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Dang! I thought my clue was more subtle than that. :) However, it's not strictly speaking from Marvelman ... although that was his name when he first appeared in the 1950s, legal snarlups with Marvel comics following his 1980s revival (and total re-imagining) resulted in a name-change to Miracleman.

Can anyone get the evil genius without using Google?
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Disembodied wrote:
Can anyone get the evil genius without using Google?
Only if I were to travel forty odd miles and visit a friend who still has all the old comics.
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Only if I were to travel forty odd miles and visit a friend who still has all the old comics.
What, he doesn't have a phone? ;)
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Disembodied wrote:
What, he doesn't have a phone?
Imaginary phone conversation:

Me:

“Hi… could you struggle up to your loft, fight your way through a lifetimes junk, find those boxes with the old superhero comics in,
dig out the Marvelman comics and tell me the name of the evil genius, please.”

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“Why don’t you Google it?”
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Hmm, yes, it would sound a little insane. But you never know, he might know it without having to look in the loft. :D
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OK, expecting people to remember villains from comic books from the 1980s is obviously a bit much. Google if you want to! (Of course, you could always use Wikipedia instead.)
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Is it Dr. Gargunza?
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Yup! El Viejo scores (as in only right and proper, since he was the first to crack the Blondie clue).
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To continue with the musical theme:

Which classic sci-fi novel links Papua New Guinea with Pink Floyd?
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Hmmm. Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise (sort of) features Sri Lanka, but I don't remember Papua New Guinea, nor Pink Floyd, for that matter...
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Ah… ‘The Fountains of Paradise’… a really good book.

But it’s not the answer.
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I tried, but all I could come up with is a non-SF novel linking a Pink Floyd song to Equatorial Guinea. :D (The Dogs of War)
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snork wrote:
I tried, but all I could come up with is a non-SF novel linking a Pink Floyd song to Equatorial Guinea. :D (The Dogs of War)
Oh, there's more...

Look here for a debate about whether it was Pink Floyd or a single by FSOL named Papua New Guinea accidentally invented Techno. :wink:

And then there is the track Mudmen on Obscured By Clouds, which seems to have something to do with Papua New Guinea.

Unfortunately none of this so far has anything to do with a classic SF-novel. :?
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Another musical clue:

The final scenes of the novel inspired the cover art for one of Led Zeppelin’s albums.
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Ah! Could it be Arthur C Clark's Childhood's End?
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