Oolite Bulletins

We know that ships' drives (normal space - not Witchdrive) can run indefinitely without refuelling. I assumed it was because no gravity + no friction implies eternal travel? Energy would only be needed to steer. No, space doesn't work like that - there is gravity as long as you're anywhere near a p...

Cody wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:08 am

A procedural question: does Oolite fiction count as sci-fi?

If it's really well written.

We know that ships' drives (normal space - not Witchdrive) can run indefinitely without refuelling. If you have that then you can lift payloads into orbit for essentially nothing, and you don't even have to hit orbital velocity to get into space. (explanation on request :) ). As long as you have tha...

Regrettably I doubt that hadaul, a Darsh sport from The Face, qualifies. Many players participate but they're all in it for themselves even though temporary alliances can form, so, not a team sport.

Huh, I should have been reading it quicker - I picked up a secondhand copy of this dirt cheap a few months back and have got several pages into it, enough to know about the alternate worlds but not that there was a road involved.

That's the one. There wasn't very much Trek-fic in those days so these two were better than some, but as Trek itself began to spin up again with the movies and so on, Marshak and Culbreath made a persistent nuisance of themselves with their Kirk-gets-raped fantasies and got told to "live long a...

Interesting that Australian TV should have had two different time travel series unrelated to each other so close together.

OK, a 1970s novel based on a famous TV series has a plot revolving around there being two copies of a very famous Captain. Name of the novel and its authors, please?

spud42 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:56 am

nice thinking and along the right lines but no cigar.... never heard of that so i looked it up. my show is not a children/young teen series.

Time Trax, then? Filmed in and around Brissie...

spud42 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2017 5:01 am

ok next question..
mid 90's time travel TV show filmed on the Gold Coast

Hmm... Australia has a Gold Coast and it had a 1990s time travel TV show "The Girl from Tomorrow". I'll hazard a guess that it was filmed there

Yeah, I am officially beaten on this one.

"Attractor"?

General enquiry? No, I already knew - I can not only bore on at some length about the Ruba'iya't but I've written a parodied version of it to show what A Christmas Carol would have looked like if Omar wrote it. Yes, I desperately need to get out more. :lol: What the line refers to in "The Long ...

Meanwhile, there is a question pending (my previous post).

Malacandra takes the zimmer! The Atalanta in Calydon is indeed from M. John Harrison's The Centauri Device - a novel which I suspect in many ways influenced Iain M. Banks (most notably in Consider Phlebas ), perhaps even inspiring his fondness for unusual ship names … Nothing wrong with unusual shi...

Thank you … I suspect some google-fu will be required for this! Name the authors that go with these spaceships (1 author per ship): Alexei Leonov Pure Big Mad Boat Man Yggdrasil Atalanta in Calydon Hot Needle of Inquiry I could manage one of these without Google, and I had the nagging suspicion tha...