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What happened to Voldemort's wand after the last book, and does Harry own it now?
Is there any reference about what happened to Voldemort's wand after he started using the Elder Wand he stole from Hogwarts? Would it stop responding to Voldemort after he started using the elder ...
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What are the Therns motivations?
In the movie, there's some dialogue between John Carter and Matai Shang, where the latter elaborates a little on the reasons they do what they do. I didn't get it, though. When asked by John Carter ...
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Book Title ID- Asteroid with Time Traveling Tunnel? [duplicate]
Anyone remember the name of this book?
The Nations of the world send people to investigate a hollow asteroid. What they find is a civilization- with libraries that "teach" you.
There's a tunnel- and ...
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The witch king vs Gandalf [on hold]
Ive been reading answers to this question but none of them answer it. Who is stronger in magic and swordfight? Who would win? People say Gandalf is equal to Sauron... I find that extremely hard to ...
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What are the main World of Warcraft books?
I have been playing WoW for years now, and I enjoy the history and story lines within the game, but find it difficult to really follow all the various character developments and motivations. Is there ...
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How exactly are the slugs analogous to communists?
Heinlein's The Puppet Masters is generally regarded as a thinly veiled attack on communism. Its Wikipedia article reads:
Heinlein's novel also repeatedly makes explicit the analogy between the ...
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Fantasy trilogy from the 80s or 90s, protagonist is a young boy [on hold]
This is a book I read sometime in 2006 or 2007. It was published in the 80s or 90s I think, with a young boy from a city as the lead character. He is an orphan or orphaned in the 1st book. I guess it ...
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Are the slugs a single entity? How are decisions made?
The slugs in Robert Heinlein's story The Puppet Masters appear to only be able to communicate via "conference". The delays in their strategy appears to suggest that it takes a while for information to ...
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Is there a full directed graph for suggested order of reading of all Known Space books/stories?
I know that there are a couple of web sites which list a full timeline of Known Space works.
Is the timeline order the suggested reading order for the full Known Space universe? If not, what is and ...
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Are there any Known Space works I should read before Man-Kzin Wars?
Are there any works set in Known Space Universe that should be read before Man-Kzin wars series?
Please note the "should" - I am including works that aren't strictly speaking necessary to "get" the ...
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Is it possible to journey to the center of the Earth as described by Jules Verne? [on hold]
Are there volcanic tubes that could possibly lead an exploration to the center of the Earth as stated by Jules Verne in the movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth?
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How did Princess Cadence rule over the Crystal Empire if it had vanished?
I think this might be a plot hole because if it had vanished, how the heck would she have been able to rule it?
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Is Percy Jackson and Sea of Monsters movie is more faithful to the first movie or to the corresponding book?
Having been listening to the first book, and seeing how VASTLY different it is from the movie, I decided that I'm going to treat the movies as a separate entity from the books. And that got me to ...
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Does Demosthenes' Hierarchy of Foreignness have a real world root?
In the second Enders Game book Speaker for the Dead the concept of the Hierarchy of Foreignness is described:
Utlanning are individuals who are of the same species as the subject, and are from a ...
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How did the Wildlings know that Ned Stark was dead?
When Jon Snow is captured by the Wildlings in S02E08 of Game of Thrones, the Lord of Bones says
Why would we need a dead man's bastard?
How did they know that Ned Stark was dead? It seems ...
