I had thought this was part of a John Brunner novel, like one of the strands in The Sheep Look Up or a "Tracking in Closeups" segment in Stand on Zanzibar, but it doesn't seem to be in either. As I recall it fits with the pessimistic but somewhat absurdist/surrealistic tone of those. A scientist...

This is a question that confuses me i lot when The Loud House is on TV, did someone knows why does Lincoln's voice sounds like that? and why does his voice gets high sometimes?.

This is a story from the 1950's. I recall that one of the characters states the date of the invasion as 1959. The story has some similarities to Oblivion. There is a group of people in a penal reservation in the middle of the desert. They believe they are on Mars and their memories have been part...

When people get captured, they get dragged to some kind of portal. They transform into slaves and have one of their arms become claw-like or weapon-like. They are strong but not very fast. They also seem to keep dragging stuff used as fuel by the aliens. There is some kind of sewer they drag s...

We all know about Zuko's scar. I have a pretty simple question I never thought about: can Zuko see out of his left eye? You would think that he could, if only because it's never brought up in his fighting, but if not, how bad is his vision then?

I read this short story in the early 2000s in an anthology, but it wasn't new then (probably written during the Cold War). In the story, the world was rapidly becoming overpopulated. The main character was talking to a friend who worked for the government, and discussing the fact that this month ...

Is the Death Star from Star Wars a "prop" or a "character" or something entirely different? I would tend to think that something as iconic as the Death Star or the Millenium Falcon would deserve a better name than a "prop".

Spoiler warning for Rebels. This is about when Ahsoka was working with the Rebellion, not after Rebels. In the Ahsoka novel, there is a brief scene where Ahsoka hears Bail talking to a young Leia. This is around the time Ahsoka tells Bail that she's going to join the Rebellion. This book takes ...

I'm trying to find a fantasy art book from the 1980s just for nostalgia to see if it's as strange as I remember. It was a smallish hard back book that just contained illustrations. The subject was fantasy/scifi but not traditional D&G or scifi. I remember having the book in the early 1980s but it...

In India, Protagonist walks outs from the shop and talking on the phone: Man on phone: I was told you left the building. Protagonist: Even the dead need allies. Man on phone: Specifically? Protagonist: I need an assist in Mumbai. I need to get to Sanjay Singh. What "building" is man on phone re...

Even if there are certain locking spells can protect the lock against other spells, can't a wizard just break through the walls on side? As one door is a part of a wall closing a room, can't a wizard blast through some nearby walls?

Hauling unprocessed ore into orbit to be refined seems extremely inefficient. The Cardassians occupied Bajor for 50 years, so they had plenty of time to build refineries on the surface.

I recently rewatched Logan's Run. The concept of "Carousel" is explained well. Citizens participate when they turn 30 and believe they will be able to renew (be reborn) and it is shown later that the process is a hoax and no one is actually reborn. If the point of carousel is population control t...

The main character is blond with glasses. He goes to this high school because it is easy to get in. What he does not know is that it is a high school for people with magic. Anyways he bumps into two women arguing and he intervenes. Well he ends up seeing one of there panties. So at the opening ce...

In the book a group of people enter a mansion and the main character talks to a person in a mirror and in the mansion meet these children covered with animal masks the book is a horror book and there are pictures as well as hidden symbols.

In the last episode of Star Wars:Rebels, the planet that the show has often been based on, Lothal, is apparently "liberated" from the Empire's rule by: My question is, was Lothal actually liberated from the Empire? Looking at how other planets are treated, I find it hard to believe that the Empi...

I’ve been searching for this book for a while, to no avail. I read it as a teen somewhere between 2005 and 2013, in the uk. From what I can remember, it was a star-wars style “ragtag gang of rogues/rebels fighting the imperial system”. I seem to remember there was a focus on the use of clones as ...

The basic plot is a young woman - possibly a queen - who is imprisoned when an invading army kills her husband. She is awaiting her fate - possible death or being forced to marry this invader - when in her dungeon she is visited by a man/magician/sorcerer who says he can save her and take her awa...