The first book in the series(if it was one) focused on a teenager, in the beginning at some point he went to some sort of store or restaurant with some other teenagers and then it gets fuzzy but later at a skatepark or somthing he is confronted by a man with a robotic arm(maybe more robotic body ...

If Quirrell burnt when wanted to hurt Harry, why others didn’t? I mean had this power Harry had from his mother mentioned in any other situation? Or Lily's sacrifice just working for Voldermort and Quirrell died because of Voldermort?

In the book Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison (which I admit I haven't read in over 30 years, but I was talking about it with my son), there's a planetwide Olympics style game called The Twenties that is literally twenty events everyone competes in and the winner gets the best overall score....

In 1936 "The Hyborian Age: Conan's World", Howard laid out a somewhat detailed "canon" history of Conan's world, pre- and post-cataclysm. This included verbal description of the world maps and where each people's and states were. Are there any maps that are Howard canon (either drawn by him, or...

It's well known now that the X-Man Colossus is made of organic osmium, a particularly dense material. Of course, many of these "scientific" facts about superheroes were conceived long after the fact, like the Hulk's nanotube skin. Further, it's possible that the writers were originally going for ...

How does the 'ether' work in the film? The movie differentiates between real memories and recorded 'files' but treats both as hackable and manipulable. Unless all the people in this world are 'replicants' or existing in "The Matrix" none of the plotlines makes sense, or at the very least, this fi...

I'm not in the publishing area, but recently I've been reading up on middle grade and YA literature and the importance of target audiences, etc and then I started wondering about the Discworld series. I have looked up on the Wikipedia page for the series, but according to it, the genre is just "...

Most likely read on Ff.net, Draco and Harry are both deaged into babies and Professor Snape becomes the unwilling guardian of them where hilarity ensues; the storytelling of this fic wasn't serious at all. At some point, little Draco Malfoy demands chocolate which Snape denies him, at which poi...

Most likely read on FF.net. I can't remember if it was a de-ageing accident or if it was a "Snape rescues/adopts Harry as a baby" But the most prominent portion of the story that I can only remember standing out was the detail of Snape's living quarters which had now been transformed to accommod...

Is there any further information than this singular quote about what Garek did to Ziyal's granddad? Or maybe more importantly how it was a significant enough and well-known act that even Major Kira knew about it and told Ziyal about it at some point? ZIYAL: You really think I asked you here t...

I'm sure I found this on this site but can't for the life of me find the answer again. I'm looking for a science fiction story that starts off on an alien spaceship. There is a human that was abducted and is now dealing with alien bureaucracy. While he is dealing with this another alien attacks...

In Prometheus the movie starts with the finding of the cave paintings of a star map. Shaw and Holloway had interpreted it as an invitation. In the further action it occurs, that the place pointed by the map was actually a military base with ships full of mass destruction weapons pointed to earth...

In "the ghost monument" halfway through the episode there's writing on the ground saying that the stenza "scientists" were killed by there creations and it was written similar to circular gallifreyan even though the Doctor didn't see it, but also the new Tardis is yellow like the sonic screwdrive...

I'm asking this question on behalf of a friend, who posted about this story on Facebook a few months ago. This is my recollection of their recollection, but luckily my long-term memory is pretty good. The United States elect a populist demagogue as their President, and among other things, he cha...

When I think about the whole plan Draco tried to fulfill throughout The Half-Blood Prince it seems unnecessary complicated. He got the task to kill Dumbledore, but instead of concentrating on this task he invents another one - bring Death Eaters to the castle. It almost cost him his life (as Vold...

As many know, the rights to certain Marvel film properties are not owned by Disney, but by Sony Pictures. In particular, this includes the characters of Spider-Man and Venom. Now, we all know that Spider-Man is currently part of the MCU under a special agreement between Sony and Disney. Yet ...

Read a short story in Warren's Creepy or Eerie in the mid 1970's. Can't remember name, artist, writer or issue. Synopsis: A ragged man wakes up in mist not knowing where he is or how he got there. He hears, then sees a human torso/tracked chassis robot approach. After a brief conversation they b...

Having watched series 11 epsiode 1 "The Woman Who Fell to Earth", the new Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) didn't have an ear ring. By episode 2 "The Ghost Monument", she was running around with an ear ring. Can't tell if it's a clip on one or a piercing one. I didn't see this episode from the very beg...

I cannot remember the name of the green character on this marvel t shirt. I can't find her anywhere. Please help.(https://i.sstatic.net/iF6jO.jpg)

I would like to use science fiction to teach about the evolution of the dog. Any recommendations for short stories?

I saw a TV show when I was a kid, where young man was lost at sea. Then near the end of the movie, he ends up washing back up on the beach as an old man. I think it may have been one of those quirky made-for-TV Sci-Fi shows that got me to love the genre.

I'm trying to find an obscure 1960's or 1970's movie I once saw on tv. It's about a society where bodily pleasures are encouraged, and pain & discomfort hidden with a "Soma" pill, they even taught this lifestyle to their children. In one part, a group took a day excursion out of the protected c...

I recall watching a movie in the late 90's or early 00's that involved a nanotech-enhanced cyborg, who I believe was some sort of experiment or secret military project in an otherwise normal near-future setting. He seemed to be the villain, and was hunting the main characters (a hero and love int...

sometime between 1982-4 I borrowed a book from school library which was about a powerful alien civilisation visiting earth. Humanity asked for medicines and technology to help with its problems. Instead the aliens ask for their help and take a group to a primitive planet to solve a problem. The h...

I'm seeking a relatively recent (last 10 years) fantasy series translated from the German. The title is something like City of the Living Books. The tone is humorous, and is appropriate for children, but probably aimed at adults. It deals with a sentient dinosaur-like academic traveling to a m...

Is Brandon Sanderson planning to write a book following Hoid's story? I heard somewhere that he was, but I'm not sure.

I remember reading a fantasy book as a teen, so it would have been a young-adult novel. In it the main character had to collect pendants to ward off an evil. I remember him getting the first pendant early, and it had a cross type of shape on it. I think perhaps a wizard granted him the first pe...

In the second movie of the Matrix Trilogy commander Lock says to the counsiler I believe I need every ship we have if we're going to survive this attack. But in the third movie none of the ships are used for the final battle except the EMP from the one which Niobe flies into Zion. And even ...

In TOS of Star Trek, the Enterprise's front end of the engine seems to change color. I think people also called them "bussard collectors." Sometimes they are pink, like in the remastered version, but often times they are depicted as orange or red for many different toys and pictures of them. By o...

My husband clearly remembers an odd book from the Fifties that was Science Fcition but was treated as fact. It came from a school library so it should have had a well known or at least a good author. It featured aliens who had come from Venus to Earth. The aliens interacted with humans but NOT ch...