I remember reading a story where a man lives in a small cabin outside of town. One day, a young woman approaches him and he realizes it’s his wife, only much younger. She asks him for directions and explains she has dreams of making it big. The man realizes if he tells her then, they may not meet...

I'm trying to find a story I read in a printed book in the UK around 1990. It was aimed at kids, probably about computers, and had some line drawings. The only bit I can really remember is a couple of kids going to see a bed-bound kid who is lying down wearing prism glasses so he could see his ...

In the first episode of season 7 of Agents of SHIELD, What else would be different in the MCU timeline if HYDRA didn't form?

In Rain of Days by Ray Nayler, the story describes memory therapy sessions in a future with doctors providing care through avatars. In an opening scene the doctor explains the basis of the simulation which made me stop and rewind: It’s not some static thing, just sitting there in the mind. Memor...

There are 7 core classes (Astronomy, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts Herbology, History of Magic, Potions and Transfiguration) and 5 elective classes (Arithmancy, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, Muggle Studies and Study of Ancient Runes) at Hogwarts. Although it can be assumed that ...

Frodo keeps saying that he ("I") am going to take this or that way, even though they are four Hobbits and as many ponies. They are a whole little party/fellowship already before Rivendell. I know that he was supposed to go all alone originally, but that's hardly relevant as they were three even w...

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I ran across an older relative's Superman comic collection. One story that stuck in my mind was about a group of college friends of Clark that had performed some ceremony/used some device that gave Clark their unused mental capabilities (the old "humans only use 10...

I remember reading this novel 4-3 years ago on Novel Updates. The main character (who I'll call 'Q'), is rich and he fell in love with this guy who I'll call 'BS', but it was one-sided. 'Q', being a sociopath, faked the death of 'BS' and kidnapped him. 'BS' tried to escape but got real quick. Aft...

Years ago, I read an isekai about a girl who got reincarnated into a royal family. Her new father and brothers despise her, because she's a girl. If I remember correctly, later on in the story, she goes into a cave with some students in her class and saves them all, thanks to magic. I can't remem...