Science Fiction Trivia

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:33 pm

JazHaz wrote:
20 Evocations by Brian Sterling

20 Evocations by BRUCE Sterling

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:44 pm

Dang! I misread it!

And I was so confident I was researching my question...

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:51 pm

For sure, you found it first, I was thinking it was Greg Bear!

Post by **Disembodied** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:30 pm

Ooh, this is a tricky one to judge ... what would Paxman do? I think I'm going to have to give the points to Rxke, because he got the name right! Harsh but there you go ...

It is of course one of the "20 Evocations" by Bruce Sterling – which do appear in the expanded edition of Schismatrix, being part of the "Shaper/Mechanist" stories.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:52 pm

I gladly offer the honours to JayHaz, because it was him finding it that triggered me to doublecheck the name. I didn't know the book at all.

(Again: I thought it was Greg Bear's style...)

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:26 pm

Rxke wrote:
I gladly offer the honours to JayHaz, because it was him finding it that triggered me to doublecheck the name. I didn't know the book at all.

Thanks.

My question is simply: Who wrote "Shards"?

It should be a difficult one to find on Google, being just a single word title!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 3:29 pm

JazHaz wrote:
Rxke wrote:
I gladly offer the honours to JayHaz, because it was him finding it that triggered me to doublecheck the name. I didn't know the book at all.
Thanks.

My question is simply: Who wrote "Shards"?

It should be a difficult one to find on Google, being just a single word title!

Peter Prellwitz? (Shards:Book One is available as an eBook...)

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:41 pm

Tom Piccirilli

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:34 pm

Neither!

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:14 pm

OK will give you something to help narrow it down. It's not a full length novel, but a short story. And it's by a major author.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:15 pm

I gave in to temptation and Googled... John Ostrander.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:17 pm

El Viejo wrote:
I gave in to temptation and Googled... John Ostrander.

Nope!

Because your reply was posted as I was posting, I'll quote it:

JazHaz wrote:
OK will give you something to help narrow it down. It's not a full length novel, but a short story. And it's by a major author.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:29 pm

Thargoid wrote:
Tom Piccirilli

Oh and I believe (having googled Shards and Tom Piccirilli), that this is not sci-fi, more cri-fi.

The target is a sci-fi short story.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:07 pm

JazHaz wrote:
but a short story. And it's by a major author.

Geoffrey A. Landis.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:39 am

El Viejo wrote:
JazHaz wrote:
but a short story. And it's by a major author.
Geoffrey A. Landis.

Sorry, keep trying.