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Eight clones made by in-vitro fertilization, discovered by a female scientist
The story is about a female scientist starting a relationship with a younger guy after meeting his criminal clone and not knowing. She investigates further to find out that they actually are eight ...
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When will copyright on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson book series expire?
When, in the future will copyright on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson book series expire?
Note: Rick Riordan is a US-based writer, so US copyright law applies here.
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Boy from Earth who later finds out he can teleport accused for the murder of the leader of another planet
A boy is arrested for the murder of some important leader of a planet. He is transported to space using multi-dimensional teleportation or something.
I think he might be kidnapped at some point by ...
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What happens when Goose, or her species, swallow people?
In The Marvels movie, Goose and
What exactly happens to the humans who are swallowed? Even assuming a stomach that is bigger on the inside, how do they breathe?
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Why does Vergara attempt to convince the others that there is nothing supernatural afoot?
In at least the first few episodes of 30 Coins (30 Monedas), the priest Father Vergara attempts to, essentially, gaslight various people, particularly Elena, into believing that any apparent ...
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Was Lord Vader on Bespin implying that he would like to overthrow the Emporor [duplicate]
Luke, you can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.
There are two ways, at least as I understand it, this ...
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Name of sci-fi story about a favors-based, cashless society?
I'm looking for the name and author of a short sci-fi history.
I read the story years ago and I can’t remember the title of it.
This is a society with no concept of cash.
Things are acquired when the “...
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Simpsons episode in which Homer imagines Bart mounting his head on a wall [closed]
Can't remember the episode, but I remember a scene in which Homer imagines Bart mounting his head on a wall (like a stag head), then Bart and Marge are shown sitting and drinking. Marge is wearing a ...
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A book about a girl who experience murders in her dreams
I read it a few years ago, and I really just can't remember the title of the book. I probably read it on Google Play books/Play Store for free. It's about a girl who experiences real murders in her ...
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Who is the third Kang variant in this image?
In the post-credits scene for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, we witness
I can identify two of them from their costumes, but can't figure out who the third is. So, from left to right, we have:
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Why did Daniel Jackson reopen the Abydos Stargate?
Recently I was rewatching Stargate: SG-1 and a question occurred to me: Canonically, why did Daniel Jackson unblock the Abydos stargate?
Kawalsky: What's going on, Daniel? Could it be another Ra?
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Book about an engineered human who can change his body and calculate the future
The main recollection I have is that the main protagonist is an engineered being, mostly human, but who can enter a state that lasts a few weeks, in which the protagonist can change its body, even its ...
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A girl gets reincarnated as the villain’s sister and she gets engaged to a fat heir to a dukedom because her sister didn’t want to marry him
She reincarnated as the villain’s sister in a novel she read and I think she was blond. She gets engaged to a fat heir to a dukedom (I think?) and she gives him a solution to lose some weight. At a ...
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Cartoon series with a group of adventurers fighting huge worms in one episode
It was a series, but I only remember one episode: they were fighting a number of (maybe 3?) giant worms which become alive if someone stole a relic inside them. I still remember the closing scene: ...
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Sci-fi book series in which time travellers from the future salvage valuable equipment from moments in time that won't impact the future
I’m trying to recall a book about time travel that I read maybe 5-10 years ago. Some of the details I remember include:
The setting is futuristic, where humanity has spread across the solar system (...
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Book about a young man who wants to win a school science fair, who goes through water portals and speaks to spiritual beings
I read this book in 2021.
It's based in Washington I believe. It's about a young man who is really intelligent and wants to win a science fair contest for his school. At the same time he kayaks to his ...
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Do TVA employees get paid?
I mean, they are employees, right? At least they believe they are, right? So they should have a salary, perhaps in the form of some TVA credits? They also should have endowment insurance and medical ...
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Historical manhwa romance where the FL regresses and tries to avoid the ML who didn't like her before
Can you find the Korean manhwa where the female lead knows the future because she came back to the past? In her past life, she and the male lead don't end up together because the male lead didn't like ...
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Kids story - a character grows red wings, has them cut off and replaced
While thinking about some old kids stories by Edith Nesbit and Enid Blyton, I half-recalled a fragment of a story where a character had some ointment that made them grow red wings. At one point, an ...
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Sad story about killing sentient, but dangerous, beings brought by a smuggler
I read this very sad short fiction (novelette rather than short story, I think) more than 20 years ago, in a collection. It might be older. It left me a very sad feeling.
It takes place on a planet ...
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Anime where people mutate from an explosion?
I saw this anime in a quick commercial or ad on Facebook or Instagram.
What I remember is a man sees someone that he may know and either they are holding a briefcase or someone else is but it explodes ...
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Looking for a book where there was a drug that permanently increased intelligence
The premise of the book was there was this drug that would permanently increase your intelligence. It was very tightly controlled by the vaguely socialistic world government. The MC's twin brother had ...
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How did Kamala do this in The Marvels?
In the newly released The Marvels, towards the end of the movie, Kamala Khan
How does she do this? I thought that her powers were enabled
Or is there something that I am missing?
Note that Marvel ...
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Short story with suspended animation dude woken every year for a day, seeing previous crew live, die [duplicate]
Short story. I think in a magazine (Analog or IASFM or the like). Circa late 70s or early 80s.
There's a teenaged boy who is woken every year for one day, I guess his birthday. He interacts with ...
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Where did the "Noonien Wang"/"Kim Noonien Singh" story originally come from?
It's often said that Roddenberry chose the name "Khan Noonien Singh", and later "Noonien Soong", as an attempt at reuniting with a pilot he became friends with in WW2, with ...
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Cartoon series that I watched around 2005 with red robotic humans in white masks
If they took off their masks and pushed a button on their temples, they died/deactivated. Can't remember anything else, but they where expendable, so literally "redshirts".
