I must have read this 35 years ago. The book was a not particularly thick paperback, which as I recall had a picture of a spacesuit helmet on the cover - white helmet with a green visor. The story was about a man whose job was to go through teleport gates onto spacecraft. The spacecraft were un...

I remember seeing this at least 15 years ago. Don’t know if it was anime or cartoon. It had islands that float in the sky. Starts when this kid's island is eaten by a giant robotic fish that swims in the sky. He is rescued by a big airship that is trying to destroy the fish piloted by an older ...

I'm watching an anime called Mob Psycho 100 (2012) who features a boy who has very powerful psychic powers and he's afraid of losing control over them since when he does he can destroy buildings or anything with them. I've seen similar ideas to this in other animes / manga/ comics / live action ...

I'm trying to find a book I read ages ago; it was a space opera style sci-fi story about aliens contacting humans and then bringing them into a war against a hostile alien species; in this story however humans were tougher than just about every alien species and crucially they had innate mental r...

In Avengerss Infinity War Thor reveals that he 1500 years old. So he But in the beginning of Thor movie, Asgardians war against Frost Giants. Defeating the Frost Giants, Odin finds Loki and takes him to foster him. All this happens in 965 AD. So if Thor is 1500 years old in Infinity War, then by...

Scifi novel set in future japan/asiaI was given the book in the 90s - I believe it was about an individual and company mergers - or he worked for a tech company? I believe the cover was silver and black and the title started with a letter "Y" - I could never pronounce it as a child. Asian autho...

I cant imagine that such a simple, yet "hollywood-ish" scenario has never been made into a movie - the idea of the Golden Record is already epic enough, and since movies that include sentinent alien species are always popular, it suprises me that apparently there is no popular movie about that. T...

We learn from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, that wizards and witches buy Muggle clothing. "I bought this in a Muggle shop," said the old wizard stubbornly. "Muggles wear them." -Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire pg. 83 and we know they wear glasses from the description of Dumb...

Whenever there's a TV Tropes link in an answer, I always see messages like 'warnings! TV Tropes link' etc. I've visited TV Tropes, and I don't think there's any graphic explicit content (from what I've seen that is) in that site. Sometimes even in comments, such warnings are posted, although I ...

Large objects are able to cause gravitational lensing and is a technique that astronomers use to view distant galaxies. Could the moon be a perfect distance from the earth that during an eclipse it would cause a magnifying effect and basically case a death ray to scorch the earth?

Fairy tales and children's stories often end with some variation of "...and they lived happily ever after." I was wondering who first decided to use this wording, or when it was first written down. The Phrase Finder is an excellent resource for phrase origins, but while someone posed this exact ...

I think the main female character was Maeve. It talked about wolfsbane. Hunting in the woods at night. Something about being on a boat. Sharks killing the werewolf at the end of the book.

The fanfic in question begins with dear James and Lily Potter entering heaven and being surprised at how Harry survived. Heaven is like an extended township with quidditch leagues and other administrative staff. They meet old Hogwarts founders and even play quidditch with them. Story was read o...

Trying to identify a story: I read it in an anthology during the 80's. The anthology may have been older than that. Narrator is sent by an organization to view the future. He does this on multiple occasions, with the future becoming stranger each time. I'm not sure of the method used to gran...

The Wookiepedia contradicts itself in this article saying: The Jedi Order, a noble order of protectors unified by their ability to harness the power of the Force,[21] was founded over five thousand years before the Battle of Yavin.[7] According to Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Jedi served as the guardi...

According to Gamps law of transfiguration "Your mother can’t produce food out of thin air, no one can. Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfigura—... It’s impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can...

There's a children's adventure novel (or possibly teen-lit) that I read in elementary school and despite remembering all the important bits of the plot, I've never been able to locate it again. I read it in the late '80s or so, but it was a fairly old book at the time, so I suspect it was written...

Today I watched The Deathly Hallows and now I'm wondering about the tale of The Deathly Hallows. Is it known the name of the three brothers? If yes, who were they?

I watched this somewhere in 2010ish, I think, as a DVD checked out from the library (unfortunately, I check out enough books and movies as to make it difficult to search through their somewhat clunky interface for my history). A family (husband, wife, at least one child) move into a new house whi...

Can't remember title or author but about a scientist who discovered that the earth is going to tilt and there will be a new location for the equator. Contains a love story along with it. Scientist tries to convince authorities that people need to migrate closer to new equator to avoid new ice age...

Subject question: Novel with plot element of a water world with multi-armed creatures which communicate by joining arms The accepted answer to it is "Fleet of Worlds" but it's closed as a duplicate of Novel where a man is paid to travel to a planet inside a metallic sphere which has an accepted ...