Help me find more great, epic scope, sci-fi or fantasy audiobooks. [more inside]
posted on Sep 21, 2008 - 22 answers

I'm looking for a book I read as a pre-teen around 1977. It was a coming of age story about a girl who was having problems so she went to this big tree and I think she pressed against it and then went into some fantasy world where she became some kind of indian girl or primative girl and she went on adventures. I always wanted to know the name....can anyone remember this book? What I remember most was that the tree was the secret gate to moving back and forth into these two worlds. And also that as the indian, she had to live a very rustic life. Thanks. Lynn
posted on Sep 4, 2008 - 10 answers

Can anyone recommend a fantasy football league where just 2 people can form a league and play head to head each week? [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2008 - 5 answers

IrishFiction filter: What are some good, fiction novels or short story anthologies set in Ireland? [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2008 - 25 answers

I am looking for a quality free fantasy football site that offers a live draft where I can adjust the drafting to allow each player to take 24 hours to pick. Essentially an email draft. AOL has one but I abhor AOL and will only use them as a last resort. I like Yahoo's fantasy football interface but they don't offer an email type draft.
posted on Aug 8, 2008 - 4 answers

IDaBookFilter: I'm looking for the name of a female fantasy author whose last name is around the end of the alfabet. One of her books is a parallel world version of the French Revolution, another has the protagonist infiltrating a sect. Bonus points for another book inside! [more inside]
posted on Aug 3, 2008 - 8 answers

Desperate to locate collection of short stories, with a variety of themes, including fantasy, sci fi, and straight ahead spy/espionage, all by the same author. I read this in the early 80's, but seem to remember the book being older - possibly 1960's? One of the stories was about an alien (also I think capable of shape shifting?) immortal vampire, being chased through the galaxies and who eventually crash-lands on an uninhabited planet. Because he can't die, and being a vampire he is doomed to a horrible fate, as the planet has no night period.
posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 9 answers

What is the name of the book I read in 5th grade (as part of the curriculum) about a boy who finds a magic traveling alleyway in his neighborhood and meets the inhabitants, including an old "bag lady" who sews sweaters from bits of trashed yarn and an adolescent girl who ... wears roller skates, maybe? To clarify, these people live in houses that are inside the alley, and the alley itself (or the entrance to it, at least) moves every so often. I've been wondering about this book for years and can't seem to find reference to it. Thanks! (Bonus questions inside) [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2008 - 10 answers

I'm desperately trying to remember a fantasy book I read back in the 1980's or early 1990's. This may actually have been part of a series of two or three books. [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2008 - 4 answers

Are there any sites for finding movies that you've only seen bits of? I'm looking for some film that I saw a fragment of years ago, it had a fantasy setting consisting of some imposing wall or mountains between a light region and a dark region. I'm fairly sure someone killed the kind by putting a worm in his foot while sleeping. I vaguely recall the doctors using some glove to reach around inside people.
posted on Jul 7, 2008 - 7 answers

Recommend me some SF/Fantasy books that deal with "lost civilizations" [more inside]
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - 34 answers

Aliens, monsters, and ghosts. The big three. But is there a fourth? [more inside]
posted on Jun 26, 2008 - 42 answers

How to handle a very "different" and overly dramatic friend? [more inside]
posted on Jun 20, 2008 - 15 answers

WhatWasThatBookFilter: a friend of mine needs help tracking down a fantasy/sci-fi paperback she read back in 1997. Full description below. [more inside]
posted on Jun 11, 2008 - 5 answers

About six years ago, a friend lent me a fantasy book, I'm trying to figure out what it was called. The main character was raised (and possibly summoned) by a wizard deep in the forest, near the beginning of the book the wizard's power starts to flag and the young boy has to leave. He ends up in a castle and when he hears certain words it triggers memories from his past life.
posted on Jun 8, 2008 - 6 answers

When my girlfriend asks me about my sexual fantasies, should I tell her that I think about having sex with her friends, or lie? [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2008 - 61 answers

Help me find this short story about Edgar Rice Burroughs in hell. [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 4 answers

In the early 80's, I read a library book that featured a heroine stumbling into a parallel world and encountering chicken-legged vampires (not Baba Yaga) and their master. I can't recall the title nor author of this novel and you will earn my eternal gratitude if you can identify this work for me so that I can locate and read it again. [more inside]
posted on May 19, 2008 - 6 answers

fantasybaseballfilter: First season of fantasy baseball after years of fantasy football, and I'm having a hard a time figuring out when individual pitchers are scheduled to pitch. [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2008 - 5 answers

Help me find this quotation. The gist of it is something like this: in current times, fantastical metaphors are the only way of describing the convoluted reality of experience. [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2008 - 6 answers

How can I cultivate new sexual fantasies? [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2008 - 9 answers

What epic fantasy/sci-fi series (think Wheel of Time, Song of Ice and Fire) are only just starting out? [more inside]
posted on Apr 21, 2008 - 15 answers

Television show where half the planet is always dark? [more inside]
posted on Apr 1, 2008 - 14 answers

A long time ago I read a fantasy book which featured several American college students entering a fantasy realm whilst playing Dungeons and Dragons (or some role playing game of similar ilk). I remember one of the main characters was a wheelchair bound guy whose fantasy character is a dwarf warrior... Can anyone help me track down the title or series of this book?
posted on Apr 1, 2008 - 5 answers

