I asked about this nine years ago on the TvTropes YKTS section, and for no answers. Recently, I decided to check again, and saw that I'd commented on an unaccepted (and possibly wrong) answer that it was indeed the story I was looking for. It was a science fiction story that I read in the early ...

Please help me identify a short story. In the story, there is a village in which the coming-of-age ritual for men involves crushing their faces with a millstone. The boy lays his head under the millstone, and the millstone is lowered until it breaks the nose and the bones of the face. The protag...

In the series Typewriter (2019), it was clearly very important to Fakeer to have the doll that resembled him. That's why he demanded a piece of wood in prison and spent so much time whittling by hand (and, one assumes, a bit of magic). It was clearly useful in some sense to the attempt to revive ...

Could he copy a pregnant lady and get pregnant for only a short amount of time? Can he copy non human things like animals? Could he do accounting like a pro? Could he make really hard sound effects after hearing them like a crane noise or something?

I've searched several different ways and I find what look like they could be references to the line I am thinking of, but I can't find an authoritative reference. I am remembering an audio media story circa mid 1970's that could have been a radio play or possibly an album or single and possibly ...

hello everyone i just wants to start robotics, and i have a degree in Computer Science (4year program) with a strong grip on web technologies(PHP, OOP, LARAVEL), intermediate knowledge of computer networking (CCNA, CCNP) and basic knowledge of python. what are the necessary measures to make a...

"Long ago, Galaxy far away..." and all that, but has Earth ever been mentioned in any canonical or semi-canonical SW story? If not, are there any explanations for the origins of humans?

I have been told that several Iain M Banks short stories have been adapted for radio, probably broadcast by the BBC. Hunting online all I can find is a reference to an adaptation of The State of The Art. Wikipedia states that radio adaptations of Espedair Street and The Business have been produce...

Iain M Banks only ever published one collection of short stories. Do we know if he left any short stories unpublished or have any come to light since his death?

What do you think about student loans? I want my business, but I don’t want to use a student's loan.

I'm looking for the title of a short story of which I recall the following elements: a man's daughter is murdered, and the man is either visited by her ghost or imagines this, and she urges him to find the murderer the murderer is eventually found, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death vi...

The planet Hain is referenced in numerous books of Le Guin's Hainish cycle. I always imagined it would rhyme with "rain" but I've recently heard it pronounced more like "hay - een" on an audiobook. Is there any definitive information for how it should be pronounced?

I'm aware that no-one can willingly cast the One Ring into Mount Doom, but could you do it if you jumped in with it? Tolkien Letter 246 seemed to imply that this was a potential path for Frodo or Gollum if he had achieved redemption, but I'm not sure if this was actually possible in the story as...

This was a SNES game from the late 90s, where you get to play as several different Supermen. Superman Superboy Man of Steel Viator(?) Cyborg Superman Superman in Black Was this game following a storyline, or several stories? I'm familiar with the story of Superman vs Doomsday-and I know that...

I have a new show to ask about. This one was a late 80s/ early 90s Nickleodeon or Nick Jr special, utlizing puppets and live action cast members. As I remember it, the basic premise was as follows: Two factions of Goblins are trying to choose a king, and to do so they have to get a special crow...

This is likely a scan from post 2005 [given Supergirl's outfi], but I don;t know if it was from an Outsiders comic, *Teen Titans** or some other story. If anyone has any idea, I would be curious as to what caused supergirl to just jump Nightwing that way.

At the end of Avengers: Endgame, when Steve gives the shield to Sam, Sam asks Steve if he wants to tell him about his wife. Steve says no. Why wouldn't he want to talk about her?

I’m looking for a short story from a White Dwarf Magazine circa 1990’s. It is Warhammer Fantasy based. I remember two human fighters (mercenaries) travelling and meeting an old man with a child. Oldman was a wizard and was going to kill the child to give everlasting life. I lost all of my old W...