I am looking for a one shot about a girl (I think wearing glasses ) who can't speak loudly, and whose English is bad. Even her teacher has a hard time with her A guy who sees her get bullied helps her. I remember the guy being good at fighting, and at the end, there was a competition the teache...

This was a short story published before 2010, in the magazine Analog I think. The premise was that a male astronaut sends messages to his female partner back on Earth. She writes to him too. But because of the nature of light travel he's essentially living in the future. He knows about Earth even...

Trying to recall the episode where at the end, Kirk et al confronted the aliens they were trying to defend. The aliens refused to fight for themselves for some philosophical reason. Any ideas?

There is a trend in some science fiction / fantasy art (literature, TV, movies, etc) to make main characters special in some deep way, and then use their special qualities to solve the major conflicts in the story. The prototype for me of this is Anakin Skywalker, but there are many other example...

This story starts with a semi-retired military pilot on patrol with a lizard-like alien friend. The enemies are also human and can control swarms of ships using a single pilot. He is forced to unite with one of the human enemies top pilots in order to face an alien invasion. The aliens fly large,...

We already know that the One cannot die in the matrix so he can fulfill his purpose (source: M1 ending and M2), meaning the matrix doesn't "delete" his mind as with a normal red/blue pill. Also more tentatively, from the third movie we know that the One has the ability to materialize his mind in ...

In a discussion I had about the possibility Jedi commiting war crimes on the grounds of being non-uniformed combatants with concealed weapon. Someone pointed out that a Jedi Robe is visibly distinguishes them from others. And the question I wanted to ask here is - does it? Because I think it's on...

Given the small amount of see-through1 material in a Mandalorian helmet, how well does a Mandalorian actually see out of one? By initial looks these helmets have a severely restricted field of view. Is the field of view purely optical, or is there any sort of vision enhancing technology (a la I...

Take everything I say below with a grain of salt, it's been roughly 5 years (2013-2016?) since I read the series, so I've probably got some of the details wrong. I don't know how old the book series is, nor any of the covers' appearances or anything about the title, and I don't think I finished t...

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I want information on this Desk Lamp - probably vintage space age.