Science Fiction Trivia

[Fatleaf]

Ah! Crypic ... could it be Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Yes it could.

[Disembodied]

OK. Name the novel of counterfactual history, stretching across some 600 years, following the same group of individuals as they live, die and are reincarnated ...

[Selezen]

Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years Of Rice And Salt?

[JensAyton]

Hmm. I started rereading that earlier this year, but got distracted. KSR writes very good books to fall asleep to. ;-)

[SandJ]

I'm a doctor not a bricklayer.

A classic...one of my favourite episodes.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_Dark

I bought (yes, bought!) the Star Trek edition of the After Dark screensaver and that was my favourite module.

The Horta cut channels in the rock, redshirts wandered through, and the Horta chased off the redshirts.

Simple, but endlessly entertaining.

How I wish After Dark worked now.

I even resurrected a deceased PC a few years ago just so I could put Windows 3.1 and After Dark on it.

[Disembodied]

Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years Of Rice And Salt?

... and Selezen buries it in the back of the net! Over to you ...

[Selezen]

This modern novel tells the tale of a human race cast into the stars as a virus decimated the population and turned the rest into something...different.

The danger is not over, though, as something dark and hidden threatens mankind's very soul...

(note: I haven't actually read this, but it came up in a line of research I was making into writing a sci-fi story of my own recently, which pissed me off as it has huge chunks of similarity to the reams of notes I made about my project - hence why it stuck in my mind).

[Rxke]

... and Selezen buries it in the back of the net!

Aaaah! Now I get it, it's a football reference, not a reference to the 'net

[Disembodied]

Aaaah! Now I get it, it's a football reference, not a reference to the 'net

It is ... I could have said "buries it in the onion bag" but that probably wouldn't have been any clearer.

[Rxke]

understatement!

Goes to show how non-native speakers way too often are puzzled by the simplest, everyday little things.

Amazing people get on so well on this board, isn't it?

[Selezen]

So is anyone going to have a guess then?

[DaddyHoggy]

So is anyone going to have a guess then?

No.

Queue clue...

[Selezen]

The event that decimates the population comes from inside humanity itself. Not an external threat...

[Disembodied]

Hmmm ... it's not Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Anne Goonan, is it?

[Selezen]

Nope.

Nother clue - published in 2005, author is male.