It's a fantasy story in the Might and Magic style. The character is an Indigenous/Native style person. They can leap very high in the air. A notable part of the tale is them leaping 25 feet to the top of a wooden structure. They wield and throw tomahawks with great accuracy. At one point in the s...

I read this short story in the 90s, it seems oldish at the time. The human is incredibly surprised that his parachute lands safely on Earth, knowing how drastically his luck has been reduced. He lands on a slope, visibility is poor, he starts to walk uphill....

Inspired by this question Sci Fi Dystopia: people classified by color coded bloodlines barcodes I wonder if anyone knows the earliest mention of barcodes in a SF book/film/TV show etc?

I think I am remembering a small part of a fantasy novel.I read it in the late eighties or early nineties. Two men go clothes shopping.At least one of them is a wizard. The other is originally from our world. The tailor gives them delicious food and psychodelic drugs. This keeps them entertained ...

Short story in a comic about insectoid aliens approaching Earth in an invasion armada. They attack lights that turn-out to be a truck's windshield This question reminded me of a book a read in the 90s or 0Os. It was hardback with a dark dustcover. The Lorry Driver had been rained on his entire li...

So I'm searching for a fic that has family inheritances. Harry was trying to inherit the Slytherin magic, even though the gaunt magic totally rejected him for not being pure. But he's been in the Chamber, and though he didn't get the Slytherin magic at the usual time, there have been hints that i...

Lost the name while moving to a new phone. As stated in the title it's about either an engineer or an architect who gets reincarnated as the son of an influential noble (fairly sure he's a duke but not 100%), who's mother is a sword master. SPOILERS about the plot that I can remember: His mother...

I remember parts of it... he is a simple boy, not looking for revenge... does odd jobs ... starts with cleaning a disaster kitchen, then in another room cures a princess of a curse. Then digs a tunnel through a mountain, while also digging down 10 kilometers to find the rare mineral... THEN fill...

I have spent years trying to figure what movie I watched when I was a child. The only memorable scene was where a lady goes into the jungle or forest looking for her lost partner or lost soldiers. She then finds a soldier’s skeleton up in the tree which revealed to be one of the missing people. I...

During the night of the storm, Lisa sees lights from the senior center where she works and decides she needs to leave to check on the people there. She does this even though it leaves two five-year-olds, Sosuke and Ponyo, alone in the house with crazy weather going on. The first time I saw the m...

In one of the books, just as they are leaving Mars, a war breaks out. When they return in a later novel, their Martian friend has become King of Mars. This is not the Dunn series. The series had multiple books - Many thanks

In universe, what's involved with a "Red Directive"? I get the impression that like the Omega Directive, certain rules and regs get rescinded. I don't remember there being any mention of Red Directives before season 5 of Discovery, though they might have been mentioned somewhere before that I've ...

On an alien planet, the inhabitants kind of look like lions and can make themselves invisible. The story is told from the point of view of a teenage girl who has one of them as a pet/friend and doesn't realize they are the dominant occupants of this planet. Humans have been hunting them for sport...

Are they nuts? Gravity bend strings in space? WTF I mean: a decent gravity could bend a little, but this gravity streches the line to almost double it length! Sad!