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- Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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In Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space novels, the posthuman Conjoiner group on Mars develop the Conjoiner Drive, capable of pushing starships to relativistic speeds. It makes human expansion beyond the solar system practicable.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:46 am
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In "Doctor Who and the Daleks", Ian Chesterton disguises himself as a Dalek. The Doctor and his companions manage to overpower one, open it up, and scoop out the creature inside; Chesterton is able to climb into the casing and, at least to a degree, drive it around.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Outworld
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I'll grab it before anyone else comes up with a Star Trek answer: in the Star Trek: TNG episode "First Contact", Riker is surgically altered (i.e. given little forehead lumps) so he can observe the pre-warp civilisation on Malcor III.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Outworld
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Alan Dean Foster's Nor Crystal Tears features first contact between humanity and the insectoid Thranx. An adult Thranx is about 1.5m tall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor_Crystal_Tears
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:37 pm
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Does a fictional disaster at a non-fictional reactor count? Michael Swanwick's 1985 debut novel In The Drift is set in and around Philadelphia in the aftermath of a fictional full-scale meltdown at the entirely real Three Mile Island nuclear reactor.
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 6:42 pm
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- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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The Star Trek: TOS episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" features a (sentient) time gate.
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 2:05 pm
- Forum: Outworld
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Ken MacLeod's Lightspeed trilogy - Beyond the Hallowed Sky; Beyond the Reach of Earth; third volume not yet named - features nuclear submarines that have been fitted with a combination antigravity and FTL drive.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:37 pm
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There's Maya, from Space: 1999 …
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:09 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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Arguably, the internet - the idea of a network capable of conveying all kinds of information, including audiovisual - was first suggested by E. M. Forster in his 1909 short story " The Machine Stops ". It is certainly more like the actual contemporary internet than, say, William Gibson's c...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:30 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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In book 2 of Jack Vance's "Demon Princes" series, The Killing Machine , Kirth Gersen manages to create vast amounts of counterfeit currency which he uses to ransom Alusz Iphigenia Eperje-Tokay (who has kidnapped herself, as the only way to keep herself free from the clutches of the second ...
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 10:27 am
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Bunch of wimps... https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1200702704i/2597502.jpg Penelope (1963) by William C. Anderson Another one I read in the sixties or early seventies - Penelope is a dolphin trained to speak English as part of a USAF research pro...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:50 pm
- Forum: Outworld
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For a fourth have Startide Rising (1983) by David Brin, in which an exploratory ship largely crewed by uplifted dolphins is inadvertently caught up in a multi-species interstellar war. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/StartideRising%281stEd%29.jpg/220px-StartideRising%281stEd%29...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 1:41 pm
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- Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:38 pm
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- Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:45 am
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