A short science fiction story I'm looking for: a 'scavenger' (or was he called 'vulture'?) is a policeman who reads the mind of the dying. He's a bit of a pariah. He's called to a crashed spaceship, where he reads the mind of the horribly burnt, small alien body. He sees weird trees against a wei...

I read the book circa 2000 Fictional Setting: Modern circa 1990 Main character is male. Guy appears one night at the scene of a crime he didn't commit, but has to flee. He is on the run and is eventually contacted by a organization that deals in predicting the future and has agents in all diffe...

The USS Nostromo encountered Xenomorphs on LV-426 in the year 2122. Furthermore, Xenomorphs remained on that moon during the founding of Hadley's Hope colony in 2157. By that time, surely the Xenomorphs would have killed the humans in that colony. Fast-forward 22 years in the future to 2279, and ...

Computers make everything for humans. Guy gets a model train set made. Next, the guy wants a train kit and the computers refuse, because he would be creating something. Short story found in a late 70's high school sci-fi text book, I believe.

It is mentioned that The Singing Sorceress, Celestina Warbeck, once sang her big Wizarding World hit "A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love" with a Muggle dog walker who accidentally used a Portkey to join her on stage. He then had a memory wipe performed by a Ministry of Magic official but he reta...

Were either Bilbo, Frodo or Samwise, Tolkien's self-inserts? Which one(s) and why? I would accept the answer based either on Word of God, or on a reasonable analysis by third-party. (the question arose out of random online forum discussion, not a homework question :)

I may have read this book some time in the 80s or 90s. I don't recall the cover or author. However, I recall that what happened to him was similar to what happened to Worf in that episode of Star Trek: TNG, "Parallels." He would without warning or preamble shift quantum realities. This had been h...

I'm not sure whether or not this was a short story or a novel. I think it may have been a short story that was part of an anthology because I recall very few details about it. I read it in the 80s. I think that was when it was published. Mankind had discovered that amputees experiencing ghost pai...

I was reading a hunger games style alien scifi trilogy about "The Others" who were in earth and told humans to farm for gold for them and before they left they told them that they'd be back to judge a battle between them and whoever wins gets the planet basically. In the book there were 12 people...

In my mind I had always pronounced Eorl like a cognate of earl, but upon reflection I think that can't be right. All the Rohan royalty have the letters E and O successively in their names, pronounced Ee-oh. Eorl's father was Léod. We meet Théoden, Éomer, Éowyn, and hear of Théodred. All are Ee-oh...

A Chinese manhua where a guy who died from overworking is reincarnated in a world with cultivators, and has a title like 'kill me so I can reincarnate'. He's reincarnated in an isekai as karmic retribution, except he didn't fulfil a particular criteria so he has to be killed again. He is pulled a...

so basically, the male main character hates someone in his family and he posts his hatred for her (a family member) on an online forum. he then gets a reply from someone with a username that had something to do with a bunny/rabbit. this online person also hates someone and offers a kill deal wher...