Both have similar properties. They are predatory. The hirogen see every approach of prey to defend themselves as incentive. The borg see every species worth assimilating as prey. The borg can adapt, hirogen never give up.

I’m having trouble identifying a book I read sometime in the last 5-10 years. The details I remember is that humans were raised by the ships AI, and that the children/young adults are not aware that they don’t have access to all areas on the ship. At some point, one of the humans somehow stumbles...

Are Oricorios based on Sunbirds? This is a picture of a variation of Sunbird https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/♂_Vigors%27s_sunbird_%28Aethopyga_vigorsii%29_Photograph_by_Shantanu_Kuveskar.jpg/220px-♂_Vigors%27s_sunbird_%28Aethopyga_vigorsii%29_Photograph_by_Shantanu_Kuves...

Protagonist: Your wife does the exchange. Sator: I never involve her in my business. Protagonist: Yeah, that's why I trust her. Why did Protagonist even need Kat to do the exchange? Why can't he do it himself?

I re-watched Ant-Man last night and noticed something I hadn't either picked up on before or paid much attention to. Amidst the hubbub and fighting after Scott breaks out and Hank gets shot, Mitch Carson retrieves a vial of Cross Particles from the dead worker. He then escapes and as far as I can...

After playing (some of) the Metal Gear franchise... It's clear that the main protagonist has always been Solid Snake (current), Naked Snake (past) or Old Snake (future). Then you have all these side-characters who, on face value, seem invincible in that they have the same, if not, better abilitie...

I'm looking for the title of a sci-fi book I read a while ago that I simply cannot remember the name of, nor where I read it. In it the main character lives a relatively happy life with his wife. One day he is abducted and dumped in a remote location; he eventually makes it back to his house only...

In the latest Christopher Nolan film, people can travel back in time. However, it's actually like the time passes in real time. So, how does one age when travelling back in time? Does one get older or younger?

I read this short story (only 3 or 4 pages) about 1990 but I think it was an old anthology. What I recall, there are a lot of native aliens on a planet Earth is colonising or mining, they are basically humanoid in form but they are walking vegetables. The Earthmen are using them for a workforce b...

Have there been any works of hard sci fi set in the deep future in which faster than light travel was never achieved? I’m not looking for recommendations or opinions on the works: only examples, if they exist. I recognize that the forum rules prohibit soliciting recommendations or specific plot p...

A boy and his mother move to a town, where a teacher has learned to control the elements and change their surrounding. A secret organization learns of this and removes the children but not the teacher. Their families don't remember them. The boy uses a stone to channel his powers. Later he goes t...

The girl is a soldier for this big space organization and she's told a bunch of lies about the universe. The organization is run by her father. (I think he's her adoptive father.) She is sent on a mission to a planet and she is wearing a space suit and is told "don't breathe the air, it's dangerous.

I read this English-language thriller novel in 2017 or 2018 (publish date unknown) at a local library in the Western United States. It's been bugging me for a while. I remember a lot of details but I'm terrible at searching... long question incoming! The main character (MC from now on) lives in a...

I'm trying to recall the name of a short story I read in an anthology (Best of the Year?) from the 1960s or '70s, in which a man taking a walk in a field meets a young woman who claims to have travelled there from the future. She says the field is a department store in the future and that her fat...