Science Fiction Trivia

[spud42]

Ian Chesterton. his legs were paralysed. 1963 episode The Survivors.

i was just over 2 years old and my mum used to sit me down for it... the beginnings of a lifetime love of sci fi...

[Disembodied]

Who was the first person to be zapped by a Dalek, and what happened to them?

Alternative answer (what with time travel and all, the Tom Baker story "Genesis of the Daleks" is set before the William Hartnell story "The Daleks"): Ronson, a member of the Kaled scientific elite. Ronson turned against Davros and became the first live target to be shot by a Dalek. He briefly turned a bit negative and died (slumped onto a desk, so at least he didn't have to fall on the floor).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LcH-Lwlxs

[Smivs]

Well, in a sense you are both right!
However Ian Chesterton was the first person we saw get zapped, so that was the answer I was looking for.
Spud gets the ray gun and Big D gets the toilet plunger.

[Disembodied]

Ian Chesterton was the first person we saw get zapped, so that was the answer I was looking for.

I suspected as much … not least because my answer to the "and what happened to them?" part of the question was essentially "What do you think happened to them?" Ian Chesterton must be one of the very few people ever to survive being zapped by a Dalek …

[spud42]

ok, lets take a step back from time paradox's ...

another easy one.

show 5 alien personal weapons . pictures of said weapons will help..... optional...lol

[ffutures]

Will these do?

Bat'leth


Dalek Exterminator


Auton hand-gun


Noisy Cricket (pretty sure it's an alien design)


Lightsaber

[spud42]

the bat'leth was the first on my list...
and i approve of the rest.....

over to you ......

[ffutures]

What's the brightest star you see looking aft from the space liner Clara Pandy, and what's the context?

[Disembodied]

It's the solid wastes disposal trailer … from The Ballad of Halo Jones, by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson.

[ffutures]

Exactly right - your move!

[Disembodied]

OK: in Larry Niven's "Known Space" series of books and short stories, most forms of life in our region of the galaxy share a common ancestor. What is it?

[ffutures]

There are at least two answers. The Pak evolved nearer the galactic core and are the ancestral species for hominids including humanity, Ringworld dwellers, etc. But there are also a lot of species that evolved from the algae the Slavers used to seed a lot of planets. I don't know off-hand if the Pak come from this source or not.

[Disembodied]

The Pak are indeed the ancestral species for many hominids, including ourselves, but it's your second answer that I'm looking for: most organic life - including (probably) the Pak - evolved from Slaver food-yeasts.

Over to you!

[ffutures]

Which SF novel by which SF author mentions several other books including

The Hipcrime Vocab
You're an Ignorant Idiot
Better ? than ?
and You: Beast

[ffutures]

Which SF novel by which SF author mentions several other books including

The Hipcrime Vocab
You're an Ignorant Idiot
Better ? than ?
and You: Beast

Clues - the author was British, the book won the Hugo award in its year.