It was either written by ACC or based on his works. It is set in the early 21st century and was likely written in the eighties or early nineties. I think it was about raising the Titanic but I may be mixing it up with another There is a child prodigy... Mathematician? It's a girl. The number 1.9...

I know that Human Torch sperhero (aka Jim Hammond) appeared Marvel Comics #1 (Oct.1939) but I ask when the spontaneous human combustion was used for the first time as a plot device in fantasy or science fiction. Thanks.

When Voldemort placed his horcrux locket in the cave, he used Kreature to drink the green potion before placing the locket in the goblet. When Regulus found the cave, he drank the potion himself before Kreature took the locket. When Dumbledore and Harry went in the cave, Dumbledore drank the poti...

Julian Huxley was an avid science populariser, researched into the metamorphosis of axolotls, and wrote poetry. I'm pretty sure that these interests were combined in a poem I once came across, possibly in his book Essays of a Biologist. The verse that I remember best (you can see why) went someth...

I read an already old paperback novel in about 1969. Most human life is destroyed by a virus, and it is the story of one of the survivors. I remember: he survives because he had just been bitten by a rattlesnake and as he finds other survivors his hammer becomes the symbol of authority. There...

I haven't read this story, but I was reading some reviews of Asimov's "A Perfect Fit" and came across this one line by a reviewer. There is a story whose title and author both I have forgotten, which also dealt with the idea of forcing aversion to certain things, only it wasn't used simply for p...

The basic plot of the story was: An advanced alien species visits prehistoric earth and engages with early homo sapiens. One of the these homo sapiens was, I think, the leader of the tribe visited and they're given a typical caveman name (Can't remember exactly, probably Gruk, or something along ...

I have been binge watching Battlestar Galactica and something in Season 2 Episode 18 - Downloaded puzzled me. Biers (Lucy Lawless) and Caprica Six (Tricia Helfer) are talking on a bench in a park that is being restored when Six is approached by a Doral (Matthew Bennett) who says 'Excuse me. I ju...

I'm looking for the name of a movie I saw at least 5 years ago. I believe it had been released relatively recently. The movie is set in a futuristic utopian society. Children are given a braclet or code into their forearm with a daily schedule. There is a gatekeeper who lives in a library at the ...

Anime that I'm pretty sure was dubbed and brought over to NA that I watched in late 90s maybe early 00s. Premise was a kid and his battle robot that he upgraded from time to time to do some kind of arena battles I think? Main robot is on the left and pretty sure he's red normally.

I have read this book in high school, there were vampires, and other half-breeds or something, and they cannot go out until they're turned out to be full-fledged vampires. I think they were called fledglings? And this main character (teenage girl) falls in love with her teacher? And they have tat...

We see in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace that young Anakin Skywalker built C-3PO to assist his mother around the house when he goes away, but I do not think any other protocol droids are seen in the Star Wars universe before 3PO is built. Does this mean that Anakin Skywalker invented this kind of ...

It starts of with him, with his students then he reincarnates to the future, he ends up annoyed with his descendants and beats them.

In Raised by Wolves the religious faction created killer robots that they called necromancers. Why? A necromancer communicates with the dead. The title seems to have nothing to do with the robots.

In my aswer to this question: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/236769/dune-takes-place-near-the-north-pole-of-arrakis-why-no-midnight-sun[1] I said that some questions about Dune would be hard to answer. Here is a Dune novel series question which should be hard to answer. What is the nam...

In the beginning of the movie, Neo follows the "white rabbit" to a club. There Trinity tells him that he already knows "the question". He does, it is "What's the matrix?" and this is indeed what he answers. But how does he know this question already, somebody told him? Was it a rumour on the web ...

Does someone can explain this picture,what’s on the floor? It’s a photo from baionetta videogame cutscene chapter 2

In the Helm's Deep battle, we see that both Theoden and the elves under Haldir allowed the Uruk-Hais to get close to the castle without attacking them. Considering the shot which was released mistakenly, i.e., the first shot of the battle, Uruk-Hais were well in the range of shooters, yet both th...