Oolite Bulletins

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.

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.

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.

Nite Owl wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:54 pm

Name five Science Fiction works which feature larger than normal Insects.

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

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.

The Star Trek: TOS episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" features a (sentient) time gate.

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.

There's Maya, from Space: 1999 …

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

spud42 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:53 pm

this fruit is so low its on the ground....

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

That makes a big fat three …

Nite Owl wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 6:57 pm

THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN

"Fa Loves Pa" - to be read aloud in a high pitched Dolphin voice.

That makes two …

ffutures wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:04 pm

Arthur C. Clarke's Dolphin Island

That's one, definitely.