The theme of this June's film night is dark fantasy - propose your favourite film or TV series!
The boundaries for what is dark fantasy, and what is not, are hard to define - so I'll settle for your judgment on the topic ;) The relevant TV Tropes article may be of help for getting the genral ide...
I'm wondering if there has ever been an instance of someone beaming in some sort of probe/tricorder/robot/etc into an environment (e.g. derelict ship, unknown planet, etc) to determine if it is safe to beam in crew? I'm thinking of something analogous to a MALP or a Kino used in the Stargate fran...
I read this book about 20-30 years ago. It's about a group of teenagers who wake up in a huge room where each is on a separate platform. As the book progresses, they go unconscious and the platforms change, move or become connected. The children are punished or rewarded through a variety of metho...
We know that the One Ring would have corrupted any mortal (humans, dwarves, hobbits, etc) or Elf who claimed it. Only Gandalf or another Maia (Saruman, say, or Radagast) could even have tried to wrest control of the Ring from Sauron — but even they would not have been immune to its corruption, me...
When Luke removes his father's mask near the end of Return of the Jedi, he removes just the top part. He leaves the part that goes from Vader's neck to his chin. That part sticks a few inches out from his chin.
You can see the bottom part sticking out from 1:03 to 2:10 in this video snippet.
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The Pokédex entry for Pokémon Yellow says that Cubone wears its mother's skull:
Wears the skull of its deceased mother. Its cries echo inside the skull and come out as a sad melody.
This might seem like a reference to the Marowak that was the ghost of Lavender town in the Frist Generation g...
In Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2,
How is Ego's ship able to do this? And what relevant descriptive information can you share about Ego's ship? Do the comics provide relevant information about Ego's ship?
This question:
Looking for a book I read in the eighties, similar to Narnia but with a more Celt feel1
Makes me want to ask about a children's novel with a fantasy world entered through a portal in a piece of furniture.
And no, it is not The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950) though it m...
We have recently lost our "main" chat room, Mos Eisley. But that's ok, we have a new one:
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Given that this was created by an individual, and in the spirit of community consensus, my question is What should we name our new general chat room?
Please not...
What's the technical explanation for gravity to exist inside a spacecraft in science fiction?
This old question is still open. Can I know why it is not Too Broad? There can literally be thousands of different theories and it is ever-growing.
