The novel is set in the future when the seas have risen and is about people having to adapt. By the end of the novel humans are living on raft colonies and can communicate with whales who travel with them and look after them.

Like the title says I'm looking for title and author of a book where gun powder explodes. I read it sometime ago (15-20 years) The story starts in a university where they are testing a machine. When they turn on the machine, nothing happens(that is what they think). The next morning the hear/read that a guard's gun exploded in his car, and it happened at the same time as when they did the experiment. They repeat the experiment, and they see that gun powder is exploding. That is what I remember. Answer The Trigger by Arthur C. Clarke and Michael P. Kube-McDowell. The Trigger starts in the early to mid 21st century. A group of scientists invent, by accident, a device that detonates all nitrate-based explosive in its vicinity, thus providing good protection against most known modern conventional weapons. The first half of the book explores the reactions of society, government and the scientists themselves as the latter attempt to ensure that their invention will only be used fo...

Do Daleks travel in time, like Timelords? And, if so, is there any thing to show how they pick when they're going next? Or are they a "linear" threat that got big, were defeated, and grew back later (and repeated that cycle a number of times)? Answer Yes, they do travel through time, although in most episodes in a less sophisticated way than the Time Lords (as others, like Time Agents , do). The Daleks envied the Time Lords' superior technology, and try to gain it for themselves. In "Remembrance of the Daleks" (7th Doctor) the Daleks try to steal the Hand of Omega , which could create a power source for (Time Lord style) time travel. By the time of the Last Great Time War, Dalek time travel technology is perhaps as sophisticated as the Time Lords'. In particular, in Doomsday (10th Doctor) the Daleks are able to "emergency temporal shift" without (as far as we see) any external device, suggesting that the Dalek "travel machines" (t...

I'm looking for an old novel published in, I think, the late 60s or early 70s. The protagonist is a starship captain. The novel begins with his trial for the possible destruction of an interstellar colony. The starship he commanded was to visit different colonies to see how they were doing. When he entered the system, another starship was detected leaving. They investigated the colony but found no one. The captain took a shuttle and detected a signal that guided him to a cave where he found a few survivors. However, they had been surgically/genetically modified into grotesque monsters (one eye instead of two, more arms and legs, etc). They begged him to kill them and he did. After the ship returned to Earth, he was placed on trial and forced to reveal this information. The only other thing I remember is that the trial took place in San Francisco. There was also at least one sequel to the novel.

Are there any exceptions to Batman's no-killing rule? Eg. Would Batman kill: zombies? (Solomon Grundy) aliens? (Darkseid) animals & plants? (idk, thb) artificial life? (Brainiac, HARDAC) Immortals? (Ra's al-Ghul) Unwilling life? (Doomsday) Irredeemable mother**kers? (child murderers?) Non-direct killing? (Throwing live grenade back at the thrower) Sorry, but watching the new BvS movie has gotten me thinking about these stuffs. Any answers from any main, non-elseworlds interpretations (eg New 52, Old 52, DCAU, etc) are welcome. EDIT: Just to be clear, I was talking about possible situations where he would cross the line. Although the answers so far have been helpful (thank you, @HBhatia), I was actually referring to situations where if he would/would not cross the 'established' no-killing rule, such as facing Solomon Grundy, Darkseid, Ra's al-Ghul, HARDAC, Brainiac, etc. I do apologize if my question was unclear. Answer Batman was a killer from his very first a...

At the start of Back to the Future there is an exchange between Doc Brown (on the phone) and Marty, who is in Doc's lab, during which all of Doctor Brown's clocks start to chime. Doc Brown explains that he had had done an experiment which set all of his clocks 25 minutes behind. Doc: Are those my clocks I hear? Marty: Yeah, it's 8:00. Doc: They're late. My experiment worked. They're all exactly twenty-five minutes slow. Marty: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me that it's 8:25? Doc: Precisely. Is there any evidence in or out of universe for what experiment Doc Brown had performed which set all of his clocks behind by twenty-five minutes?

