When I was a child I read a science fiction short story by Mark Twain (died 1910) in which a television was important to the plot, solving a murder, I think. And if my memory serves me correctly it was a sort of television phone. As I remember, when I read it I was young enough to be confused a...

I read this in a paperback sci-fi anthology in the early nineties, as far as I can recall. It was probably originally published in a magazine. The story is told in the form of extracts from a book, or excerpts of field notes describing a ceremonial dance put on by a specific tribe of humans that ...

Despite the fact that it produces a state that likely defies the laws of physics, the zombie-like plague in Kingdom obeys some fairly scientific rules based on its vector, the worms that lay their eggs on the resurrection plant: the worms and their victims flee from water and heat, which are leth...

This is the last page of chapter 25 it seems:

Hermoine explains to Harry Potter about Time Turner: Hermoine: This is a Time-Turner, Harry. McGonagall gave it to me first term. This is how I've been getting to my lessons all year. Harry Potter: You mean we've gone back in time? Hermoine: Yes. Dumbledore obviously wanted us to return to this ...

I dont remember much from this animation but I remeber it being around maybe 17 min and being made maybe in 2012 and featuring some kind of apocalyptic wasteland setting with a scrap metal robot that takes over another light bulb looking robot that's drinking some kind of dark liquid. And near th...

In an advertisement for a TMNT comic titled From the Ashes, there is a picture of the four turtles I'm familiar with, plus a fifth one wearing a yellow mask and armed with a gauntlet from which four blades emerge- does anyone recognize this new character?

I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and a question occurred to me. According to the story of the Deathly Hallows, the invisibility cloak is the third one. But in the previous books, we saw that many wizards own an invisibility cloak (like Mundungus, for example). How is ...

In the Star Trek TOS episode Where No Man Has Gone Before (the second episode made), we find out that Starfleet personnel files include a section on extrasensory perception (ESP) that apparently consists of both a quantitative ("esper rating") and narrative summary of the crew member's achievemen...

In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, the Federation representative on Nimbus III, St. John Talbot, appears to be smoking something. The Memory Alpha article I linked above seems to indicate that this character was intended to be portrayed sort of as a loser, so it makes sense that he has some bad...

All I can remember is: The protagonist is a small child (between 12 and 15 perhaps?) The android is a cleaning robot that became sentient The Boy's parents have lost ownership of the hotel (?) The hotel is now run by a woman who reminds me of Delores Umbridge The android says 'Frosty!' instead o...

The details are from my childhood, so they may be vague, but any help would be appreciated on remembering what show this is. It was live-action, aired in the US, late 80's early 90's, on maybe the PBS channel but I could be wrong. The premise was a man (and I think a male assistant) were scientis...

In online fandom communities, I've noticed a not-uncommon convention (though I'm not sure it's the prevailing convention; more common seems to be a simple space or a hyphen) of using an exclamation mark to refer to different versions of a character between different adaptations of a work. For ins...

Hi, I'm trying to identify the following movie from a picture.

In Third Rock from the Sun: S2 E22 (Will work for Dick), at around the 18min mark, when Dick barges into her home, Nina is relaxing listening to some kind of Jazzy music. We only hear about 30 seconds. What is the piece? Thanks!