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So i'm doing a school project which requires me to cite the books I've read under the genre Science-Fiction. I am almost done, I just need the last book, which I can't find the title. I recall it ...

I read it in a collection in the early 80s. I believe it was in the near future. A young prisoner was enrolled in some sort of program where he was educated as part of an experimental program. Once ...

I have read it before but I can’t find it or remember its title. Either Harry or Draco were de-aged, I think it’s Draco but it could be Harry, and Harry looks after him in a room of their own. ...

In the epilogue of the official Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, it says this: "Four or five skeleton children at hand" who play together in a xylophone band. It is obviously implied that ...

This movie looks like its was from 2013-15. Here the first scene starts with a party. the cops show up where a gang of some boys and girls escape them and they end up underground. Under the ground ...

I'm trying to identify a science fiction short story I read many years ago. In it, Earth receives an emissary from the Galactic Government, who informs us that (our sense of self-importance ...

The Infinity Gauntlet is the way that Thanos and others have wielded the six Infinity Stones. In comics, it looks like this: In the comics universe (not the Marvel Cinematic Universe), what material ...

The Knables went into the satellite dish at 10:30 pm, as we know from Helen’s broken watch left behind. The implication is that the Knables were sucked in the following night, and they meet Murray ...

Since they are related ideas (many times an orbital ring depends on a space elevator, though not always a space elevator has an orbital ring, neither always an orbital ring has a space elevator , ...

The LotR Wikia page on Melkor tells us: When the Ainur sang the Great Music before Eru, Melkor wove some of these alien thoughts into his music, and straightaway Discord arose around him. Some of ...

Throughout Words of Radiance, a lot of Kaladin's arc is dedicated to his struggle to come to terms with Elhokar's incompetence as king. He listens sympathetically to Moash's arguments about why the ...

This has been eating at me for a few years now. I believe I read this in one of the 'best sci-fi of the year' aggregations. The plot centers around an old warrior living in peace in a small town. He ...

I read this story in an anthology in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I don't remember the name of the anthology (that will be for a future question) but do remember it also had the first chapter of ...

I just remembered a scene from a somewhat old sci-fi cartoon series or movie but Google only brought me here so I'll give it a try. What I can remember: a lot of robots walking down a tunnel or ...

An alien who has stolen something valuable from a creepy black and white lady (also an alien) crashes on Earth. He has a pet that looks like a black and white fox-like creature with no mouth. The ...

I was researching earthquake resistant buildings and saw one that look exactly like the Polis tower. I did some research and discovered it is in LA.

I wanted to ask what the life span of a vampire was, but as undead that did not seem like the right question. What vampire has the longest existence?

A friend of mine is trying to find the source of a story she uncovered a few weeks ago. She probably copied it from a book or a magazine in late 1960/early 1970 in the Netherlands, so the text is in ...

I need help finding an old animated movie I think was from the 80s. I can only remember one scene off the top of my head, which was about the time traveller being in the past and going for a surf and ...

This is a short story in which aliens land on Earth and track, follow and observe animals. For reasons I forget they follow a chain of increasingly belligerent animals. Near the end a wolverine faces ...

In Final Space season 1 chapter 8 Gary goes to visit the imprisoned Titan, Bolo. When he first "meets" Bolo he sees multiple versions of himself and comments on a few: Construction Hat Gary Eagle ...

The story is about 2 war robots who have survived a war that wiped out humanity world-wide. There may be more of the robots functional elsewhere, but since the long-distance communication robots ...

I'm trying to figure out a movie's name. In the movie there was a woman running away from some plant creature, and she was knocked out. I remember it tried to rape her and ripped her shorts as its ...

Are there any known examples of the chaos gods turning a non-astartes into a demon prince in warhammer 40k? I know other Xenos races like the Laeren do worship them and they have normal human ...

This picture shows ten people holding Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, and I presume they are all from the anime series. The ones in the front are Blue Eyes White Dragon and Dark Magician, and the sleeves make it ...

This was a short story in one the readers we had in grade school. Gist of it was that humans had semi sentient robots for almost all tasks, but humanity has died out and the robots are looking for ...

