In the Dark Tower series, what is the official way to pronounce the word "sai"? The two possibilities that come to mind are As in "sigh" As in "say" Or maybe as none of the above. It appears that the word is pronounced once in the Dark Tower movie, sounding like "say", but it is not clear whe...

In the final scene from The Last Jedi, we see a boy, Temiri Blagg (aka "Broom Boy") look up into the starry night sky. He witnesses a streak of light occur high in the heavens, but I always thought this was simply a shooting star. However, I was reading a review of the film's soundtrack when th...

In Clark Ashton Smith's stories about Averoigne, can the approximate populations of the region's major settlements—Vyones, Ximes, and Périgon—be determined, whether by descriptions from the stories, each settlement's relationship to a real-life settlement, or some other method? If populations ca...

At the start of Spirited Away, Chihiro's parents are transformed into pigs when they eat food in the spirit village. Chihiro Ogino later eats a bun while seated on a balcony. Why was she not transformed into a pig?

In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Khan and his crew have hijacked the Defiant and have raised their shields. Fortunately, Kirk and company on the Enterprise have a way to disable them. Spock: Reliant's prefix number is one six three zero nine. Saavik: I don't understand. Kirk: You...

As the title states. Stephenson uses (and describes the use of) the word "vitamin" to mean any goods that can be shipped to space. Is that actual space lingo?

I remember reading a short story from an anthology of Short story Science fiction. I was probably 13 or 14, which was 45 years ago. I believe the paperback was old, perhaps from the 30's or 40's. The basic plot is a man wakes up in his same dreary apartment looks up at the same wallpaper, and I...

Looking for a story I read many years ago, long before the Harry Potter books. Probably a short story in an anthology, but maybe a short novel?? I'm guessing I read it in the 90s or earlier. A young boy is growing up "normally" in his world that includes magic of all sorts, but especially being...

In the movie Terminator 2, we find that Sarah and Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) himself helping to destroy the files in the Cyber-something factory + the recovered neural net microprocessor which will cause him to be created 40 years in the future (bootstrap paradox here). So when the course...

Looking for short story or long novelette about a created cybernetic or artificial woman who had become self-aware and was trying to get out of the system she was in. -Old Man Scifi

In Star Trek Discovery 1x11 "The Wolf Inside", we meet the Mirror Universe version of Sarek, who is called "The Prophet". Apparently he has this title because he can mind meld with people to discover their true intentions. But the non-Terran alliance appears to consist of the entire Vulcan race,...

House Targaryen is one of the greatest houses of the Westeros which ruled the seven kingdoms for three centuries. The house is associated with the dragons. Their Sigil is a three headed dragon on a black background. What is the meaning of this Sigil? What does the three headed Dragon on a bla...

For example, Larry Niven and Vernor Vinge are a my favourite authors, and they both contributed a back-cover blurb to Karl Schroeder's novel "Sun of Suns". But I only noticed that by chance, when browsing (very) randomly in a library. Is there some way to search online, for what books someone h...

The opening scene of Terminator 2 shows terminators going after humans via machine-to-human combat instead of using weapons of mass destruction. Skynet could have dropped any number of weapons on human populations. atom bombs (if any were left after Judgment D...

According to Wikiapage there are no more people named Martell alive. The only descendants of the Prince of Dorne are 5 of his bastard daughters, who aren't named Martell but Sand as is usual for bastards born in Dorne. Are there people named Martell still alive?

Ive recently been playing which, in large part, features the typical grey goo scenario (Automated manufacturers consuming all life on Earth in their efforts to endlessly reproduce). The difference being, it is played out with large scale robots, like giant walking factories as opposed to nani...

When a person dies various things such as bacteria, lysosomes and other stuff act on the dead body ultimately decaying it, so if zombies can walk around,breathe and take in nourishment then why are they rotting.I realize some zombies are bitten and maybe they have infections or literally dead peo...

In Blade Runner 2049, the tree, where Officer obtains the chest of bones, is tied to the ground. Why is the tree tied to the ground?

I've been looking for a book I read as a child in the 90s and I was wondering if anyone recognises it. I'm fairly sure it was a young adult trilogy, involving (I think) a young girl and a young boy who are required to travel off-planet to assist with the mining of either Venus or Io (possibly bot...

In Hellboy II, Prince Nuada declares his intent to unite the three pieces of Crown and awaken the Golden Army to wage war on humans. King Balor asks his son if he truly means this. The Prince replies in affirmative. Upon that, the King sentences his son to death. The Prince shares a curious bon...

After reading this article about some legends content still being produced, along with the SWTOR still being avaliable to play, does this mean that content can be added to Star Wars Legends (such as if it does not fit in currently with the new Cannon)?

What award/medal is this - I have been searching Wookieepedia to try and find what medal this is, but i have not found it, does anyone know what this medal/award was and why it would be given (eg- bravery, serving in the battle of Yavin)?

After the Milano was crashed, we saw Rocket repairing the damage using some tool that appears to be a cross between a 3D printer and a paint sprayer: This resembles nothing else we've seen in the MCU thus far*, and unfortunately the film goes into absolutely no detail as to what exactly that t...

When and Where the name Kal-El was first used? I know Jor-El (formerly Jor-L) was in the earlier prints. But, when name "Kal-El" was first used/created to designate Superman?

The "ARQ" movie explores the "stable time loop" theme. In the next to last iteration that we can see, Renton and Hannah are ready to run away with ARQ when Hannad notices a piece of paper in the mouth of one of the bodies - she takes it and finds that it has the codeword "SKY" written on it -...

The book is about a brain which leaves a dying man (not sure if he was dying) and then starts orbiting earth. It observes events on Earth and gains consciousness. I heard about it last year, but I'm unable to recall its name. It's a postmodern science fiction book and the writer isn't very famous.

I asked this on the puzzling SE - a stranger wrote some symbols on my friends arms. They were only able to figure out that one arm read "question" in Aurebesh. The second one is probably from a much more obscure language. Here it is: This image may be upside down Does anyone recognize these s...

Apparently, "taking the black" by joining the Night's Watch was generally considered to be a very honorable thing to do, but in current times it's seen as a "last option" for criminals and disinherited people. However, what strikes me as odd is that it seems that the House Stark generally still s...

When Kara was in her conscience, brainiac5 was in there too but if brainiac5 was so smart why couldn’t he tell Kara a way out!

I am designing a lightsaber hilt for a character whose backstory is of a Jedi turned inquisitor, who under severe stress during a campaign to hunt Obi Wan Kenobi, (this is totally non canonical and does not follow any story) realizes his corruption and after faking his death, remains hidden and s...

I read a short story about a guy with anterograde amnesia (i.e. being unable to form new memories, as in the film "Memento" or a case described in one of the chapters in the 1985 book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Dr. Oliver Sacks). I don't recall how he got the condition, but I think...