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Is Clive the robot a reference to Clive Davis?
In Despicable Me 3, the villain Balthazar Bratt, has robot sidekick named Clive. Clive is an fairly uncommon name, and Bratt (along with the theme of the movie) has an obsession with 80's pop culture ...
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Short story where an alien signal containing a DNA sequence leads to the end of life on Earth
I read this short story online some time in the past 10 years. Year and author unknown.
It starts on an alien planet where the only life is a red (?) moss or lichen. At some point a gigantic antenna ...
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Manga in which the female lead is poisonous and the male lead is immortal
Hi I am looking for a manga where the female lead is poisonous and the male lead is immortal. What I remember is during their marriage ceremony, the male lead licked the tears of the female lead even ...
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Looking for a short story about a parallel world with apparently ordinary humans but savage and carnivorous [duplicate]
I read this a long time ago, and thought it was Larry Niven but maybe not.
A bunch of scientists build a gate to a parallel world and initially observe the inhabitants on the other side. They seem to ...
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SciFi movie where woman has alien baby
It was an old American movie where a doctor believes his wife has an alien baby growing inside her belly, and in the end he insists on doing surgery on her (by opening her torso) to find this alien ...
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Sci-fi book with a galaxy like Andromeda in a planet's sky on the cover
I remember reading this when I was at school (I pretty much lived in the library and the sci-fi section was my idea of heaven <3) which would have been 1985-ish through to 2000-ish?
But literally ...
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Does the "fury of the Time Lord" scene occur in the original Human Nature?
The two-part TV episode Human Nature/The Family of Blood was originally a Virgin New Adventures book, also called Human Nature. The TV story ends with this brutal scene (taken from a transcript):
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Manga with a male main character who goes to a dwarven blacksmith village
When he meets the head of the village, he has to duck into the meeting room, and gives them barrels of drink. The dwarven village contains three tribes which share a big magic sword. He then breaks it ...
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A manga about a homeless girl and her little brother finding a house that connects to another world
A manga about a girl and her little brother having to stay in other people's houses, then finding a house that connects to another world that's full of evil.
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Benign zombies who want to cuddle story
I read this in the UK during the COVID lockdown. Some unremembered anthology (I did a lot of reading during that time!)
A guy wakes up and leaves his apartment, as soon as he exits onto the street ...
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Pre-1960s short story set in endless forest with cloned couples [duplicate]
Trying to recall an old pre-1960s short story. Some sort of interstellar criminal or villain crashlands into a seemingly endless forest on a remote planet. Blasting a path through the forest with his ...
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A story about humans exploring space that are conquered by a much superior alien race
I believe the human race has finally managed to be able to explore the solar system. They begin inhabiting whatever they can find. Eventually an alien race with superior technology meets the ...
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YA/Children’s 2000s sci fi novel featuring a female spy/assassin in a world with flying cars and aerial highways
I’m looking for a book I read about 12 years ago, I’m guessing it was written in the early 2000s but not positive.
I don’t remember much but it took place on a futuristic planet that had some sort of ...
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Scientist who talks to ants and is killed by wasps (or hornets)
I read this short fiction (novelette or novella) about 10-15 years ago, but it could be much older. I believe I read it in French, but I am not sure. Also not sure whether in a collection or in a ...
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Short story with crab-like aliens who inhabit humanoid robots to study earth
Pretty sure this is a short story, where a crab-like alien comes to Earth in a humanoid robot. He meets a regular human woman, but also finds another fellow crab-like (who he catches during feeding ...
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How were the markings created?
In the crime/scifi series Bodies, a body, apparently murdered, appears in multiple time periods. One of the noteworthy details is some kind of a marking on the victim's wrist.
I somehow must have ...
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Sci-fi/fantasy fae book about a girl whose family place a geas on her, causing her to be unable to escape the town
I'm looking for a book published between 2013 to 2019.
At the beginning of the book, the kids are all sitting around looking for someone they'll fall for, who they'll live with for a year and, if ...
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Horror, thriller manga/manhwa about a girl who suicided ended up being a ghost, hoping to escape the realm by achieving the specific time
I can vaguely remember seeing this Manga/Manhwa on a Facebook page about 4, 5 years ago and I haven't finished reading it so I only remember the first few parts. Also I tried to search the page for it ...
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Which Star Trek TNG episode involves a planet fighting over territory and thus being unable to join the Federation?
I think the premise was that the planet was technologically advanced enough to join the Federation, but with people fighting over territory, they weren't allowed to join until that was resolved.
I ...
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Was bringing the Skrulls to Earth a bad idea? [closed]
In "the Marvels",
However, Skrulls are banned on Earth, according to Secret Invasion. Did Captain Marvel not realize this?
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What does the last sentence of this paragraph mean in Stephen Kings' IT?
Tell you what, friends and neighbors—I’m drunk tonight. Fuck-drunk. Rye whiskey. Went down to Wally’s and got started, went to the greenfront down on Center Street half an hour before they closed and ...
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Short story about aliens sending messages to Earth and prime math being key to decoding
I read this short story probably in the 2000s, but I don’t know how old it was then.
Story beats I remember:
Aliens decided it was too much work to actually travel, so they just beamed messages to ...
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Cultivation manhua/manhwa in which the main character is put in a cage and his astral form goes on adventures with his female master
I remember reading this quite a while ago. The main character is put in a cage in the middle of town and his astral form goes on adventures with his female master (he has more than one female master). ...
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Book about people who are taken through portals all over the world and wake up in a strange world
I read this book in 2019, it was a paperback and I believe the cover was green. It wasn't very thick.
It starts with a man waking up in a forest and he finds others after that. They are attacked in a ...
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