Comment by Greenstone Walker on In "Solo: A Star Wars Story" - has the...
The lightsaber design is a match for the one Maul uses in the two animated series, The Clone Wars, and Rebels
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"feeling" a toaster? :-)
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I am jealous you got here with an answer about 30 minutes before I found the epub on my phone. It's an interesting story but very sad. No-one gets a happy ending.
View ArticleComment by Greenstone Walker on Trying to find a sci-fi novel: only remember...
I think I know this one. Does it have people who are surgically altered for jobs? One of which is a spacer with only a head and two arms so they can get into small areas on spaceships in microgravity?
View ArticleComment by Greenstone Walker on Whence does Marvel's Hydra organisation get...
Like Virtuacon, they invested in Starbucks.
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How do you know the Council didn't know? They are shown to be pretty lax about most things, why not that as well?
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@Baby Yoda probably by just not caring. Who's going to arrest them?
View ArticleComment by Greenstone Walker on Where does the huge black doorway from which...
Why does it have to lead to anywhere? These things you call physical laws, like "doorways must have two sides," are just shared hallicinations you made up because your brains can't handle the reality...
View ArticleComment by Greenstone Walker on How are guns'"caliber" measured in Star Wars?
A phased plasma weapon in the 40 watt range?
View ArticleComment by Greenstone Walker on Why did Superman let the bomb explode in...
He is faster than a speeding Flash.
View ArticleComment by Greenstone Walker on Who are the characters on this book cover for...
They might not have anything to do with the book. Cover art is often chosen without reference to the text of the book.
View ArticleComment by Greenstone Walker on Is there any explanation as to why there is a...
I feel that expecting an explanation of anything from The Prisoner is being very hopeful.
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I imagine its just a Britishism, a contraction of "go on" or "gone". As in "gorn home" (from the same skit).
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for What is the name of a story about the...
That sounds a little like The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke.The city of Diaspar has existed, almost unchanging, for over 100,000 years. Its inhabitants never think about leaving the city. From...
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This sounds a little like The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper.The main character of the books is Will Stanton, who finds out he is the last of the Old Ones, powerful magicians. Book 2, The Dark...
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This is discussed in The Nitpickers Guide for Next Generation Trekkers. When I picked up the book, the discussion of computer commands was the first page I opened and read.The author mentioned a scene...
View ArticleBook identification - yin-yang tattoo on arm
It is a "people from normal world journey to fantasy world" plot. One of the protagonists, a young or teenage girl, has a yin-yang symbol on her arm. At one point in the book, one of the antagonists...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for What was this movie about an isolated...
How sure are you that the setting was low-tech and/or rural? I ask, because I know a couple that fit the question but that are somewhat high-tech and enclosed.The first act of The Island takes place in...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Mining in space: a group of miners, and...
Moon 44 (1990) has space helicopters piloted by convicts and navigated by computer whiz kids. The setting is a corporate war for mining resources. I do remember the pilots picking on the nerds but I...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Short story about aliens who use torture to...
Piers Anthony, "On the Uses of Torture", from the collection Anthonology.It has the dubious distinction of being one of only two things I have ever read that made me put down the book and think about...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Looking for a book where computers...
The Lucifer Code by Michael Cordy?"What happens to us when we die? Oblivion.Or so believes Dr Miles Fleming, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has developed a device capable of reading human...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Story identification: A book with three...
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov?The book has three seemingly unrelated stories that turn out to be closely related to each other. The second story is set in a parallel universe where matter is able...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Has a superhero ever deliberately killed a...
Batman killed an intellectually handicapped man in Batman No 1 (1941). Does that count?Source: Cracked.com, The 6 Most Brutal Murders Committed by Batman.
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for What is the name of a web comic strip that...
The S.S.D.D. webcomic has filler strips about AIs and their history. There have been several strips written as if the commentator was a lecturer in AI studies. Sadly, there is no search facility on the...
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"Where Have All The People Gone?", starring the great Peter Graves.From Wikipedia:On a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains in central California, a father (Peter Graves) and his two teenage...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for SF book from the 80's or 90's about a Space...
Is it Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Series? It starts off with an ugly and evil space pirate walking into a bar with a beautiful woman and gets complicated, dark and (in one scene) nauseating. I think it...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Why was the alien released on board the...
