Science Fiction Trivia

[Tichy]

Halting State a novel by Charles Stross.

Correct. I said it was easy

Now's your turn.

[Cody]

This thread was fun. Can I reanimate it?

Good idea!

[spud42]

Halting State a novel by Charles Stross.

Correct. I said it was easy

Now's your turn.

had no idea so i googled just to start things off... wont do it again unless it gets bogged down.

ok here is my question.

the story is about human civilisation driven underground so far in the past that the protagonists dont know when or why. the main characters have a brush with the authorities and escape to the surface which is covered with robotic run farms and where they meet an alien.

[Tichy]

the story is about human civilisation driven underground so far in the past that the protagonists dont know when or why. the main characters have a brush with the authorities and escape to the surface which is covered with robotic run farms and where they meet an alien.

Asimov's The Naked Sun?

[cbr]

the story is about human civilisation driven underground so far in the past that the protagonists dont know when or why. the main characters have a brush with the authorities and escape to the surface

This reminded me of an polluted earth cleaned by robots and the robots kept the earthlings down below until they surfaced and some kind of coexisting society grew out of it.

But my guess will be Logans Run

[ffutures]

I'd guess it's Tumithak of the Corridors by Charles R. Tanner - published in 1932 but I think Asimov's adventure magazine reprinted it in the eighties.

http://www.charlesrtanner.com/TumithakO ... ridors.htm

[spud42]

sorry been away for a while. no,no and no


this is less mainstream . first clue is a quote from a review...

Earth, 2000 years after the final holocaust which drove man deep underground; a ghostly, deserted planet peopled only by the diligent robots who, century after century, silently harvest grain which no man will eat.

Up into this eerie world comes Mel, a questioning young Roamer who has disobeyed the Law which says he must never venture into or beyond the Lost Levels. Together with three companions, and a companion not of this Earth, Mel takes on the awesome task of freeing human beings from the tyranny imposed on them by their remote ancestors; of justifying the agonized cry of Barney as he died in a Forbidden Level: "I am a man! Everything is for man!"

[Tichy]

The anime Gurren Lagan?

Some tip?

EDIT: I found the title just by searching an exact phrase from the review... I won't say it. Some other could guess it by other means

[spud42]

well this one is from left field as the yanks tend to say so to keep this thread rolling post your answer...

all i ask is have you heard of the author and some of his other very fine books?

p.s. it was the barney line wasnt it?

[Tichy]

well this one is from left field as the yanks tend to say so to keep this thread rolling post your answer...

all i ask is have you heard of the author and some of his other very fine books?

Ok. It was Kuldesak by Richard Cowper.

This author was unknown to me.


This one could be a bit harder: "When your brain controls your body remotely, you have to deal with lags"

[Rxke]

Avatar?

(Nevr saw the movie)

[Wildeblood]

Avatar?

(Never saw the movie)

You didn't miss out on anything. Too long, too predictable. Everyone dies except the two main protagonists.

[Tichy]

Avatar?

(Never saw the movie)

You didn't miss out on anything. Too long, too predictable. Everyone dies except the two main protagonists.

Just like Nightmare on Elm Street... and every slasher horror... Oh! I just realized that Avatar is a western in space with blue indians that ends like a slasher.

No. It's not Avatar.

Tip: the brain was removed from the body

[Rxke]

Sounds *very much* like one of the thought experiments in Gödel Esher Bach... But that's hardly science fiction, more science philosophy...

[Wildeblood]

I've no idea what story you're referring to, and I also immediately thought of Logan's Run for the previous one.

So, a pointless digression...

Just like Nightmare on Elm Street..

I suppose most people nowadays recognize that phrase only as a movie title. It was only recently that I realized it's an allusion to the assassination of John Kennedy. If I were asked where that happened, I would have answered Dealy Plaza. I only learned from a TV documentary a few years ago the street is in fact Elm Street.