I am trying to identify a short story I read years ago. Probably written in the 1950s, give or take a decade. The opening lines were something like, "there were sounds, there were colors." A scientist suddenly finds himself in a world where there is no color, everything is shades of gray. It turn...

I read this short story back in the late 70’s / early 80’s in middle school or high school. It was a dystopian futuristic tale in which society mounted some sort of “speakers” that influence the masses into consuming more goods. One individual tries to convince the others of what’s happening, but...

I remember watching a BW sci-fi tv movie from the 70s with two marine biologists (man and woman) doing a routine reconnaissance in a mini-sub similar -but smaller- to the Proteus from the 1966 Fantastic Voyage. They were being chased and wrapped up by a kind of Kraken. The scientists used robot a...

Overview - Short novel, believed to be self published. Read mid/late 90's in document form, not bound. Characters IT Ops guy working at a company notices a problem with the updates / actions of the OS causing virus. Evil IT Corporation leader - runs worldwide (MS like) IT org that plans to and de...

The new teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was launched and I was thinking the creature I saw there was Shuma-Gorath but a friend told me this creature is Gargantus a lower class creature from Shuma-Gorath race, and that's part of this question is that true? And why Shuma-Gora...

I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and this line is doing me in: "The dormitory door flew open and in came the other second-year Gryffindor boys, Seamus Finnigan, Dean Thomas, and Neville Longbottom" Am I to understand that an entire year group share one room? At the risk of s...

I wanted to know if energon could be used as a crystal for a lightsaber if so what color would it be? Would dark energon work?

Recall in Star Wars: Empire’s End issue 1, the Emperor blows a gasket when the initial firing of the Galaxy Gun does not go as planned. This in turn reveals his fraught deteriorating condition of his final clone body. This causes the Emperor an immediate emergency to quickly get some spare bodies...

Maybe not explicitly so, but hinted at that the creature has, for example, some understanding of humans being separate creatures? I thought that in the remake it animates the dead body of a kid, almost as if it is teasing the human who sees this.

I read this in the mid-'90s; the book was from my father's collection and was showing its age. The main characters had to leave Earth for some reason, and wouldn't be pursued because of Earth attitudes toward space travel (or maybe atomic energy). They ended up visiting a lot of the planets, or t...

As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users I am continuing this honorary post based on a simple premise... The user with the highest rank in the yearly reputation league that was not previously ranked. For the Year 2021 league the winner is: Silly but Tr...