1950s Short story. A pair of gullible aliens are on their first trip to Earth. A (seemingly) friendly human takes them under his wing and shows them the sights. They are very happy, unaware, at the end, that the Earthman is leading them toward a cage.

i would like multiples mangas where the mc plays a vr game and obtained a skill not related to combat but becomes very powerful and can use combat skills related to the class, classes like blacksmith, sleeping, writing, and other random things will be fine. read already but stuff like this the le...

I saw this thread about how time works in the Star Wars universe, and get the gist of it: Time measurement in the Star Wars universe is arbitrary at best. But past that measurement of time stuff: How do sleep patterns work in the Star Wars universe? I understand in the Star Trek universe, there i...

This was one of those things that popped into my head earlier today, and I keep flashing back to it. I read this as a library book when I was in Ashland, KY, probably around the mid-90s. I think it was a paperback whose cover was primarily blue, with the girl depicted on the front, staring off to...

A group of people at a bar in the near future discuss what traits a posthuman would require to genuinely be immortal, concluding that chief among them, their hypothetical posthuman would need to be able to manufacture all its own components using only equipment built into its own body, since ...

I am pretty sure this short story/novelette appeared in Galaxy in the early 1950s; it was definitely in a magazine and not an anthology. (It isn't Telek by Jack Vance, although it sounds like it.) The main character is a 'TK' a telekinetic. At the beginning of the story someone tries to kill him ...

I read this SF story in one of Ultimate Publishing's magazines: Amazing, Fantastic, or one of their all-reprint digests, probably between 1965 and 1970. All I can remember: it takes place in a city or base that is covered by a force-field or a dome. Some kind of fungi or growth (probably alien) i...

I am trying to ID a story (or comic book series) from the 1990s I believe. It would have been in English. Someone is killing people who have special abilities. (Sort of like Skyler was doing in Heroes TV series) A few hundred(?) people are born with special abilities. I am pretty sure they were a...

This girl would purposely dress ugly so that this guy would not like her but she is a beauty. She one day woke up in the past after getting killed, this time she decided to act strong to avoid getting killed. The main lead was this super rich 9th master that was the Boss and he was very possessiv...

I think the title says it all: How was the sound for the Horn, blown by Gimli, in Helms Deep created in the film The Two Towers? If they created a big horn as a basis of the sound, I'd love to get a picture of it. The only answer I could find is from Quora and it ...

I'm looking for a middle English poem, written in 13th-15th centuries, which I only have in translation (to Hebrew). The translated poem is found in a chapter that contains three additional poems, and one of them is Adam lay ybounden. Translated back to modern English (by me, pardon the style a...

The female lead is a down to earth girl with powerful magic, not heavy on fight scenes, rather she over powers opposition with magic or fists when it come to violence or intimidation, though the lead has great intelligence as well. Main scene that sticks in memory is when requested by a neighbori...