I'm trying to remember the name/author of a novel I read a few years ago. The basic premise is the main character wakes up after being in hospital, to find a chunk of brain missing from a gunshot wound and a cybernetic implant being used to connect the missing synapses. The main character w...

In H. P. Lovecraft’s well-known tale “The Call of Cthulhu” the narrator (Francis Wayland Thurston) tells about strange facts that he has learned from the papers of his recently deceased grand-uncle, George Gammell Angell, and from personal investigation. Among these facts is the momentarily raisi...

I'm trying to find a short story about a writer who has his fiction analyzed by a computer and it tells him the main theme of his work is sludge (or grease or grime or etc.). He's surprised and upset by this. I don't think there was any conventional action, most of the story was back and forth be...

From them moment Shaddam IV ordered him to Arrakis, Duke Leto knew that it was a trap. He was even aware that there was a traitor in their ranks. Nevertheless when the Duke was attacked by he didn't have any bodyguards with him. Moreover, the shield generator - which one would assume their mos...

Konrad Curze the Night Haunter is able to see the future. At various points during the horus heresy it is shown that he can see the fates or others including how and when they will die and most famously the exact moment he would die and how it would occur. He also predicted the turn of Horus tell...

If a vaccine takes 18 months to produce on Earth, and the lab incl. all gear weighs 1 metric ton, and it`s on a rocket also weighing 1 metric ton incl. fuel, and the rocket converts fuel to kinetic energy at 99,9% efficiency, and has sufficient heat dissipation, and we want the results delivered ...

Could he not have just morphed into another creature then demorphed back to Andalite? In book 10, it says: He even reattached my arm. I saw a scar on Ax's left arm. Could someone explain this, please? Or does he fix it later on? (I'm only on book 10, so no spoilers please.)

Are there more than 2 creators of a Horcrux, besides Voldemort and Herpo the Foul? Since the book "Secrets of the Darkest Art" states that full remorse restores your fragmented soul and reintegrates it into your master soul (which would be found in your body), assuming they aren't already destro...

Can wizards tunnel under a shielded area? For example, can wizards tunnel under an area of land outside a shielded area, and walk a certain distance then destroy the piece of land above you, and then use a way to get up (like making a ladder appear out of thin air, broomstick, then reappear insid...

According to the Qualifications of Office for Secretary-General of the United Nations, no citizen of the ''Permanent 5'' can be nominated for or elected to the office of Secretary-General as it would cause a power imbalance. I haven't been able to find a part in the series where they mention th...

Why does Riker not have to be Admiral to command a fleet in the last episode of Picard? I would have expected that he gets a field commission and is, during having this, addressed as Admiral.

Disney's Gargoyles intruded Oberon, the Fairy King, as ostensibly the "source" of most magic in the world. By this, I mean it's his "Children" which became beings of incredible legend, from haunting spirits like the Banshee, to demi-immortals like Merlin, to legendary trickster spirits in various...

First part of a two-part question: When Harry's blood was taken by Voldemort while Voldemort was immortal, was he also immortal? Here's the relevant quote from the books. DH Chapter 35: “He took my blood,” said Harry. “Precisely,” said Dumbledore. “He took your blood and rebuilt his livin...

It has been years of agony trying to find a sci-fi or horror movie I saw as child. The only scenes I remember: a female character who is pregnant and driving a cab-taxi, spiting blood on a cloth said female character either giving birth or being attacted in a bus by/to a octopus-like alien T...