From what little I remember of the movie and book, there was essentially a pair of brothers(one short and fat, the other taller and leaner) whose house gets transported to space( somehow ), and they survive until an astronaut comes and saves them. In the movie adaption, there was also an older si...

I remember reading this in maybe the late 1980s, and I have a strong inclination that it was Bradbury. I remember checking out a Bradbury collection and reading a bunch of those stories around that time. I'm sure I read "A Sound of Thunder," though I looked at the stories in Golden Apples of the ...

While reading LOTR, I got confused with the geography and different names of Mordor. Can anyone tell me the difference between these? (i.e. which names are from which language? Which of these correspond to which places?) Mordor Barad-dûr Osgalioth Gorgoroth Udûn Minas Morgul

It's a common trope in science fiction that the galactic core is so full of stars to be blindingly bright, even when seen through the common optical filters installed on starships. And, by the same trope, these stars are so close to one another that they form systems with two, three or even more ...

I'm looking for a cartoon space fantasy film that I saw on TV somewhere between 1985-1988. I think it was a one-off and not a series. I only have sketchy fragments and never got the whole story line, but it involved some form of space travel, quite a few people travelling onboard the vessel, with...

We all know from "The Phantom Menace" that, about to die, Qui-Gon Jinn asked Obi-Wan to promise him to train Anankin because he believed the boy was the chosen one; the one who would bring balance to the Force. We also know that Qui-Gon Jinn told to Mace Windu and Yoda that Anakin's cells had the...

Tip of my tongue, this was a hardback book, marketed as science fiction, that I read in the late 1980s to early 1990s in Ashland, KY in English. The protagonist is a teenage boy on another planet whose father does bioengineering, designing custom pets. The protagonist's mother was deceased at the...

We know that Snape bullied Neville during Potions, hence why Neville’s Boggart was Snape in Prisoner of Azkaban. However, in Order of the Phoenix, Dolores Umbridge (the DADA teacher) became High Inquisitor, inspecting classes, including Snape’s. Did Umbridge witness Snape’s bullying Neville durin...

Probably paperback originals, definitely published during the 1980s. American author. At least two volumes (I only read the first), possibly more. The time is the near future and the Moon has been colonized. There is a Lunar police force & the main characters are a pair of hard-boiled detectives ...