Story written before 2010. No idea about the title or cover. All I can remember, in particular, is a girl being taken to a (possibly elven?) city of some sort where she is supposed to be trained in magic; it turns out she has the unique ability to see magic. Much later in the story she is trapp...

looking for a short film about a computer tech who called to a monastery to repair a computer that is failing, and it keeps the Devil Locked up, also the monks are preforming some kind of ritual in the dungeon with women who are pregnant

Does anyone know why Chinese (and maybe not Japanese) was chosen as the second language in The Last Airbender?

I want to introduce myself kids to Dune. They're not old enough to read the original book. Which would be more appropriate for them, the 80s movie or the more recent miniseries? Which follows the book more accurately?

Since I couldn't post a spoiler as the question itself, I'll clarify what I mean here: The movies Alien vs Predator and Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem take place in 2004, a hundred years prior to Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, with the temple with the xenomorph eggs found in AVP that have been aro...

Since there are already several other questions about Harry and Voldemort's soul, I checked to see if this was answered elsewhere. Didn't find it, so here goes. The fragments of Voldemort's soul seem to have self-awareness because several try to manipulate/influence people around them. The dia...

Slughorn goes to hogsmade for collecting reinforcements.JK Rowling said in an interview last January 2008 that the group who followed Slughorn from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts to fight for the school were mainly Slytherins and their families, because Slytherins are brave in a practical way and so they ...

In Star Trek Enterprise, there was a character named crewman Daniels who travelled back in time from the 29th century to influence Captain Archer. Daniels visited many times, and we saw his visits in a linear order. Visit 1. Visit 2. Visit 3. Etc. But we were seeing Archer's time progression....

I read a book years ago about a colony on the moon. Nanotechnology played a huge part in the story. No, it wasn't either of the Ben Bova moon books. In this one, the main character (and almost all the others) has a complete sex change using nanotechnology. The society in this story doesn't have ...

We're aware that she is a good Care of Magical Creatures teacher, which means that she probably had a lot of experience in the subject. However, the previous COMC teacher was Prof. Kettleburn, as mentioned in the book: "As to our second new appointment: well, I am sorry to tell you that Pr...

Recently I went though the content of an old hard-disk I found in the attic. Disk wasn't used since 1995... On it I found a collection (some 60 images in GIF format) depicting floor-plans of various models of space-craft all labeled as "Defrog ship-model". E.g "Defrog ligth cruiser", "Defrog log...

Novel written before 2000. The story begins on a planet which has been so environmentally damaged that the atmosphere is too toxic to breathe, forcing the population to live in air-tight domes or modules connected by tunnels. Near the beginning, the protagonist working as a low-ranking gang or ...

I watched this Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer. In the trailer, Peter is sneaking to his room (in his Spider-Man suit) so Aunt May won't notice that he left his room. But his friend is in his room the whole time while Peter is sneaking. Why he didn't sense his friend's presence? Here's the trai...

I would assume that someone has asked this question before but I haven't found any discussion about the name of Ankh-Morpork. Ever since I read my first Discworld book, I kept wondering about this name. I am not a native speaker, so I wonder if I miss any pun or reference to the real world?

According to the flight plan the Endurance never entered orbit around Miller's planet, which is further evidenced by the time dilation not experienced by Romilly. So how is it that after a significant delay the main characters still managed to fly the Ranger back up to space to find the Endur...

I recently saw a movie about a crew investigating what happened on a spaceship. They find only one male survivor with a female android who is traumatized. The crew includes two women, the blonde is a psychologist or something, and the movie is really "cheap" looking, and actors like maschines. I ...

In chapter 11 of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Mr. Wednesday gets very upset that Shadow gave away his location to everyone when he's supposed to be hiding in Lakeside. “What do you think is the fucking point of stashing you in a hiding place like Lakeside, if you're going to raise such a ruck...

Who kidnapped them and where did they find themselves?

In Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Shadow receives a magic coin from the leprechaun Mad Sweeney. That coin has the power to animate a dead person to undead and keep them undead. Shadow's undead wife Laura wears the coin for most of the book. Where does this coin come from or why is it magical? I...

In Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, So, in the MCU, how was Ego created?