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Several years ago (pre-Covid) I read a short story that was an updated version of Masque of the Red Death that was set on Long Island (the Hamptons?) and was told from a security guard's point of view....
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I read this short in the '90s, in either a general SF anthology or a collection of stories from the same author. I can remember a lot of details but none of them turn up in search, so it might not be ...
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In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Wolverine and Deadpool came to an abandoned restaurant in the Void: Deadpool: Shit, I wanted to be an Avenger. Wolverine: Fuck the Avengers. Deadpool: Yeah. Why ...
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Several books and movies feature Nanobots, like G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Big Hero 6 (2014) , Transcendence (2014) , but it's hard (or impossible?) to find any movie or book mentioning the ...
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Looking for the name of a time traveling book from the 90s/early 2000s. I believe the cover of the book had a woman looking in a long mirror, and she saw a pack of wolves running in the snow. She ...
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I read a single-page science-fiction comic sometime in the mid-1990s. Two humans in a spaceship approach an asteroid, assuming it’s uninhabited. On the surface lives a small tribal people — one of ...
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The manhwa is about a VR game world and you can become synchronized with the really world and get stronger and smarter the in universe exploration is that the headset changes your brain to make you ...
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In the book, I remember the boy was homeless for some time before finding an organization with varying abilities. There was a specific name for the organization, but I can't remember it. By his side, ...
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In Chamber of Secrets, we learned that the chamber was opened 50 years ago. At that time, Tom Riddle was still in school at Hogwarts. From the perspective of Chamber of Secrets, Voldemort lost his ...
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I remember the following from watching TV in the 1990s. I don't know if it was a movie or an episode of a TV show. It was about Japan taking over the USA (but I can't remember whether it was ...
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I remember the following from watching TV in the 1990s. I don't know if it was a movie or an episode of a TV show. It was about cryonics, people were constantly frozen and revived (or maybe not, maybe ...
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The banner/header image (as seen in Steam and the PlayStation Store) for the superhero adventure video game Dispatch (2025) shows several characters in a men's bathroom at the Superhero Dispatch ...
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I have repeatedly searched for this stand alone novel online with no luck, so I really hope someone here can help me. I read this ya (probably high-fantasy) novel back in elementary school (early 2000'...
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In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Wolverine and Deadpool came to an abandoned restaurant in the Void, and Wolverine asked about Deadpool's hair loss: Wolverine: What the fuck are those? Deadpool: ...
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I once read a short story of an alien stranded on Earth and has its craft examined by human scientists who then discovered that all measurements are in duodecimal (base 12). Or maybe it was an ...
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In Jurassic World Dominion (2022) Extended, flaming locusts swarm the forest, causing Alan, Ian, Ellie, and Maisie's car to slip down a slope and flip over. Owen, Kayla, and Claire hear Maisie calling ...
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I remember reading this as a teenager in the 80s and it was a very fascinating book. The story was that thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of years ago an alien robotic probe consisting of ...
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In the episode A Race Through Dark Places from season 2 of Babylon 5, Delenn and Sheridan are on some kind of dinner date. Delenn:   — “We do not have cats on Minbar, we have gogs.” Captain John ...
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I had this as a paperback sometime between 1990-1993, it had a red cover with a building of some sort, towering above the perspective of the viewer. It may not have been a building, it may have been a ...
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The Decepticon Shockwave from the cartoon of the 80's- does anyone know/remember what kind of vehicle or device he transformed into?
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There is a short story about a wartime pilot who flies into the clouds and sights a ghost airfield (although he doesn't realize it's a ghost airfield) where pilots of both sides have landed and are ...
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In The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the team has a working FTL drive simply laying around un-used, in orbit. In the movie they then use this drive to take a quick jaunt to visit Galactus. I would ...
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This answer about a story that, as this mention of "If the Sabot Fits ..." says, is basically about a computer virus, and also asks about any appearances before 1968, and no comments have ...
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In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Deadpool speaks to Wolverine, who just woke up: Deadpool: Welcome to the MCU, by the way. You're joining at a bit of a low point. Is "bit of a low point"...
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In Void scene from Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Gambit speaks to Deadpool: Gambit: The name's Remy LeBeau, Le Diable Blanc. But you can call me the Gambit. Deadpool: It's been a while since I've ...
