A few years ago I've read an excellent sf book about nanobots that went out of control. In the book they were used for weather control, when they went amok the scientists threw in yet another bunch of nanites and so on, until Earth became uninhabitable, teeming with nanites, I remember the weathe...

In the episode One Little Ship, a Jem''Hadar attack ship confronts the Defiant while the latter is in the middle of an experiment. The Vorta on board is Gelnon. The ship departs after depositing a number of Jem'Hadar on the Defiant. In the next episode, Honor Among Thieves, Gelnon meets with se...

Gandalf tipped Saruman off at the White Council in 2851, by encouraging an attack on Dol Guldur. Saruman overrules him and begins to search the Gladden Fields. In 2939 Sauron's servants are searching there too. At the White Council in 2941, Saruman agrees to attack, now wishing to prevent Sauron ...

I’m pretty sure the girl just stumbles upon the school randomly. I also remember a character that has the power to make stuffed animals come to life. I think I also remember a scene where the characters are running through a forest being chased by a gigantic bunny or some other animal.

As the title indicates, I’m trying to identify a science fiction short story “year’s best” type of collection from either the 1980s or early to mid-1990s based on my rather hazy recollections of two of the stories. The first story takes place on a flat earth, where a group of teenagers climb over...

I hope this question is on-topic and not too risqué. Maybe fifteen years ago I read a story in which a character says, of the act of performing oral sex on a woman, that if your eyelashes don’t get wet, you’re doing it wrong—or words to that effect. In the intervening years I’ve paraphrased the...

I'm not even shure this book even exists or I have dreamed it. It's about a girl, I remember she had older brother that went somewhere (war I think) once he reached the certain age, oldest one dyed, birthday of the the middle one is just around the corner,so he is next one to go. I do remember t...

I just noticed the question about the '50s story which ends with the discovery that "the whole block's a rocket ship!" The story is Richard Matheson's "Shipshape Home." I heard this story late at night on the radio when I was about 13. I liked it and so did my friends. We all went around sayin...

During the Diamond Days arc, we see Blue and Yellow Diamond in their "extraction chambers", where they seem to bathe. What is the purpose of these chambers? As Gems, the Diamonds don't need to stay clean, and Yellow at least doesn't strike me as the type to take a bath for fun. Are they removi...

When we first see White Diamond, she is maintaining a very rigid position (the notorious T-pose), and doesn't alter her position at all. At least several days later, she is still in the exact same position, and it's implied that she hasn't moved for a much longer time than that. She only finally ...

We know that the "God Metals" in Mistborn are investiture from Shards in physical form. We also know that Shardblades are Spren, which are basically sentient investiture, manifesting in the physical realm. So if one were to bring a Shardblade to Scadrial (the world where Mistborn takes place), wo...

I was thinking that in the perfect Utopian hi-tech future of Star Trek, there should be a simple and painless way of giving birth (or else they'd discovered that the difficulty and pain was a part of the process to be cherished) But actually the only examples of women giving birth I could think ...

Looking for some assistance with my poor memory. I'm trying to remember the names of two stories in particular. The first is a sci-fi story set on Earth. From the depths of space comes these microbes that latch onto electromagnetic fields. Anything electronic is rendered useless. There's the us...

Some Imperial Space Marines in Warhammer 40K are shown with long hair and/or long beards - the Space Wolves in particular. This must get in the way if they ever have to put on a helmet quickly, in the event of a chemical attack, decompression, etc. I get that this is sort of a "rule of cool" thi...

It’s been referred several times that Rowling modelled Hogwarts after standard UK structure for schools, which makes sense given she attended those. Stuff like OWLS and NEWTs are modelled around normal tests in UK (GCE and A levels I think). So are other things around the general structure. Is ...

I'm curious because the episode plays out in the beginning and very end, and the differences confuse me a little-the events that happen on both beginning and end:::: That Worf wins first place of a melee tournament. Goes thru a dimensional wormhole. Gets on board the Enterprise. As he goes in...

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for PlayStation 1, her appearance was that of Miriam Margoyles’s like in the film. However, when you get to the tower after defeating the Duelling Champions and look at the picture book, she looks how she did in Philosopher’s Stone PS2. Are the gam...

After rewatching a few MCU movies, something catched my attention. In Avengers (2012), we finally see one of the greatest questions of the Marvel Cinematic Universe answered, Can The Hulk lift Mjölnir?,so we saw it really doesn't matter how fisically strong you are, if you're not worthy (like tho...