I know its in the last 20 years because it was when the vgx effects were ok but its not like recent, i thought it was from the Race to Witch Mountain movie with the Rock as the taxi driver but i just watched the whole movie and it isnt there. I do remember it was near a convention and the friend ...

Okay, this one might be a challenge. I realize that "protagonist is alone in not having magical powers" is a very common trope, but I do remember some other details. I read this as a child in the 90s, so it'll have been published thenabouts or earlier. The setting was modern; I'm pretty sure ther...

In the Dune series, especially in the movies, the fight scene involves combat with knives and daggers without use of energy weapons or "old-fashion" assault rifles. Why?

I read this story about 2015 but it seemed to be written some decades earlier. A small number of human men are living on a planet inhabited by an intelligent alien race. After the humans arrive many of the alien children born look very like the individual humans on the planet. If an alien mother ...

I have finished the first movie in the book (and watched the movie). I want to know when I can watch the second movie without spoliers.

It’s a movie that I watched when I was a kid in the mid 80’s. The main character was either an alien type himself or wore a mask to protect himself from the sand. This movie had conical shaped sand pits that had creatures at the wait under the sand as soon as you fell into them.

Was HAL-9000 the first robot or in-plot SF camera that had a light emitter inside the lens of its "eye"? If so, is there any record of why Kubrik, who was obviously a highly experienced technician as well as an artistic genius, thought it was a good idea in something which was otherwise fairly ha...

My girlfriend reminded me of a short story I read and am trying to track down but having no luck. The story involves a house that has two identical rooms, mirror copies of each, other if I recall each with a mirror and a chair. Unfortunate person finds themselves lost and wandering and ends up en...

I once read a book on royal road i think where a normal guy awakens on a futuristic earth where ppl have abilitys his gets put on a D grade or something his friend gets 2 go 2 some islands where he learns about his powers is somehting like b rank or higher cant remember and the ability of the ma...