Book my school librarian recommended, late 70's, early 80's. Book was hardback, blue cover, white mountains. Main characters were small people like hobbits. I think one's name was Bin or Bik or Bek. They could communicate somehow with wolves, one was named Skie. They find a Conjuror named Kel who...

Yes, yet another genie and three wishes story, a short-short. In this one, the Genie starts out by saying "Here are the rules--" and the person who has the wishes interrupts, "First wish: no rules." Can anybody place it? I'm sure I read this one recently, but can't put my finger on where.

In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Life Line," a talking holographic iguana by the name of Leonard makes an appearance. Now, according to an earlier answer, the iguana was physically played by a lizard named Willie. However, Memory Alpha does not list who voices the iguana in his single line, "Jerk.

Pre-suppose the background and context in the TV series Man in High Castle. If you remember the details I forgot, just edit this please. I can't remember why and what episode, but the Crown Princess Michiko hands a letter of safe passage to Robert Childan (Brennan Brown). If I remember, it contai...

Name of a short story (Maybe in Dangerous Visions?) about a man on trial who is ultimately shot with a crossbow to the words "I will have committed no crime". The accused's name is Melifluens or something similar.

The storyline is a series of 6 or 7 books that I probably read in the late 70s (but never finished reading the series) In this post-apocalyptic world humanity (in the USA at least) is reduced to living in large underground silos that have a central, open airshaft, and are scattered around the cou...

I wonder if the StackExchange hive-mind might be able to identify the following short story I read as part of a brilliant anthology in (I think) the late eighties. The basic premise is that there's a virtual cyber-prison that sedated prisoners experience. The cyber-prison is surrounded by a 'fog'...

I have seen every episode at least half a dozen times over the decades and I am pretty sure nobody smoked; not even some exotic alien hookah or something. In the days when cigarette ads were all over the place (in the 1960s) on TV and in print and characters did smoke in movies and on TV, if inde...

The bad guy tricks the first character to take his side and later finds out he is immortal bad guy The first character we meet has a green stone that allows him to inflict pain on other later he finds out he can also remove pain A guy with a blue stone embedded into him has super natural strength

The plot as I remembered is as follows: Do you know which episodes fall into this arc? Thanks!

So I just rewatched Thor 1 and I started to think about how Thor is actually allowed to wield his hammer. The whole starting point for the movie is Thor taking revenge against the Frost Giants for disturbing his coronation and him heading off to go kill them all. So to me, that act of revenge and...

Ginny Weasley was told that, once Olivander was no longer operating his shop, people would get their wands from other makers: “Talking of Diagon Alley,’ said Mr Weasley, ‘looks like Ollivander’s gone too.’ ‘The wand-maker?’ said Ginny, looking startled. ‘That’s the one. Shop’s empty. No sign of ...

The guy has blonde hair and the girl has purple hair. It’s modern looking and a super natural anime. At the end she dies and the guy kisses her and she wakes up in her bedroom. They were lovers.Includes witches ig

Chapter 27 in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood-Prince" is called "The Lightning Struck Tower". In this chapter a certain character dies on top of a tower. The tower has a dark mark on it. There is no mention in the chapter of the word "lightning", and the chapter has nothing to do with it. Why is...

I remember something I saw on TV years ago. I have no idea how to search this without giving a bunch of clues that I remember. It was a fairy tale movie. It had a long duration - it was either a movie split in parts, or had a few episodes. My feeling, which could be not accurate at all, is someth...

Does anyone know the title of the poem by Szymborska which contains a line worded something like “whose life has ever turned out as they thought it would anyway”? I believe that the poem was published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine some years ago.

It begins with a main character waking up in a sugary, pink-tinted town in a middle of a desert, where every inhabitant is named by a number. It is later revealed that all characters also simultaneously live in a parallel, normal reality, while the town is actually a dream of one of the character...

In Star Trek: Discovery, "Battle at the Binary Stars," we see 11 ships dropping out of warp to back up the Shenzhou; they include the: U.S.S. Clarke, Shran, T'Plana-Hath, Kerala, Sioux, Ride, Earhart, Dana, Edison, Yeager, and later on Europa. Every single ship in this fleet/task force has a name...