The science fiction author Hal Clement wrote several stories set in planets with interesting features, perhaps most famously Mesklin, a planet with a flattened shape and a very strong gravitational force. More recently, the fantasy author Terry Pratchett wrote several stories set in the famous Di...

so i read a book in 2017 i think and it was about a boy who for the summer i think had to go to his grandparents estate in the forest. i remember it was huge with gargoyles on the front gate. anyways he finds a realy tall wall surrounding a area and try’s to find his way in. some part later her g...

I am re-reading the Song of Ice and Fire series and pay special attention to all the hints and clues in the background. There is a popular fan theory When was this formulated (publicly) for the first time? I would like to see what the first hints or arguments were for why this should be true.

In the episode, Sisko and Bashir want to enter a building to take a look at the area from the top of the roof. The inhabitants of the building deny their request at first. But then they say "they could make a deal". In the next scene, we see Sisko and Bashir in a corridor of the building, wearing...

In Godzilla, King of Monsters, at the end of the movie when Godzilla gets his Thermonuclear form, and uses the Thermonuclear blast, he is seen to get wings. This has also been added to a model of him: Why did this happen? And is this something to do with the emission of the Thermonuclear energy...

I read a series when I was a teenager (late 90s to early 2000s but might not mean anything) that was about an alien race that engineered humans to fight in a timeless galactic war. The aliens had red hair and six fingers. Their guilty sin was they craved human blood, which released brain chemical...

I was wondering how the demographics of Hogwarts changed since the beginning, especially how many muggle-borns there were, and if this changes the justification of Slytherin's refusal to let them into Hogwarts. Hogwarts was founded around 1000AD. At this time around 2 million people were living o...

I don't remember much about it but there were elves in the story I think. Just basically he gets sent to another world with a shotgun.

I remember seeing the uncut episode of "Whom Gods Destroy" (TOS, Episode 3x16) in the 1970's which included a scene with Kirk, Spock and Scotty discussing the security question involving chess move "queen to queen level 3", at the very beginning of this episode on the Enterprise! Since then, I h...

In the late 80s I read a fantasy trilogy base around Norse mythology. Its main character was the magician Surt and book 3 ended with Heimdall blowing the horn to signal Ragnarok and the start of a new world. I think it would have been written in the 80s, maybe the 70s.

I'm trying to remember the title of a book that I have read a few times. I would have first read it somewhere around 1990. While not having anything to do with the book I seem to have bad luck with this particular title, I first bought it brand new and it was destroyed in a fire a few years lat...

The Glorious Revolution in Discworld is on the same day as Towel Day. Of all proposed dates [for Towel Day], the 25th of May turned out to be the one that gained a significant following. And over time it has acquired a certain status as a geek holiday. Night watch (2002), which features the Glo...