Science Fiction Trivia

[Cody]

I should have looked back in the thread.

It's a long old thread - whenever I set a question, I have to run a quick search for the title.

[Rxke]

Never say you're useless! You're not! It is a long thread indeed, and not everybody is subscribing to the topic

righty then, somewhat alternative in alternative story too....

In the original story some big hollow thing blasts out of our reality and comes back from the (alternate) future.

The story I'm looking for though, is a short story in a same-ish reality describing how that 'big thing' never gets anywhere it was supposed to due to an act of terra-rorism (heh)

[Selezen]

This sounds very like Greg Bear's Eon stories, so I'll take a poke at "The Way Of All Ghosts".

[Rxke]

Veeeeery close!

[Selezen]

"The Wind From A Burning Woman", same author?

[Rxke]

yesss!

Pretty tough story, methinks....

[Selezen]

Woo!

I love the Eon stories - I'll admit that although I've read Eon and Eternity I haven't read Legacy or the short story collections. I re-read Eon recently after finding out about the competition someone ran to make a film trailer for it. Very good read. After I finish reading Miles Vorkosigan I might chomp through those books - all of them this time...

Anyway.

When written, the book I have in mind was speculative but not necessarily fiction - more of a "could possibly happen". Now, since a certain event occurred in 1985, it is classed firmly as speculative fiction or "alternative reality" fiction. The author probably does not class himself as a sci-fi author.

It deals with the recovery of something very famous. Not in space and not on land.

It's a pretty easy find if you are interested in the events in question.

I'd like author and book title please.

[Rxke]

Raise the Poseidon?


EDit: hmmmm.... google does not really know about that. i thought it was a movie/novel

[cim]

<Thinks about plausible 1985 events>
"Raise the Titanic" by Clive Cussler?

[Rxke]

kee-rap! You're kidding?

(googles) Darnnnnnn!

[Commander McLane]

Raise the Poseidon?

That seems like a case of "oh so very close but no cigar".

[Selezen]

<Thinks about plausible 1985 events>
"Raise the Titanic" by Clive Cussler?

Bing!

Rxke - good guess - I think you mixed up "Raise the Titanic" with "The Poseidon Adventure". Maybe "Raise The Poseidon" should be a sequel to the latter though.

Over to you, cim.

[Rxke]

offtopic, what was that movie then with the people living (surviving rather) underwater in a sunken luxury liner? Creepy movie....

[Cody]

Bing!

Bing? The most 'poisoned' search engine?

[Thargoid]

<Thinks about plausible 1985 events>
"Raise the Titanic" by Clive Cussler?

Bing!

Rxke - good guess - I think you mixed up "Raise the Titanic" with "The Poseidon Adventure". Maybe "Raise The Poseidon" should be a sequel to the latter though.

Over to you, cim.

There was one - Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, with (iirc) Telly Savalas & Michael Caine in it.

It was about as contrived and about as good as you would expect it to be.