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Does anyone remember a short film from the Bay Area called The Tower?
When I was a kid in San Francisco - circa 1984 or so - my mother took my sister and me to a sort of underground artists collective party. There was a band playing there called The Lizards maybe, and a ...
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Faster than light in the Metroid universe
I'm a big fan of the Metroid prime games. I was reading about the technology in that universe and found I couldn't find anything on how they achieve faster than light travel. Is there anything saying ...
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Bradbury story about immortal kid? [duplicate]
I am pretty sure RB wrote the story wherein other kids notice he is too good throwing a baseball for his apparent age and I loved this idea that it is other kids, through observations of mundane ...
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How does 'Wunderwaffen' end?
How did the series “Wunderwaffen” end?
Issues 1 through 16 are online, but the remaining two are only in French.
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Is the “probability storm” concept that split Scott and Hope into multiple versions adapted from the comics?
Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne face a strange phenomenon in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: a “probability storm” that splits them into multiple versions (“possibilities”) of themselves based on “...
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Young adult/children's book of adventure and mystery where the bad guys are Illuminati
I read this book when I was young, so the book should be intended for this audience. I don't think it is very old, I would say it was published after the 2000s. I read it in Spanish; I don't know the ...
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Science fiction story where a human is searching for immortality and meets an alien that has been searching for thousands of years
I'm trying to identify a science fiction short story I read long ago (I'm 71). The story goes like this:
A human is waiting at a spaceport for his flight to leave. He has been going all around the ...
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How did Bathory overpower the goddess?
In Castlevania: Nocturne, the so-called Vampire Messiah, Erzsébet Bathory, is said to have extraordinary powers, even relative to most vampires, due to having drunk the blood of the Egyptian goddess ...
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Obscure sci-fi illustration book showing speculative alien life forms on other worlds
This book has to have been published in the early '90s or before.
It was an illustration book showing speculative alien life forms on other worlds. I checked it out from the library at school every ...
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Anime series about a teen girl, a guy with glasses and a swordsman who become friends and fight to save the world
In episode one, a young teen girl is doing rhythmic gymnastics and trying to fight, but her grandma or grandpa tells her that girls can't fight and she gets mad. Later, she meets two kids her age; one ...
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Book about these two kids finding a sulfur smell on their campus, then magically leads to a magician and about elixirs
I’m looking looking for a book about these two kids finding a sulfur smell on their campus, then magically leads to a magician and about elixirs. I read this as a kid in 24 now. I believe there could ...
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Preservation of Hippocampus in the Human Brain Science Fiction Novel [closed]
Can "Preservation of Hippocampus in the Human Brain" be a good Science fiction novel for producing Science fiction movies and documentaries?
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Many species in the galaxy survive by hibernating or thousands of years, Those that do not hibernate never advance. BUT one is
While reading (another question about hibernation races) I recall this story, and while it might be the one the other OP is asking, I think its different.
EDIT:I read this within the last year or two. ...
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Book about a 13 year old boy who befriends a computer hacker
I am trying to find the title of a novel I read in grade school back in either 2001 or 2002. The book is about a 13 year old boy who befriends an older man that happens to be a computer hacker. Here ...
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What is the scientific term for gaseous or gas-based lifeforms? [closed]
Gaseous or gas-based lifeforms have appeared in very few fiction such as the following;
"Praxa", The Maracot Deep by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1929)
"Ai", one of the "Five ...
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CGI sci-fi cartoon/animated series in which good guys and bad guys engage in 'dogfighting'/pursuit with high speed crafts along canyons of the planet
Looking for a late 1990s or early 2000s CGI sci-fi cartoon/animated series of which I can clearly remember the following:
Human protagonists.
A sequence in which good guys and bad guys engage in '...
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Short story about a phantom hot rod the police can't catch
I'm looking for a particular short story about a hot rod that speeds along the back country roads at night, and the local sheriff's department keeps setting up these ever more elaborate traps to catch ...
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Is listing a mutant's abilities to be matter and energy manipulation, and Polymorphy too overpowered? [closed]
I wanted to create a hero-type mutant character that has the following power list:
Matter Transmutation (Matter Manipulation)
Cryokinesis (Matter/Energy Manipulation)
Pyrokinesis (Energy Manipulation)...
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story ID question: planets in interstellar space run on "slow speed" with people awaking for a few years, then sleeping for centuries
The book is no more than ~15 years old, and may have been reviewed in Boing Boing.
Set far in the future, civilizations on rogue planets in interstellar space (or perhaps orbiting brown dwarfs?) have ...
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Comic with aliens attacking in flying ships, protagonists finding mechs, glowing discs, a spherical spaceship, and an aquatic mech
I once had a short comic (maybe a promo of some sort) I read as a kid about aliens attacking in flying ships, and the protagonists had to find these mechs.
All I remember was that there were some sort ...
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Story about a secret agent or spy with skill set by personas
This is a novel I've read in the 90's. I have a very dim recollection of most the below, so some of this may be dead wrong.
An operative/secret agent/spy has to complete one or more missions. When ...
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1980s or early 90s horror movie featuring a sasquatch/bigfoot/yeti
I've been searching for this movie for many years now. I was born in 1989 and I was under 10 years old when I watched it on TV, so I assume it's a movie from the 80s or early 90s.
I'm gonna describe ...
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Science fiction novel about a group of genetically engineered young adults that lived in a "pod" or family group
I'm looking for the name of a science fiction novel from the late 90's or early 2000's.
The plot revolved around a group of genetically engineered young adults that lived in a "pod" or ...
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Book about a girl travelling to the center of a desert just to find out she herself is part alien
I remember this book I read years ago but only some details. I remember the premise was that the moon had stopped or was broken up. I remember specifically a city being destroyed. I think the story ...
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Story about a boy trying to rescue his brother from sasquatch-like creatures, and slowly begins turning into one
I read this book back in the 80s when I was a kid. I believe it was a fantasy/horror style anthology, which contained illustrations. It may have been a children's book.
One of the stories dealt with ...
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Anime series with live-action segments, time travel, dinosaurs 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 [closed]
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
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, only ...
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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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