At the end of The Way of Kings, We know that Honorblades can be bonded, because so why wasn't Blade bonded?

About 15-20 years ago I read a short story (I believe as part of a collection) which as its main plot line featured a metal bar that appeared one day. A guy picked it up and threw it in the recycling. The bar itself was indestructable and unworkable, and any metal that it touched was "infected"...

Probably read in 70s or 80s. (it may have been written earlier) pretty sure it was a Short Story in English. (USA) Scientist develop a device that converts or compresses any material into (a desired product? [i.e. put in 10 lbs of soil, out comes 5 lbs of steel, or 5 lbs of wood, or 5 lbs of foo...

It is my understanding that in Marvel Comics, Skrulls are considered evil. For instance, in The Skrull Invasion, the Skrulls are the bad guys kidnapping people and such. I thought the Skrulls were evil. At least, that was my understanding until very recently. This came as a total shock to me, ...

They're smart, and they got cool beards. But do the twigmen ever develop any forms of technology? Everyone has cool stuff, and the trees are smarter than the Hobbits and they never developed a cityscape?

The dumbledore says Very few people know that Lord Voldemort was once called Tom Riddle. I taught him myself, fifty years ago, at Hogwarts. He disappeared after leaving the school … travelled far and wide … sank so deeply into the Dark Arts, consorted with the very worst of our kind, ...

A short story or novelette read in a 1960s science fiction magazine, probably If, Tomorrow, or Galaxy. Much of the galaxy has been colonized by humans. Parasitic aliens from another galaxy that control human bodies have invaded and there is a big interstellar space war with them. After a space...

Has anyone ever read or heard about a short story (definitely not a novella) set in 'the future' where cities are connected by massive conveyor belts that people hop on/of off and one of them breaks down or gets damaged. I think there a scene set in a believe the story was from the 40s or 50s. It...

At the end of The Immortals, one of the later books in The Edge Chronicles, we see a schematic of the Edge cliff, serving essentially as a teaser for the awaited descent: It seems to show a long slope beyond Riverrise, and the Edge cliff near Sanctphrax curving down into a plain. However, i...

I’m looking for a possibly British short story I read in a youth sci-fi collection book that definitely was not new, so the story may be older. The story is set in a dystopian future and starts with a young man (the protagonist) arguing with his father (likely about how he doesn’t have a job but ...

According to Wikipedia (I know not a great source) but according to Wikipedia: On an alien planet, the Doctor uncovers a diabolical plot to conquer the galaxy with brainwashed soldiers abducted from Earth and forced to fight in simulated environments, reflecting the periods in history whence ...

In the Dune series by Frank Herbert, at what age would people not from Arrakis (eg. Members of a Great House) start taking Melange? As it has geriatric properties to extend the life span of the user, would you wait until post 20s so you prolong at a mature stage or if you started say pre-teen wou...

As a child I remember reading a book set in the future where Britain had been split into 2, I think with a wall down the middle. On the one side they embraced high technology and nothing was done manually, whereas the other side were totally against technology. The story is based around a boy fr...

Captain Marvel (2019) is set in 1995. During the movie, we see and hear various references to the time period: a True Lies (July 1994) cardboard cut-out in a Blockbuster Video store, posters for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (October 1995), and Waterfalls by TLC (November 1994) playing i...

In Captain Marvel, we learn that However, we also see that This implies that faster-than-light travel is already possible by other means; for example, using the “jump points” referred to in Captain Marvel, and in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. So why is the faster-than-light drive such a ...

A PI is hired to find a missing girl born without arms or legs. What he finds is a doctor taking people like the girl and grafting insect limbs on them and using them in a high end brothel. There are dogs, a yellow car and two of the doctors henchmen killing people.

In both Ridley Scott's and James Cameron's Alien franchise films we see the synthetic Ash drinking a milk like substance and artificial person Bishop eating some corn bread. Do they actually process these substances and burn for fuel like humans or are they eating to 'fit in' with everyone else? ...

Many countries outside the Anglosphere have local authors that write sci-fi primarily for their own countrypeople. Russia, in particular is famous for its sci-fi. Reading scifi from russian authors feels completely different - very bleak but without despair is how some of it makes me feel. I am...

About half way through Captain Marvel we see Was this scene computer generated, or was it real?

It was probably an hour-long Time-Life documentary narrated by Alexander Scourby, Paul Frees, or Marvin Miller. The film was broadcast on T.V. and shown in public schools in the early 1970s in the U.S.A. After interviewing, e.g., Louis Leakey, showing reconstructions of Australopithecus, etc., t...

Does Bruce Wayne have a middle name? I have heard many different ones so I want to know if he has a middle name and what it is.