I don't think this was really a big deal in the story, just some on-going issue the protagonist was dealing with while carrying on with whatever the major plot was. It stuck in my head for some reason. I think I read this before 1970. It could have been a fix-up novel from a series of short st...

Boba Fett and Omega are both unmodified clones of Jango Fett, it seems; does that mean that Boba and Omega are genetically identical? They definitely don't sound or look the same. Plus, Omega is female. Are they genetically identical? If not, what are the differences? (Obviously, a different gend...

I read this story when I was 10 and haven't stopped trying to find it, it may have been in an older anthology book. It may have been titled "The Lottery", and it was about a scientist sent to the very far past with a machine that gave out evolutionary lines to make extinct. The scientist was on a...

Trantor is stated to have a population of “forty billions”. I haven’t found any mention of Trantor’s surface area, but if we assume it is similar to Earth’s 510,065,623 km², then that means a mere 78 people per km², or less than one person per hectare. Even if we assume reasonable losses of land ...

I remember watching a war movie 10 to 20 years ago, when I was a still teenager, with some noteworthy scenes. I would like to watch it again. However, I am not able to recall its name and I only remember a few scenes. The movie seemed to be about a war that happened between the Napoleonic Wars an...

Ok, this is about demon souls on ps3. I have been looking around and cant seem to find anything so I want to ask that if I upgrade a weapon to +10 can I change it to a quality weapon and upgrade it to plus 5, do i keep the base stats from the +10 and does it add to the +5. For example - Longsword...

I read it in the 1980s in some unremembered book of short stories. The tale takes place maybe a generation after nuclear war, in a cabin hidden in the backwoods of America. A man and woman and their early teens daughter live in near starvation amid a snowy landscape, they were (I think) hippies, ...

About a boy who builds a computer I think he names alec and uses to solve crimes at school.

I recently read that the description of the Golden Hall I am familiar with might be incomplete. In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter 6, "the King of the Golden Hall" there are descriptions of Edoras, the village where the King of Rohan resides, and of Medusald, the Golde...

It is my impression from what little I know of Stargate is that their method of teleportation does something like warp space: there is no disassembly and reassembly of objects and beings and this avoids in the latter case many philosophical issues such as whether the reassembled being is really t...

In the 1980s I read a book about a fictional future rise of the Third World. It wasn't well written and I don't remember much about it, but one detail was that apartheid South Afica still existed and was brought down by (nuclear?) explosions in its gold mines.