The book was really long (I remember it being around 800 pages, or the size of harry potter number 4). It was worth alot of AR points, maybe 40ish. It had a darker green cover, and was about a guy finding gems, possibly for a sword.
@NapoleonWilson There's a silver and a gold badge for it, so that makes sense. There are no badges for people following your question yet, but give them a few months.
Or for following your answer, because apparently you can do that separately too. Am I supposed to follow all answers to my questions just to know when they're edited?
I would be grateful, if you help me identify this story.
It's a short novel in epistolary form.
It starts with letter where we learn that one specialist (recipient) was commissioned by private client (sender) to create an artificial universe.
As project was due, it was complete but lacked pol...
In the novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope it says
Locating the restraining module, he opened the receiving latches in the machine and set about locking it back in place. Threepio watched the process and appeared to wince ever so perceptibly.
Is Threepio wincing because of pain or fear? A...
I've been watching TOS since it was first broadcast so I may be a bit biased. For Turnabout Intruder I've thought of a number of ways besides Spock's mental telepathy that might let Janice Lester walk up and prove her true identity. The list of your ideas will fill up here quickly but there might...
Around 1992-96 I read a comic about an army unit travelling through Hell (or some demon zone) and killing demons. I think it was a Marvel comic.... but it may have been 2000AD... and it had beautiful manga style art.
I think I read it in the United Kingdom in a monthly bundle publication. The ...
In the TV series Blake's 7, there were varying numbers of crew members of the Liberator and Scorpio, but never 8.
With Blake, there was Avon, Vila, Jenna, Gan and Cally. By the time Dayna, Tarrent and Soolin arrive, Blake is gone, so they are hardly 'his' 7. If you include Orac and Zen there ar...
In the episode The game Wesley comes in the Engineering, and asks Robin if she got the security tracking codes.
Soon after, on the Bridge, LaForge says, 'He's done something to the internal security sensors'.
The question is: How he could modify them without the accessing codes?
I had a question while looking at Harry Potter things. What does Hermione see in the Mirror of Erised? There are some videos, and you could guess, but I want to know if J.K. Rowling has said what Hermione sees.
Science fiction story where a colonist is sent by a company to colonize a planet and there a robot tries to sell him a delapidating liquid by pulling a gun on him. The company who sponsored his trip to the new planet is extorting him by charging him exorbitant rates for anything they declare is n...
I have voted to leave open. If we closed as duplicates based on quotes appearing in an answer practically all questions that are answered by JKR tweets would be a duplicate of this scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121097/… — Skooba9 mins ago
I am searching an episode of Batman: The Animated Series or related: I remember watching an animated Batman episode, where one villain, not sure if it was the Riddle, the Joke or else, setup an morphing maze, which usually can only be escaped by a specific key. I remember Batman breaking a "one s...
I am trying to remember the name of children's book that featured a protagonist who came across a magic paint brush.
This paint brush was used as part of the storytelling in that the character would paint on the pages of the book to the boon of themselves or the detriment of the antagonists. I ...
Though I have not read the novels, a situation I intend to remedy eventually, can anyone summarize the skills, abilities and proficiencies Dejah Thoris possesses both mundane and fantastical both from the novel series beginning 'A Princess of Mars' and the various comic book runs the character ha...
Since 2012, SFF's policy on "Is there any...?" question is that they are suitable for this site; see How should we handle "any" (list) questions?.
However, in some recent comments, meta posts and chat discussions, I've seen several users voice disagreement with this policy, and few (if not none)...
Not sure if “is there any” in a specific universe needs leaving open though. Especially with some of the larger universes like Star Wars and Marvel etc.
Is there any forbidden technology in the Star Wars universe? In other sci-fi works, such as Dune, computers and associated technology is banned, but is there anything not allowed in the current canon of Star Wars?
Lightsabers were illegal during the rule of the Empire but lightsabers were part o...
Yeah, I think "is there any" in a specific universe can be fine. Not necessarily always - interested to see examples where it's not - but we don't need to ban it on principle.
Carrot mentioned SW and Marvel which I'm not familiar with, but Doctor Who is another large universe with tons of material at various canonicity levels, and something like "is there any occasion where the Doctor's done this" could be fine IMO.
Even something like "is there any episode featuring XYZ" could be OK. Might be a bad question, depending on the XYZ, but (within a specific universe) that's a finite/scoped list which is OK.
