In science fiction movie "Small Soldiers (1998)", Captain Chip Hazard said to his soldiers after declaring a war on Gorgonites and the humans who are shielding the Gorgonites : Commandos, secure the perimeter! Tap all communications! Roll some armor! We got us a war to win. If it launches,...

TLDR Season 1, Episode 11 - New Dimensions Is the explanation of quantum physics accurate in the latest episode? SPOILERS AHEAD!

It was like 10 books, I think, that started off set in the future following a cybernetically enhanced football player in games where players die ends up with the same character in a swords and sorcery fantasy environment. Something about him being immortal except being stabbed in the heart becaus...

For those who have read Definitely Maybe by the Strugatsky brothers or know a bit about 1970's Russia, the Brezhnev Era or how the Mikhail Kheifets case with Boris Strugatsky testifying as a witness influenced the themes and characters (really anything) in this novel, please help.

After the release of the movie Thor: Ragnarok, I keep seeing a fan theory on the Internet saying that Mjolnir might return in Avengers: Infinity War. The logic: Thor took the Mjolnir to Doctor Strange's sanctum and kept it there. Doctor Strange replaced it with a fake Mjolnir which responded to ...

I watched a movie few years ago about a man who was dying. He was attempting to upload his consciousnesses to a computer. And when his wife succeeded, some guys came to destroy him, but she managed to save him. He asked her to connect him to the internet, and he spread to every computer, and use...

Plot Summary/Details I fear I'm a bit light on details with this one. From what I can remember: NASA (or its fictional equivalent) has developed its first interplanetary space program. It represents a clear breakthrough in man's progress into space. Unfortunately for the program. A sort of ...

In Towers of Midnight, Chapter 37: Darkness of Midnight, when fighting Mesaana, Egwene and co are unable to leave the dream. At this time Perrin has already taking the Travelling inhibitor ter'angreal (the dreamspike) to Tar Valon, but in the next Chapter it turns out that although the ter'angrea...

...to tell them about how, because they've attacked a human colonized planet by accident, the human military (a different species) is on their way to destroy them (and that said military is very efficient). Other things I remember: the diplomat is huge (7 meters if I remember correctly?) and hi...

searching for: "who said so?" "who's he?" "how does he know?" thought it was from a Heinlein book? might be a James P. Hogan book? thoughtful treatise on questioning how someone knows something, who they are by experience, and where they said so...

The Moriquendi, or "Dark Elves", are described as being the elves who never saw the light of the Two Trees. Is the term purely categorical, so that those who were born after the destruction of the Two Trees (say, Arwen) can also be called Moriquendi (since they, too, never saw the light of the tr...

My question is refers to only the Avengers Assemble animated series. I just watched the Season 4:Episode 14 of Avengers Assemble Secret Wars: New Years' Celebration. At the end of Season 3, we see that: However, in Episode 14 of Season 4, I saw that: How did he manage to get back?

As described in the novel The Beetle in the Anthill, the Golovan Schokn and Lev Abalkin worked as a duo in several missions, and we know from Abalkin's report on the Dead World that he considered Schokn a friend, maybe even is bestie. Lev wrote that he 'took care of him when Schokn was sick with...

I remember reading this sometime late 80's early 90's. I'm almost certain it was a short story. I read it in English, in Ireland, but it was almost certianly an American author. It could have been written any time from the 50's to the 80's. Two guys - some kind of engineers - are in one of their...

Did any other members of House Organa survive the destruction of Alderaan? Other survivors were scattered across the galaxy and hated the Empire. Who did they recognize as their ruler? If she was the only survivor, that would make her queen.

Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch series already has some links to real-world mythology via the character of Gesar, and possibly also Zabulon. This made me wonder about the in-universe legend of the Fuaran, which was a pivotal plot point in book 3, The Twilight Watch. Is this also based on some rea...

Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo prominently sports purple hair. Is this her natural hair color? Natural extensions in the answer depending on the correct answer: Is she wholly human and humans in the Galaxy Far Far Away can have this hair color? Or is she partly human or not human? Or does she ...

