Science Fiction Trivia

[Malacandra]

Huh. I'm old enough to remember the latter years of Jeff Hawke but I don't remember Chalcedon. Googling, it turns out he was a recurrent villain.

Also from the Wikipedia article, I see that in 1959 the strip predicted the first Moon landing ten years in the future -- and got the date right to within two weeks.

[spud42]

this should be easy so i will start with a single clue.....

the gun club

title and author please.

[Malacandra]

this should be easy so i will start with a single clue.....

the gun club

title and author please.

From The Earth To The Moon, Jules Verne

[spud42]

see,i said it was easy..... im actually reading the ebook on my phone in the down time between service calls at work....lol

i think the kipper is turning..... glad to get rid of it....

[Cody]

...reading the ebook on my phone...

If you like Verne, there's a good translation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas here (though I don't know if it's readable on a phone).

[Malacandra]

Here we go then:

This debut end-of-civilisation novel (he wrote some others too) featured, among other things, the UK government ordering the H-bombing of British cities for the greater good.

[Disembodied]

That sounds like John Christopher's The Death of Grass …

[Malacandra]

That sounds like John Christopher's The Death of Grass …

Hoo boy, that was quick. Over to you. *hands over increasingly dubious kipper*

[Disembodied]

Oh, it's starting to come apart … maybe sellotape?

Anyway, while I get busy with that, here's the question. Name the author and short story: a professional photographer begins to experience troubling hallucinations.

[Disembodied]

The hallucinations started after the photographer was hired to photograph examples of an American style of architecture.

[Malacandra]

The Gernsback Continuum, William Gibson?

[Disembodied]

That's the one! Back to you. Sorry about the kipper.

[Smivs]

<Smivs is starting to feel a bit guilty about the Kipper.....>

[Malacandra]

*bags up the kipper in a ziploc to keep it from decaying any more and at least bottle the smell up a bit*

Short story name and author:

A student who dabbled unwisely in the occult has to trick a demon into undertaking a task that will take an infinitely long time to complete.

[Malacandra]

First clue: We're talking about mathematical concepts here.