I am looking for the name of a short story I read years ago. I thought it was written by Philip K. Dick, but now I'm not so sure. The story is about a music teacher who teaches students how to use a composing device to create music. It seems to have made the old art of making music with actual...

In the new episode of DC's Legends of Tomorrow S06E05, Astra turns the legends into different objects using magic. These objects include a fork, a candle, a cheese slice, a flip phone, and a folder. I would like to know that why were the particular legends converted into a specific object, is the...

I don't remember much about this manga so it will be brief. The manga starts out with the main character and several other characters who are deemed heroes for defeating the demon king I believe are now given titles. The title if I remember correctly fire emperor, water emperor, etc., etc. Our ma...

In Shrek the Third, Snow White is vain and boasted about being the “Fairest of All.” Vanity is what drove the Evil Queen to kill Snow White in the original fairytale so SHE can be the fairest of all. So what WOULD Snow White do if someone surpassed her as the “fairest of all?” Would she turn into...

In Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third, the villains of Far Far Away gather at the Poison Apple, all unhappy that they haven’t got their “happily ever after.” There was Captain Hook from Peter Pan, the stepsisters from Cinderella, Stromboli from Pinocchio, etc. However, there were some villains that WERE...

I recall a retired government employee (possibly former MI6) who spends his time watching a dangerous creature disguised as an old man. The creature was previously taught code phrases to control its behavior. The creature now goes to the store daily for groceries, but then something sets it off....

I am looking for a sci fi short story book. I read it in 1988 or 89, and I owned the book so it possibly came from the scholastic book fair. One of the short stories I remember involved an explorer on an alien planet that I think was Venus. There is a large vine on the planet and nothing else. ...

In an alternate opening to Sleeping Beauty, we are shown King Hubert’s kingdom, which is home to him and his son, Prince Phillip. In Maleficent Mistress of Evil, Prince Phillip’s kingdom is called Ulstead. So could King Hubert’s kingdom be an early version of Ulstead? Assuming it was given that n...

I have some super-vague memories, but this book keeps popping up in my head. I read it as a paperback book, probably in Ohio, in English, between 2002 and 2006, checked out from the local library. I want to say that the title of the book had "tin" in it. The book had sort of a "weird west" vibe t...

In Lines of Communication, the Drakh after hearing Delenn's name abandon all pretense of peace and attempt to kill her because she helped end the Shadow War. After they defeat the mothership, they don't seem to continue. This seems inconsistent with the fact that they are tactical and ruthless....

There is a movie from the '50s which has a scene with two men sitting around a fire in a cave. One of the men reveals that he is actually a Yeti. Although he is shaven, with a haircut, he opens his collar to show a chest full of dense snow white hair. He hates his companion because they are diffe...

Roke, Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, Wyverly College, Shiz University, others… Many fantasy authors have written of schools where magic is a central part of the curriculum. What work of fiction first presented a school where students primarily studied magic with some degree of descripti...

I’m trying to figure out where I first came across this “parable of Little Big Horn”. I think (but I’m not 100% sure) that this was a story told by a narrator at the beginning of a novel. The gist of the parable was that Custer had murdered a soldier and engineered the massacre to cover up the de...

Hi I'm looking for the title of an animated movie probably from the 80s about a hero (a guy) and a "villain" who I recall being kind of like a giant brain that could project tentacles (I think) out of itself. I don't recall the setting being Earth as in my mind it was more like alien landscape an...