Science Fiction Trivia

Post by **Disembodied** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:45 am

The author is a Hugo and Nebula award-winner ... he won one this year (although not for the novel in question).

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:18 am

Ach,
had to resort to Google

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The author is Jack Vance and the novel is titled The Blue World

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:32 am

He's still writing -and winning awards?

wow!

Post by **Disembodied** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:26 am

Zieman takes the pot! No shame in using Google: if you don't know something, then you can use your google-fu to find it out. I get to see what people type in as searches for a website I run ... some people obviously try to have little conversations with their computer and end up in the oddest places.

@ Rxke: he's still going, right enough, at 94. The award-winning book was his autobiography. I don't think he's published any fiction since 2004, though.

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:50 pm

Man, I begin to bore myself

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Name the book & author.

Clue: The story is about studying a truly alien intelligence.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:26 pm

One of the classic books on that subject is Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem.
Probably too obvious, but is that it?

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:33 pm

El Viejo wrote:
One of the classic books on that subject is Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem.
Probably too obvious, but is that it?

That's it.

Looks like it was all too obvious

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Your turn.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:12 pm

Such a good book... the 1972 film hardly did it justice, good as it was (I won't mention the recent remake).

Onward... a ‘hard' sci-fi novel:

A British astronaut, on a mission to blow-up an Earthbound asteroid with a nuke, discovers evidence of intelligent alien life inside the asteroid. He refuses to plant the bomb until he has explored further.

Title and author, please.

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:30 am

Hmm, this definitely does ring a bell or two...

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:36 pm

Gregory Benford's "In The Ocean Of Night"?

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:40 pm

Correct... it is In the Ocean of Night, the first novel in the Galactic Centre Saga, by Gregory Benford.

Over to you, sir.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:38 am

<nudge> Selezen...

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:03 pm

I know, I know, I'm trying to think of something but every time I might get time to spend on it something kicks of IRL to distract me.

For example, at the moment I'm also browsing the web to try and find out if we can legally take the kids out of school to go on holiday without a £200 fine...

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:29 pm

Selezen wrote:
I know, I know, I'm trying to think of something but every time I might get time to spend on it something kicks of IRL to distract me.

For example, at the moment I'm also browsing the web to try and find out if we can legally take the kids out of school to go on holiday without a £200 fine...

Been there done that.

With my school - I gave them an itinerary of what they'd learn with us while travelling to the Highlands of Scotland compared to them sticking them in front of the DVD player for the last four days of the summer term - and asked them to prove that they'd learn more at school than they would with us.

They "told us off" - but no fine.

Good luck.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:25 pm

OK, here we go. Apologies for the delay.

Since we've all gone to town on the "name the obscure old sci-fi books" theme, I'm going to bring this back to TRIVIA!!!

What interstellar location specifically links the films Bladerunner and Soldier?