Looking for 50+ year old sci fi book. The Dulgari (sp?) empire has the humans on the run. The hero is a military man who has battled the Dulgari. There are always more of their ships than ours. The initial battle he goes through a series of pre-programmed ship movements, to a draw. Ends up tricki...

Unsong is an fantasy novel written by Scott Alexander based heavily on Judaism. It was published online as serial fiction and it just finished it this past week. I highly recommend it, but I was confused by the ending. In the Epilogue of the novel, the minds of Ana, Erica, Dylan Alvarez, Sohu,...

I have been unsuccessful trying to find I believe a short story relating a group of people that travel by boat on a distant planet. This group manned by a captian that is searching for an illegal drug that I think is only in some type of whale-like creature on this planet. Any help provided wil...

Peter Quill seems to have been born in 1981, and then abducted from Earth in 1988. There were therefore 7 years in which the child of a Celestial was on Earth. Is there any indication given of whether or not Charles Xavier sensed Peter's existence?

So basically I read a book a while back like 7or more years ago and it was so good I want to own it but I can't recall almost any specific details about the title or author. It's about this rebellious girl with one blue eye and one brown eye, she's trapped in some all girls prison or camp so can'...

Its a fantasy story, set in a world with kingdoms and dragons. The basic plot is that a dwarf and a human princess (called a warriormaid i think) go off to slay a dragon, and the princess dies. I have been drawing a blank for years trying to remember the title...anyone have any idea what it mig...

Why did Apocalypse destroy all nuclear weapons? Gallifreyan removed "x-men" tag from this question. Why is it wrong for this question to have "x-men" tag?

I've just finished reading the entire KnightSaga: that's Knightfall, KnightQuest and KnightsEnd. I've also read Bane's origin story (Vangence of Bane) and the various issues leading up to Knightfall. Towards the end of the Knightfall storyline, Bane is reavealed to have uncovered Batman's real i...

In a movie, a man is going to the island there he met a dog/wolf( I don't know what it is) that transform in to women and have sex with him the next day he tied that women and sex wth her in the climax he wanted to escape and many dogs/wolfs are chase. I watched it in DVD that I rented on dvd the...

May be Voldemort wouldn't stoop to such a low level as to use tools devised by Muggles to do his bidding, but still, after Voldemort became capable of touching Harry after regenerating in the fourth book, if he had just stabbed him with the knife that Wormtail used to cut off his own arm, would V...

Years ago, my wife recounted to me a short story that she had read even longer ago which I'm minded of by this sudden new craze for roboVacs. Essentially - as today - roboVacs were suddenly the must-have household gizmo. Better still, they were ecologically sound, being self powered — digesting ...

In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Phage", a Vidiian steals Neelix's lungs to replace his own which have been affected by disease. Janeway is not willing to simply take back the lungs by force as she doesn't feel right killing one creature to save another. By the end of the episode, it's det...

Dumbledore left Harry at Privet Drive because of the protection against Voldemort that his blood relatives would offer him Does this mean Harry is protected as long as he is with Aunt Petunia, or as long as he specifically lives in Privet Drive? If the Dursleys moved house, would Harry have to...

Very sure it was back in the 80's. It was a black and white comic with glossy colour cover, printed on fairly cheap paper and featured a few stories. I remember that one of the last stories was about an earth conquered by aliens and the people were all slaves. They then start receiving a messag...

The end end of Anansi Boys Charlie and a boy sing at the beach, and a mermaid comes and sings with them. The only other mention I can remember of a mermaid is Charlie remembering his father would "trick" him by saying "look a mermaid" when they walked at the beach, but Charlie could never see th...

Can anyone confirm that this tv sci fi drama from the 70's existed or has this title? Some astronauts are asleep on a spaceship and one wakes up to find it has flown through the sun or a star or something. He is convinced that they are all dead and waked the other two who don't believe him.

His last, comforting thought before he fell asleep was that even if the Potters were involved, there was no reason for them to come near him and Mrs. Dursley. The Potters knew very well what he and Petunia thought about them and their kind. . . . Vernon Dursley knew who James Potter...

In the movie The Exorcist (1973), in the first part of it we see a priest that discovers profanations in a church. Later in the movie, we was told that the profanations are linked to satanic rituals (and Regan's possession). In the novel there's a part that is missing in the movie: the detectiv...

I can remember only two incidents from the story: Large machines are watched emerging from the sea up a beach (This is not John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes!). At the end it is announced that God is a huge beetle living on the dark side of the moon.

This came on the air in the mid 90's, an iceberg on which Frankenstein's Monster had been frozen made its way south, eventually thawing him out and reviving him. He made his way to a major US city and unintentionally got the attention of a 'master vampire' in the city. Also featured a woman who ...

Looking for a short story or novella where the people hide in caves during the really hot days and cold nights. They have highly accelerated life spans. The protagonist tries to journey to a metal spaceship. I think food and life outside the cave appear rapidly at morning twilight and burn to a c...

Step 313 in The Warlock of Firetop Mountain says, in part: He wears a suit of leather armor no better than your own, holds a wooden >shield on one wrist and clutches a steel-bladed sword in his other hand. >In his pockets are 8 Gold Pieces and around his neck is a silver crucifix. You ma...

In baseball, there have been issues with spectators catching balls in the outfield, and there are subsequent rules in place for spectator interference. Are there any spectator interference rules in Quidditch? Specifically: Hermione (as a spectator) casts the Impervius charm on Harry's glasses ...

How old was Tom Riddle when he made each of his Horcruxes, and who did he kill to create each? I know about Myrtle, The Riddle family, Hepzibah, and Harry's parents, but who were the others?

I barely remember this story from when I was way younger. All I do remember from it seems to be the main plot outline: A teenage girl and her younger brother go through time and space to rescue their father, a scientist, who has been imprisoned on another planet. I know it's vague, but it's all I...

Why are do the Eldar feel so superior towards the Imperium? In various instances we are shown and told that a Space Marine is way stronger (raw strength) and close to the dexterity of an Eldar warrior. It would be understandable if they would say that about the Orkz / Tau but the Imperium has sho...

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Inspired by this questions (which was inspired by this other question). In his bookshelf, Khan has two copies of John Milton's Paradise Lost. One of them looks newer and thinner, and it also contains Paradise Regained. Is there a significance in the fact he has two copies? Or is it just a mis...