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23 votes

4 answers

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Why did Geordi have his visor replaced with ocular implants between Generations and First Contact?

Lucas Winslow

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modified Jun 28 at 7:21

30 votes

2 answers

7k views

Did Tolkien give his son explicit permission to publish all that unfinished material?

Mithical

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modified Jul 10 at 12:54

17 votes

3 answers

4k views

In By His Bootstraps (Heinlein) why is Hitler's name Schickelgruber?

David Conrad

129

modified Jul 1 at 14:28

9 votes

4 answers

5k views

How did Voldemort know that Frank was lying if he couldn't use Legilimency?

Socob

103

modified Jul 15 at 13:20

24 votes

2 answers

5k views

Looking for a caveman-discovers-fire short story that is a pun on "nuclear" power

user14111

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modified Jun 26 at 3:53

15 votes

2 answers

5k views

Why does Paul's fight with Feyd-Rautha take so long?

einpoklum

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answered Jul 3 at 22:35

19 votes

3 answers

3k views

Identify the story about an author whose work-in-progress is completed by a computer [duplicate]

fez

17.6k

modified Jul 10 at 17:09

13 votes

2 answers

2k views

Why are some elves royalty?

dubious

503

modified yesterday

13 votes

1 answer

2k views

A story about a personal mode of teleportation, called "jaunting," possibly in Analog or Amazing Stories

Paulie_D

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modified 2 days ago

26 votes

1 answer

3k views

Old science fiction short story about a lawyer attempting to patent a new kind of incredibly strong cloth

Vara La Fey

171

modified Jul 17 at 3:58

17 votes

2 answers

3k views

How did Sirius Black bring the Weasley family picture back from Azkaban?

Ashish

1

modified Jul 12 at 10:31

20 votes

1 answer

6k views

Why didn't Jimmy Neutron realize immediately when he read the note on the refrigerator that the note is phony, as the note says "son or daughter..."?

F1Krazy

15.6k

answered Jul 1 at 19:28

12 votes

3 answers

3k views

A 90s (maybe) made-for-TV movie (maybe) about a group of trainees on a spaceship. There is some kind of emergency and all experienced officers die

GentlePurpleRain

462

answered Jun 28 at 15:44

13 votes

1 answer

3k views

Are Dementors found all over the world, or do they only reside in or near Britain?

Valorum

702k

modified Jul 1 at 15:00

20 votes

1 answer

3k views

Futuristic show/film about an empire and rebels where the empire rigs a rebel to explode

DavidW

134k

modified Jul 11 at 14:06

12 votes

2 answers

2k views

Sci fi book that has a tunnel. Depending on where you go through wall, go to different planet

Ralph J

796

answered Jul 10 at 6:23

24 votes

1 answer

1k views

A short story about an ancient anaerobic civilisation on Earth

John Rennie

111k

answered Jun 21 at 9:54

18 votes

1 answer

3k views

The book where someone can serve a sentence in advance

Dosco Jones

15.6k

modified 2 days ago

16 votes

1 answer

2k views

Episode of a sci-fi series about a salesman who loses the ability to understand English

LogicDictates

124k

modified Jun 23 at 15:44

11 votes

2 answers

2k views

Old book about a man who finds an abandoned house with a portal to another world

wcullen

2,471

answered Jun 27 at 22:13

18 votes

1 answer

2k views

Looking for the title of a short story for my students to read about a woman searching for the last man alive

Andrew

52.1k

modified Jul 6 at 21:01

15 votes

1 answer

3k views

Book that I read around 1975, where the main character is a retired space pilot hired to steal an object from a lab called Menlo Park

John Rennie

111k

modified Jul 1 at 5:27

16 votes

1 answer

2k views

Short story: typical 'time machine and kill Hitler' tactic backfires when the world is made peaceful and thus totally unprepared for alien invasion

John Rennie

111k

modified Jul 17 at 7:36

19 votes

1 answer

2k views

Short story about a group of astronauts/scientist that find a sentient planet that seems friendly but is not

user14111

167k

modified Jun 25 at 22:09

18 votes

1 answer

2k views

A short story where all humans deliberately evacuate Earth to allow its ecology to recover

Alfred

19.5k

modified Jul 16 at 15:34

15 votes

1 answer

2k views

What was the first science fiction or fantasy element to appear in any Batman comic?

