Science Fiction Trivia

[Malacandra]

ok next question..
mid 90's time travel TV show filmed on the Gold Coast

Hmm... Australia has a Gold Coast and it had a 1990s time travel TV show "The Girl from Tomorrow". I'll hazard a guess that it was filmed there

[spud42]

nice thinking and along the right lines but no cigar.... never heard of that so i looked it up. my show is not a children/young teen series.

[Malacandra]

nice thinking and along the right lines but no cigar.... never heard of that so i looked it up. my show is not a children/young teen series.

Time Trax, then? Filmed in and around Brissie...

[spud42]

Dale Midkiff in Time Trax it is
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106154/?re ... lmg_act_49

the kipper,slipper,dipper,ripper thing is on it s way to you under auto pilot... man this thing gets around.. it might need an overhaul soon...

[Malacandra]

Interesting that Australian TV should have had two different time travel series unrelated to each other so close together.

OK, a 1970s novel based on a famous TV series has a plot revolving around there being two copies of a very famous Captain. Name of the novel and its authors, please?

[ffutures]

Well, it isn't Spock Must Die, which had a duplicate Spock, so I'll go with The Price of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath. Must admit I had to look this one up, I knew there was an early Star Trek novel with a duplicate Kirk but I couldn't remember which one.

[Malacandra]

That's the one. There wasn't very much Trek-fic in those days so these two were better than some, but as Trek itself began to spin up again with the movies and so on, Marshak and Culbreath made a persistent nuisance of themselves with their Kirk-gets-raped fantasies and got told to "live long and prosper".

Over to you!

[ffutures]

In this late seventies novel there is a road linking past, present, and future, alternative worlds, etc. If you know how you can drive to it and end up anywhere and anywhen you want to. Name the book, the author, and one of the sentient computers the main protagonists use to navigate the roads.

[ffutures]

Clue 1 - the author is a multiple Hugo and Nebula winner, though not for this story.

Clue 2 - some fictional characters by other authors appear in the novel.

[Disembodied]

Oh dear, is this Robert A. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast? If so, one of the AIs is called the Gay Deceiver.

[Cody]

<chortles> Not one of his best novels!

[Malacandra]

Huh, I should have been reading it quicker - I picked up a secondhand copy of this dirt cheap a few months back and have got several pages into it, enough to know about the alternate worlds but not that there was a road involved.

[ffutures]

Oh dear, is this Robert A. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast? If so, one of the AIs is called the Gay Deceiver.

Nope - Even I wouldn't be that cruel.

Another clue - One of the author's Hugo-winning novels was to be filmed, but the project never reached fruition. The script and set designs were subsequently of interest to the CIA.

[spud42]

i quite liked the number of the beast... i did read it late teens or early 20's though.... time to revisit some childhood books i think.

[Disembodied]

Another clue - One of the author's Hugo-winning novels was to be filmed, but the project never reached fruition. The script and set designs were subsequently of interest to the CIA.

Aha! Roger Zelazny, then … which would mean the book is Roadmarks, and the two AIs are Les Fleurs du Mal ("Flowers") and Leaves of Grass ("Leaves").