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36 votes

6 answers

8k views

Do the people in Middle-earth realize that Frodo technically failed?

Dewi Morgan

1,644

answered May 4 at 23:32

14 votes

6 answers

3k views

Why this one technological hole in Asimov's Spacer cultures?

Andrew

68.9k

modified Apr 28 at 19:29

12 votes

4 answers

5k views

Is Morpheus saying that Neo can simply choose to not die from anything at all in the Matrix?

DevSolar

2,555

modified Apr 29 at 13:12

15 votes

4 answers

2k views

What was the first depiction of Klingons using cloaking devices?

M. A. Golding

43.9k

answered 2 days ago

31 votes

1 answer

5k views

A man leaves a woman's uploaded consciousness alone for 1000 years to wipe it and make a personal assistant

John Rennie

121k

modified Apr 24 at 4:28

20 votes

3 answers

3k views

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Giacomo1968

17.4k

modified May 3 at 0:21

10 votes

3 answers

2k views

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o.m.

5,404

answered yesterday

23 votes

2 answers

2k views

1980s non-powered costumed bird-of-prey themed self-doubting billionaire rookie superhero

terdon

4,453

modified Apr 21 at 14:58

11 votes

3 answers

3k views

How can this Star Trek timeline anomaly be explained?

Machavity

54.2k

answered Apr 22 at 15:52

26 votes

1 answer

2k views

Looking for a story possibly by Asimov about a society with immortal elite

Valorum

729k

modified Apr 28 at 6:31

3 votes

2 answers

3k views

How did the Japanese Return of the Jedi movie poster end up with a green lightsaber when other versions used blue?

Patrick Roderick

1

modified 14 hours ago

13 votes

1 answer

3k views

In which Wells story does a dull-witted clerk stop the rotation of the Earth?

galacticninja

22.1k

modified Apr 22 at 7:59

21 votes

1 answer

2k views

A short story where an inventor makes a shield from perforated paper

John Rennie

121k

modified Apr 22 at 10:22

16 votes

1 answer

4k views

Did the Potters have a house elf?

Rand al'Thor♦

138k

modified May 5 at 13:19

8 votes

2 answers

1k views

In "Ghostbusters 2," how did the psychic on Venkman's show know the world was going to end on New Year's Eve, and did Venkman believe him?

Valorum

729k

modified Apr 17 at 7:18

18 votes

1 answer

2k views

Short story about chemists in a universe where molecules are made of pentominoes?

Alexander Klauer

1,308

answered Apr 11 at 9:53

16 votes

1 answer

2k views

Children and aliens grow up together

Jerry

1

modified Apr 30 at 2:04

22 votes

1 answer

2k views

A very old short story about a computer similar to Asimov's Multivac, but not by Asimov

Clara Díaz Sanchez

74.1k

modified Apr 23 at 11:56

12 votes

2 answers

837 views

The book or story involves a father and son who is a mathematical prodigy and learns how to fold space time in higher dimensions [duplicate]

Andrew

68.9k

modified Apr 22 at 19:43

15 votes

2 answers

795 views

Old sci-fi novel whose main character is Artur Bloor or Blord

Valorum

729k

modified 10 hours ago

23 votes

1 answer

1k views

Short story about a man trapped in a tunnel system by a predator he can't kill

DavidW

149k

modified 15 hours ago

15 votes

1 answer

1k views

Short story about an abandoned probe that hunts a man for its collection

Mike Stone

14.2k

modified Apr 16 at 7:22

14 votes

1 answer

2k views

A space opera where it was almost impossible to commit treason against the Galactic Empire

Rand al'Thor♦

138k

modified Apr 17 at 17:20

20 votes

1 answer

1k views

Technicians affected by thinking machines in remote research station

Abhishek

1

modified Apr 11 at 4:59

11 votes

1 answer

3k views

Does Logan age four years (or more), or do they adjust his life clock?

JohnP

20.1k

modified Apr 28 at 17:03

17 votes

2 answers

1k views

Alternate future novel

user14111

175k

modified May 4 at 22:02

10 votes

1 answer

2k views

Title of 1960ish fiction book about a small western US town sprayed with a biological weapon from an aircraft by mistake

fred_dot_u

724

modified 2 days ago

13 votes

2 answers

1k views

Which Robert A. Heinlein juvies were serialized?

M. A. Golding

43.9k

modified Apr 24 at 4:47

11 votes

1 answer

1k views

Isaac Asimov robot story about a robot that builds a mining machine to level a mountaintop

CommunityBot

1

modified Apr 26 at 20:59

10 votes

1 answer

10k views

Adult film - "Timepiece"

LogicDictates

142k

modified Apr 23 at 19:46

12 votes

1 answer

1k views

Looking for a book about an underground civilisation that was built to hide from dragons

Paulie_D

27.2k

answered Apr 15 at 20:58

12 votes

1 answer

1k views

A book in English about teleportation—inside out pencil

galacticninja

22.1k

modified Apr 17 at 7:06

8 votes

2 answers

1k views

Was Iola ever cloned in the Hardy Boys Series?

TheAsh

25.9k

answered 2 days ago

8 votes

1 answer

1k views

Science fiction book from 80’s/90’s, aliens die when eating human food

Zeiss Ikon

24.3k

answered 2 days ago

12 votes

1 answer

1k views

Story identification -- Pacific NW Tree Octopus

Shawn

9,344

modified Apr 13 at 8:32

10 votes

2 answers

337 views

Was Elrond unaware of the White Council’s expulsion of the Necromancer?

chepner

4,205

answered Apr 25 at 20:00

10 votes

1 answer

672 views

1960s SF novel protagonist with ordinary face

user14111

175k

modified Apr 17 at 11:00

8 votes

1 answer

795 views

Story with a canyon of mushrooms and spiders

Anton Sherwood

2,092

modified Apr 27 at 2:24

7 votes

1 answer

1k views

Adult scifi about a man nicknamed Zero who is abducted by aliens and taken to a planet that physically and mentally changes its inhabitants

CommunityBot

1

modified Apr 24 at 23:43

5 votes

1 answer

1k views

Is Vicente Valtieri's depiction in Oblivion Remastered consistent with The Elder Scrolls lore regarding Morrowind vampires?

Giter

1,675

modified Apr 28 at 19:51

2 votes

1 answer

868 views

Harry Potter/His Dark Materials Fanfiction-MsStarryNightSky

toki

788

modified Apr 21 at 3:25

11 votes

1 answer

586 views

'80s post-apocalyptic comic series by DC?

fez

19.1k

modified Apr 20 at 20:09

6 votes

1 answer

935 views

Anime from the 2000s/2010s with teen heroes transforming into elemental forms

LogicDictates

142k

modified 2 days ago

10 votes

1 answer

886 views

Book with stones and “Heartsisters”

muru

2,080

modified Apr 14 at 8:21

13 votes

1 answer

740 views

Short story about astronaut and cosmonaut smuggling

John Rennie

121k

modified 2 days ago

9 votes

1 answer

513 views

Is there any direct inspiration for the costume that Boy Thunder wears in “World's Finest” or is it just a generic costume in the Silver Age style?

Giacomo1968

17.4k

modified Apr 18 at 22:32

14 votes

1 answer

633 views

Looking for a 1960's story about first-contact, environmentalism, and woodpeckers

DavidW

149k

modified May 4 at 16:33

19 votes

1 answer

934 views

Is this a typo or a pun? "Enervescent" from Bilious, the "Oh God of Hangovers". Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Valorum

729k

modified Apr 21 at 15:38

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