In the Harry Potter series, it's never clear what happens to the Dumbledore family lineage. There is no mention in The Cursed Child either. I know that Professor Dumbledore most likely never married or had kids because there is no mention, but what about his brother, Aberforth Dumbledore? Does he...

This has been driving me crazy all day, yet I am embarrassed to ask it. I am trying to remember the name of a kids’ animated cartoon I watched obsessively, produced around 1992+-2 years, for the US market. I believe my copy of it came on a promotional VHS from Burger King. It involved a group of...

I remember watching a movie in the 1980s where an alien creature came to Earth in the subburbs. Eats parents and neighbors and is able to stick their heads out on a tentacle or tongue and have them talk, but just their heads. The daughter tries to stop it and an alien bounty hunter shows up to st...

In the last episode of Andromeda's season 2 (Tunnel at the End of the Light), alien beings from another universe attack Andromeda (and the nascent Commonwealth) through a trans-universal tunnel. In that episode Harper explicitly states that the aliens are using the entire power of a whole galaxy...

I read this book in around 4th grade, in the mid 2000's. My memories of it are very vague, but I remember it consisting of a large group of humans leaving Earth on a ship to search for another home planet. I believe something was wrong with Earth, forcing them to leave. The colonists on the ship ...

I'm asking if the higly praise pinocchio movie is book accurate because i want to watch it but i haven't read the book and planning to and no spoiler on the book only

I posted this in the Japanese stack exchange but the word appears to be made up base on early feedback and google translate. https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Matango#Name indicates this is a variation of the name of the (fake?) fungus but I wonder if any character uses the term -- I do not recall this ...

There was a science fiction story that I read at some point (I can’t remember if it’s a self-contained story or part of a larger book) that’s centered around an ai in a spaceship that realizes it has no memory of what the ship is supposed to be doing. It figures out that it has a hull breach when...

Around 2016 I read a short story that I believe was published in an online publication similar to the New Yorker. I’ve been looking for it ever since. A man works at a factory where he seems to be plotting something with a colleague. At the end of each day he returns home to his home where he liv...

I've provided a cross section from a phaser array element from DITL to aid my question: The emitter is apparently the flat, horizontal part at the top. The problem is that I've never understood how the beam is directed from a phaser array. Ball turrets clearly have an opening where the phaser be...

A company announces that they have perfected an invisibility cloak (or something like that) and that they will be selling protection to vulnerable older people. The people who have this service wear a two-way radio around their neck so they can talk to their protector, since the cloak interferes...

In Finale, the third book of the series that begins with Caraval, we learn that the witch Esmeralda helped the first Fate, the Fallen Star, create all the other Fates. Similarly, Legend suggests that he could turn Donatella into an immortal through a similar process. However, it is not explicitly...

In the Caraval series, we know that the Fallen Star was the first Fate, and that the witch Esmeralda helped him to create the others, suggesting that he was not created by her. There are tantalizing hints of his origin—he claims to have a language, for instance, suggesting that he was other once ...

All the people, places, and objects depicted in the Deck of Destiny have certain powers. Some of them are shown over the course of the book Finale: we know the powers of the Poisoner, the Prince of Hearts, the Assassin, the Fallen Star, Mistress Luck, Jester Mad, Priestess, Priestess, the Lady Pr...

It has a female lead who had red hair, at least at some point or another, and is part of this system. The system will give her a task or job that she must complete in order to leave that world and/or life. She has to collect a certain amount of these lives or jobs in order to be free. She goes th...

Vesemir: Wait -- hear that? Geralt: I hear it, I smell it. Ghouls. Vesemir: Wait -- hear that? Geralt: I hear it, I smell it. Ghouls. [They slay the hellish intruders.] Vesemir: Of course, when armies pass, necrophages follow. Let's go before any more show up. Geralt: I ever tell you about this ...