I read this story at least 10 years ago, but it might be older than that. I don't remember whether it was a full novel or a novella, but I think it was "too rich" to be a short story or a novelette.
It was about a person suffering from a very severe dissociative identity disorder, with a large nu...
In the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime, largely set in the futuristic Night City, the original spoken audio is entirely in Japanese. However, most of the signs that we see are completely in English, although some have a bit of Japanese as well. Furthermore, all the messages that we see—for instance,...
I've seen this trope in a lot of different media, where a telepathic being (not necessarily capable of telepathy with anyone, this can be limited to the one character) is just sort of hanging out in the mind of the POV character, holding silent conversations with them, usually commenting on thing...
The main character has limiters on his powers. When he uses said powers everyone forgets his existence. There were two girls who liked the main character, but had forgotten him. When he sees them again he has to reintroduce himself to them for a protection mission. He's in an academy.
Vividly remember that a man either took a drug he was not supposed to take (forbidden?) or else refused to take a drug he was supposed to take (probably the former). He suddenly found himself whisked away either by a trap door like thing in his home or someone came to get him (seem to recall the ...
The noble family was always indifferent toward the girl and they loved the other child, I guess they had a curse in that specific chamber, so they locked her up in there but somehow that chamber got fired up and she escaped I guess, coz this time she's regressed or some maihelpslp her. It's in th...
Just been watching the excellent Alien movie and wondered: why would the Nostromo, an innocuous civilian cargo vessel, have a multi-million-dollar built-in self-destruct mechanism?
Looking for a short story published in Analog magazine in the mid to late 80s.
It was a play on the Twin Paradox idea.
In this case twin brothers are separated, one traveling at relativistic velocity, while the other stayed on Earth. He left believing many of his friends/family would be dead or e...
The Discworld rests on the backs of the four World Elephants; Tubul, Jerakeen, Berilia and Great T'Phon.
The Discworld series is a continuous history of a world not totally
unlike our own, except that it is a flat disc carried on the backs of
four elephants astride a giant turtle floating throug...
42 (Number) just might be the longest Wikipedia page for a single n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ integer.
In the Astronomy subsection of that article it says:
In January 2004, asteroid 2001 DA42 was given the permanent name 25924 Douglasadams, for the author Douglas Adams who popularized the number 42. Adams died...
In Andor S1: Ep. 4, it is revealed that Cassian Andor fought on Mimban. Did he fight on the same side as Han Solo? Was Han one of the "50 soldiers that survived" that Andor mentions?