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@Donald.McClean Leominster's certainly real.
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Q: '90s or early 2000s sci fi book about a prince and his love interest from earth going suffering through some problems

BD2022A sci fi book I read late '90s possibly early 2000s about a prince/noble from a different planet. Somehow, he ends up on Earth and falls in love with a woman. The prince/noble has an uncle, I believe, and the uncle sends people to chase him down. They get captured and then taken to a super large ...

 
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Q: What does the phrase "fully fueled, in gander" from the Superman story "City Under Siege" mean?

BuzzWhen I was a child, we had a LP record with four Superman stories. My favorite was "City Under Siege," about a group of terrorists who threaten Metropolis with a homemade nuclear weapon. (The was also released as a 45-rpm single, with an attached comic in the album, but we didn't have that.) Th...

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Q: Short creative writing story about a man being followed/ taunted/ possibly haunted (?) by a water droplet through this journey through the desert

calle308I read this short story back in high school (2018/2019?). The story goes a man is going on a journey with a backpack on his back through the desert. In his backpack there’s a water droplet that acts humanly towards him, mocks, taunts, loves, hates, creates mischief, even seduces him(?). He arrive...

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Q: Was Mirror, Mirror inspired by the original Ellison script for City at the Edge of Forever?

releseabeI note that the Ellison script had in the changed timeline the name of the ship being the SS Condor: https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Harlan_Ellison%27s_The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever,_Issue_2. This ship was not dissimilar to the Mirror universe's ship (is it still called Enterprise?) and I w...

 
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Q: What is the name of this Manwha?

KikiI remember it being a typical reincarnation romance story but what set it apart was that the protagonist was a young girl who died from illness in a hospital before being reincarnated into a novel she was reading at the time. I don't recall anything else but if you know the name, thank you so so ...

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Q: Book (series) with terraforming crew and ecstasy trees

roymeoRead this is the 80's. I think I read 2 in the series, not sure if there were more (or if my memory is correct). Protagonist crew was sent first to survey and terraform planets before the real civilians would show up. One outstanding detail was a tree that would grab and inject victims with a che...

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Q: Detective story novel involving Victorian technology level space travel

QwertyuiopEnjoyed this book, but can't recall title. Collection of planets connected by ways. Travel on ways need elephant-like animals that are hitched to train cars with basic vacuum engineering. Plot was like a detective story. Main character was from outside of connected planets, but was marooned. ...

 
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Q: Why didn’t Zion cut down the powerline to the machine city?

Satellite of SinIn The Matrix: Revolutions, when Neo set sail for the machine city, he reached the human field early without facing any resistance. He then told Trinity to follow the three powerlines to the machine city. If bombing the fields was cruel/inhumane, why didn’t Zion simply cut down powerlines and th...

 
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Q: How could Obi-Wan Kenobi make the same mistake twice?

shanuNear the end of Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith we see that Obi-Wan leaves Anakin to die on Mustafar after their duel, not actually confirming he was dead and later found out he survived. And today in the of ep6 of Obi-Wan Kenobi after their duel supposedly defeating him by destroying hi...

 
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Q: Book about children who can't see shapes or color

Joey CrushMaybe the title of my question is off but anyway, I remember back in highschool of the year 2004 and read a strange book about a futuristic society. That society had children raised and taught in a weird way, if I'm not mistaken they were unable to see in color just like black white and grey, and...

@AncientSwordRage So, I kinda felt bad about giving a recommendation without having actually read either book, so last night I read Rivers of London and All Systems Red (Murderbot 1). I definitely preferred the latter.
I realised that part of the reason I was turned off of Rivers was because I had just been reading Stross' Laundry books. (Which I would recommend against.)
Stross came highly touted, but the more I read the more I found I really hated his books.
@DavidW the Laundry Files books have been recommended to me as well
Read Rivers instead.
@DavidW Wait, you read two books in a single night?!
All Systems Red is only really a novella (40k words).
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@DavidW And Rivers of London?
I dunno, the paperback was about 400pp. (I didn't buy it, I read a copy that's available at archive.org.)
My old top reading speed was ~100 pages a day, nowadays I don't get up to a page in 100 days 😔
There were parts I kinda glazed over, like when the story went into street-by-street navigation details of a chase. Okay, you did your homework, but I really don't care.
And I don't know the difference between an Edwardian townhouse and a Georgian townhouse (for example), so a lot of the scenery details I skimmed.
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Q: Title of book of short stories, new color discovered, toy cars

