Some years ago I read a book about a young girl who left her home when her parents moved to another house. If I'm not mistaken, they moved to Eastern US during Manifest Destiny-California Gold Rush. She complained how she liked her old home, where her grandma cooked pies which smelled real nice, ...

I have been trying to identify a story I read in the late 70s. I think it was either written in the 30s or 40s or it was at least set in that period. One of the main characters is a half snake half human female ruler. She used some sort of magic or psychic ability to appear more appealing to huma...

Several years back I read a book about some kind of adventurer. Not the typical one, since he did not really plan to have all those experiences. The stages I present below are in some random-ish order, not necessarily in the order presented in the book. He was imprisoned on an island. The habit w...

So, a grown spaceship. The earth is forbidden and lots of rumors abound about it being a death trap. The grown tools have a name they go under, which I can't remember. The guy has a dictionary or encyclopedia that is, I believe, a cheetah that had been grown. This guy finds a girl and they both m...

As a follow-up to a comment I posted on another question, I'm trying to identify a Superman story where Jimmy Olsen accidentally discovered his secret identity. As Jimmy was worried that he might be tortured into revealing the information in the future, Superman made him forget it by burning out ...

At the end of the episode 2, What could be the motive?

Why does he need Clark Kent? What if he just wanted to be a reporter or columnist? I am sure he could get a job. I can see initially when he left the family farm he wanted a normal life, did not even know he would become a super hero so needed to be a normal human to get a job. But after so many ...

This is the plot as I remember it. People in the future figure out how to bring people from the past to the future. They grab Mozart from his deathbed. "cure" him. He discovers rock music, makes great music, but becomes a head case, OD's and on his death bed people from the further future "rescue

In In the Mouth of Madness, Sutter Kane keeps playing with Trent's mind, with his teleporting car trick, causing Linda to go insane, annoying creepy townspeople, etc. However it turns out Trent was a character written by Kane the whole time, that everything that happened in Trent's day to day lif...

I cannot remember the author. I thought the title was We Few, We Happy Few, but I have found nothing close to that. I believe the book was written between 1965-1975. A moth-balled American aircraft carrier is being sent to the scrapyard, and the navy, laboring under the unpopularity of the Vietna...

The basic plot was the main character was transferred to a game that he plays. He isn't overpowered but he does have knowledge of the game. One thing I remember distinctly is that people in that game don't know how to "Counter" and he uses this to defeat a boss and also he knows some other mechan...

Is there any lore within D&D relating to the nature/structure of dragon scales? Particularly I am interested in how their scales are distinct from the scales of various types of reptiles in terms of materials and physical structure