In the 1978 movie, The Astral Factor -- about a serial killer who is able to turn invisible -- there's a scene 45 minutes into the movie that I'm confused about. So far in the plot, we've learned that this serial killer, Roger Sands, has figured out how to become invisible while locked up in a me...

What is the biggest book written in braille on the open market today? I’m not blind, just curious. For that matter what is the oldest braille book?

In this story, the humans are scared because their radars, etc., cannot detect the alien spaceship (which is holding a conversation that's threatening to them), and humans believe that the alien spaceship has some amazing cloaking mechanism. The truth is that (spoiler here) these are really micro...

I think I read this in a Gardner Dozois Anthology of Best Short Science Fiction Year X. The year would have been 2005 or earlier. The story was about a boy and a girl, about 13 years old initially. They lived in a world that was essentially the same as here, as our Earth. Reproduction was quite d...

I'm looking for a comic where Spider-Man remove his mask to smile a little girl. The art of this is like realistic. Seemed pretty much like a panel from Alex Ross. The girl in this snippet says something to herself, something like that Peter face "looked like the most common face she ever saw", ...

British author of primarily YA books 1970s/80s. His novels were very short and easy to read. To the left, he did a trilogy in which capitalistic aliens conquer earth but are forced to withdraw when the occupation costs them too much money. This author was killed in a traffic accident of some kind.

A recent question about capitalistic alien invaders reminds me of a short story (there may have been a sequel as well) I read back in the 1980s. I believe I would have read it in a magazine, which means most likely Analog, since I've recently been re-reading Asimov's and haven't come across it. ...

I saw this as a kid (i. e. late 80s or early 90s) on TV, so my memory of it is very hazy. Language must have been German dub (if not original German). This was a short film (pretty sure it was not a long movie due to the compact plot) set in an air traffic control tower. The ATC crew receive a ra...

Artist Rob Loukotka has made a poster featuring what he claims is ALL 126 ACME brand products: I was wondering whether he missed any. Are there any ACME products that are not featured on this poster?

I have been obsessed with the simulation theory and stuff related to as of late, and the 'dying in the sim really kills you' trope is pretty common.So I hate the trope, but I wondered if it was correct. Say we had VR at the level that you pretty much could not tell the simulation from real life w...

Some years ago I watched on french TV a BW very old SF movie that was advertised as "The worst SF movie ever made". It involved aliens who somehow woke up the dead, so the living had to fight wave after wave of animated corpses coming out of their graves. One scene I remember, to elaborate on how...

I am sure I did read in the 80s, in our local library (it doesn't exist anymore by the way), a science fiction short story about an electrician that invented a fax machine that started to receive messages from the future. The machine falls into the hands of a villain who threatens to take over th...

In Book of Boba Fett chapter 4, we see: I've always assumed that the big, glowing things at the aft side of Star Wars ships are thrusters, yet Boba Fett's ship moves in the opposite direction from where they're pointed. How? Is the light being generated just "waste light" from the reaction powe...

what i remember is the human and alien represent their respective species, unarmed, naked, and are separated by a force field. they cannot pass through this field but must kill one or the other to determine the winner of this galactic battle. the alien is round with protruding tentacles that end ...

I'm trying to find a comprehensive list of shows with extremely long gaps between seasons, but most only include very recent shows with maybe a two-year gap at most. I'm thinking of much longer gaps than that, such as The Jetsons, which had a gap of twenty-two and a half years between its first s...

In Attack of the Clones, after Jango is killed, Boba goes down to the battlefield to find his father's helmet. In season 2 of The Clone Wars, which takes place about a year after AotC, Boba is running with Aurra Sing and acting as a bounty hunter. My question is: what exactly happened in this i...