My father and I are trying unsuccessfully to locate a science fiction short story we both remember reading but canโt identify.
The detail we remember is that some human crew members meet who they ...
I read this story (IIRC novelette length rather than "short story") about 10 or so years ago, probably in a collection.
It is a hilarious spoof of an academic article. This "article&...
I watched the film online. It was probably made between 2000 and 2022.
The husband works alone in a remote research facility accessed by a bridge. He communicates with his apparently recently deceased ...
Circa 1900 (?) a young artist discovers that his uncle has a time machine, and naturally decides to try it out (I believe uncle is deceased and the artist is his heir). He travels to the future โ ...
I am trying to find the name of a movie I watched as a child in the seventies. It was prior to 1979.
Under a city there was a gas leak, I think, and while being repaired these larvae / insect bodies ...
Iโm trying to find the name of a short story I read in the 1990s about shoes!
It came from a book of short stories, but I had only known it to have been photocopied, as it was a book from the library. ...
In a scene in Basic Instinct, where Nick Curran has nodded off on his sofa and is awoken when someone calls to tell him a detective he has locked horns with has been killed, there is what looks like a ...
I'm looking for the name of a sci-fi book based on a generational spacecraft that sent heavy rain (radioactive isotopes) to Earth because they were angry, then later sent a message to Earth warning ...
This is a series of books about a guy who wins the lottery and spends the money to build a huge and elaborate bunker to survive an apocalyptic event.
I thought it might have been written by Boyd ...
I'm trying to remember the name of a book I once borrowed from the library over two decades ago.
All I remember of this book is the main character was female and there was a line in the book where her ...
A short story about two Earth engineers who are shown a fake perpetual motion machine and challenged by aliens to duplicate it to prove whether Earth engineers are better than alien engineers.
They ...
I'm trying to find a story I read once about a late night cat meeting. Cats from all over this city are called somehow to sneak out at night for this gathering. I think in the story you're following 1 ...
I can't remember the name of the manga, but I do remember that the main character (MC) is playing her favorite video game when she is trying to find one of the legendary wish granting stones that is ...
I used to play this game at the house of a friend while I was studying for my A levels. We always played it as a two player game. I don't know if more players were allowed. A full game took maybe ...
I read a short story online several years ago (between 2008 and 2016) that dealt with the discovery of nanotech based immortality and a man's search for his wife through the life of the universe.
The ...
A German scientist is living in America. He talks a lot to a mouse in his house who he catches, and keeps in a cage. He calls the mouse Mickey after Disney's famous creation. He builds a tiny rocket ...
I read it recently, maybe 2021 or later. It had been written recently.
The astronaut landed on the structure in our solar system. He landed with a team but for most of the novel he is exploring alone.
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All I remember of the plot is this: Humanity is addicted to these VR machines. We all live our lives in VR and never meet IRL. As a result no one is having sex or kids anymore, population is dying. ...