Science Fiction Trivia

[Cody]

I presume I'm up next...

Smivs dispatches Rover to sort out Cody, who is far too clever for his own good.

Not the first time I've heard that. <grins> Rover, eh? Good stuff, was The Prisoner.


Onward... which character said:

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

[Disembodied]

Salvor Hardin, the Father of Pyschohistory.

[Cody]

Give the man a coconut!

[Disembodied]

<takes coconut>

Which happy little band coined this epigram?

Here lies a toppled god—
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and tall one.

[Disembodied]

A clue: it's from a big, classic SF series of books, where these sorts of quotations introduce new chapters.

[Rxke]

Think that's typical Dune, I even recognize it, but I read too much of the franchise to call it.

[Rxke]

Wait, happy *little* guys are the Tleilaxu, who typically had a unique dim view of several ways to celebrate Gods (including the sun)?

[Disembodied]

Correct!

<hands coconut to Rxke>

Here's the epigram delivered by Calvin and Muad'dib.

[Rxke]

Makes deep-sea creatures big but not strong.

Everyother living thing that has to compete with it pretty much dies eventually

Begins with second greek letter in the Alpha (heh) bet (grin)

[Cody]

The second Greek letter, eh... a riddle, perhaps? Delta?

[Rxke]

I hope beta is the second or my question was wrong

[DredgerMan]

I hope beta is the second or my question was wrong

Relax, Rxke. You're covered, either way.



Since the word alphabet comes from the contraction of Alpha and Beta, even if Beta wasn't the second letter in the Greek alphabet (which it is), it would still be the second Greek letter in the word alphabet.

[Rxke]

another tip, lots of author's books are free, he does have a kibble fund going though....

[Rxke]

gentlemen start your google engines:

it's part of the rifter series.

[Disembodied]

Got it, I think - ßehemoth.