Oolite Bulletins

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 6:17 am

D.T.T. Ship Builders Inc. - Heavy Metal Freight Hauler

I should have remembered that, I'm a fan of the DTT ships, my preferred big freighter is the DTT Cyclops.

Just two to go - I'm sure that people will be able to remember two more, there are plenty in books, films, comics, etc. etc.

[...] Hate to say it, but according to Wikipedia that's a series about interstellar bounty hunters - cargo isn't even mentioned. Or is there something else? Hate to admit it, but now that you mentioned it, I think I remember the wording on the title screen starting with "I'm a bounty hunter, t...

Submitted for your approval, the painfully bad and incredibly low hanging fruit that is SPACE TRUCKERS . Yes, definitely, that was in the first two or three I thought of. Have an MBP for not being afraid to state the bleeding obvious! "Low hanging fruit"++ : Starhunter :) Hate to say it, ...

OK, if I must I suppose I must... Let's go back to our roots and have five stories / films / whatever about space traders - people who fly the spacelanes in ships that they own themselves, transporting cargo either for a customer or for sale, etc., whether legally or not. It must be a MAJOR part of ...

I have no idea on the Tesla question, unfortunately, apart from Tesla being the creator of the central McGuffin of Christopher Priest's novel The Prestige (also filmed). FM - short story, 1980s - Told in the first person by a movie personality - British author I have no idea what that clue refers to...

ECoM - novel, 1890s - The first word of the title is a real person's surname I had never heard of that one before. According to its Wikipedia page, it was quite innovative. (Thanks, ChatGPT, for finding it for me. You're a much better AI helper than lame-o Gemini.) Sorry, missed this one - it is ac...

TAT - film, 1970s - The first and last words of the title are the same Time After Time is a 1979 American science fiction film written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen. Filmed in Panavision, it was the directing debut of Meyer, whose s...

More on those clues ECoM - novel, 1890s - The first word of the title is a real person's surname TAM - novel, 1960s - Author's initials are ABC TAT - film, 1970s - The first and last words of the title are the same FM - short story, 1980s - Told in the first person by a movie personality TTS - novel...

w13. has to be warehouse 13. doesnt HG Wells turn out to be a woman? memory not what it once was... Helena Wells, a scientist who also wrote fiction which her brother published for her. Lots of references to Wells' SF e.g. she was working on time travel, was frozen for 70 years or so, and so on. Th...

OK, this one seems to be foundering a bit, let's have some clues:

ECoM - novel, 1890s
TAM - novel, 1960s
TAT - film, 1970s
FM - short story, 1980s
TTS - novel, 1990s
W13 - TV series, 2000s

Some of these are well known, others a bit less obvious. MBPs will be awarded appropriately...

Oooh - I played that at the Continuum games con in July, it was a lot of fun. The game was run by games writer Phil Masters, who is a very good GM Head of Light Entertainment. Nice simple rules that seem to be designed to make your characters screw up in fun ways.

I saw a few of the early episodes (since it was a BBC show and I'm a Brit) but I was never a huge fan for some reason. I just wasn't keen on the characters.

triffids is John Wyndham not HG Wells??????? "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novels include Triffid invasions" I think this may be a typo, Triffid for Tripod, or some over-indulgence in strange alien intoxicants, rather than ignorance - be that as it may, the League definitely ...

Have you seen Space Precinct. I just thought about this one when I read the title of this post. I also think of this when playing Elite as if Elite (Or Oolite...) became an television series of it's own. It's seems to have that lack of seriousness or just humor that I found inherent in this game. I...

Unsure if this one counts: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novels include Triffid invasions. Not read HG Wells (his History of Mr Polly was the first book I ever failed to finish) so am unsure about faithfullness to source… Yes, that counts - the Martian invasion from The War of the World...