While we know that the Third Hokage, Lord Sarutobi, essentially saw to Naruto's basic needs,to my knowledge, it's never clearly stated who (as in what character or characters, in manga) took actual care of him from the time he was born, up to entering the Ninja academy. Yes, we got that he lived ...

I believe it's a woman. Her most famous book depicted a world far in the future, where humans live in domes and are more or less immortal. Every time they die they return to a machine that tries to teach them and then return them to life in whatever form they prefer. The narrator starts off as a ...

I'm looking for a book series I read as a teen. Within the past 10-12 years. I want to say it was a trilogy but I could have just read all books available at the time. It had to do with a dreamscape type world, almost like lucid dreaming. Main character was female. I think the cover has smoke dra...

I am trying to remember the name of a short story by Roald Dahl about a man who systematically got drunk at home every Saturday night & his wife kills him I think by putting something in his drink

What title says I believe he was reincarnated as royalty and he opens a forbidden book and gets a majin as a helper or summon I read this online not sure what style the earliest memory is that he blows a hole into the ozone layer and closed space and I think he said "whew space almost leaked in" ...

My children were reading my old Foxtrot book and asked me to explain this particular strip and I’m not quite sure of the context. My initial assumption is that it’s a reference to a movie but some Googling didn’t come up with anything. Any ideas on this, or is it just the idea of leaving your sis...

Stepping around bales Of fencing wires and a clutter Of machine parts on my way To class I stopped to watch two men On top of the building next door to mine Tossing rectangles Of old or damaged asphalt Sheets off the roof and Into the bed Of a red pickup parked For floors below on the grass. I st...

From this answer, ... the lasso compelled obedience on anyone who was bound by it and telling the truth was a side effect ... However, in several on-screen appearances (animated or otherwise) of Wonder Woman, the Lasso has demonstrated that it can be used to make someone tell the truth. Of cour...

I found the (short) story about a boy (or a man, probably, can't remember) in a collection of short sci-fi stories. I can describe the story a little, if that helps:- The story starts out somewhere desolate, I think. There is a boy, who is walking around, when something like a tower erupts out of...

Why does Team Rocket not like, Team Flare, Team Galactic and Team Plasma? Dont they all have the same end goal?

I'm not sure if these kind of requests are acceptable in this community, if not please ignore. I've read a very few books, notably the Harry Potter series, Hunger games trilogy, Percy Jackson, fios, divergent trilogy and a few others. I don't know what I should be reading anymore and I would appr...

I would like to know if there is any mention in LOTR canon that Sauron had detected the presence of Eru Ilúvatar inside of Mount Doom when Eru caused Gollum to trip and fall into the lava. Did Sauron detect Eru Ilúvatar's presence inside of Mount Doom when Eru tripped Gollum?

This manga is about a girl who has a disease where her hair got whitened and there's a boy who's good at drawing. The girl asked the boy if it's okay to make a portrait of her before she dies. The ending of the story is that the painting was posted on an art exhibit and the girl is already dead. ...

I am talking about the fake Goya Painting, which handed over to The Protagonist by Sir Michael Crosby at restaurant: What happened to the fake Goya painting ?

In Marvel comics, time travel is possible so it is possible that same person from different timelines occur in the same place. I would like to know that has Thor ever fought with himself but from a different timeline. If yes, what is the issue of comics in which such event has taken place?

I posted a comment on this question yesterday: Are self-sealing stem bolts a Star Trek in-joke? It was meant as a joke, and I don't think it was offensive. The last I looked, it had about 20 upvotes. I think it's been deleted, which I'm a little sad about, as I thought it was fun. It wasn't super...

Set in mid 20th century rural America, a good looking but evil man is on some kind of mission of the devil, perhaps it was to kill a child soon to be born. A key scene toward end of story is when several people (including him) are trapped in a fire inside a barn, but the evil man just smiles bec...

This has been bothering me for quite some time now: Why does Ahsoka have short headtails in the Mandalorian? When she is introduced in Star Wars: the Clone Wars she is 14 years old, and she is 17 when the war ends. During this time, she has short(ish) headtails: After that, she is shown with me...

I am pretty sure this story appeared in F&SF - it was definitely during the late '60s/early '70s. Two scientists are strolling through what appears to be a zoo. They look down into a concrete pit containing several people. These people are barefoot, wear rags and live in filth but they have been ...

Does the ending mean that both stories are It has been a little bit since I have read the first book but that would explain how they

Regarding the Star Trek episode “Amok Time”, I always assumed “Amok” was a fictional sci-fi word, but then I realized it’s spelled the same as “to run amok”. Is there an intentional connection there, as in “it’s time to run amok”?

a little girl desperately seeks to attract the attention of her family when her new baby brother is to be born. cut the fish from an aquarium to play with their dolls, escape in a balloon around the world until they mature. I think it was in the Victorian era.

Being both a Princess of Alderaan and a Galactic Senator, Princess Leia was most likely always a passenger onboard a starship whenever she traveled to another planet. Yet, in the the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, there are two times that she piloted the Millennium Falcon. One time she...