Science Fiction Trivia

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:07 pm

OK, having rummaged (and texted my dad to go look upstairs in my old room (I'm 38!) to confirm that the Author in question is Allen Steele because I think your clue is the fab Coyote series (although I have only read the first one).

But I cannot find anything in my own stuff related to your short story question and I don't want to resort to Google...

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:12 pm

Right author, right series (and you're right, Coyote is a terrific book).
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Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:23 pm

Hmmm....

this will require more digging (literally) through my stored books (or I could cheat and Google!) but such rummaging will have to wait until morning, as the kids are long tucked up in bed.

Somebody probably has enough to go on to sneak one past me now!

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:26 pm

Go on... Google it, you've done the hard work, but that last clue translates into the title.
The next question is yours, anyway.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:36 pm

I feel dirty (Googled), but, I wouldn't be able to sleep otherwise!

"Live from the Mars Hotel"?

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:38 pm

Correct... I think you'll find that tale in his collection Rude Astronauts.
Oh, and the rock album mentioned in the original question is Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:38 pm

<nudge> DH...

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:27 pm

Oops! Sorry - I will find something from the 1950s tonight!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:27 pm

This book was first published in 1957 (which explains why the blurb on the back is just 8 years away).

Title and author of this tome please (I have deliberately altered the exact wording on the back of the book lest a 5sec Google will give you the answer):

"In the year 2018, a man undertook the most amazing project in Human History - to construct a bridge on Jupiter. In that gaseous hell, the astronauts built a colossal bridge out of ice."

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:29 am

That's James Blish that is - They Shall Have Stars, part 1 of the Cities In Space set...

I have the works of James Blish in ebook format but not sure i'll read them. I liked his conversions of the original Star Trek scripts into short stories, but I find his own work quite heavy and slow (the little I've read that is)...

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:41 am

You're right. My dad has my 1930s Sci-Fi books so I can't go back any further than the 1950s!

Over to you sir...

(and I've started to read this book a couple of times, but never managed to get right through it yet!)

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:07 pm

Ah bugger, see this is why I shouldn't answer. I don't know any obscure stuff and can't remember things I've already said!

Ok... <thinks>

Right! It's a film, quite a recent one.

A maintenance ship comes across a vehicle graveyard with everything there from sailing ships to space shuttles. When they investigate they start to die, killed by a supernatural entity banished there by GOD!

I had this on VHS, bought ex-rental from a local video store. It's not out on DVD as far as I know and I haven't seen it in YEARS! It was pretty good though.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:43 pm

"quite a recent one"
"vhs"
"haven't seen it in YEARS"

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:49 pm

You young whipper-snapper!

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:24 pm

Killer Wolf wrote:
"quite a recent one"

As in NOT THE 50s!!