I am searching for months a website with HQ's from Marvel and DC where i can read all the HQ's in chronological order, i always get lost in the timeline of those 2 universes and i really want to know the full history of each hero.

I am not sure if this should be asked here or on Linguistics.SE. I have heard that Tolkien's Elvish is second in renown only to Klingon among the non-natural languages. That fits well with writing a translator as an exercise in programming and natural language processing. Where can sources of d...

I remember reading this story as a child where a family is getting ready for an event in the centre of the city, where the last robot is being turned off, since it became obsolete. At the endorsement of the story we find out the whole population is made of robots and the robot being killed is an ...

I am not sure if this should be asked here or on Linguistics.SE. It seems that Klingon is the most developed fantasy language. That fits well with writing a translator as an exercise in programming and natural language processing. Where can sources of distilled knowledge of Klingon be found: ...

I have already heard the audio book Imzadi as read by Jonathan Frakes, as well as Imzadi II read by the actor who plays Gowron and I am looking forward to hearing Mosaic read by Kate Mulgrew. So, as a big Data fan, I am looking for a story focused on this character and hopefully interpreted by ...

I can not remember the name of a series of books I read when I was young (in 2003/2006). It was about a young boy, a pirate, who was traveling with his crew. There were a lot of planets, it was fun and a bit creepy sometimes. I remember big monsters and a quest. But there was a lot of books and I...

In the end of the movie Zootopia, our heroes pulled over a speeder who turned out to be their friend Flash. Flash was a sloth and earlier in the movie we saw that he was super slow to do everyday talks and works. How could he drive that fast?

This question reminded me of a similar short story that I believe I read in one of the various SciFi magazines, IASFM possibly, since I had a large collection of those, most from the 80's. It is definitely not "Why Johnny Can't Speed" although it is very similar. It's set marginally in the futu...

What would have been the body snatchers' purpose in replacing humans and leading their lives, once they did not have to try to look like humans anymore? Once all humans which could be replaced were replaced, there was no sense in trying to lead humans lives - or was there?

In the Winnie-The-Pooh universe, are Heffalumps real? Or are they merely a product of Pooh's imagination?

Looking for a story Where anthropologists study a primitive society, (modeled on New Guinea?) They are befriended by a club footed native with two sons. The native then murders one of his new friends. On this world, boys need an external source of testosterone during a critical period to mature i...

Think the story is relatively recent (c.10yrs) and I probably read it in an annual collation anthology. It is about a group of friends who decide to set up a fake church to con people out of money - think something like church of the eternal sun, with the narrator being high priest - all ends up ...

Are the Struckers in "The Gifted" television series related to Baron Wolfgang von Strucker? Like his descendants or it's just a coincidence. PS: I just started watching the series.

In Episode 4: A New Hope, the Death Star: After its destruction, I assume there was still some debris left from it being destroyed. So what happened to this left-over rock and other debris of Alderaan after its destruction by the Death Star? was it left alone? Was the remains of Alderaan reinh...

As I was re-reading "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" by Clark Aston Smith, I noticed some surprising similarities to another fantasy classic, "The Sunken Land," by Fritz Lieber. Obviously, there are many differences between the two tales, but they both feature Exploration of a ancient, apparently li...

There was a SF novel in my high-school library (sometime between 1985 and 1990), that I had intended to read, but for some reason I never got to it. English language. I can't remember the author or title, or the name of the main character, but the gist of the back-cover blurb described the stor...

I was just watching "the magicians" s01e05 and there is this one scene where Eliot (I think he is called, the physical kid who seems to sort of adopt Quentin) talks to Alice (I think she is called, the freshman with the dead brother Charlie) and he says he is glad she came back after her "walkabo...

This shot from The Orville required a very large number of extras and costumes for a relatively low-budget venture. (I'm mostly concerned with cost in the wardrobe department.) Were that many uniforms produced and extras assembled or were the people cloned or composited from multiple shots ...