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Need help discovering what Movie/Series I'm thinking of
I'm going mad trying to discover what movie/series it was but I have a faint memory of really liking this one cartoon whose plot revolved around a group of friends exploring an underwater hotel built by Marco Polo that wa...
Is anyone else worried that the point at which VR technology supplants reality for us will come before the point at which we explore deep space (so we will be complacent with our fake space missions)?
The age criteria for entering Tri-wizard tournament was 17 years or more. So why was Ron thinking that anyone below 17 was coming from durmstrang and beauxbatons?
"Nearly six," said Ron, checking his watch and then staring down the
drive that led to the front gates. "How d'you reckon they're com...
For reference, I'm 18 now, but I must have read it in either 4th or 5th grade, or possibly 6th, so 2016-2018. I just recently started thinking of this book I read, as the plot was amazing to me personally, but I can't remember the name.
Mostly what I can remember is that it's set in a post-apocal...
Medieval society; sword-and-sorcerer. The woman in question is one of the primary adventurers, but not one of the most important. She could tie ropes in patterns or even hold knotted string stretched between her fingers, which would cause discomfort or insanity to those who saw them.
There were a...
I would really appreciate help remembering a short story I read when I was majoring in creative writing some years back. Here are the details I remember:
it centers around a young boy in a woodworking class, and he is working on a project
his parents have just died in a car crash recently
the bo...
It could be published in the early 2000’s, and is probably in a similar age range to the early-mid Harry Potter novels. I think it may possibly have been set in a town along the coast (I keep thinking the coast of Maine, but I don’t know how accurate that is). The wizard can shapeshift into a gra...
Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: Based on a conversation with Phil Plait, whom I wish to associate with the above subject. Today's News:
Please note that this is from my memory and might not be entirely accurate.
The main character is isekai'd into a novel she read, becoming a brown-haired, green-eyed character. In the novel, the character she inhabits was supposed to die from an illness before the main character of the novel retu...
The story features a young electrician wiring an old remote house in Scotland. He see's the wife of the owner sitting still in a darkened room. He thinks that it is a ghost. It's related in the first person , and the narrator keeps implying that the house owner is involved in the motor trade. The...
I read this story somewhere between 5-10 years ago (2014-2019) either as a stand-alone short story or in one of those "year's best sci-fi" anthologies, so it was likely published 2005-2013. Google, Reddit, and ChatGPT searches have failed me (AI loves to make up fake titles), so I'm coming here f...
I recall watching an animated story in the mid 1980s as a kid where explorers go to either the moon or another plant and encounter an alien race that can jump high or far. The aliens end up forcing the people to stay and play sports and games. Eventually the people do escape. I recall it had a ve...
I am trying to find a science fiction short story I read a few years ago. It would likely have been in a sci-fi anthology (multiple authors) or in a "Best of Phillip K Dick" book, but from looking through the latter's works I have not been able to find it.
What I remember from the story:
A boy f...
I have a fairly clear recollection of an episode in which a conversation between her and the father of the family goes something like this:
Father: It's amazing how rapidly the sense of wonder [at meeting an ETI] fades
Ann Meara's Character: Yeah and is replaced by a desire for a small-sized body...
I know that there's spice and death sticks in Star Wars, but there's no record of any illegal beverages and I was wondering if there was what it would be called?