During a scene in Star Trek: Discovery season 3 episode 6 "Scavengers", Burnham mentions self-sealing stem bolts. This item has had a few mentions in earlier Star Trek series, beginning with DS9. It seemed to me that prior mentions typically occurred in scenes having a lighter sometimes comedic t...

MC is a baby boy prince and has a girl guide telling him he will be assassinated on his nth bday. The girl guide teaches him magic etc. and his maid as he grows. His mom and him live off royalty grounds and he finds a secret room where it has records of assassinations. His elf maid is the one who...

Looking for a short story where a group of humans are stuck in a game like simulation, they break out of the simulation only to find that they were in hibernation and playing the game to pass time. However the plot twist is that they're actually astronauts who were kidnapped by aliens, and the re...

In The Mandalorian, how is the Empire still allowed to exist when The New Republic is the ruling force within the galaxy? Is it to do with each one controlling different parts of the galaxy and the two co-exist as different nations?

I read this novel quite some time ago. It had short stories on genetically altered humans living on different planets.

It was a magical fantasy type of novel, where a girl living with I believe it was her grandmother goes through to a magical realm from a tree in their garden (I believe this tree was on the cover and had something to do with the title). I remember a part where a rainbow was also a portal to the f...

I watched a trailer a little over a month ago about a group of people who were sitting around circle in these throne looking chairs, to escape they had to find the “Imposter” in the group, and so if I remember clearly, they were all sent to a random environment like the ocean and they had to get ...

I would have read this book ca. 1975. My memory was that it was by Ben Bova, but I think that must be wrong, because I spent some time searching through descriptions of his books, and I couldn't find this. The story is set on a moon colony. I think there are separate US and soviet colonies. The y...

With all that I can remember from this book I have been unable to work out what the original story was. Context I came across it in secondary school (highschool) and enjoyed it. Every now and again I remember random details and I wouldn't mind reading it again. I'm relatively sure the book was pa...

This question is probably unanswerable but I'll ask it anyway. In the mid-60s my best friend visited the UK and came back with a book made up of both written and comic book-style SF stories. It was a hardback, rather worn (it might have been used even then) and was about the size of a coffee-tabl...

The other day, while posing one of my 3.75 inches Imperial Stormtrooper action figures, I noticed that its E-11 had a real folding stock. That made me think why -in the Star Wars movies- all the wielders of E-11 blaster rifles always grab them with one hand or while using two hands use the foldin...

I seem to remember 'Semprini' being an obscenity used by Zaphod. Did I imagine it? I have discovered it was used as such by Monty Python, as was 'Belgium'.

I am pretty sure this story was written by a woman in the 1940s. I believe the locale is Venus; the planet is part of the Terran Empire but the Empire is failing and the Terran garrison is in retreat and about to abandon the planet entirely. The story is told from the point of view of a Venusian ...