Suppose work A is clear science fiction or fantasy, and work B is not. Would it be on topic to ask about whether an on-topic aspect of A influenced a part of B? For example, would it be on topic to ask whether The Karate Kid (the Ralph Macchio movie) was named after the Karate Kid (the Legion o...

I remember watching this movie a long time ago. It was probably a low budget, typical Sci-Fi channel TV-only movie. These people are pulled over by a cop driving in a desert, and they are taken to a police station. The cop coughs blood up while they are driving which they find strange. They escap...

The series that starts with Ender's Game has a parallel series that starts with Ender's Shadow. The graph of the timeline is... well... complicated. Does it make more sense if you read them in the order they were first published, or if you try to read them in the chronological order of the st...

Are questions about the 2017 Pixar movie Coco on topic? The film is based on the Mexican holiday the Day of the Dead, and has the main character trapped in the Land of the Dead for most of the film. It contains many fantasy elements, such as Alebrije guardians protecting deceased ancestors after...

I read a paperback novel in 1999 when I was suffering from pneumonia. My mother had purchased it from a thrift store for me, so it could have been from the 70s or 80s. In this story, a squad of space deployable infantry is trapped on a planet (I believe it was a transport crash landing - I do no...