Many characters in Marvel have alliterative names, such as Peter Parker, J. Jonah Jameson, and Reed Richards. Is there a complete list of Marvel characters whose first and last names begin with the same letter? Yes, this is a list question, but it has a limited scope: If you're finding an unreasonable amount of names then we can limit this to just main and secondary characters while excluding random extras like Happy Hogan. Inspired by Harry Potter characters with alliterative names? Answer Captain America Bucky Barnes Captain Britain Betsy Braddock Brian Braddock Daredevil Matt Murdoch (Daredevil) Parnival Plunder (Plunderer) Dr. Strange Steven Strange (Dr. Strange) Fin Fang Foom Fantastic Four Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) Sue Storm (Invisible Woman, before marriage) Silver Surfer Wyatt Wingfoot (star athlete and friend to Johnny Storm) Victor Von Doom (Doctor Doom) Peter Petruski (Paste-Pot Pete) Hulk Bruce Banner (Hulk) Betty Banner (Bruce's one-time wife) Brian Banner (...

From the Hobbit: If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment. Is there any other mention of Golf in Tolkien's work? The existence of Golf seems out of place with the rest of Middle Earth Answer This is the only mention of golf in Tolkien's writings. Regarding it being out of place, it's important to remember that this mention of golf is made in the voice of the narrator, not of one of the characters in the story. The narrator is very specifically addressing a modern audien...

It's obviously not explained well in the movies. The Autobot twins manage to choose two new cars that they will transform into after they have already transformed into a vehicle and the same for Bumblebee (it's the same car, but a newer model). How do transformers select the vehicles that they transform into? Can they select any vehicle to transform into, or are they limited by mass/shape/programming? Answer "Michael Bay" Transformers can choose any form, but there is a size/mass limitation. In the Michael Bay movies, Transformers have an existing robot mode and personality, but can at any time scan a vehicle to use as an alt mode. Their robot mode "armor" changes to accommodate this new form, but the underlying robot's appearance and mass are basically unchanged. Presumably this requires some extra energy and effort on the Transformer's part, so they don't do it very often. However, mass shifting doesn't exist in the Michael Bay movies, so...

I remember quite a bit, but can't seem to find the title or (female) author. A girl accompanies her father as he captains a mission to travel at near-light speed in order to experience the effects of time dilation and return to Earth 100 years into its future. She leaves behind her boyfriend (Tal or Tel or something), who promises he'll find a way to stay with her despite the time travel that will render him, well, dead before her return. She's accompanied by a close friend who is deaf but lip-reads and speaks so well as to occasionally fool others into believing she is hearing. They spend a lot of time in the ship's garden. I believe he ends up either getting on a different ship to survive into the future via time dilation, or else having himself frozen. Either way, if I recall correctly, Earth isn't doing well at all by the time the mission with the girl returns. There's been a war or some other disaster. There's an extended period of vague, ambiguous, exi...

Towards the end of book 3 of the Mistborn trilogy, The Hero of Ages , what happens to the last of the Lord Ruler's Hemalurgic creations? There are the few kandra, such as KanPaar, who refused to obey the First Generation's order to return to their mistwraith forms. There are the few koloss, led by Human, who managed to reach the location of the atium stash, albeit not before it was all gone. (In fact, there was a whole army of koloss outside, but I'm not sure if they survived the scorching heat of that final sunrise.) And finally, there's Marsh, the last Inquisitor, whom I believe isn't mentioned again after he kills Elend. What happens to all of these at the very end of the book, when both Preservation and Ruin are dead and Sazed takes up their power to remake the world? Is there any place for these creatures in that brave new world? Do they turn back into normal humans as everything the Lord Ruler did is undone? Answer Their fates are slowly revealed over the co...

I haven't seen any of the stuff in the Star Trek franchise, except for one of the movies, and now I want to remedy the situation. I am not interested in the movies, just the TV series. However, since the show has many seasons, I am not interested in watching the show start to finish. So, where (i.e what series/season) should I start with? Do I really need to see the series in real-world chronological order? Note: I am somewhat familiar with Star Trek, that is I know the basic premise - ships in space, with war between different space-faring sentient species. Answer Star Trek TNG is the best one to start with IMHO. It is Gene Roddenberry's true original. It contains strong story lines. It is fairly modern looking, as opposed to The Original Series. It has a very good cast. The second should be DS9. It is a little different than TNG, but a good series. Beginning with Voyager quality drops a little, although there are occasional good episodes. They are not on the same level with...

There are plenty of questions about the Kobayashi Maru test, but there's one facet of the test that I don't recall ever being discussed. Do the cadets know anything about the test before it runs? Officers who have graduated have all (presumably) taken the test, and understand that it's a test of character, rather than a puzzle to be solved. If that was a fact known to the cadets, surely there'd be endless discussion groups, public threads, what have you about how to "win" the test, or at least steps to take to come out as well as possible. All of which would serve to invalidate the purpose of the test. Kirk took the test three times, and cheated to "win". This suggests either that he wasn't made aware of its purpose, or even once he was, he did it out of spite, due to his disbelief in a "no-win scenario". I suspect that the fact that you CAN re-take it (at least could at the time) adds to the fact that the cadets think it can be won, an...