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I just stumbled upon the following YouTube short. Which movie or TV show is it from? Woman: Obadiah Stane? COO of Stark Industries? BFF to Howard Stark? Mentor to Tony Stark? Died in that horrible ...
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I have read this short story in the mid of 90s or so about a man (crew member of a spaceship or technician, or space mission member), who woke up and found out that there is a baron, who controls all. ...
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As a child, I read a DC crossover comic. Here is what I remember: Aliens are trying to move the Earth towards their home. Mankind is to be sold or used as slaves, because human hands with their ...
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When Bill Finger and Bob Kane first introduced Bruce Wayne in detective comics 27, was he visually inspired by any actor like Clark Kent was by Harold Lloyd or Joker with Conrad Veidt ? If he was ...
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What is this book that features surgically modified soldiers (with the ability to retract their genitalia inside their bodies), a ring that affects probability, and ape-like aliens with prehensile ...
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Answers to the off-topic question How does time travel take into account the rotation/revolution of the Earth? mention several stories in which this issue is discussed. Asimov's The End of Eternity ...
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I understand that I am asking a lot, due to the loads and loads of characters in the "Grimm Fairy Tales" universe. So I decided to compile an almost exhaustive list of the characters that ...
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I read this short story or chapter for my philosophy class back in 2013 and I've never been able to find it again. On the syllabus it's simply titled "Welfare Department" and says its a pdf ...
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I watched this movie when it was aired on French television at least 30 years ago. It takes place in Tibet many centuries ago. A very powerful magician had been wronged. As revenge, he caused a ...
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I've seen the lead actor in several roles (most recently in an episode of "Young Sheldon"). I want to say the show came out of UPN or CW network; I believe it was an American TV show. Didn't ...
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At the beginning of an issue of X-men (or X-Factor or something of the like) during the Age of Apocalypse storyline, the heroes of the issue somehow end up on a world ruled by the Shi'ar (spelling?) ...
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In a previous question, Sentient starships named after women murderers?, I asked about sentient spaceships named after women killers, and got a good identification ("Boojum" by Elizabeth ...
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I can't find the title of what I read back then, there is this girl who had drawings of monsters in her diary and their abilities (I think (?)) and it came true while she was at school. I remember the ...
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I was young (early 2000s) when I read it so my memory may be shaky. It was part of an anthology. The book itself may be quite old. The story opens with a dialogue between two scientist/intellectuals ...
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I have only seen the first few epsiodes of Star Trek:Strange New Worlds. On their uniforms they have the chunky, metallic style uniform badge first shown in Star Trek:The Next Generation. As this is ...
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I read it around the middle 2010s. I remember there being a boy who took a globe from a school or somewhere and whenever the globe was spun, it took him back in time to the age of dinosaurs. That’s ...
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The Witcher series has a unique style of having silver carved symbols in their intro of episodes, what is the meaning of these symbols from season 4. Season 4 ep 1 Season 4 ep 2 Season 4 ep 3 ...
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I am seeking an audiobook or podiobook. It was a superheroes setting. The protagonist was a woman, I think she owned a bar where heroes hung out. Her power was very minor - no one could take/steal ...
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This one is exactly what the title suggests. This was part of a short story about 25 or 30 years ago. The protagonist is part of a smuggling operation on a sentient starship, and discovers that the ...
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I'm trying to identify a manhwa in which the main character (MC), in his first life, could not get stronger because In his first life, his dantian or something similar (I mean, which was a must-have ...
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I'm trying to remember where I read this story. It would have been published pre 80s I would think. It involved a small group of either exiles or prisoners on the moon or another nearby body. Earth is ...
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I read this short story in a collection, at least 25 years ago. The collection was quite possibly much older. I think I read it in French, but I am not sure. But if so, the whole collection was ...
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About 10 years ago (2015) I read a book that was likely new at the time. It was a horror-inflected contemporary fantasy about an art dealer that dabbles in the occult and gets sucked into another ...
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In the 1970 novelette "Animal Fair" by R. A. Lafferty he apparently alludes to some story by Charles L. Harness. What story is that? (And who was that "old Greek philosoph"?) The ...
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I read in the 1970s so it dates back to at least then. I remember the following details: The main character, I think he was a police officer, mentally travels to the future. His future self has ...
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