There's a fic where Harry runs away or gets left outside after finding a book in a library on magic and believing he is an elf. He grows up learning "wish for a trade" or magic for a trade bartering and such, meeting odd people along the way, multiheaded snakes, I think Mr. Lovegood, child Malfo...

When I was a kid, I remember reading a science fiction novel in which the main character loses an arm at some point, and has a run in with a homicidal squirrel. Does anyone know what this was? For what it's worth, I remember it was one of four novels published in a single volume collection, one...

Does anyone know the backstory of the display armor in the background in the yacht scene that looks very much like Jango Fett's helmet and possibly Armor as well?

So there was this one anime/cartoon when i was a kid that i watched but i cant remember its name. But i remember that there were a boy,girl and a guy robot if you could say. The mission was to drive around with the tank and collect some kind of gems/diamonds (they are all different colour) and ...

One of the stories I am sure was called The Road and another was about a mysterious alien that a young girl named Ineed and her mother kept correcting it to Enid. I read it in the 70's or early 80's and really wish to rediscover these stories.

I think I've searched the relevant priors so forgive me if this is a duplicate. In the 1980's I read a hard bound anthology of science fiction in a public library. Red cover, but probably a library binding. Among the stories was a tale of a large space ship that came to hover over a house, while...

Following this question I asked myself why the sorting hat would see Slytherin as a good option for Harry. As far as I know Harry wasn't cunning, he wasn't pureblood, nor was he power hungry or had great ambition. But still the sorting hat said, that Slytherin could lead him to greatness even if...

The fanfic chapter in question. (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5189535/3/Of-Gods-and-Mortals)

I would like to identify animated movie from my childhood. Not sure about language, animation style could be anime or similar. Watched it on VHS in early 90's so it could be from 90's or 80's. Teenagers or young adults in time traveling ship. They got to some dystopian/apocalyptic setting wher...

I remember reading a harry potter fanfic series somewhere in 2010-2012(roughly) that narrates through the movies, and basically makes fun of it. It was posted on fanfiction.net though I'm not able to find it on searching for it there recently. There were multiple fics done, each based on a movi...

I read this approx 5 years ago but I couldn't say if it was newly published back then, it was a hardback from a UK library. I can't recall too much of the story, the only thing that sticks in my mind is this scene(s)... There are two Entities from like a dark dimension, they are constrained by ...

As anyone who's watched the Raimi 2002 Spider-Man trilogy may remember, Peter wakes up the morning after the spider bite with a ripped body, standing in stark contrast with the scrawny body we'd seen he had earlier. Now that just begs the question - is that the case too for mainstream Marvel con...

According to Star Wars and other questions (In-universe, how is BB-8's head adhered to his body?), BB-8's head is attached magnetically to his body. That's fine and all, but, in Episode VIII, when Poe is attacking the Dreadnought and BB-8 is fixing the X-wing’s guns, he headbutts the control pan...

According to some Namesake comic fans, the following conversation between between Emma Sr. and One suggests that he had been involved with Daniel Crewe at some point: On the other hand, One found and raised Daniel: It would be little weird if he'd been romantically involved with him, given ...

So I read quite a bit of Science Fiction. I started with Phillip K Dick, but have now read a myriad of writers and am truly in love with it. What I am looking for is more abstract stories? I often go into book shops and spool through, pull out a novel that I think sounds good or has a really ent...

In Star Trek VI, we have this odd (but amusing) quote There's an old Vulcan proverb: Only Nixon could go to China Why did the Vulcans have this proverb?

In the last episode of season 3 of The Man in the High Castle we are told that individuals can only travel to an alternate reality if This explanation is given for why This explanation does seem to make sense as a way to avoid The explanation also conforms to what we know about almost al...

I know Amortentia is a sort of love potion, but would it be possible for it to smell like a loved one/relative? Or is it just based off of crushes, whether known or unknown by an individual? I’ve read into it, and even seen some posts/headcanons about it, so I was thinking that it would only sme...