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ok , your question for 80 is. Which book by the afore mentioned Mr Heinlen was recently turned into a movie? No NOT starship Troopers.....
Well, not so much a "book" as a short story..

"'—All You Zombies—'", which was made into the movie "Predestination" in 2014. I must admit I was pleasantly surprised by how faithful it stayed to the original story. (Which confused the hell out of pretty much everyone who'd never read the book)
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we have a winner Ladies and Gentlemen...
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spud42 wrote:
The keys to The CismoFiCo are yours. sorry about the evil juice the owner prior to me was a little negligent and its started to eat the floor plating. Shouldnt be too costly a repair.....
Hehe.. had to go back a few pages to see what the CismoFiCo was all about.. think I'll let the evil juice finish its work.. another hatchway to the lower deck would be kinda handy.


So.. today's question is:

What are the name(s) of the truly weird and trippy translator(s) for an alien race, who cannot make up their mind just who they actually are, that appear in the 2nd and 3rd volumes of a recent trilogy?
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Would those be translators Dlique and Zeiat, from Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy?
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They would indeed..

<hands over the keys to the CiSmoFiCo> (sorry about the hole in the deck)
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<covers hole with rug>

There – good as new!

In which recent (since 2010) SF novel is long hair a sign of poverty, and why?
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A clue: the human genome has been tweaked, and hair has an added property.
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After some googling on edible hair, I stumbled upon By Light Alone, wherein hair photosynthesises sunlight.

Sounds like a great idea, no need for food - though baldies might disagree.
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Colour me VERY skeptical - several orders of magnitude too little photosynthesising area in the average head of hair.
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Cody wins! Adam Roberts's By Light Alone, where long, photosynthesising hair allows the poor to survive without food (and where the rich flaunt their well-fed status by having very short haircuts).

The science is dubious, to say the least - although I suppose it's less dubious than FTL spaceships!
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<takes possession of CiSmoFiCo - wipes something icky off command seat> Time for a musical clue, methinks.

This song has a connection to a seventies TV sci-fi series - which was?
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Thanks for that.. i just spent over an hour following 70's scifi shows to youtube.... man there were some cheap dodgy stuff...
so what are you after? the tv show? or the connection of the song to the show?
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I'm after the title of the TV series, but the song's connection to it would be nice too.
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Clue the first: purple features prominently - purple and silver.
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Ahhhh! UFO!

No idea what the link with the song is, though. :(
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