(Spoilers for various Dune books) In the Dune Encyclopedia entry for it is said that she infects with a degenerative disease which can be covered up by what kind of disease was this? Or, if we don't know, which disease could it have been?

In the 1980 film, The Final Countdown, the USS Nimitz travels through time one day prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship’s admiral, Admiral Yelland is faced with the dilemma: 1) stay silent and let history run its course with minimal disruption, or 2) stop the attack. Yelland cho...

Thee is a "standard" in Harry Potter fan fiction, that very often, when Goblins of Gringotts need to act in a banking capacity in muggle world, they use Barclay's bank (if such a bank is named at all). This seems consistent enough across authors/years that I started to wonder if this idea is actu...

Never got around to reading past a few chapters. Was set on a US destroyer maybe Zumwalt class. Story starts off with destroyer battling 3 Chinese destroyers and saving a Taiwanese destroyer. This was written recently, maybe 2018-2019 or so and is finished now. Trying to find it now and its reall...

The protagonist of Dhalgren, Delany's 1974 novel, is a man who cannot remember his own name, and is only referred to as "Kid" (or sometimes "Kidd" or "The Kid"). Throughout the novel he only ever wears one sandal, his other foot being left bare. When the Kid first enters Bellona and encounters Ta...

Peter Jackson has made six large budget films adapting The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and before that there were the animated Rankin Bass and Ralph Bakshi films. However those films began in 2001 and 1977 respectively, and The Hobbit was first published in 1937. Were there any earlier adap...

The way a Bene Gesserit trainee becomes a Reverend Mother is by transmuting the Water of Life, being the bile of a young worm, drowned in water. Now, for the Fremen's own use, for their Saydaat, obtaining some worm bile is quite manageable - they live on Arrakis, surrounded by worms and sandtrout...

I always wondered how older ship explosions in Star Trek were created. In Star Trek Generations, there's a Bird of Prey exploding (YouTube). It does not look like CGI but more like they blew up an actual model. This style of ship explosion occurs quite a few times in Star Trek. How were these mad...

Beyond being "claustrophobia inducing spaces to crawl around or get trapped in to increase tension in an episode" why are there so many small tubes* (crawlways) in Federation** ships? Having to crawl while dragging a tool box is an incredibly inefficient way to move. In the real world, having t...

I remember that I used to play a PC game with my cousin when we where kids (late 90s / early 2000s), and we were trying to find it again, but no success because we can't remember its name. Here are some characteristics that we remembered: 2D platform game Levels had different scenarios (like a f...

I was doing a browse through TV Tropes, when suddenly a vivid memory of a story I read popped out at me. The male protagonist, for some reason, has habitually memorized train schedules since he was a child. Some part of me wants to say that he does so as a coping mechanism, perhaps to provide a s...

Does anyone know who's the author of the following short story. It's a famous writer from the 50/60s. It goes like this. A clerk is in love with a female colleague who ignores him. When his mother dies, he picks up sailing. A storm makes him shipwreck on a deserted island. One day another castawa...

I'm asking for the name of a movie in which a new phenomena is found. The field of dust, messes with physics and a team of scientists is sent in. We follow the scientists. First they skip a few days, as time seems to work differently here. They meet morphed animals and plants. Eventually explorin...

I have searched here and googled with no result. I can't remember the name of the author. I think it begins with a B. I can't remember the name of any of the books, nor the name of the series. It's something like Day Zero or Day One but googling that is not helpful. In these books, a radical unde...

I am looking for a manga (it's not "level up by eating"). The MC is a young man. He's in love with his childhood friend. She was in the hero's party. When she came back from her adventure, the MC sees her next to the hero and he thinks his friend and the hero are in love (it's a mistake) Well.. h...

In the 1986 film Labyrinth 16-year old Sarah wishes away her baby half-brother, Toby, to the goblins of the eponymously titled Labyrinth book she had been reciting from. Answering her wish is the Goblin King, Jareth who absconds with the child. After Sarah reneges on her wish, Jareth reluctantly ...