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Looking for anime series with life-action segments, timetravel and spaceships
I am looking for a series. I saw it somewhere online in recent years, but from the style I would guess it was made in the 90s.
I saw it in Japanese language, without subtitles, so my understanding of ...
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Trying to find source of music used in trailer for Dutch cinema pathé
This is the 'intro' that is shown before every movie in Pathé cinemas in the Netherlands. It contains references to a number of movies and also to some styles and era's.
My question is about the music/...
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An 80s or early 90s (1990) animated sci-fi series that took place in space on a space ship
The cartoon came in either the 80s or early 90s (probably 1990). The cartoon took place in space on a spaceship. The crew of the spaceship was human. The leader was a man and there was one female ...
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What does this sentence mean in Stephen King's IT?
What does "He had put away nearly three sixpacks during the baseball game, and he was shagged." mean at the end of the paragraph?
Tom was nearly asleep when the phone rang. He struggled ...
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Book about 2-4 kids who go to a mansion and a statue comes alive to chase them
The house transports them to somewhere I cant fully remember. In a later book I believe they go to an old Roman arena and the older child fights in it.
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What does the guard take away from Ahsoka in episode "The wrong jedi" from the clone wars series?
At the end of the trial, we see a guard ripping something away from Ahsoka, some kind of jewelry. What is the jewelry and what's the significance of the guards' act?
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Do we ever see someone toggle their lights (or close their curtains) in exterior miniature shots?
In Star Trek we typically see many exterior space shots of starships, like the Enterprise-D pictured below, where some windows are illuminated and some are dark (see yellow highlights). Up until ...
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Is any detail know about the surviving Y-Wing pilot at the time of the release of the film? [duplicate]
The answers to the question 'Who was flying the Y-Wing when the Death Star exploded?' identify that it was either Keyan Farlander (who was named as the pilot in approximately 1994 with the release of ...
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Short story where people can die and are revived in bed through high tech and need legal permission to die
I read this story in an American anthology, sometime between 1990-2010. A woman who likes extreme sports, such as dropping to Earth from near-orbit. As she falls, she burns up and dies. Then she is ...
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Woman attacked in a toilet and forced to drink monsterising liquid through a funnel
I remember watching this on TV but it might have been a film or a TV show.
A woman is stopping at a resting spot in a forest area. She goes to the bathroom (stalls, very dirty) and she got attacked by ...
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How is Wong’s reply relevant to Dr. Strange’s words even though Wong didn’t bow to him?
In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Dr Strange saves Wong from octopus demon:
Dr Strange: You're welcome.
Wong: You know it's ancient custom to bow in the presence of the
Sorcerer ...
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Super soldier thief hired to steal vase of incredible beauty
I’m interested in finding a decades old science fiction short story that centers upon a rich guy trying to acquire a vase that is of incredible beauty. What stood out in my mind is by the end the ...
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SciFi Short Story About A Robot Caretaker and Her Ward
I'm looking for a short story I read a couple years ago. It was about a woman (I think she was a marine biologist?) who was turned into a robot to help raise kids on an alien world. One of her kids is ...
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What would have happened if Edward hadn't stopped?
In Twilight, when Edward was sucking the venom out of Bella he was addicted to it and almost couldn't stop.
He got all the venom out, so what would happen if he had sucked all her blood? Would she ...
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Did the One Ring violate the conservation of energy? [closed]
According to J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron amplified his power by investing part of his power in the One Ring.
Doesn't this sound like a violation of the conservation of energy?
Could Sauron continue ...
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Manga where the female lead regresses and gets adopted again by a black-haired, red-eyed duke with three(?) sons
The female lead was adopted from an orphanage and treated poorly, then dies and regresses back in time to the day the duke comes to adopt her and gets adopted by him again.
The female lead has brown ...
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Why didn't the first overseer of Vault 11 just admit the sacrifice was a lie to save himself?
In Fallout: New Vegas, there's a Vault 11 where the first overseer told everyone they needed to sacrifice somebody or else the computer would kill the whole vault. The dwellers did not take kindly to ...
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Is the luggage trolley essential to get through Platform Nine and Three-Quarters?
It is well known that Hogwarts' students have to get through a barrier between Muggle Platforms Nine and Ten in order to reach the magically concealed train Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station and ...
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How infertile are humans in The Handmaid's Tale?
With regards to The Handmaid's Tale, do the books or adaptations give us any clues as to just how infertile humanity has become?
Relatedly, is there any sense as to whether the local or global ...
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Collection/anthology book including a comic about a female explorer who discovered a planet filled with a race of primitive, mushroom-headed men
[NSFW] So it came to the back of my head of a collection of comics filled with adult themes. can't remember what year it was but I do believe it was around 2007-2012. The book had a pink background ...
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Adventure and romance manhua with a blue-haired (tied in a ponytail) female lead and a black-haired male lead
This manhua is about a world where yin gives birth to children and yang fights to protect their families. It starts off with two yin siblings one with distinctive blue hair and the other with a bluish ...
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Very old telefilm about an invisible monster
So, this is very very old, probably from the '80s, if not before. I happened to watch it several years ago and it is extremely probable it is a telefilm, part of some sort of series.
Unfortunately, ...
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Book written early 80s or before about a 2m tall student on a school spaceship [duplicate]
Book is about several students from different planets but all human on a school spaceship.
The main character is at least 2 meters tall. This comes into the plot because when they visit earth he has ...
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Circa late 70s - early 80s kids (television?) movie with hacking plot [closed]
This memory has been bugging me since I re-watched "Explorers" (1985) a few months ago: I realized that I had transferred memories from another movie onto the characters, and now I want to ...
