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Next hint (slightly cryptic):

The author is well known for writing about oily plants.

Touché!

But still ...... no.



Oh, and if you think I would counter anything 'Ur-who-shall-be-obeyed-at-all-times' states, then you think me a lot braver than I actually am!

Ok, don't take this personal but 'Ur-who-shall-be-obeyed-at-all-times' can be a bit pedantic at times, so in that vein: A spaceship is a 'what' not a 'who', so ............ No. (you have my sympathy, BTW) :wink: This story was a novellette, novel, adapted for radio and finally adapted for television...

Many thanks, Cody.

Please be warned, the following was forced upon me by 'Ur-who-shall-be-obeyed-at-all-times, so don't blame me!



Question: Who taught an 11-year-old complex mathematics using just "yes" and "no" ?

I read about them a week or so ago, when we were looking for what happened at Herot, which lead in search to Heorot which led to Larry Niven, which led to the juvenile forms of Grendels on a planet in Tau Ceti, if I remember correctly.

Hmmm, that wouldn't be Isaac Asimov, would it?

I know that he died in the beginning of April 1992 and 'Forward the Foundation' was published in April 1993, but whether it was published exactly one year after his death, I do not know. But it's close.

This is what I found yesterday after solving it. Venus on the Half-Shell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The plot, in which Earth is destroyed by cosmic bureaucrats doing routine maintenance and the sole human survivor goes on a quest to find the "Definitive Answer to the Ultimate Questio...

Oh yeah, Paphos. It's a good clue, no doubt.

But I could only link the clue to the answer after I found the answer! Backwards clueing, I guess???

Hmmmm.

As I haven't read the 'original' it's hard to be certain, but I would wager that DA's version is likely to be immensely funnier.

Hmmm, is that a politically correct way of saying that he nicked it?

Blast! Another novel I never heard of/read. Since I got the last one, I'll give the others (Smivs?) a bit more time to solve this one.

(Edit: The plot is eerily familiar, though.)

Weeehazzzaaawinnuuur!!! Well done Cody. The full name of the Finnish Science Fiction serial is "Muistelmia matkaltani Ruskealan pappilaan uuden vuoden aikoina vuonna 1983" or "Memoirs of My Trip to the Vicarage of Ruskeala around New Year 1983", which was published indeed in 1883...

Thanks for the puzzle, Cody. I quite enjoyed that one.

Anyone who wants to receive the weirdly shaped candle has only to come up with the year that (abbreviated) 'Memoirs.....Vicarage .... 1983' was published.

Ahh, got it!

The smoke on the water gave me the right push after the numbers clue.

I believe it is: A fire upon the deep.

Combined effort again, I think, since I can only come up with four(non-googled, so they may be incorrect). Condor class transport from B5 Eagle transporter from Space 1999 Millenium Falcon from Star Wars and USS Raven from ST (which I believe Seven of Nine was on before she was Borgified. Last one t...