Science Fiction Trivia

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:52 pm

The Faded Sun trilogy by C. J. Cherryh.

Gnudoll · Post by **Gnudoll** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:47 pm

And back to you, sir!

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:56 pm

Another quick and easy one:

Britain is a mess, due to global warming and rising sea-levels, compounded by a disastrous socialist government.
A high-tech company hires an ex-soldier to investigate thefts from a satellite, and attacks on the company’s founder.

The novel’s title and author, please.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:47 pm

The author is English and contemporary, and well known for massive space opera.
This was his first novel, and became the first part of a trilogy.

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:28 pm

Mindstar Rising by Peter F. Hamilton

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:42 pm

Correct... it's a very good read, and all too plausible.
Over to you, sir.

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:00 pm

I thik this one counts as massive space opera too.

Author and title of the series, please.

Clue (obscureish one first, more later):

One of the numerous key elements of the plot is a collection of stories which happens to share names with the series.

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:06 am

First book of the series starts with humans using technology discovered from a long-extinct race.

This event triggers aggression from another ancient race, which results in hugely devastating war.

Post by **Disembodied** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:50 am

Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence?

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:06 am

Disembodied wrote:
Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence?

Nope.

That's on my "to read" list

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Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:00 am

In the series humans encounter beings that live in stars, others that live in gas giants's cores, sentient trees, sentient water and star-faring insectoids.

NigelJK · Post by **NigelJK** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:54 pm

Saga of Seven Suns - Kevin J Anderson?

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:03 pm

NigelJK wrote:
Saga of Seven Suns - Kevin J Anderson?

Correct!

Your turn.

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:14 pm

Nigel?

NigelJK · Post by **NigelJK** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:39 pm

Sorry folks had one of those 'unavoidable' experiences life throws up from time to time.

This award winning novel was the first by a new author. Part of a series which loosely links the characters and background. Although published first chronologically it is third in the series. The series is named after this book.

Set in UK in not to distant future, people are able to access an alternate reality via a drug delivered by feather, eventually these visions become objective reality.