I remember the basic ot of it. A family encounters an extraterrestrial being in need if help but the father of the family is afraid of it and end up shooting it. The being was sent as a test for humans to see if they could be trusted. The aliens say they have lost their chance to live forever amo...

Trying to find a trilogy from 1990/2000's with men and women sword fighters. The swords had some special souls in them. At the end the man loses his sword's power while the woman is giving birth. I have looked everywhere and can not find it. I think the women was from the north and the man ...

Plot Summary/Details Another of my patented "longshot" questions, I fear. I remember very little of the story, other than the basic premise. It's set on Earth in the near-ish future. A small, reputable company makes dream recordings that people can buy and experience. The dreams are done by th...

It's a story where a vastly superior alien civilization "invades" United Earth space and instead of attacking, they surrender; much to the surprise of the assembled Earth military and dignitaries who were expecting total war or annihilation. This is what I remember from the story: A meeting takes...

Recently I've re-watched David Lynch's Dune, and particularly the sandworm attacking a spice harvester has made me wonder something, as strange as it might sound- do the sandworms see humans as pests or intruders in their territory, or are they aware that humans are there to extract the spice and...

In Underwater (2020), Price discovers that only two of the pods are functional. Price and Haversham manage to get the ailing Smith into a pod, and Price persuades Haversham to take the last one: Norah: Do you know what I would do for one more second? Just one more second with Sam? Anything. Anyt...

In every opening sequence so far on Rick & Morty, no matter the season, we see at the end a scene where they flee in their spaceship from a Cthulhu-like creature, while Summer is holding which seems to be a spawn of the creature. Can we state if this creature is, in fact, Cthulhu? Is there enough...

Near the end, we are at the wedding reception on the terrace when the rats come. Coral warns: A tremendous storm. The rats can sense it. And I can too. But in the chapter I don't see anything about why it occurred. It doesn't seem related to Nor was it the vengeful fox-lady. A friend suggeste...

It is stated in various places that Lucius Malfoy's wand is 18" in length. This seems to exceedingly long as Ollivander states: In my experience, longer wands might suit taller wizards, but they tend to be drawn to bigger personalities, and those of a more spacious and dramatic style of magic. M...

I don't know if these kind of questions are allowed. I'm concerned with the scenario that both antagonist and protagonist are of human level intelligence. I don't mean films where the antagonist is a beast or something. I think I read in the book Denialism that scientists are portrayed as antagon...

Occasionally, browsing through old meta posts on SFF, I come across questions about parts of the SE system that no longer exist or no longer function in the way described in those questions. E.g. questions about "flag weight" or "10k flag review tools", such as the following examples: When does ...

the doctor as always getting younger & younger until the 11th gen where after that the cycle started again with the 12th doctor being old again! I hope that helped!

During Avengers: Age of Ultron Ulysses Klaue has the following conversation with Wanda: Wanda: Everybody's afraid of something. Ulysses Klaue: Cuttlefish! Deep sea fish, they make lights, disco lights, whomp, whomp, whomp, to hypnotize their prey, and then whomp! I saw a documentary; it was terr...

I don't think it was ever clearly explained how Ultron came to be in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Stark and Banner were dumbfounded. I was thinking there would be a reveal that it wasn't actually Tony Stark's fault (to redeem him somewhat, but maybe it will come now after his death, to redeem his leg...

I remember watching anime about warriors (ninjutsu?) each wielding special sword. The main character, if I'm not mistaken, is carrying wood sword with wind attack. The most memorable enemy is a sword capable of putting feathers around the enemy, the feathers are sharp and will keep surround the e...

How does a human (humanoid) travel across the Death Star, which is way bigger than any of the Imperial Navy Vessels (Death Star I was 120km in diameter, DS2 was even larger - 200km). Let us say that an officer is ordered to travel to another sector to check on workers activity there. How can this...

Neil Gaiman calls his Study in Emarald a Lovecraft/Sherlock Holmes fanfiction. And indeed it is exactly that: it uses the narration and story structure pretty characteristic to one from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about the famous detective. The difference is in the background: in this story, th...