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Yes indeed - quite right, as you know very well, and back to you with the %ipper.

Ah, the board's back up. Good. Here we go then: A science-fiction author known for being on the harder end of the scale of scientific rigour had an early success with a short story which was, however, scientifically inaccurate before it was published. The author was aware of the fact and considered ...

Yeah, "cheeseball" was off the wall enough to make this one easy. It's the "Ware Tetralogy", Rudy Rucker. Quite a number of years separate the writing of the first two ( Software , Wetware ) from the last two ( Freeware , Realware ). The author is a great^3-grandson of Hegel, app...

spud42 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:03 am

after a few days of google research my best answer is.......

STNG ep Devils due whereas in Day of the Dove Kang says they have no devil....

Spot on. Over to you!

clue: there is a claim made by Kang in the episode Day of the Dove...

From what I remember, if the CoDominion turns up and plants the flag, and you're not in a position to keep 'em out, you're now a colony world - and quite a low-ranking one if you can't even put a spaceship into orbit. ETA: Okay, a question. I'm after an episode of Star Trek: TNG that contradicts a K...

Oh, OK. I was giving someone else the chance to chip in with the answer, but it goes like this: the Clangers' flag includes stars, stripes, a hammer and a sickle, thereby "proving" that ClangerWorld is part of the CoDominium.

From what I remember of Civ, Trump couldn't be a bigger @$$#0¦€ than Gandhi. The iconic non-violent resistor throwing nukes around like confetti.

Following the staggering commercial success* of the series to date, I am pleased to say that the third volume in the Macraes series is now at the proofreading stage, and if all is well it will be released in both Kindle and paperback form before I go off on holiday in the second half of August. Titl...

Ha! Easy. The Clangers had this episode where a strange ship appeared at the Crazy Eddy point and... No, tell a lie, the similarity is that the Moties had a dragon living in a volcano that made green soup, and... Oh, you sly dog, I'm on completely the wrong track. It was the ep where Tiny Clanger go...

Inconstant Moon, but yes. As you're clearly familiar with it I'll skip the part about a summary.

You're next!

Okay, I'm looking for the title of a short story here. The narrator is standing in a certain place on Pluto looking in one fixed direction, which does not change all through the story, except for the parts that he is telling in flashback. He is now only aware of events during Pluto's nights, which p...

Eric, from "The Coldest Place" and "Becalmed In Hell", by Larry Niven
Helva, from The Ship Who Sang, by Anne McCaffrey
Murray Bennett, from "Solar Plexus", by James Blish

First two without cheating.

Disembodied wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2017 6:39 pm

I think it might be W. E. Johns, of "Biggles" fame … I'm not sure what the series is called but the first one is Kings of Space.

Missed it by this -><- much!