the new section of the library, but it could have been a little older. I believe it was about a slightly...

This was supposed to have been the third volume of the late great Harlan Ellison's anthologies of experimental speculative fiction, following Dangerous Visions and Again Dangerous Visions. Its publication has been delayed for decades and it has achieved something of a legendary status. Does anyon...

Down in the comments of Why would Voldemort put a boat in the Horcrux cave lake if he can fly? I mentioned that I'd figure it'd be hard to resurrect someone if you couldn't get access to the Horcrux. @Acccumulation asked whether or not physical posession was required, and although I've always tho...

I have a really vague childhood memory of scene I saw on TV some 20 years ago. I'm from former eastern block, so it is totally possible that the source was much older. In the scene there is a guy sitting in some kind of spaceship/submarine, but he's on top of the vehicle, in an trasparent dome. H...

An important theme in Tolkien lore is the separation of Valinor from Middle-earth, and the subsequent diminishing of the Elves. In more recent novels, these themes appear again, for example, in The Elves by Bernhard Hennen, which features I am assuming later fantasy using this theme got the insp...

One weekend evening in late 2010, I heard a short story on British radio (probably BBC Radio 4) whose main characters were two women (I think Scottish?), one of them the first-person narrator. The story went as follows. Since I don't remember their names at all, I'm going to use A and B to refer ...

In which book did alien protagonists absorb and mutate humans, turning their flesh into biological weapons that they then used against other humans? I believe the book starts with a human encountering a lone member of the alien species, who promptly subsumes him and uses his flesh to make weapons...

Can you help me identify a short story collection with ocean as the main theme? I only remember some of the stories. It would be mainly western cartoon style but from time to time a 3D animation would appear. Not sure about what audience it was aimed to. It was in english, and i think a saw it in...

This is a B&W movie I remember seeing as a kid. One scene that sticks in my mind: Unconscious women are moving on a conveyor belt. The women are covered up to the shoulders in a white sheet. The women move into a machine. The machine has blinking lights and makes mechanical noises. When the w...

As noted, there was an AI that backed itself up by encoding data in ornate tattoos that were offered free of charge to human clients. Also it seems to me that the protagonist's favourite expressions were "Stone the crows at home!" and/or "Stone home righteous!" (but I could be conflating multipl...

From reading comics, I know that Gotham City has a public library in many continuities. Batman also fights villains there a decent number of times since the library first appeared in Detective Comics #106. My question is, are there any comics where someone -hero or villain - found a book or artif...

In the 'Magician' series by Feist, the planet Kelewan is destroyed. In the 'Daughter/Mistress/Servant of the Empire' series we have great hopes for a particular line on Kelewan. Does Feist at any point indicate that the 'Daughter' and her line are preserved in the destruction of Kelewan?

In this novel, a girl goes to (northern England? southern England? Cornwall? The UK somewhere). I think she's looking for her father, who was/is an archaeologist. The dig is looking for (Roman? Bronze?) artifacts. Ultimately, there's a (bronze?) helmet that the villain is willing to kill for. One...

Prior to the "Timeless Child", Time Lords are known to have 12 regenerations. Then the Master, being of the same species, should have 12 regenerations as well. Has there been any indication, whether in books or shows, how many regenerations the Master has gone through?

Asking for a friend who is looking for a short story, but cannot remember the title. The friend thinks it is by Le Guin, but the anthologies she had didn’t contain it. "The story is about a land where people are given some kind of an aptitude test by the government and careers planned for them ba...