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by spud42
Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia

ultra low fruit... DR WHO... drs 10 and 12 at least 4 set in scotland or a quick visit to scotland Also in an episode of Matt no11... the sontaran Strax has a holiday in a glasgow pub, in his own inimitable style...lol https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/doctor-who-reboot-episodes-...
by spud42
Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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ok, i cant believe i am doing this.... but Battelfield Earth. the book not that abomination of a movie even though the book isnt much better... Terl and Jonnie travel to Scotland where Jonnie recruits eighty-three Scottish people led by Robert the Fox to help with the mining. Using Terl's inability ...
by spud42
Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:01 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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Harry Harrison, Stainless Steel Visions short story titled The Repairman. took me a while to find this , i remember the story but not where i had read it... Hyperspace Beacon stops working and our guy gets sent to fix it. Finds a reptilian race has built a pyramid around the beacon and worship it. S...
by spud42
Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:38 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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The film, certainly. I don't recall the book mentioning the nature of the adversary though. Not that I remember much of the book beyond the parody of every boot-camp movie ever. On which subject, "Aliens" is on the gogglebox. https://gofile.me/6ZBka/e6L9aHL8f the cover has bugs all over i...
by spud42
Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:04 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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as number 4 may i proffer the most lowliest of hanging fruit and suggest "Starship Troopers"? i do believe there were a few rather large bugs in it....
by spud42
Thu Dec 14, 2023 1:24 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
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ok i will give you number 5.

a few of the ones i thought of..
Heinlein Tunnel in the sky
60's or 70 tv... time tunnel
current the expanse

over to you sir.
by spud42
Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:04 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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in a burst of activity we hav reached 4. and yes night owl stargate and its offshoots has to be the lowest of hanging fruit if not completely fallen off lying on the ground to be picked up and consumed. on the other hand there is still some low fruit to go. some modern and some from the 60's etc.......
by spud42
Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:00 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

listening to the audiobooks of the EON series by Greg Bear, they have "the way" that seems to be endless and moving down they have opened access to other worlds possibly different timelines/universes. give me 5 instances of travel to other worlds/times using some device,gate,tunnel to inst...
by spud42
Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:50 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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was rather hoping you would reject that answer....
ok well it is really getting hard to come up with something different or not recently used..
i'll get back to you after i work out a question...
by spud42
Fri Dec 08, 2023 1:41 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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Views: 1757883

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Planet

ok. i worked out LL but im going to throw in a curve ball...

Treasure Planet 2002 disney reimagining of treasure island but in space. ths space ship is a sailing ship as per the 1700's pirate ships.... very similar to the ship in PR's book Ll
by spud42
Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:18 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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T D-Q O U (novella) - 1927 (but first published much later) - Author is H P L if hpl is hp lovecraft then the 1927 timing and the title hint at "The DreamQuest of Unknown Kadath" , however from reading the plot on wiki i cant see this has anything to do with space or a modified water vess...
by spud42
Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:59 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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ok, TDE is The Darleth Effect by Harry Harrison.
i knew i read something along these lines but couldnt remember. checked my ebook collection and didnt find anything. Turns out i dont have this novel but i supposedly had a "complete" collection..!! lol
by spud42
Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:44 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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well technically i didnt read it either. it was an audiobook i listened to in the car...

its not that bad i made it sound worse because i didnt want to make it too easy...

that wiki article is about right...lol

the broken down chalise is now in your command sir!
by spud42
Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:17 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

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half right.. yes Greg Bear. not EON though. A stand alone book. rare in these days where everyone seems to want to turn a mediocre idea into 5 books.....
by spud42
Mon Nov 13, 2023 11:51 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7395
Views: 1757883

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

more clues... the ship is in 3 parts. Teacher finds out he is not the first, the ship( part of it) generates another teacher when the last one dies. everyone is generated? from the DNA data bank which has some weird and dangerous versions depending on the planet they eventually are supposed to arriv...