Science Fiction Trivia

[Rxke]

nope.

[Rxke]

Okay, a hint.

His name (the hero) is a weather phenomena.

Oh, and it's a graphic novel (or how do you call that? not really a comic, I'd think)

[Disembodied]

Aha! Then that'll be Don Lawrence, the creator of Storm ...

[Rxke]

Very correct.

BTW, I never knew he wasn't widely known outside The Netherlands/Belgium. The guy had talent.

[Disembodied]

OK, name the video game. It's 10 years old, and on release was set in the then-future of 2010. This game does not worry about breaking the mood if players realise they're hunched over their keyboards, staring at a computer screen ...

[JensAyton]

Uplink.

Incidentally, this is a quite interesting playthrough/fanfic.

[Disembodied]

Uplink.

Incidentally, this is a quite interesting playthrough/fanfic.

Score! One of the great atmospheric games of recent times, I think. I'll have to have a look at the fanfic, too ...

[JensAyton]

A cautionary tale set in a dystopian future dominated by constantly-warring superpowers, where the very language is distorted in the service of the perpetual, all-encompassing state. An Englishman learns dangerous secrets about true history. He does not heroically save the day; he is soundly defeated by the state.

It was written around the time George Orwell was fighting in Spain, many years before Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[Selezen]

Sounds like Anthem, by Ayn Rand...

[JensAyton]

Sounds like Anthem, by Ayn Rand...

Oh, dear. No no no. :-) Same year, though.

[Fatleaf]

Could it be, Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin.

[JensAyton]

Yes, it could.

[Fatleaf]

On the night of July the fourth a drone in a boy’s head keeps him from home.

[Wyvern Mommy]

sounds like "the flight of the navigator"

[Fatleaf]

Correct. Also see the "Location" in my profile! I love this movie.