Oolite Bulletins

8) *looks* Nothing since some time... "Abandon ship" :?: :?: :?: Just because I didn't see it 4 years ago doesn't mean it's not thought provoking to me today. (I accidentally went "fugitive" today, so went around barging into space stations without docking clearance, seeing what...

It probably says something about SF that I can immediately think of two disasters that would qualify except that they aren't quite suicide. That SF is, fundamentally, optimistic? More optimistic than Silenus, at least. but for humans, the best for them is not to be born at all, not to partake of na...

Oh, I like these. This set is going well. I'm going to award places (?) out of order, to keep the pleasing increase in magnitude sequence. So the existentialist Bomb from the -1'th member of the "Alien" Series gets the 3rd place "Disembodied", with 2 MBPs, and 4th place on the Ro...

BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES - Not the best of sequels but it does fit the category in several ways. The Predator, in the original movie: after being defeated by Arnie it triggers something akin to a mini-nuke. Yep, they both fit. I'm going to dial it up a notch - mere nukes are now off the table...

"The higher the average IQ in a community, the more likely it is that chaos will ensue". Hmm... which says what about this mostly chaos-free forum that we frequent here? Well, I don't know about you, but my routine fishing for the worm-eaten windfalls instead of the hanging fruit (low- or...

spud42 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:52 pm

The toy was used to entice several scientists to figure out how the coils worked. The two running the scam knew the coils worked but not how or how to increase the efficiency of them .

Ohh, fraud by Main Characters? Now there is an entire bucket-full of chalices ...

OK, I grasp the chalice - with chemical handling gauntlets .... And the alarm clock goes off for a meeting. To quote the Terminator, "I'll be back. Again, and again, and again. I remember the Brian Aldiss story. From my notes (and apologise if I've used this before/ I do try to keep records.) ...

OK, I grasp the chalice - with chemical handling gauntlets ....
And the alarm clock goes off for a meeting.
To quote the Terminator, "I'll be back. Again, and again, and again.

I remember the Brian Aldiss story.

"One to go" ... Have some clues... Those clues don't help me. But the initialisms remind me of, I think, Harlan Ellison's "I have no Mouth, But I must Scream!", where the computer controlling the "cyberverse" in which the humans are struggling is using them as toys for...

ffutures wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:38 pm

Okay, I think that sort of qualifies.

Damn. Must try more badly.

I'm looking for five works of SF - films, books, comics, whatever - in which TOYS are an important part of the plot. Following my habit of rejecting the low-hanging fruit for the worm-riddled windfalls rotting in the grass, Zaphod Beeblebrox spends pretty much the whole of H2G2 treating the univers...

Ah, I see that someone has managed to de-gremlin at least some of Giles' databases. Well done that Commander!

Well, that'll teach me to show off … OK: five examples, please, of mercenaries/soldiers of fortune/guns for hire in science fiction. With some sort of name or other identifier, either personal or organisational. Usual rules, only one per author/universe. Piers Anthony titled one volume of his "...

Disembodied wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:16 pm

you're welcome to sing this to whatever you can fit it to:

/self : gets a bigger hammer.

Well, if it counts there's always Star Wars Down Under (2013), a half-hour long fan film someone made with a serious effects budget - made it to IMDB which I think counts as being something like a real movie. Features things like Ned Kelly armour stormtroopers, kangaroo mechs, light-boomerangs, the...