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Mathematically, we're talking about doing something an infinite number of times without the result itself going to infinity. (The author is writing about what he knows here.)

First clue: We're talking about mathematical concepts here.

*bags up the kipper in a ziploc to keep it from decaying any more and at least bottle the smell up a bit*

Short story name and author:

A student who dabbled unwisely in the occult has to trick a demon into undertaking a task that will take an infinitely long time to complete.

The Gernsback Continuum, William Gibson?

Disembodied wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2017 2:45 pm

That sounds like John Christopher's The Death of Grass …

Hoo boy, that was quick. Over to you. *hands over increasingly dubious kipper*

Here we go then:

This debut end-of-civilisation novel (he wrote some others too) featured, among other things, the UK government ordering the H-bombing of British cities for the greater good.

Thanks all - that Qutiri/Isinor route sounds like a good tip - I'll give that a go :D I hadn't realised that the political status of a neighbouring planet could have an impact...that makes a lot of sense. Many thanks John M That was an upgrade they brought in a release or two back - prior to that t...

spud42 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2017 8:15 am

this should be easy so i will start with a single clue.....

the gun club

title and author please.

From The Earth To The Moon, Jules Verne

Huh. I'm old enough to remember the latter years of Jeff Hawke but I don't remember Chalcedon. Googling, it turns out he was a recurrent villain. Also from the Wikipedia article, I see that in 1959 the strip predicted the first Moon landing ten years in the future -- and got the date right to within...

Much too easy. *hands over kipper*

If you go too far one way everything is short and fat, but if you go too far the other way everything is tall and slender. Book and author, please.

Then I'll dive in with a steal: 5. Friday , Robert Heinlein. ( To Sail Beyond The Sunset would do also.) If Dejah Thoris doesn't count as a protagonist, then I'll ring in the Morgaine series by C. J. Cherryh; Gate of Ivrel for one. (Want to claim Morgaine is a fantasy character, not science fiction?...

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:40 am

Ah. Thanks for the information. Sounds more like cockney rhyming slang to me, though.

Possibly, but the only place I remember seeing it is in a war story ("Commando" Picture Library or some such).

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:40 pm

A trick-cyclist? Surely not.

Military slang.

And of course Slartibartfast couldn't have had a cat - that would have gone down very poorly with his employers!