Are there any episodes, in any of all the released Star Trek series, whose main plot is about an infection/contagion/disease or any other medical hazard affecting a large share of a starship crew or a planet population (so, not about a single sick character), and about how the crew/population try...
We had a question some weeks ago along the lines of "is there any Star Trek episode featuring plague". Might be downvoted for lack of research, but on-topic since there's a fixed list of episodes which can be searched through.
I was just wondering if all of the Sith ships from 'Rise of Skywalker' were destroyed, or if there are some that survived. Could anyone answer this question with Canon sources?
I've been watching old SG-1 episodes lately and a question came to me. Has there been any episode (SG-1, ATL, SGU) where it didn't show the stargate being used?
Being used for the purposes of this question includes the "whoosh", someone/something entering/exiting through shimmering pool of "wate...
My question about fanfic on Captain America was closed, but no explanation was given. It was closed as "off topic" but there are other questions about Captain America, Marvel Cinematic Universe, and fan fiction.
What would you change to make it on topic?
Actually I'm not sure when people started following that 2012 post on "is there any". When I was more active in closing questions (now I use my closehammer sparingly), "is there any" would be treated as a list/recommendation question (because it is, essentially). Same thing in Literature's policy (proposed by me) for recommendation questions.
Now I wonder if that was when Edlothiad was very active, since he was always vocal about following meta policy but sometimes did so in a very literal to-the-letter way.
It was a more recent thing following it. I think someone brought it up in defence of their question getting closed and technically it is meta policy so...
Since 2012, SFF's policy on "Is there any...?" question is that they are suitable for this site; see How should we handle "any" (list) questions?.
However, in some recent comments, meta posts and chat discussions, I've seen several users voice disagreement with this policy, and few (if not none)...
Interestingly, I had never heard of the mods Valorum mentioned until now ... and I check this site somewhat often even if I'm not that active — Azor Ahai2 mins ago
@TheLethalCarrot That seems like just a classical list/recommendation question under all just the most pedantic of interpretations :-) This policy then seems like a bit of a no-brainer, and I'm surprised that people started following that old 2012 post. — Rand al'Thor ♦20 secs ago
I read that the Daleks from Doctor Who put their creator, Davros, on trial. Does anyone know if they killed him, or at least what happened to him afterward?
In Return of the Jedi Carrie Fisher's character Leia ends up damseled and in a metal bikini.
Some accounts I have read suggest that Fisher requested a sexy costume, having been stuck in fairly frumpy outfits in the first two movies. Lucas felt it was a bit too much for a children's movie and use...
The humans live in rapid motion, during periods of light and dark. They fall asleep wherever they are when it becomes dark, and wake up when light returns. Scientists from Earth go to study them, trying to blend in, but they are identified as "slow."
@TheLethalCarrot there is nothing wrong on closing as duplicates, but it's plenty wrong to answer a known duplicate, or something which looks dupey (in what order should I watch Star Wars? Why couldn't Cap lift Mjolnir before? Why did Daenerys get burned when she survived the fire in season 1/book whatever?). Most of the time, an exception can be made for story-ID as answers there can be more tailored to match the OP's recollection
In the episode Journey’s End The Tenth Doctor pours his regeneration energy into his hand and then regenerates into himself. It is later confirmed in ‘The Time of The Doctor’ that this does actually count as a regeneration.
So why doesn’t The Doctor just regenerate back into himself whenever he ...
Are there any Star Wars novelizations, comics series/issues that exclude the Force (both Jedi and Sith, Dark Side and Light Side), and instead focuses purely on the Imperial vs Republic/Rebel Alliance militaries/tech?
I realize the Force is a highly centric part of the Star Wars universe, but I...
In avengers infinity war we see Wong use a portal to cut cull obsidian's hand off. It is generally assumed that Dr. Strange could do the same. Eliminating the fact that dr. Strange saw the 14 million outcomes why didnt he do the same to thanos or even behead him?
The part at the end where Merlin speaks to Elvis and creates the love potion that would make Sir Dude/Hank love Alisande/Alexandra forever seemed like some nonsense that sometimes happens near the end of a dream before you wake up.
So why did Sir Dude/Hankfall in love with Alisande/Alexandra aft...
I was looking through wookieepedia, and was wondering to myself, how many super star destroyers are there in the current canon? I was also thinking that a 'dreadnought' also would count as a super star destroyer, given its size and power.