Early in the first book, the Atreides family take up residence on Arrakis. While unpacking and settling in, Jessica has been discussing where to hang a portrait of Leto's father: Jessica turned away, faced the painting of Leto's father. It had been done by the famed artist, Albe, during the Old ...

I was discussing LOTR with my son tonight, and we were puzzled by something-- Treebeard tells Pippin and Merry that trolls are "mighty strong" but are merely weaker imitations of Ents made by the Enemy in the great darkness, as orcs were made in mockery of elves. If that is the case, and granted ...

Say you were standing inside a Terran-like interior of a Dyson sphere the size of Mercury’s orbit around our sun. And there were tectonic plates(obviously great hazards to switch from one to another) that rotate at different angles so that centrifugal force is the same between the equator and the...

How should questions about the HBO TV show The Last of Us (2023) and the video game it is based on, The Last of Us (2013) be tagged? Should a franchise tag and a separate game / TV show tag with the year appended be used? (the-last-of-us + the-last-of-us-2023 for the TV show or the-last-of-us-201...

In My Hero Academia, Shigaraki is implanted with All for One quirk while real "All for One holder" still lives with the same quirk. How is this possible? Is it possible to duplicate a quirk totally? and then also implant it onto someone else! Could this be done with One for all too? It hasn't eve...

In the Stargate film, Daniel Jackson shows the known reason for having seven chevrons, i.e. that 6 points are required to locate a point in space plus the seventh being the point of origin: We know that the last chevron is the point of origin in seven and eight chevron addresses. This leaves som...

Trying to find a book or short story read in high school in the mid to late 80's - Possibly US based, it centred around the actions of some survivors after a nuclear bomb has gone off. I don't remember much in the way of detail other than a key part: During the description of the event, there is...

I am trying to find the name and author of a series a books I read in my teenage years, bought from second hand bookshops in the mid 1980s. As far as I remember it was a SciFi pulp fiction series of paperback books, published in the 1950s or 1960s, I read two, but I believe there might have been ...

This has always struck me as odd, why is the mirror even up in the school at all, when it's supposed to be down below guarding the stone? Hagrid retrieved the stone from Gringotts in July and Harry finds the mirror in December. So why is it taking so long to put the stone in the mirror, and the m...

In "Disaster", Worf is put in charge of ten-forward by commander Riker. However, there are higher ranking officers on board (for instance a department head like... Picard's love interest whose name escapes me). If one of those officers were to come in, could Worf give them orders? Could that offi...

Let's say that I have time branches off into two timelines in the future (this is too simplistic if we were to assume the existence of the multiverse). If I were to travel into "the future," would I travel to one of these timelines, have a greater chance of arriving in one of these timelines, hav...

I know that there are lot of examples of senior officers doing something and then a junior dramatically shouts "Belay that order!". What I'm talking about is a situation in which a junior officer gives an order thinking it's the right move but that is an obvious mistake that has to be corrected.

Why did Karinna I know the reason given in the story as written, that Elin was with them through the years after the war. Is that really the whole story? Karin didn't desert them, she lost her mind and was taken away by her brother. She couldn't go back (especially after her mother died). I'm...

In Faerie After, we understand that Karin had lost her mind after the war, as a plant speaker, due to what she heard from the trees as they died. She was completely unable to function, and her brother had to use his healing abilities to render her senseless long enough to carry her out of Faerie....

I'm trying to remember the title of a childbook that I read when I was a kid in the late 90s, in French. The year must have been about 97 or 98, not later than 99-2000, that's for sure. The only thing I can remember distinctly is the main story: it was about an anthropomorphic cat (as in, it was ...

The characters used to throw ancient stone dice. When the dice/stone touched the ground, a shape or magical circle would appear. (I remember it was purple and seemed like dark energy; also the dice glowed because of that energy). They used to carry the stone dice in a pouch. There was a fighting ...

It's the story of a girl that get killed by her father because of her step sister and a treasure related to a phoenix than she get reincarnated in the same world in the body of a girl with missing parents,than she go looking for her parents and her brother and she tamed the 4 mitical beasts.