I read the book in 1987 or 1988, and I'm pretty sure it was not written much before then. The plot elements I recall: An anthropologist(?) took part in a tribal ritual in South America involving an herbal drink that was linked to turning you into a werewolf. On returning to the States, the anthr...

From what I remember the main character is a young boy who goes to live with his dad who lives in a rundown mansion or something similar. When he gets there he explores a bit and finds out about dragons and befriends them and throughout the series he has to protect them and help one rare one hatc...

Slight spoiler for Wheel of Time book 2: The Great Hunt . . . . . In The Wheel of Time, I understand production and the need for weapons 'n things, but why do the Seanchan value damane who can locate ore so greatly? Egwene is highly valuable because she can locate ore. This appears to be a test ...

In Star Trek Picard season one the borg are ejected into space. Seven of Nine seems upset at this. But what's the big deal since Star Trek First Contact has shown that borg can survive in vacuum?

A couple of years ago, I saw part of a movie. It is a Made-for-TV movie, and I am not sure of the era. In the movie people are separated into women's tribes and men's tribes. To keep the harmony and population going, the women's tribe invades the men's tribe to procreate. If it is a girl, they ke...

In Babylon 5, during the Earth-Minbari war, the Earthers could never hit the Minbari ships because, according to Sheridan they had "some kind of stealth technology". But the Minbari warships are big and bright blue! And never shown to be particularly agile. How can they be stealthy? Even if they...

The story begins at the civilization level of roughly 1860s to 1870s. So one can see a range of weapons used by main and most tech-advanced combatants. To illustrate the point and the context of the question One side (Gubernio Civil) uses - for both infantry and cavalry - a heavy- and long- range...

I'm looking for a fantasy book that I read at least twenty years ago (late 90s, early 00s). It was a fairly standard medieval fantasy setting, with characters being warriors for various different factions. Individuals in this setting had hereditary powers that gave them various super-human abilit...

From the TV Tropes entry for Solid Gold Poop: In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, glitterstim spice, the Fantastic Drug on which many a vast criminal fortune (including Jabba the Hutt's) has been built, is the "webbing" of a species of giant spiders that are only known to live in underground ca...

Sometime back around 1956-1961 I wateched many older English language cartoons on television in the USA. Among others, I remember two cartoons which seemed to be part of the same series. One cartoon involved the character Little Lulu and had the song "Would you like to swing on a star". The other...

At least a year ago, I remember reading an online short story which mostly described a conversation between the narrator and an alchemist. The alchemist described the difficulties of alchemy's search for the philosopher's stone; the primary complication was the fact that, in order to make new dis...