When I was in middle school I remember reading a lovely book about a girl who was raised by a robot. She has braids and there was artwork at the beginning of each chapter. She has to escaped her home when an alien attacks her home I think looking for her because she was the last human? Her "mothe...

In Star Trek Discovery S1:E9 Into the Forest I Go - we see Captain Lorca deny Tyler's request to take Michael Burnham for the ship. But the Captain's reasoning isn't clear. We read: Lorca: Lieutenant Tyler, prep a boarding party for the Klingon ship. Two people, in and out. Tyler: I rec...

A long time ago, the possibly early 80s I remember seeing a film, it was black and white, from my memory the cars in it were quite old fashioned to 40/50s style cars. I believe the characters were in an undersea base or tunnel. They were trying to escape from flooding. I remember flood doors bei...

This question mentions General Order 24, which supposedly allows a Starfleet Captain to order the destruction of all life on a "culturally contaminated" planet. Looking at the linked Memory Alpha page, that appears to be based primarily on the TOS episode A Taste of Armageddon though it also men...

How the weapon of the First Order is load? It seems that is load with the energy or a near by star.

I just recently remembered a book or short-story I read in the mid-80's (as a middle school student, I think) that was a scifi/fantasy about tourists who were able to travel to a foreign planet. Specifically I recall there being some warning about not touching anything and making sure to stay on ...

When proposing a manuscript to a publisher or literature agent it is good practice to compare the new story to well-known existing ones, in order to help the editor get a picture of what they've got in their hands. I'm searching for popular works comparable to mine. If anybody can point me to s...

Looking for the title and author name of a book about supernatural and ghost stories that are all intertwined and re use characters in the same town. I think the author's first name is charles (not dickens). From the 1980s or 1990s.

I would like to find a children's SF book I read in the 1980s. I don't recall the last length, but I know it had scattered illustrations. A group of kids go over to the house of an inventor, probably related to one of them. The inventor was depicted with a white goatee; I remember his beard be...

There was a book by two authors in which characters are able to travel into the past. The main character was named Joshua and had a friend called Sally. The authors are most probably British as I had read the book in British Council Library. In the book, people time travel by holding a small devi...

We all know that Ravenclaw depicts wisdom. However three wise people in the stories (Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall and Hermione Granger) have come from Gryffindor. Thus, it makes me wonder if there was anyone mentioned in the stories who actually belonged to Ravenclaw and was as wise as th...

Aside from being against the killing of others, why did John want to stop Sarah from killing Miles? The T-800 said that Dyson's death could possibly prevent future events from happening, but John pressed on and Miles was spared. Is there another reason John had for stopping Sarah?

I recall having read a short story, most likely in the '90s, about a man in medieval Italy, depositing a modest sum in pure gold with a bank, for a period of a hundred years. He also gives some predictions and directions on how to invest it. A century later, a similar man appears, not withdrawing...

I'm trying to find a book - in either the sci-fi or fantasy genres - in which the following scene occurs: A literate person is reading a letter/invitation to an illiterate person. Both may have been in some sort of rebel movement against whoever wrote the letter/invitation. The illiterate pers...

Is there any explanation on why Gondor didn't recognize that the Palantir at Minas Ithil (now Minas Morgul) was in danger before it was captured by Sauron? It seems they should have recognized that it was not safe and moved it to a safer location. Or do we just say that Gondor was just as capab...

So Why did the first Order in Star Wars build the gorilla walkers and just not use the imperial model At-AT any answer is acceptable.

The Sorting Hat is significantly different from most other enchanted objects we've seen in the Wizarding World. The hat is sentient - it not only converses with Harry on multiple occasions but invents new songs each year, one of which specifically states that "The founders put some brains in [it]...

So i heard about Kylo ren is part of the knights of ren, what is that all about.Where did Snoke come from is he someone from uncharted regions or is he a survivor from the clone wars please let me know what you guys think.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was founded by four powerful magic-users; Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and Godric Gryffindor. Is there any specific confirmation of their deaths?

In Star Trek Discovery S1:E2 we have an Episode titled Battle at the Binary Stars. In Star Trek Discovery S1:E5 Choose Your Pain - this engagement is referred to as The Battle of the Binaries. In Star Trek Discovery S1:E3 Context Is For Kings, and S1:E9 Into The Forest I Go - this engagement ...