There are often parallels between Hitler and Voldemort, but one thing that is missing is that Hitler came to power "the official way" - via elections. Why didn't Voldemort do the same? Here’s a quote from Dumbledore ( Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince , chapter 20): He reached the seventh year of his schooling with, as you might have expected, top grades in every examination he had taken. All around him, his classmates were deciding which jobs they were to pursue once they had left Hogwarts. Nearly everybody expected spectacular things from Tom Riddle, prefect, Head Boy, winner of the Award for Special Services to the School. I know that several teachers, Professor Slughorn amongst them, suggested that he join the Ministry of Magic, offered to set up appointments, put him in touch with useful contacts. He refused all offers. The next thing the staff knew, Voldemort was working at Borgin and Burkes. With his skills, intelligence, and perfect reputation, at that point ...

In which book does a man start whistling a tune, only to discover moments later it is playing on the radio? (and thereby showing passive telepathy) Clues: It could be very well be a book by Philip K. Dick, but probably not the blockbuster movie ones, but the ones that are about the detachment of a lonely anti-hero. But he's not a certainty. It's is a novel written between 1950-1980, certainly. The relevant scene happens in first or second chapter, the beginning of the book in any case: Two men sit in a car. One whistles or hums a song. The other, perhaps the driver, turns on the radio and the same song is playing there. The ensuing dialog is something like: "The odds of that happening must be rare." "This is not the first time this happened to me / Happens to me a lot" "Maybe it means you're passively reading the minds of every listener around you" Which novel is this?

It was a short story taking place on an island. Two(?) scientists wanted to create nano robots by placing self replicant, metal searching robots and let evolution take place. It worked until dusk, when the remaining big guys with batteries had the advantage over the solar driven small guys. The story ended with one of the robots approaching one of the (by the time really displeased) scientists, who was suddenly very aware of his golden tooth. Answer This is almost certainly Russian SF: "Crabs walk on the Island" by Anatoly Dneprov. The robots are crabs that rapidly evolve, as part of an experiment by the Navy. The crab robots are constantly seeking to build better robots, and compete for the (purposefully limited) minerals on the island. When the minerals start running low, there is open warfare between competing crabs which evolve differently: there are extremely fast and small crabs which run on solar power, and hulking slow giants with batteries. The scene you remember i...

As the title says: Where is Hufflepuff's common room located? Canon or JKR answers only, please. I'm not interested in Wiki/Wikia sources. Answer Note: JKR has provided two conflicting answers to this question; one is presented here and the other is presented below . The Hufflepuff welcome letter states: the entrance to the common room is concealed in a stack of large barrels in a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen corridor. Tap the barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, in the rhythm of ‘Helga Hufflepuff’, and the lid will swing open.

I am almost through the whole of Voyager and there is this one trope that is very prevalent in this series: (Almost) every time there is a distress call and the crew moves in to help, it is either too late (everyone's dead already) or the people they help later turn out to be evil. I actually can't remember any time where they responded to a distress call where the people who sent the call actually turned out to be good and turned out to be what they appeared to be in the first place. So my question is, did that ever happen? So, TLDR: Did Voyager ever help people who fit this pattern: They attracted Voyager's attention using a distress call They turned out to be good (meaning, not an antagonist to Voyager, and conforming to Starfleet values) They were who they appeared to be in the first place (no hidden identity/occupation/...) Answer In VOY: Prime Factors the crew answer a distress call from the Sikarians. They turn out to be extremely friendly, bordering on Risian. In...

In the episode “Oxygen,” the Doctor is exposed to vacuum for an prolonged period and suffers blindness as a result of this exposure. The Doctor reassures Bill that this condition is temporary, and that, once he has access to the resources within his TARDIS, he can deal with it (even if he has to implant the organs of a lizard). BILL: You’re blind. DOCTOR: I am? Well, that explains the bruised shins. (Bill hugs him.) DOCTOR: Oh, don’t get all gooey on me. It’s temporary. BILL: Really? DOCTOR: Yeah. Once we get back to the Tardis. BILL: The Tardis? DOCTOR: I’ve got stuff in there that’ll cure anything. Failing that, I think I’ve got some spare eyes somewhere. They’re from a lizard, but I’m sure they’ll fit. Doctor Who , “Oxygen” Later, however, it is revealed that he is still blind, a condition which he believes will be permanent. DOCTOR: Nardole, I can’t. I really can’t! I can’t look at anything ever again. I’m still blind. Doctor Who , “Oxygen” Why is this? The Doctor clearly wants to ...

