I read about this in a book about classic horror films in elementary school, around 1987 to 1991, in Ashland, KY. The main character is a scientist who is developing an artificial heart. To prove his invention, he implants the heart in himself. Later, he becomes a murderer (I think with all impli...

I am trying to locate the name of a serialized children's sci-fi program. My most vivid memory is the ending. The bad guy turned out to be a half dozen crystals whose positions relative to each other allowed it to achieve consciousness. The hero "killed" the villain by just moving one of the crys...

The first one starts with a guy who is in a game type world and he runs past this boss fight to mine some rocks and I think gets a really rare drop or something. The second is the main character is on a quest in another game type world and he gets an S class item right as he dies. It has a simila...

basically the main character is on a quest in a game type world and he gets an S class item right as he dies. It has a similar world I believe to hardcore leveling warrior where the top players are super famous and one notable famous one is this girl he runs into. On top of that I know he crashes...

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The original remit for Doctor Who was that it was to be a children's entertainment programme and that it had to be educational. Given that Britain was involved in the transatlantic slave trade, although, given - as far as I know - no slaves on British soil: Did a story cycle in Doctor Who tackle ...

The Daleks were originally the Kaleds. Notably, Dalek is Kaled spelt backwards. This is just a simple play on words. Were there any other monsters in the long running Doctor Who series that were a play on words, and not necessarily of this kind?

The Talons of Weng Chiang is a story cycle of the fourth doctor. In it there is a homonculus called Mr. Sin, was this a deliberate play on words by the story writer - Robert Holmes?

The Talons of Weng-Chiang is one the story cycles of the fourth doctors which found critical acclaim. In this story, Magnus Greel, runs away from the 51st Century to pose as a Chinese magician in Victorian Britain. In the 51st C, he was a minister of justice for the Supreme Alliance and responsib...

The Masque of Mandagora was a story cycle of the fourth doctor and set in fictional city of San Martino in 15th C Italy. In it, Heironymous, an astrologer, attempts to call up the Mandagora Helix to rule the earth. It's sounds rather like Goethe's Faust. A masque, is not a mask that one puts over...

In the chapter "The Dark Waits" in the Eye of the World, Rand dreams of the Four Kings, a village that he has just been through; and in this dream, he meets Ba'alzamon and there is the following exchange: Rand turned and discovered he could be afraid ... They are jealous of what you will be, onc...

I actually liked Steve Perry's Star Wars novel Shadows of the Empire from 1996, but there are a couple of things that keep my head spinning. Above everything else, I don't understand the following conversation, which takes place in chapter 37 when Luke, Lando, Chewie and Dash run into Leia in the...

In an academic study of SF, Ursula le Guin, who herself is a pioneering SF author is quoted as saying: Superman is a submyth. His father was Nietzsche and his mother a funnybook. Why the 'funny book' genre? I don't recall the Superman strips particularly humourous. In fact, I'd say the opposite...

Since Beskar is an extremely heat tolerant metal and even survives lightsaber and blaster attacks, how do the Mandalorian metalsmiths even forge such a metal? The only thing that could vaporise the metal seems to be Arc pulse generator.

I remember having a strong negative reaction to how the primary character's day dreams are portrayed in the TV Series. The series follows the adventures of Mona Parker, who refers to herself as "Mona the Vampire", as well as her two best friends, Lily Duncan ("Princess Giant") and Charley Bones ("...

If I have to find one "flaw" about The Lord of the Rings, it may be the fact that Sam is more or less the slave of Frodo, albeit a willing servant. This fundamentally bothers me, for some reason. Perhaps because I'm essentially Sam in terms of social status, if even that. Although he ends up bein...

Looking for an online novel I read a while back. I believe it was set in a wizard oppressed medieval era. The main Protagonist is a girl who finds a Stone and is somehow able to use magic. On this being discovered , her family is forced to let her be taken away as an apprentice, however the warlo...

Outside of invisibility cloaks, the only mention of invisibility that I can recall in the series is Arthur Weasley's Ford Angila. I find it suspect that he was able to make a car turn invisible, but, as far as I know, the series has no invisibility spell. This raises the question: Was his car tru...

In S2, E5, when Din Djarin (the Mandalorian of the title) fights against a Jedi, his Beskar armor is able to fully protect him from slashes from a lightsaber. Is this a new concept introduced by Disney's The Mandalorian or has it been this way from the original Lucas's Star Wars universe? I was u...

Here is the battle between droids and Gungan army, where droids entered the shield generated by Gungan army: How did driods entered Gungan shield?

I want to know if I can listen to the Rhythm of War Audiobook, because it's up on Brandon Sanderson's youtube, before I read the rest of The Stormlight Archive. I know there's alot of books in the Cosmere, and I want to get into it, but I don't know if I have to read it in order to understand it ...

In the reimagined Battlestar Galactica season 4, a plan to destroy the Cylon resurrection hub is hatched. The humans seem to think that this will prevent all Cylons resurrecting forever. Why would they assume that and why would it be true? Couldn't the Cylons just build a new one? Didn't they bui...

SPOILERS FOR MANDALORIAN CHAPTER 13 The Mandalorian goes to the forest world of Corvu and goes to a village that Ahsoka is protecting. The walls protecting the village are basic metal. The village itself looks like something out of Game of Thrones. People are dressed like medieval peasants. Their...

In TNG S6 Ep22, Crusher wants an autopsy to help determine whether someone was murdered, but the dead guy’s family has cultural objections. In the story she goes ahead anyway, jeopardising her career - and that’s not the point. To me, it seems obvious that some simple combination of replicator an...

I've been looking for this movie for several years and found nothing, I guess it wasn't popular. So the action takes place on another planet. I don't remember much of the storyline, just that there was a cute little alien. And one of the crew memebers fed it with a chocolate bar. And another memb...

SPOILERS FOR DOCTOR APHRA 6 I always thought hyperspace was established to be Faster than light and lightspeed is just slang. It approaches lightspeed when jumping but then breaks the barrier. Yet now in Doctor Aphra 6, they introduce a new engine called the Path engine that is said to have incr...

The first book starts where the main character shows creativity, and is sent presumably to his death. He then ends up in a secluded area run by a caretaker where they learn to use their creativity and art as magic. The two sides go to war, one led by the main character and the other by his twin o...

The novel is about a guy who is reincarnated to another world of magic and swords maybe a game. He was born to a noble family or rich . This guys know this world the hero, and he tries to make a plot keep going the right way from the shadow. He become a merchant do mission and get strong (he look...