Valorum

702k

modified Jul 11 at 20:52

14 votes

2 answers

2k views

Tiny book about a planet full of man-eating sunflowers

Occam Shave

4,973

modified Jun 25 at 20:41

18 votes

1 answer

1k views

Semi-humorous told-by-lawyer short story, set in the mid-1940s or in 1950s; desert town casino & a roulette "fix" with Psi "lucky charm"

Justin

1

modified Jun 24 at 20:13

12 votes

1 answer

3k views

Short story about soldiers who are fighting against an enemy which turns out to be themselves [duplicate]

DavidW

134k

answered Jun 25 at 16:39

20 votes

1 answer

2k views

When Éowyn secretly followed Théoden as Dernhelm, who was in charge of the Rohirrim?

Andrew

52.1k

modified Jul 16 at 10:22

9 votes

2 answers

2k views

Story about 2 people who can teleport, who are fighting, by teleporting behind the each other to kill their opponent

DavidW

134k

answered yesterday

9 votes

1 answer

3k views

How are Boggarts created?

Valorum

702k

answered Jul 7 at 16:28

10 votes

2 answers

2k views

A "hard core" Sci-Fi movie featuring alien "invasion/infiltration" and a dome creating an atmosphere of methane and ammonia

user177721

1

modified Jun 24 at 17:04

15 votes

1 answer

2k views

The human population on Earth reached its maximum with the end of the last zoo

Will.Octagon.Gibson

103

modified Jul 13 at 2:51

16 votes

1 answer

881 views

Short story about a man born in a society of inductive reasoning, who steals a rocket to escape

Andrew

52.1k

modified Jun 22 at 11:59

7 votes

1 answer

2k views

Old SF story about someone who detonated an atomic bomb, sacrificing self to save society from an evil government

Occam Shave

4,973

modified Jul 3 at 4:18

8 votes

2 answers

1k views

Why not build smaller Ringworlds?

Mark Olson

42k

answered Jul 6 at 0:10

13 votes

1 answer

2k views

Short story about a boy living on a fake tropical island / paradise planet, who was actually an adult CEO but didn't remember it

Organic Marble

52.1k

modified Jun 26 at 17:46

15 votes

1 answer

1k views

80s live-action short film with a labyrinth/elf/handprint/minotaur

Cassfrank

4,111

answered Jul 13 at 19:18

13 votes

1 answer

651 views

Anime movie with a sick guy who was able to kill vampires by glowing and emitting beams of light

FuzzyBoots

231k

modified Jul 12 at 17:16

13 votes

1 answer

1k views

Fantasy book(s) with magic powers gained from rose gold rings

Patrick Dent

1

modified Jul 15 at 15:49

15 votes

1 answer

2k views

Story about Jesus being kidnapped by the church

nvoigt

253

modified Jul 11 at 12:34

11 votes

1 answer

1k views

Story Identification : student gets perfect score, fake helicopter plans, Bob Dylan song

John Rennie

111k

answered Jul 7 at 16:33

5 votes

1 answer

1k views

How is Victor Timely a variant of He Who Remains in the 19th century?

galacticninja

15.8k

modified Jun 30 at 6:05

6 votes

1 answer

1k views

Book about a boy who becomes a sorcerer

FuzzyBoots

231k

modified Jul 5 at 15:46

11 votes

2 answers

793 views

Looking for title of old Star Trek TOS book where Spock is captured and gets earring

fez

17.6k

modified Jul 10 at 15:39

6 votes

1 answer

2k views

80's/90's anime about a mecha made out of bones

Qev

828

answered Jul 9 at 3:29

7 votes

1 answer

2k views

Book in 90's (?) about rewriting your own genetic code

Baronet_Canid

4,062

answered Jul 2 at 0:50

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