The way I saw the scene, he didn't know Lope had been impregnated. I'm guessing he assumed the acid burns meant the facehugger had been removed in time.His plan was that no-one recognise him as an...
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Answer by Greenstone Walker for YA TV series: Iron Daisy, alien ship in a swamp
A New Zealand production, Children of the Dog Star.The brass daisy.The plot synopsis from wikipedia:On holiday at her uncle's farm in New Zealand, Gretchen befriends Ronny, a Māori boy with a troubled...
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Answer by Greenstone Walker for Saturday morning TV show from the 1970's or...
Is it Ark II? Four teenagers and an intelligent chimp drove around in a big vehicle (called the Ark, of course) dispensing technology to a post-apocalyptic world.WikipediaThe querant has accepted this...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for What movie featured children being born after...
There is a similar scene in The Blue Bird, a 1940 movie starring Shirley Temple - one of the places the children visit is a land of children yet to be born. At the end of the scene, a group of children...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Why aren't replicants created with some...
If Replicants are obviously identifiable then they might realise exactly how many of them they are and be tempted into a rebellion. Similar to how Ancient Rome had no uniform for slaves, lest the...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Sci-Fi Action Book where the Sun is a Pulsar...
Decipher by Stel Pavlou.A signal is picked up from ancient sites all over the planet. A piece of ultra-hard diamond is found under Anartica's ice sheet, with hieroglyphics that turn out to be letters...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for What is each side of the conflict in the Lord...
The Lord of the Rings Online MMOG refers to the Free People Of Middle-earth and to Creepers, leading to the commonly-used abbreviations "freeps and creeps".
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for How could the clones ever keep up with...
I think your premise is wrong.Star Wars computers don't appear to be able to react faster than a humanAll the machine intellignce we've seen appears to have similar capabilities to living creatures....
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Ghost story where “villain” boss is haunted...
The forbiddance of ending letters with polite phrases reminds me of the story Le Passe-muraille, or The Man Who Walked Through Walls, by Marcel Aymé in 1941.The "third gade clerk" Dutilleul discovers...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Book series about an Australian adventurer...
This is the Huntsman series (launched in 2005) by Matthew Reilly. The books are a military adventure set in the modern day, but with some ancient prophecies and powers to set the plot going. The main...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Trying to find a sci-fi book series about...
Is it the Rasmussem, Inc books from Vivian Vande Velde ? The books are Heir Apparent, User Unfriendly and Deadly Pink.The three books all deal with people stuck inside a VR game, with the games all...
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Answer by Greenstone Walker for Sci-Fi book where aliens are sending...
The Patterns of Chaos by Colin Kapp.Secret agent Bron is places on a planet, impersonating a famous scientist to draw out a rival space empire. It turns out he attracts the attention of an...
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I don't have the books any more to check, but I vaguely remember the Battletech hardcover explaining that the neural link used by pilots worked better when the machine they were linked to was as close...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Low budget movie about a worm-like parasitic...
Brain Damage, directed by Frank Henenlotter.You've got the plot right. All that needs to add is that the parasite is forcing its host to kill people so it can eat their brain.It is a schlocky b-movie...
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Sheri S. Tepper's Arbal Trilogy?THere is a plague spreading across worlds, but the world with the groupmind (a planet called Grass because it is covered in multi-coloured prairie ) is one that seems to...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Identify movie about cadets on a training...
Star Command (1996) (Also known as In the Fold)I remember it because it had Morgan Fairchild as an attractive officer… who gets killed almost at the beginning of the movie.
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Sprawling TV movie/series set after EMP; not...
Until the End of the World (Wikipedia)It is a long movie (287 minutes for the director's cut) about a globetrotting search for a camera that allows photos to be taken of the real world and of dreams,...
View ArticleComment by Greenstone Walker on Which Sci-Fi work introduced the concept of...
If you take the mean of alien to be "extraterrestrial", then all stories with gods, going back to Gilgamesh and earlier, fit this trope.
View ArticleComment by Greenstone Walker on Future Archeology in New York City
Does the story include an archaeologist building a theory about paying, and then suggesting an economic model of capitalism,. only to be laughed at by all the other scientists? I have a vague memory of...
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