Over the last couple of days, the layout of the site has changed drastically and in small ways after that. What's happening? Was there an announcement? They are convenient changes, anyway, but was this supposed to be announced?

I just watched a 1943 french movie “La Main du Diable” directed by Maurice Tourneur. I think my question is on-topic because a Faustian contract with the Devil is Fantasy, even though very few actual fantastic effects appear on screen. Since the “fantasy” tag is for questions on the genre, not on...

I've noticed a common trope in SciFi/Fantasy: mind control changes the subject's eye color. (The only I can think of at the moment is Avengers but there a re others) What is the original instance of this, and why is it so common?

This was an old English language science fiction short story I read in an athology in a high school library sometime between 1962 and 1968. In the 1920s and 1930s astronomers discovered that the giant planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, must not have sold surfaces that someone could s...

First off i don't think this was a full length movie, nor do i think it was connected to a series. I think it might have been some sort of featurette. I found this VHS in a library when I was a child and I borrowed it over and over again in the mid 90s but it might be older, first i'll list what ...

I read this short story in a science fiction anthology sometime during the 1960s or 1970s, and the story should have been somewhat older than the anthology. In this space opera story humans from Earth and the Solar System have spread out accross the galaxy and colonised many planets in many star ...

I have had this image of a ship from a cartoon stuck in my head but I can't seem to find it. I can't remember much about the ship but it had a unique gimmick. When in flight, the bow section is folded down, When it lands the bow folds up and a ramp extends and a vehicle comes out. The bow section...

For Super Smash Bros enthusiasts for the Nintendo Switch, what is the best Setting Recommendation you have for Solo Play that maximizes enjoyment of playing (for a casual gamer like me)?

I read this story a long time ago in one of our class readings. It keeps coming back to my mind but none of my Internet searches return a story except for news articles. I do not know even if this is a fiction or a true story. It goes like this: Set during some period of unrest, the readers are t...

I've been racking my brain all week trying to remember the name of this book so I can go back and finish it. It's been almost a decade, so I may remember some of the details wrong. The setting seems to be in a future version of Earth where complex technology is outlawed with religious fervor. It ...

I remember reading a sci-fi short story where the alien being had to be careful about every movement because each movement would wear him down a little bit more. He had to decide if he would save another creature crossing a river or flood at the cost of much movement which would shorten his life....

At about 01h09m into Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Kirk and Mc'Coy enter a region of the Dilithium mines at Rura Penthe where people are applying some kind of lasers to rock surfaces. What are those miners supposed to be doing exactly? It doesn't look like they're cutting the rocks.