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Jones, Ripley's cat from Aliens

Spot, Data's cat from Star Trek: TNG

The Lord, Slartibartfast's cat from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Slarti says "The Lord knows I am not a cruel man" and then explains he doesn't mean God, he means his cat.)

ffutures wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2017 6:25 pm

Harry Harrison again - Captive Universe

Yup.

The snakeskin boots are back from the menders - take it (them?) away!

In that case, we need to know about the following situation: A hidden valley is home to two lost tribes of Aztecs, who know about each other but don't intermingle - the priests say so, and a goddess patrols after the curfew to make sure no-one gets out of line. And then this one guy is born who real...

10/15, I'm not up on my recent Doctor Who companions, character names from 1920s movies or special-effects creators.

ffutures wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2017 1:48 am

OK - a 1960s novel (initially a magazine serial) in which a scientist defects to Denmark with the secret of antigravity. Give the author and a title (there are variants).

Harry Harrison, The Daleth Effect. Also known as In Our Hands, The Stars and some other titles in other languages.

not read the long earth so i couldnt answer that one. but not a "trekkie" but i do like the show....so... trick question.. 0 lines IMDB has this in the trivia section of the episode.. Nichelle Nichols does not appear in this episode. Uhura's duties were assumed by Lt. Palmer, played by El...

I killed the thread.

Okay. This one's for those who have read the Long Earth series (and doesn't include The Long Cosmos which I haven't read yet). Can you identify three themes or plot elements that recycle earlier material from Terry Pratchett, all Discworld-related but not necessarily from the Discworld? EDIT: This s...

That's Helen O'Loy. I stumbled across this one within the last year, it's mid-20th-century science fiction - originally acquired as a domestic help, Helen gets modified by her owner and after a while she falls in love with him. Eventually, when she's almost ready to die of a broken heart, he returns...

I think this was the first time we met the Daleks, on Skaro, and the only possible fairground connection I can think of is that they are a bit like Dodgems! If I'm wrong, feel free to EXTERMINATE! Very much like - purely from memory* here, they were moved by electrified floors. *Of having read abou...

And that's it all right. The text is free to download and it's by no means contemptible. Well done, and over to you.

...Seems I might need to give a clue here, so: The asteroid is to be used as nuclear fuel, but it's not uranium - it's another fissionable element that they were once holding out great hopes for (and still do in places).

In that case, here's a piece of 1950s space fiction, the only one the author wrote under this pen-name although he had other works under other names both science fiction and fact. It's a Cold War story since the two opposing sides are "Americans" and "Communists" under the flimsi...

After some research, I'm going to try Adam M-1 by William C. Anderson. A book I've never read by an author I've never heard of, and thanks for the clues!

ffutures wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:34 pm

Malacandra wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:43 am

Thank 'ee!

What short story ends with the narrator hiding out in a Los Angeles high-rise on a stormy grey morning and wondering if his children will colonise Africa, Europe or Asia?

Inconsistent Moon by Larry Niven

Inconstant, but yes. Over to you!