Sierra TatumPossibly written in the 90s, not positive if it was meant for children to read or not. One story about a young boy who digs up a brand new color. Another about a car chase (or just cars driving) and it turns out they are toy cars being played with by kids. There was also another story that I THIN...

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Q: Movie about giant murderous worms in the sand

no-displayAll I remember about the movie is two scenes, one is where they are in a ?jeep? trying to drive away from a worm underground but the road they are going through has mines so they end up being blown up. The other one is what I assume the ending, where the main character and a woman are inside a he...

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posted on June 22, 2022 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: Have you noticed how youtube explainer videos have slowly morphed into softer versions of This One Weird Trick? Today's News: Thanks to all the RSS-using freaks who wrote in regarding font formatting. My current hypothesis is I'm creating issues by copy-pasting from google docs to this field. My next post about gourds and the nature of existe

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Q: Is the apparent superstrength and durability of the Djinn inherent?

FuzzyBootsWithin the 2022 Ms. Marvel TV show, in the third episode, "Destiny", there was a recent reveal that During the episode, it's shown that the Djinn seem to have superhuman strength and durability, and are slow to age, if not unaging, traits which are so far not seen in Is this because they are no...

 
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Q: Should [ms-marvel] be split since there's now a tag for the TV show?

FuzzyBootsCurrently, the ms-marvel tag is written for the comic. I created a ms-marvel-2022 tag for my question about the show. Did I jump the gun in doing that? Is invoking the marvel-cinematic-universe tag alongside ms-marvel sufficient? Or should there be a tag for the comic, and one for the overall myt...

 
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@DavidW I bounced hard and repeatedly off of the Laundry Files, and I am fan of both Charles Stross and urban fantasy.
I had similarly negative reactions to The Merchant Princes, Halting State and Accelerando so I'm writing it off in large part to Stross.
@Spencer No such person. :-)
I loved The Merchant Princess and Eschaton, but haven't tried much else.
But "urban fantasy" (which is such a stupid name, I use "modern fantasy" instead) is such a varied field. You have stuff like Anita Blake (parallel universe), Dresden Files (magic is hidden), Harry Potter (magic is hidden), The Others (Anne Bishop, parallel universe) that it's really hard to say it's any one thing.
If you like Stross, then don't read Accelerando. It's probably the worst book I've read this millennium.
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@Donald.McLean Doesn't urban fantasy have to be, well, urban? Set in a city? I wouldn't call Harry Potter urban fantasy, for example, although it is modern fantasy.
 
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Q: How much Hayden Christensen actually appeared in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series?

ThePopMachineThere was quite a lot of excitement and promotion around the return of Hayden Christensen's Annakin Skywalker to the Star Wars universe in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Of course, all of this is muddled by the fact that in the present day of the series, there is little of Annakin left and mostly all...

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Q: Short Story - Man who can alter the past, responsible for the fate of Native Americans

AndrewIn the 1990s, I read a story in Asimovs (almost sure) about a man who could (by an act of will) change the past, resulting in appropriate changes to the present. I don't remember much of the plot; I believe the man was immortal, and very long-lived. Near the climax of the story, the man recalls ...

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Q: Manga where the main character is betrayed and then reborn as the daughter of the ones who betrayed her

JoshariaThe main character gets betrayed and then is reborn as that villain's daughter. The first one she gets revenge on is the head maid. She pretends to be smitten with the maid. The head maid takes credit for the other maid's work. At one point, she mentions that she baked a cake personally for the l...


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