Given how durable and adaptable the Borg are, could they survive the type of transporter malfunction seen in ‘Star Trek:The Motion Picture’(1979)? If so, could this Borg member reshape itself into ...

I can recall reading an excerpt of the first chapter of this work. I believe the rest was hidden by a paywall, even though the story was primarily online. It was about a police officer (or maybe a ...

In StarCraft 2, the “Infinite Cycle” which the Xel'naga initiate is described as the coming together of “purity of essence” (ostensibly the Zerg) and “purity of form” (ostensibly the Protoss), to ...

This was a novel I read back in the 90s. The time is set in the future. The US (I think? Or an allegorical nation that mirrors the US) is fighting a war against (allegorical) Russia/China, and invents ...

I have a question regarding 1 book I have read but can't re-read as I don't remember its author and title. I can't find it using Google and some databases. I don't think I'll ask for another books so ...

I checked these books out from my middle school library. I remember the main characters were a girl and guy. They were both a sort of unexpected hero. I know it was set in a fantasy world perhaps ...

In the beginning of the Undiscovered Country, Hikaru Sulu has been promoted to captain and commands the starship Excelsior. Where was Styles, the previous captain during this time?

I'm looking for short stories about machines/robots/AI-programs that write stories; e.g. "The Great Grammatizator", "Fifty Million Monkeys", "Fault-Intolerant", "Galley Slave", etc. Any assistance ...

Can someone visually explain the world from the 'Tower of Babylon' story? Where does the sun go at night if the world is a cylinder? Is the sun outside/inside of the cylinder or on the same level as ...

In many very popular sci-fi anime stories, there are "space elevators", or, in other words, a giant tower which allows to transport people and/or objects from the surface of Earth to space. Some of ...

I want to find a Dramione fanfiction which I think is on a spell's name. In it Draco and Hermione are paired for potions. They create a potion of empathy link or something like that. They try to find ...

In Pacific Rim (2013), a similar idea to this was featured. A helmet connected to your head and a suit connected to your spine allowed a human brain-machine interface, but apparently mostly in the ...

Starting in the second Harry Potter book, Harry becomes quite familiar with the interiors of the DADAs' offices and how the current occupant decorates it. Do we ever have an inclination on how ...

In Pacific Rim (2013), one of the Jaegers - Gypsy Danger - has some arm mounted plasma guns, which seem to be really effective against the Kaiju. Is there anything in-universe preventing them from ...

I loved this show but it's really bugging me as I don't know the name... I remember it being animated and in the morning, in the year 2011 or around that. The plot was about 1 teen girl with blonde ...

In S4E6, during the trial where Tyrion is accused of regicide, Shae provides a false testimony to the jury. The question of why Shae betrayed Tyrion has already been covered, but I haven’t found ...

UK paperback, possibly early eighties. This man goes to the used spaceship dealership. The salesman shows him many types but his eyes are continually drawn to a beat up old heap in the corner which ...

With all of Tywin Lannister's talk of protecting the family legacy why did he never remarry after the death of his wife? He was still relatively young at the time and there are examples of older lords ...

In Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Ebony Maw says to Doctor Strange, who wears necklace with Time Stone on it: In all the time I've served Thanos...I have never failed him. If I were to reach our ...

The protagonists of the Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind are Richard and Kahlan. How old are they throughout the course of the series, especially during the events of the first book, Wizards ...

About 12 to 15 years ago I read a book that started off as a sword and sorcery-style book about a land surrounded by a thick fog wall. I don't remember who wrote it or what it was called. If I ...

I've been looking for this one over several months. Webomic was ongoing 2 years ago, I was really hooked up. Thing is I don't remember anything except little details of plot like: Post-apocalyptic (...

First of all, the movie is not Nausicäa or Time Masters (1982). Although it is kinda similar. What I remember (memory is 17 years old): I saw this movie on Free-TV or VHS in maybe 2002. The ...

I am looking for the name of a comedian from the 80s or 90s. He appeared once on Comic Strip Live or Evening at the Improv. His set was based on mayhem at Thanksgiving, with discussion of why jello ...