The final shot of the Season 1 finale, Chrysalis , had Sinclair with his fiancée, Catherine Sakai. The next episode, Sinclair was reassigned to be ambassador to Minbar (out of universe, Michael O'Hare tragically had to leave due to mental illness ) and Catherine disappeared as well. When Sinclair returned to the show in the two-part War Without End , Catherine was completely absent and didn't even get a mention. So whatever happened to Catherine Sakai? Answer While Catherine Sakai never appeared on the show again, she was a main character in the 100% canon novel To Dream in the City of Sorrows by Kathryn Drennan (who at the time of its publishing was JMS' wife). It's well-written and sheds a lot of light into the stories of Sinclair, Catherine, and even Marcus Cole and I heartily recommend it. But if you're okay with spoilers, here's the short version of it: Catherine left Babylon 5 after the start of 2259 on an extended survey on the rim and narrowly escaped...

Back around 1985 I remember reading a short story, I think it was in Omni Magazine, of a post-apocalyptic world where something unexpected happens. The story begins during a storm over an ancient factory. A lightning strike hits the factory, which, with its advanced power systems, channels the electrical surge into its grid and activates the assembly line which produces three robots, a Mickey Mouse, a Donald Duck, and a Goofy robot. The power then being used up, the factory again shuts completely down. Suddenly the three activated AI characters are alive in a desolate world where they cannot find any vestige of humanity. As the characters begin to explore the world around them, they manage to get in touch with a military satellite whose orbit is about to degrade completely. Before it degrades, however, it relays to them the location of some remaining humans. After a long, hard journey, they find the humans and while one of the characters gets damaged beyond repair and cannot go on, the...

I'm looking for the name and author of a novel (or possibly novella). I first read this in the seventies, and might be older than that. It might have been written for teenagers. The story takes place on a planet inhabited by a primitive humanoid race, roughly stone age if I remember rightly. Visiting this planet is a small team from a more advanced race, also humanoid and with spacefaring technology (obviously!). They are either there to help or observe, no nefarious purposes. I think they are avoiding contact with the primitives, at least initially. It's explicitly mentioned that the planet they are visiting is the third one of a medium sized star, just like their own homeworld. Also orbiting round the planet is an even more advanced race, using high tech to remain hidden from both the others. They are observing the whole situation, and again its mentioned that this is a 'third planet', like their own homeworld. I'm a little bit hazy on the rest of the plot, but I ...

I remember reading a story about humans colonizing Mars. It was from the point of view of a pilot and I think he and others were mining asteroids to use the materials on Mars. I do remember they used water vapor for thrusters. Someone on Earth was using the Mars colonists as scapegoats and behaving like the Late Senator McCarthy. He kept referring to them as "Water wasters" and said they were demanding water from Earth and would use up all the water and humans would have to ration water and so on. In truth, the amount of water they were using (I think from Martian polar caps) was quite small and they were no threat -- the politician was just using them as a focus so he could build his career. Rather than take him on politically, they sent an expedition out to Saturn, grabbed a large chunk of ice from Saturn's rings, brought it back, and I think they crashed it on Mars, talking about how it would serve their needs for decades or more. I can't remember if there was more...

One part of the trailer for The Last Jedi always puzzled me: We see one shot of what looks like a shelf of books - you know; with covers, spines, paper pages, etc. Later we get this close up and see what appear to be paper pages in the book(s): The problem is I don't remember seeing books in Star Wars before, so I'm wondering, have there been any books in the Star Wars movies* before this? I always figured Star Wars would only have digital "soft copies" for reading via console or holograms etc. like the digital information available in the Jedi archives. * Preferred sources: Movies > old version of "canon" > new Disney "canon"

Say that I am a citizen of the Federation, but am not a member of Starfleet. Is there any way that I can legally obtain a Federation-made starship of my own? If so, what is the best type of starship I can obtain (I presume that the Enterprise is not available)? And how do I go about obtaining it, since money doesn't exist and presumably there are a limited number available? To be clear, I am wondering about legitimate means of getting a starship, so theft or some sort of black market dealings are not an option. Answer You can obtain a Federation-made ship for research purposes from non-Starfleet organizations. The Voyager episode Dark Frontier shows a series of flashbacks giving the back story of Seven's parents. In the first one, it details how they got their ship. Field notes, U.S.S. Raven, Stardate 32611.4. It's about time. The Federation Council on Exobiology has given us final approval. Starfleet's still concerned about security issues but they've agreed not ...

