I've just seen the Mortal Engines movie and I'm looking forward to reading the books. I have a question about the economics of this world that Phillip Reeve has created.
The traction city London has a population of several millions. It seems unlikely that they are capable of growing enough food ...
(Just assume that both Abydos and Icarus still exist (planets and their stargates).)
Address of Abydos contains the Orion as the 6th symbol.
P4X-351 (Icarus base) has the Orion as the point of origin.
Does it mean that stargate on Icarus cannot dial Abydos ?
Here is my theory. When stargate i...
At the start of the Mortal Engines movie we see London chasing and eating Salthook, a small salt-mining town. Afterwards we know from dialogue that they have obtained enough fuel to last them a week, as well as some items such as an electric toaster. But they didn't get any salt (because Salthook...
Well people, if you're the kind of person able to look at someone 30 years younger than you and tell them they're a failure at life, especially when they're your own kid, here's a tip: don't make kids
Oh fuck it. Back to story-id
At least that has some kind of logic
Learn to spot the most important words in a story-id question
(and which questions just can't be answered other than from memory. Looking at you, "there's this anime with a kid in a huge robot suit who fights other robots. The kid had brown hair and the robot was white" questions)
^ when the most distinctive thing (in anime) is a hair color... Either you know it or you don't, I think. It appears 75% of Japanese production is about robots fighting robots
The other 25% is people summoning creatures and weird 80s magical girl animes
@Jenayah Family can be jerks. My dad used to say something about my late wife not being a "blood relative". I always wished I had had the guts to say, "Yeah, she's not blood - I picked her."
As described in this previous question, the Slugthrowers of Star Wars are almost on par with real world guns. Have slugthrowers been used on aircraft in Star Wars as weapons? For example, has an T-47 (or any airspeeder*) been fitted with a high rate of fire slugthrower?
*I assume that some physi...
@RDFozz how... Does one expect their wife/husband to be a blood relative. I mean it can happen sure and it's fine (eh, if two people love each other they love each other), but I don't think it's common enough for it to be expected
@Jenayah He wasn't comfortable discussing, like medical stuff with her. She worked at the local children's hospital as a unit clerk for, like, 15 years, and was way better with medical stuff that I ever was. So, he'd talk to me, because I was blood, but not my wife (or my mom, although they'd just gotten divorced, so...).
@Jenayah So, the ultimate anime is a kid who can summon a giant robot that looks like a magical girl.
Say you've got a title which you think is the one, but not entirely sure as there's not much info on it through reviews etc and of course the thing OP remember the most is a minor detail no review mentions
To fetch the quotes/scenes, Google Books and YouTube are obviously the prime targets
...You can put entire quotes from the books between " " and browse 'til you find a transcription is what I'm saying. Same goes with movies if you want to check a quote but no subs are available/wasn't even subbed etc. It's basically the same for every media
If nothing is available on the public domain it can be an alternative, but that one's not obligation of any kind (though it does help big time)
I recall bits from a book my dad had that I read back in the late 80’s. It was about a boy that lost his thumb (or finger) when a door was shut on it. He joined a circus or carnival where he looked like a woman that was in an act in the carnival. The man that ran the circus/carnival asked to look...
Old, animated movie, where fish in the ocean fight vs poison crates dropped by ''eliv men' '...... One scene i remember is two fishes eat the posion and then they shrivel and die... Pls help
First, if you've searched something but didn't find it, and someone else does, don't hesitate to ask how they did find it. In case they don't reply/wasn't Google-Fu, try to search again, now that you have the answer you'll think of the right synonyms. Murphy's law and all that
Oh right: Thesaurus tab helps too
Look out for some answerers who tend to include their winning query. @FuzzyBoots does, and that certainly was a big help for me, thanks man :)
I do too, because as it helped me, it's only normal that I do the same :) and it gets indexed by Google, so you know, future searchers might it my keywords etc
(some other users, like user14111, seem to just have read every short story that's been produced since the '40s - and even before - and most impressively, remembered them all)
If you're going to search the site, don't put more tags than story-identification. A lot of old ones don't have media tags
Try to limit the search to two-three (specific, I but not too specific) keywords at first, scour the results, try again with synonyms
SE search sucks big time so you could even try browsing SFF through Google which has a smarter engine
And before anyone comes in to snark on web history, each time I look for HP fanfic-id (which is to say, once every three months), I use incognito browsing.
“Name the story, maybe by Vernor Vinge. Post-apocalyptic. The tribe uses sacred sentences as currency: I can pay you by teaching you one of them, and I thereafter must not spend it again. […] The protagonist is banished for collecting these sentences by eavesdropping. He suspects that the sacred sentences are fragments of the instruction manual for an Ancient machine hidden nearby.”
I'm reading this article: https://trekmovie.com/2016/09/06/retrospective-the-original-series-remastered-project/
The widescreen image of the small building on an island in a canyon with a ringed planet and blue sky....where is that from?
This is Big Joe and the Nth Generation (The story starts on page 90 of the pdf linked), aka It Takes A Thief, from Walter M. Miller.
Summary translated from the wikipedia page of the French anthology where I read it (I couldn't find a summary in English):
On the colonized Mars planet, in the...
"You did?" said Hermione, gazing up at Ron with her arms still around his neck. "Always the tone of surprise," he said a little grumpily, breaking free.
Though I'll admit that you coming up with a good idea is less surprising than Ron hitting a moving target.
At the Well of Ascension, after the mist spirit (Preservation) stabs Elend, he saves himself by ingesting the last bead of metal at the Well which transforms him into a full Mistborn. As revealed later on, this bead really the metal Lerasium which grants the person a direct connection to Preserv...
Yep, but now you can remove the Wiki source and safely claim it was from the book :) as well as including the 1950 line - I mean, no obligation of course, it's your answer :) — Jenayah23 mins ago
@Jenayah Well technically it's still a secondhand quote. Though Bellatrix is more trustworthy than Wiki.
Why? Just write "Instructions for Story-Identification Searches", or whatever, and post the screenshot. Whenever you search for "instructions" the screenshot will come right up.
@Catija True. I'm not really a genius. And I've done my fair share of mispronunciations for the same reason.
@Jenayah Well I don't necessarily mean that there was anything wrong with your fashion; just that there were comments that could be better subjected to a fashion discussion/critique.
@Derpy though honestly, this is kind of an "extreme" case of someone looking younger than she is. In this supermarket I was dressed like the usual, black shirts, blue jeans. How do you spot someone who's 20 or someone who's 18 with these clothes?
(Just assume that both Abydos and Icarus still exist (planets and their stargates).)
Address of Abydos contains the Orion as the 6th symbol.
P4X-351 (Icarus base) has the Orion as the point of origin.
Does it mean that stargate on Icarus cannot dial Abydos ?
Here is my theory. When stargate i...
I'm reading this article: https://trekmovie.com/2016/09/06/retrospective-the-original-series-remastered-project/
The widescreen image of the small building on an island in a canyon with a ringed planet and blue sky....where is that from?
This is Big Joe and the Nth Generation (The story starts on page 90 of the pdf linked), aka It Takes A Thief, from Walter M. Miller.
Summary translated from the wikipedia page of the French anthology where I read it (I couldn't find a summary in English):
On the colonized Mars planet, in the...
