I read this story more than 40 years ago, but I think it was already old at that time. There was a shipwreck near a very small celestial body, with very low gravity. The survivors wanted to fall on that body, because there was a small but permanently manned station there and they would get help. ...

When watching the new Wheel of Time series of Amazon I noticed a lot of visual similarities between Shadar Logoth and Osgiliath in The Lord of the Rings movies. Specifically, the domes and towers looked very similar to me. Here is Shadar Logoth: And here are snaps of Osgiliath that it reminded m...

In the Blade Runner: Black Lotus episode City of Angels, Elle goes to Los Angeles guided by a faint memory of a building with an angel painted on the wall as "home". In the later episode the Doll Hunt, she learns she was one of multiple replicants created specifically for humans to hunt and kill ...

In the late 70s I was obsessed with a five book box set that contained The Secret of the Sachem’s Tree and Timothy and the Two Witches. I can’t remember the names of the other books in the set ( all different authors). The one book I’m particularly interested in knowing the title and author is ab...

I'm sorry if this is a hard question to answer, but here's everything I remember from this movie: My family rented a VHS for a single weekend. I watched it three times. I can still picture some images from it, but I don't remember the name or the plot. The three characters I definitely remember a...

In the original Blade Runner, it Deckard asks Rachel over a hundred questions before he confirms she's a replicant. Rachel is implied to be a special case- when administering the Voight-Kamph test, how many questions normally do Blade Runners ask before they're satisfied that someone being tested...

Sometime in the 1970s (?), I read a science fiction story about a human playing a series of chess games against a computer. IIRC, he had to win at least three games. One was won by finding a book of famous chess games...with a typo in a game. He played that game (e.g., very long book opening) u...

(no spoilers, this is old enough I believe, but I still tried to avoid spoilers in the title) In Harry Potter Methods of Rationality, Hermione dies. Harry seeks to revive her and as the first step, he transfigures her into something and also produces a decoy body to leave behind. Final form of He...

In the modern miltary senior officers would move between staff and command appointments. 22 years seems a long time to leave somebody in one position

I think I read this in the early 1990s, as part of a paperback in the English language. One scene recently popped into my head and I'm trying to pin it down. The main protagonists had some important information that they wanted to broadcast (I want to say the scene happened around the midpoint of...

I'm Specifically referring to the TV Show, but not sure if the workings of the space suits and helmets are mentioned in the books. I've been rewatching the TV series again and wondered how the helmets work. There doesn't seem to be any sort of attachments that allow the helmet to connect securely...

Joseph manages to save Elle from her own folly after she She is clearly confused and worried she's a replicant. Joseph administers a Voight-Kampff test after failing to find a serial number in her eye. After she answers the question about being in love, he tells her she's not a replicant. The pr...

I'm trying to find a short story. I don't remember many of the specifics, but there is a boy that is exploring space and he doesn't heed the warning about flying too close to some object (maybe the sun or a black hole). After exploring the object he returns to find all his family and friends are ...

In 18:11 mark The janitor says :we take turns to come for a visit Would you elaborate this phrase a little better?

I'm looking for the title of a short story I read in the late '90s (but which I think was significantly older). The core element of the story was a piece of furniture with some kind of salacious carvings on it. One character (the narrator?) originally acquires it, but decides that the carvings ma...

This is a quote I heard in the mid to late 1980's, attributed to a famous SF author (I usually think it's Larry Niven). I heard it either on a TV broadcast, or from the professor who was teaching our History of Science Fiction class. But the quote appears to have fallen into the dreaded Internet ...