Looking for a story I read back in the late 60s, it starts on a troop ship returning to the US post-1945. The two characters are discussing the war and one shares a secret, he cannot die. He was born in the middle ages and was injured on a medieval battle field where a monk healed him and since then he has not died.

Wolverine is a tough man, his regeneration power makes him almost indestructible. In the second X-men movie , Wolverine himself killed Deathstrike, a mutant that had the same regeneration power as him, by injecting her with adamantium. But I also learned recently that Magneto was able to rip all the adamantium out of Wolverine's body ([ X-Men volume 2 #25, 1994), so I suppose her death is not final. Apart from an extreme solution like Nuking him , throwing him into the sun or a black hole, is there a conventional way of killing him? Answer The Muramasa Blade The Muramasa Blade (the second, made specifically for Wolverine - not the Black Blade) has been shown to effectively negate healing factors entirely. It has been used to scar Wolverine's chest, decapitate Sabertooth, negate Skaar's healing factor (while used by Daken), etc. It was described by Wolverine as "the only thing in the world that could put him down." At this point in time, Wolverine removed Dak...

I first checked this out from a public library sometime in the 1980s. I believe it was written as a "juvenile" SF story . . . more-or-less what gets called "Young Adult" nowadays. English language, hardback edition, and I think the cover art had at least two guys in parkas (i.e. all bundled up for arctic conditions) trudging across a white field (snow/ice) with a dark blue sky above them. Someone may have been pulling another guy, and/or some supplies, on some sort of toboggan. Here's what I remember about the plot: The world is in the grip of a particularly bad ice age. For instance, the main viewpoint character is a teenager living in the underground warrens beneath what used to be New York City. His native culture still has books and higher education, and some sort of power source to keep things reasonably warm in their underground settlement. But the population is numbered in mere thousands (not even tens of thousands), rather than the millions of people w...

Reading the answer to a question about Sabé (the Amidala stand-in) I remembered that I always wondered why she ordered the actual queen to scrub R2-D2. There were enough actual servants who could have done it, so why Padmé? If that wasn't enough, after giving the actual queen (Padmé) the order to go away, she tells Panaka to continue with the discussion. How does that make sense? The significant piece of dialogue: AMIDALA : Thank you, Artoo Detoo. You have proven to be very loyal...Padme! ... AMIDALA : (Cont'd) Clean this droid up the best you can. It deserves our gratitude...(to Panaka) Continue, Captain. Note that this question is two-fold: Why was Padmé chosen in the first place? Why would an important meeting with the ship's captain be continued without her? Answer It underscores the subterfuge - if the "queen" were deferential and reluctant to use a particular handmaiden as a servant, that would raise suspicions. If Padme wanted to be seen as a servant, sh...

In the Doctor Who Children in Need minisode Time Crash , the Fifth and Tenth Doctors briefly meet, and the Tenth saves them from a destructive paradox by cancelling out a supernova with a black hole. He was only able to do this because he had retained his memories of the incident ever since he'd been the Fifth Doctor: FIVE: Far too brilliant. I've never met anyone else who could fly the TARDIS like that. TEN: Sorry, mate, you still haven't. FIVE: You didn't have time to work all that out. Even I couldn't do it! TEN: I didn't work it out. I didn't have to. FIVE: You remembered. TEN: Because you will remember. FIVE: You remembered being me, watching you doing that... You only knew what to do because I saw you do it. But we've seen in other multi-Doctor episodes that only the latest incarnation of the Doctor is ever able to remember their shared experiences. From the 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor : WAR: I won't remember this, will I? ...

