Science Fiction Trivia

maik · Post by **maik** » Wed May 05, 2010 7:49 am

JazHaz wrote:
Anyway I have another book cover question for you.

This time however, to defeat TinEye.com, I have desaturated the image with The GIMP, decolourised to black and white.

It's a detail from a cover of a book by a famous US author. Title and author please?

Looks like "The moon is a harsh mistress" from Robert Heinlein to me?! Great book by the way!

Cheers,
-Maik

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed May 05, 2010 7:59 am

Correct. Over to Maik!

maik · Post by **maik** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:21 am

JazHaz wrote:
Correct. Over to Maik!

Yeay! :)

Who says "This time I'll not fail! I will control all, I say all of the Gravium! I'll be Master of the Universe! <evil cackle>"?

Post by **Disembodied** » Wed May 05, 2010 2:43 pm

I'm going to take a googled guess at Ull Quorn, Captain Future's arch-enemy and meat substitute ...

Edit: whaddya know! There's an HMS Quorn in the Royal Navy. Presumably the sister-ship of the HMS Tofu.

maik · Post by **maik** » Wed May 05, 2010 2:56 pm

Disembodied wrote:
I'm going to take a googled guess at Ull Quorn, Captain Future's arch-enemy and meat substitute ...

Quite close, you're on the right track though!

Post by **Disembodied** » Wed May 05, 2010 3:11 pm

OK ... is it (at the risk of exposing my nonexistant grasp of German

) King Wrecker?

maik · Post by **maik** » Wed May 05, 2010 3:35 pm

Disembodied wrote:
OK ... is it (at the risk of exposing my nonexistant grasp of German ) King Wrecker?

Cheers! Applause! Your turn!

PS: There is an official english dub version of the Wrecker episodes on Youtube, I wanted to make sure it can be solved by anyone around here...

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed May 05, 2010 4:37 pm

JazHaz wrote:
Correct. Over to Maik!

Can you post the non-desaturated version for reference please?

maik · Post by **maik** » Wed May 05, 2010 4:44 pm

Rxke wrote:
Can you post the non-desaturated version for reference please?

You can find a cover scan here

Post by **Disembodied** » Wed May 05, 2010 4:46 pm

OK – and sadly, shamefully, I can't reciprocate in the multilingual stakes – name the novel that begins with a team of combat archaeologists piloting a specialised tank (called a "Search Engine") through a wormhole and into a mysterious artifact on an alien world ...

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed May 05, 2010 5:19 pm

maik wrote:
Rxke wrote:
Can you post the non-desaturated version for reference please?
You can find a cover scan here

Thanks, I had another cover in my mind's eye...

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed May 05, 2010 7:52 pm

JazHaz wrote:
Anyway I have another book cover question for you.

This time however, to defeat TinEye.com, I have desaturated the image with The GIMP, decolourised to black and white.

It's a detail from a cover of a book by a famous US author. Title and author please?

Here's the full cover:

maik · Post by **maik** » Wed May 05, 2010 11:47 pm

And here I was thinking that the detail you showed was from the cover I linked... Quite lucky I still got the answer right

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu May 06, 2010 9:06 pm

Disembodied wrote:
name the novel that begins with a team of combat archaeologists piloting a specialised tank (called a "Search Engine") through a wormhole and into a mysterious artifact on an alien world ...

Is it 'Newton's Wake' by Ken MacLeod?

Post by **Disembodied** » Fri May 07, 2010 8:25 am

El Viejo wrote:
Is it 'Newton's Wake' by Ken MacLeod?

Another score to El Viejo! Over to you, sir ...

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