In the 1990s I watched a movie about a man who could cause disasters and deadly accidents to others by using the power of his mind. The movie starts with a boy who grows in a school where he is abused by the teacher. During a class, where the kid was not paying attention and was daydreaming looki...

The mc(female) lived for her fiance she even used a spell that was basically impossible to hold more magic to summon more holy beasts so he can be recognized She failed multiple times resulting in her whole body getting destroyed where she couldn't show herself in public and had to live in the sh...

In the second LOTR movie, Theoden says this before charging out at Helm's deep: Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas! In the books, Theoden-King delivers a similar speech/poem before the Battle of Pe...

Dobby speaks to Harry Potter: Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir...but never has he been asked to sit down by a wizard, like an equal. Why does Dobby hesitates to say "I"?

The mc (female mother of 2 twins) is semi immortal and is the highest rank adventurer in the world and she is super doting of her two daughters and is merciless to anyone who tries to talk to them She is white haired (same with the daughters) She has two different colored eyes Non full color

I want to find a manga that I read last year with this storyline: A manga that tells the story of a hero who was fired/kick out from party because his very cruel how his work , and met a former demon leader who was kick out from the devil lord castle and get Bullied by his troops.

In Finney's book "The Body Snatchers", we learn that: alien spores can evolve into different things including human bodies during being asleep and by this human population can be replaced replaced population uses agriculture to grow new spores Does Finney describe, either give a hint what is th...

On the show Katla, Grima appears to struggle with the fact that wants to live her life, do her job, have her husband, redecorate her house, and so forth. To resolve this conundrum, Not, say, splitting the work, or flipping a coin to see who had to start a new life. The two play, and one of them...

I've been reminded recently of a sci-fi anthology book I had/read many years ago. Pretty sure its from the '80s (I'm in the UK). I don't have many details except vague memories of 2 stories. The first is about a child/boy (teen?) living on, staying at, or visiting an alien world with his parents....

In the show Katla, Grima writes a letter to her partner, Kjartan, saying that the person whom he will meet when he gets home is not her, and that she will explain things later. He seemingly dismisses this, as well as her firm insistence that he has been talking to someone who is not her, and that...

I think it was a book series but only read one book. It was about this guy setting out of a journey to discover why his people form soul bonds with animals or something like that. He had a cat, its either it's purple or blue. It's not Golden Compass, I know the whole soul thing sounds like Golden...

I've been reading the Dark Angel's parts of the Horus Heresy recently and I'm trying to understand the Lion's motives. My understanding is that The Lion is aware of this and When the Emperor arrives and leaves to take part in the Great Crusade he quickly sends Luthor and Zahariel back to Caliba...

So this is a long shot, but back in the early 1990's my father would rent a massive load of audiobooks from the library, and didn't care how old I was, and listened anyway on his way to work. Anyway, one of the first I remember was a story about a German or European Immigrant in 19th Century New ...

Back in the early 1990's my father got an audiobook from the library about a German or European immigrant in 19th century New York (I think it mentioned the main male protagonist seeing the Statue of Liberty). The main character is obsessed with photography, his new camera, and this red headed wo...

Sometimes, an author comes up with a term or a concept in one of his/her stories that subsequently gets ‘embedded’ in subsequent literature. For example, Le Guin created the term ansible for a FTL communicator, and Asimov came up with the Three Laws of Robotics. Card’s Hierarchy of Foreignness fr...

This was a short story from an anthology (maybe one of those "Best Of" phone-sized books edited by Gardner Dozois?) somewhen between 2000 and 2005. The story: Aliens arrive as in the movie "Arrival" (silvery eggs land and hover and then nothing happens). They avoid direct contact. For some reason...

I remember old movie where man kill people with strange machine through tv broadcast. Remembering that machine was actually a big, almost half room stand just in front of tv and at other end i think that man sitting to handle with it. Remembering that at end of movie main good guy, some policeman...

The preteen boy, who has lived his whole life on a spaceship, discovers that food is delivered to a hidden door and that the journey is research.