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Fantasy children's story where they suspect someone is a vampire [migrated]
I'm 38 and read this probably between 1993-1997.... when I was between 8-12 years old. I don't think it was a new book at that time.
I am trying to track down a book I read as a child. It was about a ...
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Alien invasion novel, teens fight against blobs that enter people heads
I read a novel as a teenager in the early 2000s about an alien invasion. What I remember is the main characters were teens, the aliens were blobs that entered people's heads, and the teens described ...
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Short story about two cities and their architects
This was a longish short story (or short novella) that I read in an anthology around 1990 (give or take 5 years).
There is an ancient city that is old and tired. People are leaving, there is not much ...
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Book/webtoon about a boy with lightning(?) powers who was sent to army(?) school to practice
I am looking for a book or the webtoon that was based on that book. I lost my webtoon account and I can't find the title.
As I remember, it was about a boy with superpowers (probably lightning) that ...
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70s-80s TV Show where an alien entity shaped as a small luminous pyramid gets in contact with a teenager [duplicate]
This was a TV Show that I've watched at early 80s in Spain, but the Show was english (I think I recall it being from BBC productions) so it could be perfectly produced on late 70s.
The show depicted a ...
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Alien supreme ruler of his rapid evolution planet
This was a novelette length story I read about 40 years ago in the UK, I can't think of any other stories that were in the anthology book.
The supreme massive alien creature is patrolling his ...
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Weapons carried to meet the Engineer -- why such limitations? [closed]
I think others have commented on how primitive the weapons they use are. I could also believe that someone, perhaps Shaw, way back on Earth, argued that weapons should not be carried at all and ...
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Isekai manga in which the main character buys a house on a lake with his two wives
The main character (MC) buys house on a lake with his two wives. I believe the MC is a swordsman or summoner/ magician.
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An Apollo x female Harry Potter fan fiction
In this, female Harry adopted Teddy after the war and refers to him as her kid. She is summoned to the Olympus council meeting to read books about her life.
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Seeking author/title of a sci fi novel about interstellar probes and climate change, pub date 2010s?
Can you identify the author/title of a big sprawling sci fi thriller in which an American astronaut recovers a small alien object in earth’s orbit? The object turns out to be an interstellar probe, ...
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Fantasy book series. Boy raised by herbalist travels with a dragon lady
I read this in in high school, some time between 2018-2020. I believe there was something related to dragons in the title or cover art.
The main character was in his late teens and is raised by his ...
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I'm looking for a short story about a sculptor who creates a hand and is strangled by it
I believe I read the story approximately 10 years ago in a US newspaper online when looking for information on H.P.Lovecraft. I don't recall the newspaper or the year I read it, but I believe it was ...
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Where is this image of Vader from?
I see this image everywhere but can’t figure out where it is.
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What does the number 37 mean in Song of the Bandits? [migrated]
Most of the military personnel seem to have the number 37 on their neck. What does this number mean? Where does it come from?
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Anime in which a boy shows up from a girl's dream and says that his world is falling apart and that they need to work together
In this anime, a girl dreams about another world. One day, a boy from the other world came into her room and asked for help because his world was falling apart. He's like some sort of royal in his ...
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Fantasy novel main character Ghendt? finds tower, travels time, fights against dark force
I'm struggling to find the title of this book I read a few times growing up and really enjoyed. Main character, pretty sure is named Ghendt, is in the Stone age, hunting, and comes across a tower. ...
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Youth finds ring in a graveyard and uses it to travel back and forth between the past and present
edit - Thank you, community. Someone had the right book, I really cannot that you all enough!
This has been bothering me for years and I never finished reading the book. When I was younger (around ...
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Horror movie involving a mirror and someone cutting themselves with scissors [duplicate]
So I don't remember much beyond these three scenes:
A bathroom and scissors, someone cutting themselves with it.
A car where someone gets their neck pierced from behind.
A piece of a mirror stuck to ...
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SF book about a spaceship captain and female officer who survive a crash landing on a jungle planet and are hunted by an invisible alien predator
I am looking for the title of a SF book about a male and female space officer who survived a spaceship crash on an alien planet where everyone of their crew is dead and an invisible alien tries to ...
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Sci-fi novel about some teens travelling back to the time of Galileo
I'm looking for a sci-fi novel I read years ago, probably between 2007-2013
I think there was a 3D-like illustration of Galileo on the front cover and the novel was part of a series.
Some teens travel ...
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Who is the author of the science fiction novel, "Gem?" or is it "Jem?"
I think the title comes from "Geminorum," the star which the planet the action takes place on orbits. In the universe of the novel, the Earth is divided between three political blocs, the ...
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Book about a futuristic city under the ocean floor which is discovered by two teenaged scuba diving boys
This was a book I read in the ‘70’s about a deserted futuristic city under the ocean floor that appears to be abandoned but is discovered by two teenaged scuba diving boys. They find a statue in an ...
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Is there an SF story on the theme of language that does NOT use the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? [closed]
There are numerous SF stories based on language but I have never heard of one that doesn't focus on the idea that language shapes thought. For example, here is a previous question that lists a few ...
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Sci-fi short story about a person that has to run across country and ages drastically as he's exposed to the elements
I read a sci-fi short story many years ago but can't recall the title.
It is about a person that has to run across country to get to a place of sanctuary within a period of time, somewhere about 10 ...
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A children's novel featuring a race of spider-like aliens
Some 30 years ago when I was in the 6th grade, I remember reading an excerpt from a sci-fi novel in my English class.
I don’t remember much of the story, but it did feature a race of intelligent ...
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A comic about a duck who learns to fight with a feather without realizing he's made of feathers
I remember checking a comic book out of the library sometime in 2003-2010 about a duck who has a real jerk of a dad so he goes off to learn how to fight from a blind master (a mouse perhaps?). One of ...
