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I read this SF novel more than 40 years ago. But when I read it, it was already considered a "Great Classic Novel" I remember being confused when I read it, so you can imagine how confused I ...
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Story about a generation space ship on a multi-millennial journey to possible but primitive home new home planet. Whilst on the journey technology on its original home planet proceeds and a new space ...
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I’m hoping someone here can help me identify a fantasy story I read sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I believe it appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF), though ...
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In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), X23 informs Wolverine that they are going to Cassandra's at sunrise, but he expresses that he doesn't want to get involved. X23 insists they won't succeed without ...
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Nicepool describes about Ladypool: Nicepool: Oh, my goodness. Wait till you see Ladypool. She is gorgeous. She just had a baby too. And... (He's waving his hands as if his bottom half is gone) ...
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I very vaguely remember this sci-fi book, but some of the details are that there are several space-borne habitats, but each one of the colonies or communities is different in its own way. Some are ...
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I read this novel in the 2000s, but it felt older, likely from the 1980s or 1990s, possibly a mass-market fantasy paperback. It was a standalone (not part of a series), with a serious, medieval-...
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What SF novel has this plot? A small woman with amnesia appears in the present-day. A man, who has a background in therapy and who becomes her lover, takes her in and tries to help her recover her ...
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Best of Both Worlds", Seeing as they now knew how to free people from the Borg, why couldn't the same technique be used on anyone who was ...
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We've seen drones act mindlessly many times. Even Hugh, who ultimately did show individuality, started as a mindless drone. However, Locutus was able to speak with more agency, and Seven was nearly a ...
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Drill vehicles in reality: Source: Dallas City News Look very different than in fiction: Source: TurboSquid Which work of fiction popularized this distinctive conical shape and spiral flange?
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I read this novel at least 30 years ago, but it might have been even older. After Earth was invaded and mostly controlled by aliens, humanity was stuck to the ground when the aliens completely ...
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I'm looking for a book I read in a school library about a scorpion-like alien. The aliens were kinda parasitic and attached themselves to the main character's neck. I remember he went to space and ...
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I saw the movie in Germany, in the late 90s or early 2000s. It is live action, not animation. Practical effects, no CGI as far as I recall. A starship is on its way to Earth. It is some kind of ...
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I want to find this story in a classic comic. I read a reprint of it. The original might be from the 1940s, 1950s, or 1960s. A man travels back in time to rob an Egyptian tomb before it gets buried by ...
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I started reading Dead until Dark hoping to see Bubba the brain-damaged version of vampire Elvis, but I'm past page 200 and he hasn't shown up yet- does anyone know what book he's introduced?
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A small team in New England develops antigravity. The cover had a Piper aircraft with its propellers not moving. My dad lent it to a friend 20 years ago and it's been driving him crazy since. ...
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Certain home video versions of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country featured the character of Starfleet Colonel West, played by Rene Auberjonois, who would later go on to play Odo on Deep Space Nine....
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Cassandra Nova goes through Mr. Paradox's face with her hands while Deadpool and Wolverine are watching it: Cassandra (says to Paradox): What's this? A Time Ripper? Naughty boy. Deadpool: Oh, no. We'...
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In Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), Zora describes the extreme difficulty of the mission—the fast, rocking boat and the need to get face-to-face with the Mosasaur. Intimidated, Dr. Loomis immediately ...
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I had this comic, which was lost, so I have a very vague memory of it. It's maybe an X-Men (most likely) or Fantastic Four one where it starts with Psylocke or Jean Grey in a simulated training room ...
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In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Deadpool and Wolverine finish the long shot of killing multiple Deadpools from the Deadpool Corps: Deadpool: Come on. Oh, I blew it. After all that, the only thing ...
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Deadpool speaking to multiple Deadpools about Cassandra: Deadpool: Do you not get it? If we don't go down to the subway and stop her, we all die. Cowboypool: Say, the boss lady don't want no ...
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In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Paradox is describing the Time Ripper: The Ripper is fed from a secure chamber below ground. It is powered by twin matter and anti-matter feeds converging inside ...
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A recent question about damage from dreams making its way to the waking world (duplicate of Classic short story about a recurring dream of approaching death) reminded me of a children's short story ...
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I read this book over a decade ago, quite possibly over two decades ago. The main character is a psychic/telepathic alien (possibly something otter-like; she at least had four legs and quite possibly ...
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I'm re-reading Heinlein's Number of the Beast (1980) and the item below caught my attention....Is there a record in Heinlein's works of The Purge? Did it form the basis of any other story he wrote? &...
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I am trying to identify a movie that I watched in the mid-90s in Germany, though I'm certain that it was no German movie. I would guess by the style that it was from the 80s or maybe 70s. Live-action, ...
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This morning (11-19-2025), waking from dreams, I thought about Arthur C. CLarke's novels Against the Fall of Night (1948, 1951, 1953) - not be confused with Lest Darkness Fall (1939, 1941) by L. ...
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The latest Warhammer 40k trailer just released, and Titus was promoted back to Captain of the 2nd Company and also has additional other titles such as "Master of the Watch" and "The ...
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I’m looking for a movie from around the 1970s, set in an old-fashioned town (I remember it having a western vibe). It was about a family arriving in a town where everyone seemed to be possessed or ...
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Obviously, she doesn't have one because she doesn't exist until "Real Me". But as far as everyone's memories are concerned, she was around the entire time, from Buffy's arrival in Sunnydale ...
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But regarding Q's omnipotente, he told Captain Picard he wasn't able to restore the lifes Taken of the enterprise by the borg, showing limits of power. If Q can warp reality and Control Space and time,...
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The hobbits live in a world in which there are all kinds of fell and supernatural beasts. They themselves have either been or witnessed trees trying to trap and consume them, ghosts, invisible ...
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I’m trying to identify a short story I read in the mid- to late-1980s, likely in an anthology (possibly branded “Alfred Hitchcock” in Germany, but that may be a false memory). Plot details I recall: ...
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I read this book when I was 8 or 10, and I have only a few memories about it. It was a picture book with some text, but it had beautifully illustrations of a young girl who discovered a chest with ...
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Late 70s or early-to-mid 80s illustrated story with astronauts on a spaceship trying to escape or combat these bug-like and tentacled mechanical aliens (or spaceghosts) that are bathed in light or ...
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Most readers would have experienced a fearful situation in their own life. How did you deal with it? Was "the litany" helpful, or would it have been?
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In The Fall of Gondolin, p. 79, it states: Then the engines and catapults of the king poured darts and boulders and molten metals on these ruthless beasts The "ruthless beasts" refer to ...
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I remember reading a fanfic where Taylor is forced to go back to school after joining the Chicago Wards. It might have been a one-shot. I mainly remember a scene where she remarks that the food at the ...
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Likely a modern German book for teenagers. It's been many years, so I might get details wrong. Heaven and Hell run on a clear point system. There is a protagonist (a girl, I think, who was a thief and ...
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I'm looking for the title of a fantasy book I read almost a year ago. The book was based on magic and elements. A group of people were picked from communities all over the kingdom to come and be ...
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I remember a comic that I had and lost which had Peter Parker in his suit sitting in his bed, taking off his mask and saying something to himself and crying, ending the comic with: "I am sorry, ...
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I remembered a series I read a long time ago but I don't remember the title and if it was a manga or a manhwa. From what I remember: The mc can see the net value on top of people's heads. One day he ...
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Looking for a long manhwa/manhua — details I remember: MC signs up for a realistic game/realm and is transported to different places for missions that pay real money. The missions are life-threatening;...
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