I read a book probably no later than 2011, a full standalone novel, where the main character and some friends are defending their medieval fantasy country from a Romanesque invasion. The invaders ("Romans") build roads and aqueducts and so forth everywhere they conquer, but if they are unable to ...

I'm looking for the name of a short story I read back in the 1980's. Best I can remember a man is stopped and ticketed for some type of traffic violation. Every time he went to appeal his case, any human reviewing the case saw it was a clear error. However, there was no feedback loop to the AI-...

One of the foundations of the Transformers franchise is that the Autobots and the Decepticons are engaged in a decades-long war with each other for the fate of the Transformer race. As is often the case in animated series (especially those from the 1980s), the two groups would frequently come to ...

Kim Stanley Robinson's newest novel 2312 shares a lot of themes with his classic Mars Trilogy. Are they set in a shared universe?

Tineye reveals that this image is from before 2009 and a reddit thread somewhere said it looked like from a manga drawing book, like "Super Manga Matrix". Would asking where this girl came from, be on-topic? Or no, because it's not a story?

I can't remember a lot of details, but the basic plot, I THINK, is that doctors can now kinda tell if a pregnant person will die while having a child, so the pregnant person can choose not to deliver. I think the story is about a woman who finds out that she’ll probably die, but she and her husba...

Movie centred around a type of spy/super hero girl. I can’t recall if she was Asian, but she looked a lot like Trinity from The Matrix, I think. Futuristic vibes. The city was full of small, silvered metal spikes, like nails, that were all over the floor and walls; she had to walk over them. From...

This answer to a question about Vulcans' development of warp drive in what for humans was the mid-20th century, and this answer about the split between Romulans and Vulcans in the 4th century BCE has me scratching my head. How did Spock (ST:SNW season 1, episode 10) say: If the Romulans are an o...

Why do all Starfleet ships appear to be designed by humans? The Vulcan ship which appears at the end of Star Trek: First Contact is obviously way in advance of what Cochrane has built, and even by the time of Star Trek: Enterprise human warp drive is still lagging behind what other races use. But...

I've seen a short clip of an anime with a little green-haired boy who apparently can form crystals on his body, like on his palm. He gets used by an adult (who cut those crystals off) and abuse him until a dark-haired man shows up and saves the boy. At the end of the clip, he helps the boy to sho...

I'm trying to find a game I used to play with a friend around ~2008 on a PS2 or PS3. At first I was almost certain it was in the XCOM universe but I couldn't find matching screenshots. Here are the details I remember : There are multiple (3 or 4 ?) character classes available, we used to play a ...

Tineye reveals that this image of a non-human girl with dragon wings, blue skin, red eyes, horns and a tail, wearing what looks like a Japanese school uniform, given how it features a black armband, is from before 2009 and has been confirmed by Valorum to not be in "Super Manga Matrix".

In marvel comics when or In what comics issue was black panther first depicted as a master of martial arts? His initial abilities included cat like reflexes and agility he performed acrobatic movement ressembling a cat’s. When did the writers decided to make him one of the best martial artists on...

I was sure that Brent Spiner said he wouldn't reprise his role as Data, after Nemesis... and digging around I found this answer to a question 10 years ago, that quotes an interview: when Spiner was asked if he thought Data could come back he said: I don’t think that could happen. Look at me. I a...

Marvel comics has a lot of Indian superheroes, but are there any in the DC comics universe?

Spider-Man/Peter Parker has goofed up multiple times in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for example- cutting a ferry in half, giving a multi million dollar weapon to a villain, and causing a multiversal rift just because he wanted to be the 'hero'. So why after so many mistakes, and so many danger...

It was about how Englishmen lived under monopoly slate rooves, wore monopoly linens, used firegrates of monopoly iron etc. I didn't see it the Internet Archive's copy of his complete works. So a sloppy publisher may have only attributed the essay to him. I just don't know.

I read this graphic novel about four to five years ago. It has traveling between worlds, I think. Maybe the ghost and the human world? But I don't know - I do know that the character met his grandfather and can fly. There's a lot of other magic, like changing sizes and maybe teleportation. A bunc...

I'm looking for a short story that I probably read in an anthology in the 1980s- I suspect the story is from.the 1950s or earlier (In my memory I associate it with Hyperpilosity). In this story a man wishes to reduce the power of women (it's a rather sexist story) by altering humanity so people ...

Written in the form of logs, One of the ships seems evil at first but as the story goes on it's revealed that it was trying to contain a zombie outbreak but the story was narrated from the POV of someone on the other ships. One of he ships is called copernicus. It ends with the infected ship bein...

At the end of the series, he is still alive, somehow. How come? Why nobody kills Harry for 19 years to take his elder wand? You can consider this a context for my question: Was Harry making a big mistake with his plan for Elder Wand? “I’m putting the Elder Wand,” he told Dumbledore, who was watc...

So even if he was poisoned, he still can make wordless spells without needing his wand, right? That means he should be able to disarm Malfoy or do whatever he wants. But he doesn't. He acts instead, because of his plan. Dumbledore wants Snape to kill him so Voldy cannot have the elder wand.

Kreacher was easily able to escape Voldemort's cave. Dobby was easily able to save Harry and his friends from Malfoy's basement. They're quite capable, fast, mobile, etc. If they were given a task to kill Voldemort, maybe they would succeed.