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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?

Philipp

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modified Jul 1 at 11:12

22 votes

2 answers

6k views

How did the Terminator recognize Sarah at Tech Noir?

Valorum

700k

modified Jun 17 at 7:15

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

30 votes

7 answers

5k views

What was Jessica and the Bene Gesserit's game plan if Paul failed the test?

AcePL

7,572

modified Jul 1 at 7:16

29 votes

1 answer

5k views

Movie with a gate guarded by two statues

Yuuki

19

modified Jun 19 at 10:04

24 votes

2 answers

5k views

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

user14111

167k

modified Jun 26 at 3:53

15 votes

2 answers

5k views

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

einpoklum

10.1k

answered Jul 3 at 22:35

18 votes

3 answers

2k views

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

fez

17.5k

modified 5 hours ago

21 votes

2 answers

4k views

"Better break out the weapons" before they leave the ship and explore the planet -- what kind?

Valorum

700k

modified Jun 13 at 16:29

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

15.5k

answered Jul 1 at 19:28

13 votes

2 answers

5k views

Poorly-acted 90s–2000s low-budget sci-fi movie with ill-fated desert miners and a man-eating monster

LogicDictates

123k

modified Jun 12 at 7:32

14 votes

1 answer

3k views

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

Valorum

700k

modified Jul 1 at 15:00

22 votes

1 answer

3k views

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

Shawn

4,554

answered Jun 23 at 16:29

11 votes

3 answers

2k 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

16 votes

1 answer

2k views

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

LogicDictates

123k

modified Jun 23 at 15:44

23 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

2k views

Looking for a story that possibly started "MYOB"

CommunityBot

1

modified Jun 20 at 22:26

14 votes

2 answers

3k views

A Fantasy movie with a powerful humanoid being that lives in water

fez

17.5k

modified Jun 21 at 7:00

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

22 votes

1 answer

2k views

What is the time-travel story where "ugly chickens" are trapped in the past and brought to the present to become ingredients for a soup?

John Rennie

111k

modified Jun 14 at 4:54

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

51.3k

modified Jul 6 at 21:01

18 votes

1 answer

2k views

Show or movie where a blue alien is discovered by kids in a storm drain or sewer and cuts off its own foot

LogicDictates

123k

modified Jun 16 at 16:47

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

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

15 votes

2 answers

895 views

Story featuring an alien with an exotic sensorium (sonar?) that helps solve a murder

DavidW

134k

modified Jun 19 at 15:02

11 votes

1 answer

1k views

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

Shawn

4,554

answered yesterday

14 votes

2 answers

2k views

Tiny book about a planet full of man-eating sunflowers

Occam Shave

4,903

modified Jun 25 at 20:41

9 votes

1 answer

2k views

Short story in which the main character buys a robot psychotherapist to get rid of the obsessive desire to kill

Andrew

51.3k

modified Jun 19 at 17:05

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

DavidW

134k

answered Jun 25 at 16:39

16 votes

1 answer

2k views

70's-80's sci-fi/fantasy movie (TV) with togas and crystals

nebogipfel

7,011

modified Jun 13 at 21:48

13 votes

1 answer

1k views

siblings/clones tour the galaxy giving technical help to collapsed societies

Daniel Roseman

65k

answered Jun 10 at 11:59

13 votes

1 answer

2k views

Short story crashing landing on a planet and taking shelter in a building that had automated defenses

Mike Stone

12.7k

answered Jun 17 at 15:43

6 votes

2 answers

2k views

Horror movie that has a demon hand coming through a mirror

LogicDictates

123k

modified Jun 19 at 16:36

9 votes

1 answer

3k views

How are Boggarts created?

Valorum

700k

answered 2 days ago

13 votes

1 answer

2k views

I'm looking for a short story I read 10-15 years ago about a man exploring post-apocalyptic Britain

Dosco Jones

15.5k

modified Jun 16 at 17:25

17 votes

1 answer

2k views

A short story about a woman who pretends to have dissociative identity disorder

jwodder

7,547

modified Jun 17 at 15:05

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

16 votes

1 answer

2k views

Story about a future gang initiation - but there's a twist

user14111

167k

modified Jun 12 at 1:56

10 votes

2 answers

901 views

What are the 8 blue circles on the dorsal side of the Defiant on DS9?

Valorum

700k

modified Jun 15 at 8:47

16 votes

1 answer

876 views

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

Andrew

51.3k

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

4,903

modified Jul 3 at 4:18

5 votes

2 answers

1k views

Kids show with roly-poly ball creatures; they live in a big treehouse on a hill

pmaitland

61

answered Jun 16 at 11:55

8 votes

2 answers

1k views

Why not build smaller Ringworlds?

Mark Olson

41.9k

answered Jul 6 at 0:10

8 votes

1 answer

4k views

What did the old woman say in "73 Yards"?

notmadjackfrfr

1

modified Jun 15 at 18:08

10 votes

2 answers

1k views

Anime about a girl who can see spirits that nobody else can

Joseph

103

modified Jun 11 at 0:29

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

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