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- 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-...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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 ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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....
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 1:24 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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.
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.
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:04 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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.......
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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...
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:50 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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...
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...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 1:41 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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
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
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:18 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:59 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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
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
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:44 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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!
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!
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:17 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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.....
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 11:51 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
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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...