I have been looking through “The Early Asimov Volume 1”. The first story that Asimov published was “Marooned off Vesta”, published in 1939 in Amazing Stories when Asimov was nineteen years old. Although it is not actually included in the book, he gives a brief description of how it came to be pub...
It may be a discontinued one but I remember that the former hero was a woman (gender bender & yet not (she was dressed as a male and was a holy knight)), at the start upon defeating the demon lord has cursed him to reincarnate into a noble lady...
Upon the mc awakening she found that the ex host ...
From the explanation on flesh memories from Rufus Scrimgeour, it seems as if the first seeker to touch the snitch wins the game.
"Correct," said Scrimgeour. "A Snitch is not touched by bare skin
before it is released, not even by the maker, who wears gloves. It
carries an enchantment by which it...
Read in 1980s (I think) as part of an anthology.
The protagonist must discover an immobile alien is psychic and controls what appears to be unintelligent small creatures as its sensors and tools. The alien "brains" live in caves (or similar) never venturing out, but their remote creatures are qui...
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In real life: Gaiman and Pratchett did a radio interview when the book came out, and slowly realized that the interviewer wasn't aware that the book was fictional, and thought they were a couple of religious kooks writing about what they thought would be the real apocalypse. They ...
I am looking for a hentai manga I once read it was about a guy who picked up a homeless girl and then took her home they ended up having sex and there is only a couple of chapters.
Do any of the Star Wars stories exist in a separate reality/universe than the mainstream Star Wars Legends and Canon? I think that maybe the two Ewoks movies and the Droids cartoon could be considered different tangent universes. In addition, the Star Wars comic books from the late-1970s/early-19...
I would think that the New Republic would have more "progressive, humane laws" concerning the capture, detention, and transportation of wanted criminals, than either the Empire or the Galactic Republic had. Carbon-freezing seems Draconian and Medieval to me. The fact that it can cause temporary b...
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, the very first scene shows a kid's drawing of the Avengers' battle with aliens in New York City:
Who's the guy on the right hand side with the sword?
At first I thought it was Clint Barton / Hawkeye, but after a closer look the details don't match. Here's a photo of C...
I have been trying to find a certain anime for years now!
In the anime I am searching for, the main character dies by bicycle accident (from what I remember) and the anime continues with him as a ghost/spirit or something.
If you can help me remember, you have my thanks!!
According to this answer, Gene Roddenberry wanted the Vulcans to look "satanic":
From a behind the scenes perspective, prosthetic ears were easy to do, but also, Gene Roddenberry wanted a slightly satanic looking character.
Nontheless, a lot of people consider the Vulcans to be the Space Elves....
In the DC universe there is a means of travel called the Zeta Tubes.
How do they work? (conceptually)
Do they copy the info of what's in the origin and they destroy its contents and paste it at the end?
Do they separate the body from the soul, copy the body, destroy the body, send the soul and ...
Do they have ordinary day schools in the Wizarding World? Or is the Wizard population too thinly spread for this to be possible?
