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The Culture is known for having huge starships that are capable of sustaining millions of people and traveling faster than light.
Do the novels attempt to explain the power source for these ships ?
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We know from Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) that Lord Darth Vader, after arriving on Hoth just before the Millennium Falcon escaped from Echo Base, decided to capture Han Solo and use him as a bait to trap Luke Skywalker. I don't remember but I did read somewhere that Vader...
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In Maleficent, Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle, falls asleep and as such became Sleeping Beauty. The narrator (who was an elderly Aurora) said that she was “what they called Sleeping Beauty.” And in the sequel, Knotgrass says “(Aurora’s) not Sleeping Beauty anymore.”
Now, in the sequel, Kin...
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It was about a girl who came back to life as a different character and is forced to be married to a "monster" who is actually very handsome with black hair and he wears a mask but he thinks he's very ugly. And no one can tell him that he's not ugly. And there's a castle that had to disappear fro...
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The question in question: What to read in History of Middle-earth?
It's had a little bit of history to it, originally closed as a dupe to: In what order should Tolkien's writings on Middle-earth be read? where I was one of the close voters. However, after further discussion in the comments I thin...
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When teenage Voldemort came to his mother's house, his uncle Morfin mistook him for his father Tom Riddle (at first sight) however Morfin and Tom rarely used to see each other.
Morfin pushed the hair out of his dirty face, the better to see
Riddle, and Harry saw that he wore Marvolo's black-ston...
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In classical Roman religion, a genius loci (plural genii locorum) was the protective spirit of a place. It was often depicted in religious iconography as a figure holding attributes such as a cornucopia, patera (libation bowl) or snake. Many Roman altars found throughout the Western Roman Empire were dedicated to a particular genius loci. The Roman imperial cults of the Emperor and the imperial house developed in part in connections with the sacrifices made by neighborhood associations (vici) to the local genius. These 265 local districts had their cult organised around the Lares Compitales (guardian...
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