Science Fiction Trivia

[spud42]

i think its listed as one of the "missing"episodes... aparantley some of the early stuff wasnt kept or was lost.... shame....

[Cody]

Two characters co-operate to rebuild a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11 motorcycle. Who are they??

I had to resort to googling this - Michael Garibaldi and Lennier?

[spud42]

the google is strong with this one.......

and Cody wins again... incoming fishy snakeskin boots......

[Cody]

Time to recycle those boots, methinks.


As it's Monday morning, an easy one: which spacecraft was originally named Immigrant One, and in which film did it appear?

[Malacandra]

Time to recycle those boots, methinks.


As it's Monday morning, an easy one: which spacecraft was originally named Immigrant One, and in which film did it appear?

Planet of the Apes, and later known as "Liberty 1" although not in the original movie release.

[Cody]

Yep, that's the one - also known to some fans as Icarus (apparently).


Have a snakeskin belt with fish buckle!

[Malacandra]

Thank 'ee!

What short story ends with the narrator hiding out in a Los Angeles high-rise on a stormy grey morning and wondering if his children will colonise Africa, Europe or Asia?

[ffutures]

Thank 'ee!

What short story ends with the narrator hiding out in a Los Angeles high-rise on a stormy grey morning and wondering if his children will colonise Africa, Europe or Asia?

Inconsistent Moon by Larry Niven

[Malacandra]

Thank 'ee!

What short story ends with the narrator hiding out in a Los Angeles high-rise on a stormy grey morning and wondering if his children will colonise Africa, Europe or Asia?

Inconsistent Moon by Larry Niven

Inconstant, but yes. Over to you!

[ffutures]

Damn - inconstant indeed!

OK - 1964 American novel, NASA can't get its rockets to work until they build a cyborg to be the pilot. Ends up with the cyborg hero and heroine on the moon.

[ffutures]

OK, clue time - the same author was at one time a USAF officer and wrote twenty-odd books, one of them about a talking dolphin, another about the Bikini nuclear tests. One of his other books was filmed in 1988 starring Gene Hackman.

[Malacandra]

After some research, I'm going to try Adam M-1 by William C. Anderson. A book I've never read by an author I've never heard of, and thanks for the clues!

[ffutures]

Excactamundo! My local library had several of his books in the seventies so I assumed someone else here would have read it; glad you got there in the end. Your turn!

[Malacandra]

In that case, here's a piece of 1950s space fiction, the only one the author wrote under this pen-name although he had other works under other names both science fiction and fact. It's a Cold War story since the two opposing sides are "Americans" and "Communists" under the flimsiest of disguises, and the hero has to bring a valuable asteroid into Earth orbit where it can be mined and used. The book was released under more than one title and is classed as "young adult" fiction although I found it perfectly accessible at no more than nine or ten.

[Malacandra]

...Seems I might need to give a clue here, so: The asteroid is to be used as nuclear fuel, but it's not uranium - it's another fissionable element that they were once holding out great hopes for (and still do in places).