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Clue time: the book is available as part of Gollancz's SF Masterworks series.
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That must be The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison?
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It must indeed! A fine – if weird and bleak and weirdly bleak – read. It's possibly the originator of the peculiar and inventive spaceship name, though, that later writers like Iain Banks and Alastair Reynolds took up: the Atalanta in Calydon, for example, or the Strange Great Sins.El Viejo wrote:That must be The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison?
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Hmm. The familiarity I felt was obviously misplaced then...
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Okay, an easy one... just a normal day, it seemed... until all the Earth's radar systems went bananas!
Author and title of the novel, please.
Author and title of the novel, please.
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Is it Farewell to the Master, by Harry Bates?El Viejo wrote:Okay, an easy one... just a normal day, it seemed... until all the Earth's radar systems went bananas!
Author and title of the novel, please.
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Nope!JazHaz wrote:Is it Farewell to the Master, by Harry Bates?El Viejo wrote:Okay, an easy one... just a normal day, it seemed... until all the Earth's radar systems went bananas!
Author and title of the novel, please.
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Clue the first: the cause of the global 'failure' of Earth's radar systems is the arrival in orbit of an alien ship.
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Whatever it is - I wonder if the script writers for Independence Day read it...El Viejo wrote:Clue the first: the cause of the global 'failure' of Earth's radar systems is the arrival in orbit of an alien ship.
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Ha... I have a vague inkling that Heinlein may have written something along those lines.DaddyHoggy wrote:Whatever it is - I wonder if the script writers for Independence Day read it...El Viejo wrote:Clue the first: the cause of the global 'failure' of Earth's radar systems is the arrival in orbit of an alien ship.
The alien ship in question though, is far more 'enigmatic'.
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You know, I'm going to have to go rummage on the shelves, because I'm sure I've read this...
(irrespective of its familiarity to Heinlein/Independence Day)
(irrespective of its familiarity to Heinlein/Independence Day)
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Sounds a bit like Childhood's End by the mighty A.C. Clarke.
And Independence Day. And "V", actually...
And Independence Day. And "V", actually...
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That's what I was going to say, but I thought Childhood's End was the answer to another clue only a week or so ago! (So I didn't offer it up!)
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A little more than a week ago actually... but no, it's not the great Childhood's End.DaddyHoggy wrote:That's what I was going to say, but I thought Childhood's End was the answer to another clue only a week or so ago! (So I didn't offer it up!)
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