Science Fiction Trivia

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Sun May 23, 2010 11:02 am

Sounds almost like a left-field reference to Pratchett's Strata (or perhaps Dark Side of the Sun).

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sun May 23, 2010 12:04 pm

Multiple answers in one? That’s cheating!

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Sun May 23, 2010 12:26 pm

Of course, I'm supposed to be the bad guys around here

As I see I've even got the rank now to prove it

OK then - Strata

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sun May 23, 2010 1:35 pm

Oh, all right then. You win.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sun May 23, 2010 5:07 pm

Thargoid wrote:
As I see I've even got the rank now to prove it

Congratulations... maybe it should be 'Thargoid Military Attache'.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Sun May 23, 2010 6:52 pm

OK, opening paragraph - name the book and author (it's a nice easy one as I'm in a rush):

The ship didn't even have a name. It had no human crew because the factory craft which constructed it had been evacuated long ago. It had no life-support or accomodation units for the same reason. It had no class number or fleet designation because it was a mongrel made from bits and pieces of different types of warcraft; and it didn't have a name because the factory craft had no time left for such niceties.

goran · Post by **goran** » Sun May 23, 2010 7:52 pm

Ian Banks "Consider Phlebas"

sure an easy one...

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Sun May 23, 2010 8:11 pm

Iain M Banks to be pedantically correct, but near enough...

goran · Post by **goran** » Mon May 24, 2010 4:35 pm

Thargoid wrote:
Iain M Banks to be pedantically correct, but near enough...

Thanks.

A guy is arrested for breaking into military base. There is thousands of witnesses of him being in another place and he is innocent. But he did it nonetheless.

goran · Post by **goran** » Tue May 25, 2010 11:09 am

After reading this book, Schrödinger's cat commits suicide.

goran · Post by **goran** » Wed May 26, 2010 7:21 am

Basically, it's about what happens when you intersect things that should be parallel.

Author is american, best known for hes 7 series of books. This book is not part of any.

goran · Post by **goran** » Wed May 26, 2010 4:46 pm

Too hard? No guesses?

I think this makes it too easy: picture, but if there is no other way...

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:02 pm

goran wrote:
Too hard? No guesses?

Patience, good man!

Need a bit more digging of memory (*cough* internet *cough*) though...

goran · Post by **goran** » Thu May 27, 2010 8:44 pm

Name of the book anagram : coquetting famous hatchment

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu May 27, 2010 8:56 pm

Aha... ‘The Coming of the Quantum Cats’ by Frederik Pohl.