It's an astoundingly common trope in TV and films for the 'third act' to be taken up with the serial killer antagonist kidnapping or targeting the protagonist's daughter/son/wife, etc.
Obviously the hero policeman invariably saves the day and we all cheer, but my question is, is this wholly myth...
In Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood series, do the Oankali have DNA as their prime mechanism of genetics? If so, did Butler ever explained how that would be the case (is this panspermia related, did Oankali seed Earth)?
From a science point of view, it seems unlikely DNA specifically would evo...
At one point in Imago, Jodahs is drifting through different physical forms: aquatic, scaled, four legged, etc. Are these based on species that the Oankali traded with in the past? Or just random biological drift?
The Oankali system of sex (w/ Ooloi as a third sex, and from three to five members involved in mating, w/ two from another species) is interesting but I am having trouble thinking of how it would evolve. Did Butler ever explore how such a system would evolve?
In the appendices to Dune, Frank Herbert refers to a book by Pander Oulson, a transparent anagram of Poul Anderson. How many other characters, major, minor, or single appearance, are fictionalizations of real people, whether tuckerized, roman à clef, or other disguise?
Do we ever hear or find evidence in the Stargate series that other alien races ascended. I know that a goa'uld once ascended but with help!
Do we know of anyone else that was able to ascend except the people that were helped to do it? Because from what I know only the alterens are the only peopl...
In the Doctor Who episodes The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion (series 9 episodes 7-8), the US town of Truth or Consequences features heavily, its name being used as the slogan for a Zygon rebellion. According to Clara (from The Zygon Invasion transcript):
JAC: Truth or consequences. W...
