NOT HELSTROMS HIVE Cannot find old 20+ years paperback scifi novel about insect-human hive in Siberia. A man follows his brother to work in a research station in Siberia. His brother looks after the (sledge??) dogs in the secret facility. Hive is destroyed and man leaves on plane together with ...

So heres what i remember; It takes place on another planet, thousands of years after the colonists from earth arrived. There is a prologue where they describe how the first colonists are attacked by vampires and werewolves and other nightmare creatures, turned out the planet had a force that was ...

I remember a movie on the original SCI-FI channel about a male and female protagonist stranded on an island village and while searching for answers the female protagonist notices an inn keeper had gill slits behind his ears. I can't remember the name of the movie.

Lovecraft is not exactly my favorite, so I didn't read each and everything. In any case, I don't recall any author involved in the Cthulhu Mythos to exactly specify why the Old Ones went out of business, being so damn powerful and eldritch and whatnot. Here are some spontaneous hypotheses I made ...

I've just read Hal Clement's 1963 short novella "The Green World" (available from Project Gutenberg). Set on an alien planet, it features an amphibian carnivore which is called a Felodon and appears briefly throughout the story after being introduced in a zoo in the opening scene. Where does the ...

In season 5 episode 3 of The Expanse, "Churn", the journalist Monica Stuart is kidnapped and held in a shipping container. But near the end of episode 4, the ship that was apparently coming to collect her stops before entering the station. Why? What was the point of putting her in the container,...

This post is for the third of SFF.SE's new series of topic challenges, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the topic challenge proposals thread, the March 2021 topic challenge is...

In the first Matrix film, we see how Morpheus shows Anderson the devastated Earth, first from a TV screen, then like being actually there, looking on a city that looks like New York (the destroyed buildings look like the former WTCs). If it's indeed New York, it looks like they're watching it fro...

Reading the following questions and answers: Is there an in-universe reason for why Squirrel Girl is so powerful? Does Squirrel Girl have maxed power stats on the Marvel Wiki? What are Squirrel Girl's 'actual' stats? Is she truly the most powerful being in the Marvel universe? How did Squirrel Gi...

The dwarves of Erebor were a powerful nation who were well aware of the existence of dragons (and their relative proximity to the Withered Heath). Despite vast resources, of both time and money, they seem however to have been entirely unprepared to handle the attack by Smaug (who also destroyed D...

I can only vaguely remember parts of this — a female astronaut or scientist (I think) is exploring a planet that seems to have been abandoned. What she finds is a lot of architecture that seems to have organically arisen from the planet. It doesn't seem to be built, but like it grew this way or s...