FantasyBaseballFilter: I want to know your fantasy baseball strategies! [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 17 answers

NameMyBlankFilter: Fantasy Baseball Team name, with a girlie twist. [more inside]
posted on Mar 10, 2008 - 26 answers

How can I get a copy of Isobelle Carmody's "The Stone Key"? [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm looking for a short story I lost the link to. It's probably recent, it's about the Tin Man, and it has nice prose. [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2008 - 6 answers

A familiar kind of question -- anyone know the titles/authors of two fantasy novels I read as a kid in the late 1970s or early 1980s? [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2008 - 11 answers

Dear Metafilter, Please help me identify and track down a copy of this movie. Somewhere in the early '80s while living in the outskirts of detroit, I, as a young impressionable lass, was obsessed with watching kung fu action flicks. [more inside]
posted on Feb 3, 2008 - 5 answers

I really like Tolkien's artwork, and as a child my parents read me his Letters from Father Christmas. Can you help me find a print from that book? [more inside]
posted on Feb 1, 2008 - 1 answers

Need Longform Alternate London Fantasy, please. [more inside]
posted on Jan 31, 2008 - 22 answers

I was told of a book of Daemon's, where the protagonist is a C coder who gets transported to a magical world where his code can do magic. [more inside]
posted on Jan 17, 2008 - 12 answers

If you could could develop the next generation of a fantasy fantasy football games how would you change/improve them? [more inside]
posted on Jan 17, 2008 - 18 answers

I'm looking for novels that are pageturners (genres preferred: science fiction/fantasy, magic realism, mystery/suspense/thriller) but also have psychologically acute character development. Any recs?
posted on Dec 20, 2007 - 33 answers

With a nice high speed connection now installed at home, I'd like recommendations for finding sci-fi/fantasy TV shows that I can download legally and freely via torrent, that I would not typically have already seen on American cable. [more inside]
posted on Nov 18, 2007 - 28 answers

I can't remember this 70's/80's fantasy book series! It's driving me nuts. I've been searching google and amazon for about two hours and I keep hitting dead ends. [more inside]
posted on Nov 8, 2007 - 8 answers

How common a trope is reincarnation within the fantasy genre? [spoilers inside] [more inside]
posted on Oct 30, 2007 - 19 answers

Who started the idea that fantasy dwarves have a Scottish burr? [more inside]
posted on Oct 4, 2007 - 14 answers

Recommendations for books with bumbling wizards? [more inside]
posted on Sep 18, 2007 - 32 answers

Is there such a subgenre in the fantasy genre that covers Scandanavian/Viking/Norse/Lapp themes? Anything worth reading?
posted on Sep 11, 2007 - 23 answers

Why don't sci-fi and fantasy novels indicate they're sequels or parts of series? [more inside]
posted on Aug 31, 2007 - 12 answers

DIY fantasy toys -- I've been playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii, and my 2-year-old loves to watch and play along, to the point of sticking a foam sword down the back of shirt and running around with a Nerf slingshot and fishing pole. He turns 3 in September and in addition to his "nutritional" presents, I thought I would also get/make him some fantasy-enabling stuff. What are some existing toys that do a good job of mimicking Zelda-esque accoutrements, and/or what should be avoided, and/or what's easiest to make myself? An even bigger issue is finding "safe" stuff for him to swing his sword at ... some kind of indoor/outdoor monsters that are at least a foot tall or so. I can see making something out of pillows, or lampshades, or even buying a cheap toy if it's properly durable. Any ideas?
posted on Aug 24, 2007 - 22 answers

From where do NFL Fantasy Football leagues receive their real-time data? [more inside]
posted on Aug 13, 2007 - 2 answers

For nostalgia's sake, I'm trying to recall the title of a British novel (or maybe it was a series of novels, I'm not sure) about a family of animated rag dolls who live anonymous lives until a human discovers their secret and falls in love with one of them (?) Yeah, it's a bizarre concept, but I remember it being kind of poignant in an Edward Scissorhands-esque way. Since I read the book as a kid, I suppose it would have been published about 15 years ago, give or take.
posted on Aug 9, 2007 - 3 answers

Looking for a fantasy football league, (soccer) English Premier League specifically, that offers head-to-head weekly matchups, an online draft and is free. The Yahoo league we ran last year was okay but it took weeks for player updates and the scoring was not always accurate. We're looking to upgrade for the right price. The season opener is quickly approaching so I need to get moving. Thanks.
posted on Jul 31, 2007 - 7 answers

Please help me recall a movie I don't remember. It was a movie set in a fantasy whose plot had little to do with the setting, making it stand out in my mind, but that I can't for the life of me recall what movie it was. [more inside]
posted on Jul 29, 2007 - 26 answers

How does one come to peace with unfulfillable sexual fantasies? [more inside]
posted on Jul 26, 2007 - 14 answers

My wife is starting up a Young Adult (geared towards 13-18 yr olds) Fantasy book club at the local library branch. What are some good books in this genre to consider for inclusion? [more inside]
posted on Jun 12, 2007 - 80 answers

Fantasy/Adventue Book Recommendation Filter: Keeping track of whole new worlds is just too much work... [more inside]
posted on Jun 10, 2007 - 25 answers