My question is at the bottom of the post. While reading through another question on this site, I came across Neal Barrett Jr's Through Darkest America. Boldly at the top of the book it says "Isaac Asimov Presents." It even confused the user asking to identify the book, who though the author was A...

I have a character with the ability to remove audio, soundwaves, etc from a variety of sources. In my story there is a chase scene where they are evading tracking animals. I wanted to have a twist where the sound removal was initially seen as a defense. I started with squirrels but learned they h...

Does anyone know what this story is? Here are the details I know: A pilot crashes on some form of embattled planet. On the planet there is an octopus mom-type creature. She is very large and her culture and genetics and species is such that she finds all her joy and purpose in life in nursing y...

Would it be possible in physics that something could shrink antman from a relative point of view (Would changing reference frames work?) also this is repost and i reposted it here because this is about scifi

Cyborgs are defined as - a person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body. The DC's universe's Cyborg is quite famous and Darth Vader is perhaps the most famous cyborg(If not Luke Skywalker). So who was the first Cyborg in ...

I was recently watching a compilation video of weird PC games, which included Jinx, a Europe-exclusive platforming title where you play as a jester. This suddenly reminded me of having played a game on Steam, probably 4-5 years ago, where you play as a muscular man in a blue (purple?) jester outf...

In Roddenberry's novel Star Trek The Motion Picture (40th Anniversary Edition) there are some curious items that are added that I don't recall in the film or the series: Page 1: Starfleet apparently use an implant called a senceiver that is used to transmit messages in only the most urgent of eme...

Short fantasy story I read about 22 years ago of an orc, elf or goblin good guy who has news of an impending invasion but gets captured by the enemy and forced to labour underground. He manages to escape through a tunnel and just as he sees the towers of his kingdom he gets an arrow through the t...

I read this around 25 years ago. I remember very, very little about the story. Glimpses mostly. What I do remember, in the beginning, a female character, maybe a scientist, meets a male character who (maybe) lived on/came from the dangerous planet. That male character is presented in the book as ...