Science Fiction Trivia

[Disembodied]

Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg.

[spud42]

see i said it was easy.... incoming snake boots.....
take it away Big D

[Disembodied]

OK – a variation on spud42's earlier robots question:

Name three robot animals. These should be from books (or at least have appeared in books first - so Dr Who's K-9 is out). They should also be from three different books, by three different authors, and represent three different animals …

Edited to add: animal cyborgs are permitted!

[Smivs]

Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg.

Bugger! That was my first thought but I forgot it was co-authored. Ho-hum.
<Goes off to ponder animal cyborgs...>

[Cody]

Nightfall is a great tale, and Silverberg did a really good job of expanding the original Asimov short (pdf here).

[Malacandra]

Robot animals?

Well, let's not be dogmatic here...

[ffutures]

Aineko, robot cat in Accelerando by Stross (also some uploaded lobsters, but they don't count in my three since it's the same book)

The Mechanical Hound from Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury

Lots of replicant animals in Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep by Dick, filmed as Bladerunner. Let's go with the tortoise - sorry, brain fart, the toad - though I like the snake from the film version.

My first thought was Max, a cyborg dog that appeared in the original series of The Bionic Woman, but you said no TV.

[Disembodied]

The boots go to ffutures! Other robot animals could have included the chimerical cyborg "Rat-Thing", from Snow Crash, or Ergates the ant from Feersum Endjinn.

[ffutures]

In a novelisation of a well-known children's TV SF series, published for ages 12-15, these memorable lines follow the heroine's capture by an Arab villain:

Slowly then, very deliberately, El Akir raised the whip until it was level with his face.
'Your tender flesh,' he said hoarsely, 'is about to feel my first caresses.'

Name the novel and the heroine

[ffutures]

OK, let's give some clues. It's a 1965 novelisation, the episodes were also shown in 1965. Who's the woman?

[spud42]

Barbara, Doctor Who and the Crusaders.

[ffutures]

Exactly right! I'm not sure if the dialogue was in the show, I was only 12 when it aired, but it's in the book (by the author of the script). Your move!

[spud42]

i would have been 5 ish, Mum tells me she sat me down in front of the doctor and i loved it.... always have..lol

so time to think of another question.....mmmmmm.....

Two characters co-operate to rebuild a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11 motorcycle.

Who are they??

[spud42]

Exactly right! I'm not sure if the dialogue was in the show, I was only 12 when it aired, but it's in the book (by the author of the script). Your move!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKKcvbu8yPw&t=311s

all i could find.....

[ffutures]

Exactly right! I'm not sure if the dialogue was in the show, I was only 12 when it aired, but it's in the book (by the author of the script). Your move!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKKcvbu8yPw&t=311s

all i could find.....

I'm guessing the end of that episode is just before the bit I quoted, but it's hard to be sure.