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Q: Dystopian fiction with cannibalism

PChoI am trying to narrow down on some texts for my dissertation, and would love some help from you. I have decided to explore representations of meat/ other humans as food within the dystopian/ sci-fiction genre. Ideally within the last two decades. So, I am thinking of using Tender is the Flesh by ...

 
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Q: Novel series with ritual cannibalism and flesh essential for life

bob1Reminded by a recent question asking for SciFi books with cannibalism in them. I am looking for a novel series (I think 3-5 books) that I read about 5-6 years ago, and I think it will have been published in the past 10 years. The series involves ritual cannibalism and is set in either a dystopian...

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Q: Novel about a family of psychics involving a longterm plan by the precog to ensure their survival

FuzzyBootsI read this in 2018, I think, as a book from the library. The primary protagonist is a teenage boy who can do astral travel, with him discovering the gift when peeping on his female cousin and her friend changing in her room. Unfortunately for him, the astral travel results in him falling over, s...

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Q: What was the Live action TV Show about Magicians?

DoctorWho22So I was thinking about this television show I saw a while back, pretty sure it was a TV Show anyway. In this show it's based in I believe modern times, magic is real but most people don't know that it is. There are real life magicians that are able to use magic but I believe they were rare. I...

 
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Q: Short story about invading another world, twist is the 'futuristic' invaders are actually conquistadores?

brazofuerteI'm looking for a short scifi story about invaders with futuristic sounding technology - blasters and chargers - invading a new world after having conquered many others and attacking the civilisation they find there. The twist being these are conquistadores with guns and horses, invading the Amer...

 
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Q: Sci-fi Horror Story About Spiders, Psychology, and Aliens

Officefan55I'm trying to find the name of a short story from a collection of sci-fi horror stories. (NOTE—I'm not talking about a collection of sci-fi AND horror stories, but rather a collection of horror stories that were ALSO sci-fi). From what I recall, the story's protagonist is a psychiatrist (and base...

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Greetings, Earthlings, Robots, et al.
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@Donald.McLean Bleep bloop ahoy!
@Donald.McLean Hmm. Someone's taken my greeting. ARRR!
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Q: Woman pilot with neural jack helps oppressed workers get their kids back

DavidWThis is a short story or novelette I likely read in the early 1990s, probably in a magazine or anthology. The story starts with a woman spaceship pilot, arriving at a base or colony. The pilot has a mind-computer interface jack in the back of her head, and for some unexplained reason is an empat...

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Q: Menger sponge fractals in Lego Movie

EngrStudentI saw this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge#/media/File:Cmglee_Cambridge_Science_Festival_2015_Menger_sponge.jpg It looks like several of the scenes (memory, I don't have photos) from the Lego movie either in Vitruvius room or in the connections between the worlds. Did the creators of...

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posted on March 19, 2021 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: Give those speech bubbles a few more years and they'll evolve self awareness. Today's News:

 
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Q: Who is the oldest character in the MCU, in real-world terms?

Mason WheelerBy oldest character I don't mean the age of the character in the story, but rather in our world. Most comics heroes have been around for decades. For example, Spider-Man was first introduced in 1962. Out of all the characters who have appeared on-screen in any MCU movie or TV show, which one ha...

 
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Q: What’s the name of the historical manhwa where fl is a substitute noble?

user138134I once read a historical manhwa where the female lead reincarnates?. There, the fl had to act as a substitute for the noble’s sick daughter (they look alike). And at last she died. But now she reincarnates(?) and remembers everything that has happened to her.

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Q: What "evidence" is Gobber referring to?

Devin JIn How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019), Gobber says to Hiccup: Gobber: Those bloody Hobgobblers. I swear they're popping up faster than rabbits. I think they want to eat me. Evidence would suggest I'm tasty. What "evidence" is Gobber referring to?

 
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@xkcd That's a very speciesist diagram - they left off the robots.
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@Donald.McLean it's rude
> Title text: "For sentimental reasons, every active Mars rover is counted as one person, although that's not enough to make Mars more than a dot."
@Donald.McLean How can you tell?
I guess not rude then
They could have used a logarithmic scale so at least one could see that Mars isn't uninhabited.
@Donald.McLean it would still be hard to see
If you count dead robots, Venus is more populous
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Q: Guy that killed Lubbock In the manga

Dudu MunhozAs an big fan of Akame Ga Kill, i'm so sad that Lubbock (my favorite character) died after fighting with Syura, but when i was reading manga i noticed that a different guy killed Lubbock This person appears to be an samurai-looking guy with white eyes, a ponytail, he holds an katana and is dresse...

 
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@AncientSwordRage Hmm, I don't think it is
Landers ==/== rovers

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