I have heard some claim that Jar-Jar Binks was responsible for the creation of the Empire. If so, how, and was he the sole reason, or were there other elements? Answer That scene occurred in Episode II where Padme had to go back to Naboo so she made him her proxy to the senate. And then Palpatine Social engineered him into putting the motion before the senate (by looking at him and saying words to the effect of "if only there were someone brave enough to make this motion"). The motion was that Palpatine be granted emergency powers, which he used to raise a grand army of the republic aka the clone army aka the stormtroopers. So he was involved, but if he had not done it then Palpatine would have just tricked or ordered someone else to do it

I was reading this very funny Twitter convo where someone finds out that they've actually read a fan-fiction version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It's bloody hilarious, I'm crying from laughing so much! First part : A: So Dudley dies in Harry Potter right? B: Do you want him to? A: No I just got to the part where he was killed but Julia didn't remember that so I just want to make sure I'm not reading some weird fan fiction B: Uhhhh B: What book are you on? A: Finishing up order of the Phoenix B: He doesn't di in order of the Phoenix B: Are you serious? A: He doesn't jump off a building? B: What the heck, no. B: I guess it's not a huge spoiler, but he doesn't die at all. A: What the what?! You're trolling me B: No, I'm not. Dudley doesn't die. In fact as the books go on, he gets almost no screen time. Why is he jumping off a building? A: He was placed under the imperious curse and made to jump off his school A: By the ra...

While humanoids across the galaxy theoretically share a common remote ancestor , from what I remember each species has evolved convergently towards humanoidness by different routes. So we end up with Humans that have iron based blood vs. Vulcans with copper based blood; Klingons with three lungs and eight chambered hearts, etc for other species. These species all look similar outside, but are very different inside. Has any episode of any ST series ever attempted to explain how these fairly different genomes can intermix usefully? vs. being a nonstarter like a shark and a dolphin hybrid (similar body design, radically different evolutionary background and genome)? Answer Oliver_C's comment is correct. Starting in " Demons " and Ending in " Terra Prime " we see the failed attempts of human xenophobes to clone a Vulcan Human hybrid. This however is not successful: Meanwhile, Dr. Phlox scrambles to find a cure for the baby, named Elizabeth (for Tucker's late ...

I don't remember where I read this, probably in a printed anthology of science fiction from the 1970s or 1980s. A woman is trained to be a handler for a powerful psychic with limited intelligence. He has lots of abilities and raw strength, but I seem to recall this man could be dangerous if not controlled rigorously. I'm a bit fuzzy on how she "handles" her charge - through drugs or intimacy or just because he was manipulated to trust her implicitly. For some reason, she is no longer able to control him properly (was she dying?) so at the end of the story she holds him close and tearfully cuts his throat to make sure he is not a threat to anyone.

It is said that Tom Riddle's diary was made into a Horcrux via the murder of Moaning Myrtle via Basilisk. If that was the case, the soul piece that went into the diary was split off when this happened. Yet, the diary piece of soul, somehow, showed Harry things which happened AFTER the murder - such as conversations about school closing with Headmaster and confronting Hagrid to frame him. How could the diary-bound soul fragment know this? Did Tom Riddle continue writing into the diary to keep that fragment updated? (that was the only plausible explanation I can guess at, since he was the only one who knew those scenes). Answer I have 2 options, the first of which, is that horcruxes do not need to be created at the exact moment you kill a victim. We know from JKR that there is a process and a spell or 2 that need to happen to create a horcrux , and we also know that killing damages the soul, which allows a piece to be broken off. MA: What is the process? Do you-- Is there a spell? ...

3 dragons is nice. 100 dragons is better. Is there some kind of reason that Daenerys is not breeding more dragons and taming them? Of course it costs food but it also gets more knees bent (because everybody in Westeros seems to have stiff knees), infact it turns them into jello. Answer Dragons can change their gender and as such don't have a true gender. Apparently certain Dragons are known to have been thought of as male or female though it is not known as to whether they kept the same gender for the whole of their lives. Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame. A Feast for Crows: Chapter 35, Samwell IV For dragons to breed it appears a "female" lays eggs and then a "male" has to come along and fertilise them. Now onto the question as to why they don't breed now as it appears they should be able to. Note that Dany's dragons are still very young only a few years old. It is ...

After the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Aragorn draws his sword Andúril and says: " You shall not be sheathed again until the last battle is fought ." The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 9: "The Last Debate" The date is March 15; the "last battle" he has in mind is presumably the Battle of the Black Gate, which takes place ten days later, on March 25. What did Aragorn do with Andúril for 10 days? He spent the first two days in his camp outside the gates of Minas Tirith, and the next seven days riding from Minas Tirith to the Black Gate. We know from his dialogue outside Theoden's hall in Edoras that he is reluctant at best to lay the sword down, even in its sheath and under guard. " It is not my will to put aside my sword , or to deliver Andúril to the hand of any other man". - The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book III, Chapter 6: "The King of the Golden Hall" He is eventually persuaded by Gandalf t...