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and you would be right, its not Robert Heinlein.

aditional clue , the author is American as in USA...lol

ahhh... gimme a sec or 3 to work up a question... i am out of inspiration atm...


Ok , this is a single answer question : a bit old school trivia style.

given these 3 clues what is the title of the book and the author.

1: sub light speed generation style ship
2: Teacher
3: SuperNova

i suppose this depends on what you mean by soul... In We are Legion by Dennis Taylor , the main character Robert Johansson is killed shortly after signing up to cryogenically have his head preserved. approx 200 years later he wakes up in essintially a computer. He is then made into a von nueman prob...

The Polymorph from Red Dwarf third season.

we have a winner! you mentioned the communicator from star trek the most obvious for me was the pads they used and shared around i thought the connection with ipads and android tablets but not to be. Another thecnology i have read in many 50's and 60's scifi is a form of eftpos. long before we had i...

well that brings us to 4 .

it seems this is the not obvious answer version.. lol

ok 1 to go, lets see how long this is avoided for..

that makes 2, MBP for an old story i havent read....

3 to go, some obvious low hanging fruit around.

ok so the mobile phone/ communicator it is. that rules out some other ideas from the original series that were 40 years ahead of their time.

this releases all of Hienleins ideas....

4 to go.

either reference will do but pick one. rule out all Heinlein or all startrek....

well the next question.... hmmmmm.

how about 5 common place technologies/items that were written into sci fi as common place; decades before present use... evidence of both instances req.

this could be quick or take forever...lol

usual rules 1 per Author/universe.... yada yada yada.

the Moon. Heinlein.
quote from wiki cause i couldnt remember the name correctly .....
Delos David "D. D." Harriman, "the last of the Robber Barons", is obsessed with being the first to travel to—and possess—the Moon.

had to put this one out of its misery...lol

James Bolivar diGriz goes by many aliases, including "Slippery Jim" and "The Stainless Steel Rat". He is a futuristic con man, thief, and all-round rascal.

The Stainless Steel Rat. Harry Harrison

My google search gave me to believe it was tobor. The previous that you mentioned was not confirmed so either way you are now in charge and I will go back to my holiday

ok, i am going on holidays tomorrow but i will have internet access on my tablet so i should still have access to the forum. I will do a relatively easy question to "pass the buck" . What i the first robot on TV. not film so dont go Metropolis on me... the accepted date of firs airing and ...

ok i will bite.

the answer then has to be CLAW.
clue 1 is the steel claw ( google search)
clue 4 is Klaw again a google search
clue 5 is Dr Claw....

no idea of the other clues and with these three pointing to claw no point chasing them up.