Near the beginning of Keith Laumer's A Plague of Demons,* two spies are meeting in a restaurant in North Africa, and one sweeps their table for surveillance devices. We went through a ritual of hand pumping and when-did-I-see-you-last’s, ordered second drinks, then moved over to a low table. He...

I can't remember the name of a short story that was in an anthology book of vintage SciFi that I read about 30 years ago. The stories were from the 40s-60s I believe. It was about a spaceship crew being attacked by an invisible alien which would only be visible for an instant as it moved from loc...

I'm looking for a book about a girl who can speak to/ understand the feelings of stones. What I remember about the book is that the girl is disfigured but as the story goes on she starts to heal. She meets a group of kids (either orphans or foster kids) who join her on her journey. Each of the ki...

In the 2016 American science fiction drama film Arrival, aside from what seems to be a type of cancer in Hannah, we also can see how she limps and at some point, she asks her mom Louise to help her with one of her boots. Given that Louise was the only character that kept direct contact with the h...

So according to this video, you can actually locate an End City rather easily, before even fighting the Ender Dragon. The video suggests standing underneath the Portal, then using a piston to push you (the player), which causes you to trigger the Portal, but instead of sending you to the central ...

The current issue of the New Yorker includes a long article about Stanislaw Lem, about new biographies of Lem focusing on the extent to which Lem's Jewish identity and experience of the Holocaust and wartime Poland, which he seldom wrote about, informed his science fiction. Anyway, at the beginni...

The mc is a hero and he wakes up after 100 or maybe 200 years of sleep in cryo pod thing and he wakes up in a kids body then he meets an elf he rescued before he got into crypo pod. Please help me for this one

So when Harry is put under the Imperious Curse by Moody, he hears Moody telling him what to do. I wonder how Moody communicated to the spiders what he wanted them to do? Can he speak spider? Does the Imperious magically change the instructions into the language that the person being Imperiused ca...

This dialogues are from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011): Dumbledore: The prophecy did not refer to a woman. It spoke of a boy born at the end of July. Snape: Yes, but he thinks it's her son. He intends to hunt them down now, to kill them. Who exactly is "her" here?

Since I read this more than a decade ago my recollection may not be entirely accurate but here goes: Novel is English, I read this between 2001 and 2005 but it could have been published many years earlier. From what I remember of the writing, the intended audience are most likely young adults but...

Harry has DADA classes in The Philosophers Stone with Quirrell, but his scar never hurts despite being in such close proximity to Voldemort...why?

There's a rule in maths/stats called the tail sum formula eg this. Apparently it's also called the darth vader rule. The explanation here goes This is not a reference to a discoverer. But the designation may capture the somewhat counterintuitive—if not slightly unsettling and surreal—impression ...

I posted this on Goodreads, but thought it might be good to get ideas from a more specialised group. Age group: children / teens Date: 1970s / 80s (read it mid to late 80s). Origin: British or American - no clear feeling on this. Plot details (so far as I can remember): Boy is in a futuristic spa...

After watching the last episodes of Wandavision and Loki, many people have notice that around minute 27, both episodes seem interconnected. In Wandavision, the epidsode 9 runs more or less as expected, we can see how Wanda At the same time, the episode 6 of Loki show us Some theories stands tha...

Why didn't Harry use a pensive to show Fudge what occurred in the Little Hangelton Graveyard?

Why did Harry (and all the other first years) have to buy ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ in their first year if Care of Magical Creatures was a lesson they couldn’t take until their third year?

Like do they know you’re close to the school so they’re like hippity hoppity another soul a tragedy or check where you’re from, and if they do, and let's say your mix French and American, do they have a battle between each other to see who keeps the student? Okay, I'm getting off-topic. Or do you...

Darkseid and Superman have fought on several occasions and Superman, I think, always turns out to be a major pain for Darkseid. Darkseid is not stupid and surely must have known about the kryptonite weakness from very early on. Darkseid is also not weakened by kryptonite. So why doesn't he jus...

I'm looking for a (mostly black and white) manga that I read a few years ago. I could have sworn the cover was of a young blond boy sitting on a throne, but I could be mistaken. At the beginning of the story, the young boy remembers his previous life and is ridiculously overpowered since birth. ...

From trailer: 3 points to Hufflepuff. Where there any else in movies or books (including cursed child and fantastic beasts)? As for games, I can't remember any in the games I played, but I guess anything's possible in some games. According to fandom, it's just t...

I have this vague recollection about Hemingway writing, in one of his novel, about intentional contagion of infection; it seems to me there is a character, near a trench, offering a cigarette pack containing some infected substance to another character. Did Hemingway write about intentional conta...

The Magicians trilogy features magical buttons that was used to travel between Earth/Fillory and the Neitherlands (presumably inspired by the similar magic rings featured in the Magician's Nephew). Towards the end of the novel the text indicates that the magicians possess at least three such but...

I remember reading a short-story collection that could be about twenty years old, but the book was older, maybe 70s or 80s. After each story there was a sort of scientific explanation. The book was in Czech, but almost certainly translated from English. One story was about a house designed as the...

Were the modals created my the analyst or were they part of Neo's game or both?

Can Neo see Trinity like she actually looks like or just her DSI? And what about how Trinity sees Neo?

What happened after the first time Morpheus meets Neo in the bathroom? After they meet, there is a big shootout in the office. How did the analyst reset everything? He also did this with Neo's suicide attempts I assume. Also, why did Smith become Smith out of the blue once he grabbed the gun?

He had a big fight with Neo but all he wanted in the end was the Analyst.

I read this novel at least 25 years ago, maybe more. I don't remember the cover. There is a joke: How does an elephant come down from a tree ? It sits on a leaf and waits for autumn. Well, this is how this book begins, by an army of elephant-looking aliens reaching Earth on gliders. And soon they...