Science Fiction Trivia

[Disembodied]

Hagbard Celine!

Gesundheit!

Indeed it was old H. C. himself ... over to you!

[Cody]

I'd been wanting to ask an Illuminatus question for ages, but was never quite sure if it was sci-fi or not!
Next question to follow shortly - 'We'll be seeing you!'

[Cody]

Humanity’s only survivor from a great flood that has destroyed Earth finds an abandoned spaceship, and embarks on a voyage to the furthest reaches of the universe.

Author and title of this ’70s novel, please.

[Cody]

Clue the first: he is accompanied on this epic voyage by his two pets, and a beautiful sexy robot (yep, another plastic woman)!

[Cody]

Clue the second: the novel was published under the name of a character from another sci-fi writer’s work (said character being a fictional sci-fi author who had 'written' a novel of the same name. This character was based on yet another real sci-fi writer).

[Cody]

Clue the third: the female android's name is an anagram, and 'She loves fun-hall then' is an anagram of the novel's title.

[Gimbal Locke]

'She loves fun-hall then' is an anagram of the novel's title.

Heavens Flesh Hot Null
Flannelets Shovel Huh
Leaven Soften Shh Hull
Halftone Level Shh Sun
Halftone Eves Shh Null
Flashes Helve Loth Nun
Flashes Novelle Nth Uh
Sheaf Then Novel Hulls
Leaf Sevenths Hull Hon
Fallen Even Shush Loth
Health Levels Fun Hons
Hale Then Novels Flush
Lethal Hens Oven Flush
Helluva Fleshes Nth No
Hash Lenten Shovelful
Shah Lenten Shovelful
Flannelet Shovel Hush
Heavens Fell Loth Shun
Enslaves Hell Font Huh
Fallen The Novel Shush
Helluva Shelf Thens On
and some thousands (well, 19 factorial, including doubles that is) of others....
- giving up -

[Cody]

Heh... you forgot the hyphen!

[Selezen]

Venus on the Half-Shell, by Philip Jose Farmer writing as Killgore Trout.

[Cody]

Venus on the Half-Shell, by Philip Jose Farmer writing as Killgore Trout.

Indeed it is! Kilgore Trout's finest 'novel'... heh. Over to you, sir!

[Selezen]

What popular historical "essays" did Isaac Asimov compare his Foundation trilogy to?

[Gimbal Locke]

What popular historical "essays" did Isaac Asimov compare his Foundation trilogy to?

"History of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire" was said to be his inspiration.

Edit: my memory almost served me well: Edward Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".

[Selezen]

Ding.

Over to you.

[Gimbal Locke]

Ding.

I was lucky to see the question early, I'm certain that a lot of folks around here knew that.

I'm asking for the name of a famous 20th century SF author.

One of his less well-known books is about a nuclear submarine which has to get oil during a global war. The protagonist is a psychologist who has to find out why the crews often turn mad and whether there is sabotage from the enemy involved. The sub does not just sail off, it is launched dramatically through a tube which is compared to a birth canal.

[Gimbal Locke]

New clue: in another book by the same author, a government inspector arrives to a village where nobody ever leaves - youngsters go to the city to study, but always return to the village after graduation. Slowly the inspector starts to discover that the village is organised as an insect colony.