This is not a duplicate of Should we tag (solved) story identification questions with the name of the author / property?.
In Chat, I asked the other users if this question should have the ray-bradbury tag. Jenayah said it should (and I agree), while Mithrandir said it shouldn't.
I realized we ...
A friend of mine is trying to remember a book that they read part of once and I'm trying to help them out. I tried to get a description of the cover or a character's name or any sort of detail to try by and this is what they gave me:
The cover was green, with like, light green lines over it. ...
In Plato's Republic, a simple shepherd finds a magical ring, places it on his finger, turns invisible and then immediately sets about a campaign of murder, rape and treason. This seems like behaviour that would be out of character for anyone who isn't a Lannister.
Does the Ring have a specific c...
I suggest the following guidelines (improvements welcome):
If it's marketed as SF, it's on-topic.
If magic, futuristic science or technology, alternate history, or other sf-nal concept is an important part of the overall plot, it's on-topic. (Alice in Wonderland, Clockwork Orange, etc.)
If the ...
Just so that it's written as a proper answer which people can vote on/reply to, I'll reiterate what I said in chat, and what was included in the question.
If OP included the author tag themselves, we leave it.
If OP seems reasonably sure it might be from author XYZ, we include it.
If OP is on t...
At the very end of Deathly Hallows, after Harry repaired his own wand with the Elder Wand, he tells Dumbledore's Portrait in the office:
“I’m putting the Elder Wand,” he told Dumbledore, who was watching him with
enormous affection and admiration, “back where it came from. It can stay ther...Draco disarmed Dumbledore before Snape killed him, so the wand allegiance had already passed to Draco. Yet Voldemort still killed Snape to obtain the Elder Wand's allegiance.
Surely if you knew magic as well as he did you would know that its not who killed the wizard that becomes the new owner o...
This was a short story I read in a sci fi anthology in the nineties, however the book had stories from the 1950’s and 1960’s in it. I really can't remember the cover.
The tale begins with a prospector/oil explorer or similar, a man whose job had him way out in the lonely American deserts for 3 o...
In the movie Thor: Ragnarok, the Grandmaster says "On any other world I would be like... millions of years old". This is evidence enough to conclude that time flew slower on Sakaar. Natural question that arises: How long was Hulk on Sakaar and how old would he be when he comes back to earth?
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Why are certain superheroes more famous and known more then others?
For example
Marvel's, The hulk, Iron man, Thor, Black widow, Hawkeye, Captain America, Black Panther, Spiderman, Deadpool, Doctor Strange,
DCs, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Cyborg, Robin,
Why are these par...
In Back to the Future 2, how are there are two Marty’s in 1955? We know that the timeline is altered. How does Marty (in the alternate timeline) go back to 1955 because everything would've changed.
Let's take the Marvel Universe: the term "posthuman" seems to be applied to a baseline human accidentally or artificially being gifted with superpowers, in comparison to mutants who are given these at birth. But since both are derived from homo sapiens stock, don't they both deserve being calles ...
Can anyone help? All I can remember was the main character is caught by a giant orange spidery thing (not on Earth) which lays eggs in him and keeps him alive, he goes mad when the babies start eating him but survives.
In A New Hope Detention Center Shoutout scene Luke is clearly shooting with his left hand. Later in this same video at 4:51 he makes a leftie shot more clearly.
In The Empire Strikes Back while following Boba Fett, Luke holds a gun (and subsequently shoots) with his right hand. Needless to say...
No, those points were always there in the first edition, as part of the general world building.
As far as "never planned to get seven books" goes, that doesn't mean you can't have an idea of where your plot would go over the natural seven years of UK secondary education.
It's well documented t...
I'm having trouble understanding when the changeover of characters occured (I skipped some episodes). Did he (mirror captain Lorca) replace the real Lorca when the Discovery dropped out of the last spore jump in episode 12 or did he swap places long before this episode?
In Berkley Breathed's Bloom County, Opus and his friends (Bill the cat etc) have the power of speech. Do all animals in that universe have this power, or is it something unique to Opus (and his friends)?
What happens to Claire Dearing the operations manager after the events in Jurassic World?
Just sitting watching it.
She dismisses the (very) unequivocal advice of one of her in-house "experts" to immediately withdraw the capture team on the grounds they'll all be killed.. following which they a...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince chapter 3 describes how Professor Dumbledore picks up Harry at the Privet Drive house when he leaves the Dursley's for the start of his sixth school year. Harry packs his luggage for the school, but they don't take it with them to the visit to Horace Slugho...
Omnioculars are magical eyeglasses that allow viewing events slowed down, or replay past events. They were introduced in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire chapter 7, and in chapter 8, Harry was watching the Quidditch match through them. From what viewpoint do Omnioculars show events?
Do t...
If an Animagus transforms to their animal form, can they pack their wand such that they get it back when they transform back to human form even if they travel far from where they have transformed?
I don't recall any example in canon that would decide this. We see McGonagall untransform in Stone...
