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Re: Science Fiction Trivia

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Is it "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes? :D
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Can't really call it a clue, given that all you said was that it was published in a magazine. It's a bit like saying that "this advert is in Vogue magazine". No author? No rough idea what it's about?
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Believe it or not, that clue is easier to google than more specific clues! Just need more details and it ought to be easy! (*Prepares to fail once the clue is given...*)
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Not Flowers for Algernon or Daniel Keyes.

Next clue - it has been republished under the same authors name 7 times (in collections and anthologies mainly), and as of today once adapted into a motion picture.

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Mauiby de Fug wrote:
Believe it or not, that clue is easier to google than more specific clues! Just need more details and it ought to be easy! (*Prepares to fail once the clue is given...*)
Indeed, although I'm trying avoid a go that can just be Googled, at least without having to put a few clues together first.
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Next clue - the author was a Kindred spirit.
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"We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", by Phillip Kindred Dick.

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Yes, I googled, But I knew that Phillip K Dick's middle name was Kindred. So There.
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Yup, as first published in the April 1966 edition of the magazine.

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OK, something slightly different. What's this?

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It's from a SciFi film, but does have a link to Star Trek.
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Selezen wrote:
OK, something slightly different. What's this?

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It's from a SciFi film, but does have a link to Star Trek.
Damn - the filename of the image tells me nothing! :wink:
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It looks like Wall-E's prostate. Or what I imagine Wall-E's prostate looks like, anyway; I think that bit of the film ended up on the cutting room floor ...
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Looks like a pump. An artificial heart perhaps? :?
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Picard had an artificial heart but I don't think we ever saw it...
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Picard had an artificial heart but I don't think we ever saw it...
We did. It looked like a plastic potato with valve holes in it. Q has hold of it when he makes Picard experience his past and changes the event that causes him to get the artificial heart.
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The blueprint piece looks like the drive core from something. I recognise the main central gyroscope part, but can't place it.

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Re: Science Fiction Trivia

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Films with a link to Star Trek ... I assume we're talking about a SF film that shares a writer or director or actor(s) with some version of Trek? Ooh! It's not the communicator from Galaxy Quest, is it?
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