Science Fiction Trivia

[Malacandra]

I killed the thread.

[Cody]

Nah, it's just resting... pining for the fjords!


As for your questions: I've not read much Pratchett, and I ain't a Trekkie!

[spud42]

not read the long earth so i couldnt answer that one. but not a "trekkie" but i do like the show....so...
trick question.. 0 lines

IMDB has this in the trivia section of the episode..

Nichelle Nichols does not appear in this episode. Uhura's duties were assumed by Lt. Palmer, played by Elizabeth Rogers. Walter Koenig is also absent.

[Malacandra]

not read the long earth so i couldnt answer that one. but not a "trekkie" but i do like the show....so...
trick question.. 0 lines

IMDB has this in the trivia section of the episode..

Nichelle Nichols does not appear in this episode. Uhura's duties were assumed by Lt. Palmer, played by Elizabeth Rogers. Walter Koenig is also absent.

There we go, all quite simple. As to the original question, rot13ed for those who might want to find out for themselves:

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[spud42]

1950's scifi.

a rabbit figures out how to escape from a trap.
a below average IQ boy suddenly realises the stars are really far away and he is on a small rock hurtling through space.

name book and author.

[ffutures]

Brain Wave (1954) by Poul Anderson - one of my favourites.

later - forgot to say that some of the same ideas turn up in Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep

[spud42]

well done FFutures.... i was worried that the clues were a bit obtuse...

take it away its all yours.( we seem to have lost the snakey skin boots along the way. ok who kept them?) ....

[ffutures]

OK - a 1960s novel (initially a magazine serial) in which a scientist defects to Denmark with the secret of antigravity. Give the author and a title (there are variants).

[Malacandra]

OK - a 1960s novel (initially a magazine serial) in which a scientist defects to Denmark with the secret of antigravity. Give the author and a title (there are variants).

Harry Harrison, The Daleth Effect. Also known as In Our Hands, The Stars and some other titles in other languages.

[Cody]

Have a little sci-fi quiz to start your day!

[spud42]

10/15 rushed through it a bit , some i had no way of knowing without google.. ( didnt google, honest!)

[Cody]

I got 10/15 too, but I had to outright guess a few.

Without checking for the right answers, I ran through it again, changing the ones I thought I'd got wrong - and got 10/15 again.

[spud42]

i checked on the ones i got wrong. got the metropolis robot name wrong.
i knew the amy pond one but for some reason didnt connect karen's name to amy... doh.....
the others i havent seen or read so i guessed . i got the special effect one wrong as well.

[Smivs]

Hey, 10/15 here as well - all my guesses were wrong!

[Malacandra]

10/15, I'm not up on my recent Doctor Who companions, character names from 1920s movies or special-effects creators.