I remember reading a story in which unwanted infants were sold as food in open markets, although I don't think that was the main theme of the story. It was published in a monthly science fiction magazine (i.e. Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Astounding Stories, etc), so it could have been a s...

I'm trying to remember the title of a children's picture book I last read years ago. The illustrations were rather dark and elaborate/intricate. The plot followed a man, I think as he searched for keys through a large city. I remember it being 7 keys in Paris, but that may not be correct. I feel ...

Hey so for years I have been looking for a series which I saw one episode of when I was sick at home as a kid. The show was about a teenage boy who wore some glove with slots in it. And for every slot there was a magic stone which each gave the wearer certain powers. From my mind it was very mu...

The book I am looking for is a fantasy book which was, I believe, published in the 2000s. It was supposed to be part of a trilogy. It took place in a alternate/different world other then Earth and focused on a protagonist that was meshed/combined with a demon. Something akin to Dr. Banner/Hulk. I...

After Ash Tyler was introduced on Star Trek: Discovery, I have been wondering if he could be related in some way to Jose Tyler, who appeared on Star Trek's original pilot, "The Cage". Theoretically, he should be serving on the Enterprise during Discovery.

With Mr. Fantastic and Plastic Man as probably the best known examples, superhero comics have a diverse group of characters whose primary or exclusive power is to stretch their bodies into improbable shapes. The earliest example of such a character I'm able to find is Thin Man from Marvel predece...

The Doctor often uses his sonic screwdriver to scan for life. In Season 6 Episode 8 (Let's Kill Hitler) he What does the sonic screwdriver analyze when counting life/life forms? Possibly heartbeat, blood flow, brain activity, or some higher order of life that Gallifreyans have known of for mi...

Why then is everybody using his name? Even in the original series, a. Death Eaters call him the Dark Lord b. They get angry at Harry when he uses the name Voldemort c. Under the assumption that everything up to the battle of Hogwarts remains more or less the same, they must've kept the taboo s...

This image is a product of In Print, a Doctor Who webcomic covering matters from throughout the franchise and into its most obscure offshoots. Can you identify these characters?

When Hawkmoth akumatizes his victims, they take on powers and characteristics, usually related in some way to their non-akumatized identities. Does Hawkmoth have any influence over what persona and powers his minion villains receive, and simply like choosing apt personas, or does it happen acco...

Over the years I have watched episodes of Naruto but I kinda lost thread when they started a storyline with Madura, the Mother of Chakra and almost everyone was stuck in a dream. It was a period with a lot of boring fillers and I wanted to start again but obviously not from the beginning of the s...

So the Borg are introduced to the Federation by Q, but the fact remains the Federation lives on the other side of the Galaxy, and aside from more possible encounters with Q / Caretaker like beings, the chances are they will never meet again. So after the initial encounter, why are the Borg so i...

In Star Trek Discovery S1:E03 Context is For Kings, we find that Lorca's ship has a Spore Drive. The technology used mycelium spores harvested from Prototaxites stellaviatori to jump or leap across the mycelial network. Why is there a mycelial network across the universe? It sounds like an...

I recently remembered reading a soft sci-fi novel about 10-15 years ago (borrowed from a library); the basic premise was of some space empire (based throughout the Solar System I believe, but primarily in Space rather than on planets, moons, etc.). Most people I believe lived on some kind of rin...

I'm looking for the name of any old children's film I watched back in school in the late 70s, early 80s. The style of the movie was what got me: it was a stop motion film, but drawn in crayon, taking children's crayon drawings, and using those scenes in the movie. I don't remember the entire plot...

In Northern Lights, the alethiometers were said to have been made in Prague in the 17th century, and it is later suggested that their creation is parallel to the Scientific Revolution in Europe in our universe. In The Book of Dust Malcolm asks my question: "Why don't they make another one?" The ...

In this answer : https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/68985/70477 , the poster states, As mentioned by MarvelX42, when assimilating a ship that uses screens, it makes sense to just keep using those screens rather than to re-program the whole ship to bypass them. This is especially compelling sin...

In DC Universe Rebirth #1, the payoff for Batman sitting in the Mobius Chair and asking about the true identity of the Joke was that there were three Jokers. The site I linked above has their own theory, but has this ever been officially addressed in the comics? Was the storyline just dropped?

If StarTrek ships travels a lot faster than Speed of Light, means that in 1 year of exploration on a starship more years have passed on earth meanwhile. The same for communication, if a ship is like 100 ly far away from earth, a simple communication would take 100 year. This means that all missi...

The driver crashes his car and it goes over the barrier. The other cars are going to fast and never stop. There is a society living where he has crashed and I think he robbed quickly. This is so vague a memory of the book. The live under the express way or interstates and there is no way out. Tha...

During the middle 1970s, when I was in fifth grade, I had a teacher who routinely read stories to our class during the afternoon. She read us one, which I believe was a picture-style children's book, not a full novel-length work, and which has bits and pieces stuck in my memory ever since. Hence...

I was reading The Deathly Hallows (again) recently and a question popped up in my mind- did Dolores Umbridge who, worked as the head of the Muggleborn Registration Commission, knew that the Ministry had fallen to the hands of You-Know-Who?Or for that matter did others working for the Ministry, ap...

Publishing Time This was a short story in a SciFi anthology I read in my school library about a decade ago. I think the anthology was a few years old, from the early 00s, but it may have been older. Setting The story was set in the near-future. Space travel had advanced somewhat and I remember t...

This book was published in the 70's or 80's. The women had psychic powers but were bonded to their husbands who they could not disobey. The heroine of the book is bonded to a man (who is the bastard son of one of the rulers) against her will but her unique combination of powers allow her to bre...

Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to 1995, give or take one year. New York still had an amazing Fifth Avenue Book Fair, where you could buy used books on the street, meet your favorite authors, and many publishers gave away physical books for free to as many as would take them. Ballantine Books ...