Pretty sure I read a book, but it could have been a manga, read in the last few years. Story of the MC, who while in High School, (Maybe College) a monster apocalypse breaks out, with monsters emerging from pits that open up in the ground. (I don't believe they were demonic types, but I may be wr...

I'm hoping for a story identification. I read it in the 1980s I think, in an anthology or magazine. The plot is roughly as follows: Humanity detects an alien civilisation. Paranoia ensues. It is resolved to 'get them before they get us'. Technology exists to make an interstellar missile which can...

I've newly read LOTR, and i don't seem to understand what the apostrophe is supposed to do to the pronounciation, I don't know how I'm supposed to lay pressure on the e, neither how JRR thinks there isn't enough pressure to say the name smeagol. I know that JRR made his own language, but I can't ...

I don't remember much about the book but it's definitely middle grade and it's about this boy (might have worked at a bookshop/his family owned I'm not sure) and he's taken away from his universe/reality for some reason and then he finds other people that has this same problem and they all visit ...

I read this book maybe 30 or so years ago. A group of colonists, Americans, married couples are sent off to colonize a planet. But it turns out the planet doesn't exist, the government sending them know the planet wasn't there but thought the pressures of having run out of life support would driv...

As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users I am continuing this honorary post based on a simple premise... The user with the highest rank in the yearly reputation league that was not previously ranked. For the Year 2024 league the winner is: Hao Lano Fi...

In Inception, Cobb and his team use their talents to extract information from people's minds by entering their dreams. This is generally used for corporate espionage and is considered illegal. However, Cobb mentions to his father-in-law that after the death of his wife, he could no longer use his...

Looking for a series of quite trashy novels set post nuclear war where survivors lived in a city that started as an interstate tunnel Pretty sure that the main character was extra strong and had I think red and white long hair

I have a distinct memory of a fantasy or SciFi story where some of the characters in a story and some of the settings involved a secret base on the Atlantic island of Rockall. This was probably published before the 1980s and might have been a spoof rather than a completely serious story (maybe, t...

When reading another story about a girl from Earth travelling through a portal that appeared suddenly, reminded of a story about a girl who got trapped in another world but could constantly revive, possibly turning back time to do so, and starting in a dark forest or swamp, fighting against a wol...