Chelsea, Siri Keeton's ex, may not be a militant radical but she was a Realist, to the point of taking her sex in the raw, which it is suggested the Realists don't even do any more. As far as I could discern while she had given up on Siri she still had a career if she wanted one and was an indepe...

At dining table, Lupin says to Harry Potter: Lupin: The last time Voldemort gained power...he almost destroyed everything we hold most dear. Now he's returned, and I'm afraid the minister will do almost anything...to avoid facing that terrifying truth. What does "truth" refer to?

If there are more than two thousand years between Isildur cutting the ring from Sauron's hand and Frodo's mission to destroy the Ring, why was there no technological progress? E.g. Saruman had some kind of gunpowder and they could easily have made stronger weapons from it...

In this movie I watched, the protagonist and the antagonist were looking for some artifact, I think it was an emerald tablet with a hole in it. I think the antagonist intended to use this artifact to summon the devil. There is one scene where the antagonist has captured the protagonist and wants ...

Can anyone recall a short story in which a new invention is developed which makes nuclear war (possibly all war) impossible? At first everyone is delighted until the central character points out(to the President?) that conflict will continue in other forms – plots and assassinations and gives hi...

I have heard of a comic where Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe. How does he accomplish such a hard feat?

I'm searching for a post-apocalyptic young-adult book featuring two teens living in caves or a bunker. I remember reading it in late 1970s in a Danish translation. The cover for that edition has a SPACE:1999 Hawk Spaceship on it, but that's probably not the cover outside Denmark. I think the stor...

In DS9, we're introduced to Red Squad: An elite group of cadets at Starfleet Academy. Red Squad members received special classes and advanced field training. Are they a special black ops unit for Starfleet? My first thought was that after receiving special classes and training they would be bro...

I read this story in French around 1998 as a kid (I remember a big book). The sun becomes a red giant (something to do with nuclear waste/bomb I think) and no way is found to stop it from destroying the Earth. Earth finds a way to install a time dilation field that makes time go much slowly. Allo...

During the events of episode 6 in Loki, the sacred timeline splits. This happens at the end of time (or something like that), meaning it doesn't take place at a specific time. So in the MCU timeline, when does the timeline split? was the sacred timeline just always split, because the splitting ha...

In Marvel's Loki (2021), the four-dimensional location of the Time Variance Authority is never officially established. However, the Bifrost is shown to be able to transport multiple characters across space (but not time) within the movies, even if it is summoned from somewhere outside of the nine...

In the show Loki (2021), the Time Variance Authority (TVA) is shown to be a massive city-like structure. However, there is no view of the outside world given from inside the TVA. Where is the TVA located, in both time and space? Could the TVA be located in the Quantum Realm? We are told that "tim...

Would it make a target obfuscation for Sauron? I mean, Sauron only watches the Ring but not lava right? If lava cools during journey, would it work if they re-melt it before using?

From a collection of sci-Fi/fantasy short stories bought many years ago in a 2nd hand book shop. A friend borrowed the book, loaned it out and it has never been seen since. I’d love to know the name of the story and author if possible please. Book cover was orange. Brief description of plot. A sa...

Following the destruction of the ring, when the hobbits are preparing to return home we learn that Merry is known as "Holdwine" to the Rohirrim: Éomer and Éowyn came to Merry and they said "Farewell now, Meriadoc of the Shire and Holdwine of the Mark! Ride to good fortune, and ride back soon to ...

Thinking about how Star Wars saga starts at Episode IV, that is a very smart way of making room for yourself to create a set of prequels if it sells well and make it look like you had it all planned beforehand. Is Star Wars the first instance of this or otherwise what’s the first instance of a fi...

I'm trying to remember the name of a live action show I saw on Canadian TV in English in probably the early 90s. It was probably a kids show. It was fairly low budget, about a group of people stranded on some kind of space station or facility built into an asteroid, on either one of the Martian...

At the start, the MC was asked to fix something for his classmate. It was a old recorder or something, I forgot, but on his way home, he sees some guy jump in front of a train. The MC then gained that guy's memories and found out the guy was from an old clan. The MC was then able to fix the objec...