I'm looking for a story that I read as a child the synopsis is something like: "a science fiction story about scientists who create a personal force field which makes a halo appear around their heads when it is on and they use this like gods or angels to trick a foreign invading military to back ...

In the Star Trek: TOS episode "All Our Yesterdays", guest actress Mariette Hartley plays Zarabeth, a woman who is exiled by being sent back in time alone to her planet's ice age. When Spock and Dr. McCoy arrive via a time machine, she is grateful to finally have companionship. At the end of the ...

Sometime in or before 1968, I read a young adult science fiction novel by Gordon R. Dickson in which a few teenagers from Earth are invided by representtives of a (possibly galactic scale) alien government to take a trip to an alien planet. On the voyage, they meet alien named Panjarmeeklotutmurp...

Lucius Malfoy appears to petition Cornelius Fudge only minutes before Harry Potter's trial over "underaged use of magic in front of a muggle". This occurs 20 minutes into The Order of the Phoenix. In the movie, we only get a glimpse into their conversation: Lucius: "..., and I'm confident, Minis...

Grand Moff Tarkin : The Emperor is awaiting my report. Orson: One would hope that he and Lord Vader might've been here for such an occasion. Grand Moff Tarkin : And I thought it prudent to save you from any potential embarrassment. Orson: Your concern's hardly warranted. Why would Orson face an...

Well, I'm asking for help from other SF fans because I'm trying to recover the title of a novel I read years ago... Obviously I don't remember the title or the author. I remember that the plot was about a spaceship that, for some reason, finds itself in a distortion due to which it begins to incr...

As we know according to the book, Maege is the Lady of Bear Island, with five daughters; Dacey, Alysane, Lyra, Jorelle, and Lyanna. Dacey dies at the Red Wedding, Alysane leaves with Ironborn, the whereabouts of Maege, Lyra, and Jorelle are unknown, even though they were together, while Lyanna wa...

We seem to have a bit of a tangled situation with [story-identification] questions involving the Theodore Sturgeon short story “Yesterday was Monday” and the 1986 Twilight Zone episode “A Matter of Minutes” that was based on the story. At the moment, SF Short Story about resetting the world every...

I used to play this game when I was a kid on facebook but I neither remember the name nor its main goal. What I do remember is that you appeared in a floating island where a big goblin is standing doing absolutely nothing lol idk if you could trade with him but he couldn't move, it was a crappy g...

In Shrek 1, Fiona says “When I was a little girl, a witch cast a spell on me.” In Shrek 2, we have the Fairy Godmother, who I have read is loosely based on the fortune teller/witch from the Shrek! book. However, Villains Wiki only lists the witch who cursed Fiona as being based on said character....

AFAIK, Edoras is about 300 - 350 miles away from Minas Tirith and it takes a 3 day ride from one location to the other. So, how long did the beacon chain need from the moment it was lit to reach Edoras? As I wasn't able to find an answer, I've tried to calculate an upper and lower bound: Apparent...

The gist of the story is about us vs. them in every imaginable context. It ends with those who take their own lives as their own enemy. The story would have been written no later than the mid 70s as that was when I read it.

The titular character in The New Legends of Monkey is named "Monkey", which is short for his apparently being the "monkey king". The series is a fantasy/comedy adaptation of the historical Chinese book Journey to the West, where the character identified as the "monkey king", Sun Wukong, is ... we...

I am talking about this scene in Man of Steel: According to the film, Superman looses his powers due to the atmosphere on board of the ship (around 0:50 of the clip). However, he has his powers when he's outside the ship and outside of the earths atmosphere (indic...