I remember distinctly this children's book in my church library growing up, this is late 80s early 90s that had this floral punk aesthetic. Periscopes made to mimic crocuses and lilies in burrows behind enemy lines where spies recorded enemy activities, domesticated bugs helping out in various wa...

As a child in the mid-to-late 70s I was read a novel by a beloved teacher in grade school. I have only the vaguest recollection now of story elements to identify it: It's a fantasy book, but I seem to remember it was set in the "real world" (not a complete fantasy world) and that there may have b...

In the offices where Pershing works there is a very grumpy droid. We also see the same droid in episode 5 of season 3. Is this droid in some way related to C1-10P from Rebels? They seem to have the same personality.

In Agents of SHIELD Season 1 Episode 1, Agent Maria Hill recruits Agent Grant Ward into a mobile command unit. In Ward's evaluation, she drew a poop/porcupine under people skills. What did that mean?

The MCU is set in Earth-199999, and in the comics: "Marvel has given several What If stories official numerical designations to make them contiguous with the Marvel Multiverse and differentiate them from the main Marvel Universe of Earth-616.[citation needed]" – Wikipedia Do the alternative uni...

In the Fiat Voluntas Tua section of A Canticle for Leibowitz the narrative around the increase in nuclear tension is partially told via the news conferences of the Defense Minister Lord Ragelle. At the end of these conferences he is asked questions about motherhood by one of the reporters. He men...

In Matrix (1999), Agent interrogates Neo about Morpheus: Neo: That sounds like a really good deal. But I got a better one. How about...I give you the finger....and you give me my phone call. What "phone call" is Neo referring to?

I believe humanity reverting to a primitive existence predates this phrase, but did it take the bombings of ww2 -- I think Harris of Great Britain used the phrase in connection with bombing Germany -- especially Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- to inspire the stories where the cause of this reversion wa...

The municipal transporter system in San Francisco is shown in the Voyager episode 'Non Sequitur' to have a Mission District line: This makes sense for train transit, like BART in today's San Francisco. However, this is stated to be a transporter system, presumably beaming people around the City...

I have been trying for a very long time to identify a story. Genre: science fiction Duration: short story Topic: AI assisted writing Premise: Earth authors are very popular with alien cultures, but their stories are really written by AIs, which range from expensive (produce good stories) to chea...

In Avengers, Thanos had the Infinity Gauntlet and when he snapped his fingers it wiped out 50% of life in the universe. Roughly, how much energy do you think the snap generated assuming the universe IS finite in size (since an infinite universe can not have any percentage) AND the universe has pl...