Science Fiction Trivia

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first clue - none of them is Lionel Fanthorpe!

second clue - one has a connection to this site!

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I'm guessing that Robert Faulcon is a pseudonym for Robert Holdstock - which leads me to wonder if this is part of the origin of the Faulcon deLacy brandname …

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I'm guessing that Robert Faulcon is a pseudonym for Robert Holdstock - which leads me to wonder if this is part of the origin of the Faulcon deLacy brandname …

Exactly right - no idea on the brand name. Anyone got any ideas for the other four

Another clue - Harrison Denmark is NOT Harry Harrison

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no idea,have not read any of these "pseudonym" authors but google tells all.......
Edward P. Bradbury, pen name of Michael Moorcock (born 1939), English writer, i have read Moorcock but havent read any of his pen names..

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no idea,have not read any of these "pseudonym" authors but google tells all.......
Edward P. Bradbury, pen name of Michael Moorcock (born 1939), English writer, i have read Moorcock but havent read any of his pen names..

Exactamundo - it was a pen name Moorcock used for some John Carter pastiches.

OK, another clue

Harrison Denmark is/was American
Hank Dempsey is/was American
Tully Zetford is/was British

and another - in random (dice rolled) order their real initials are KB, RZ, and HH

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I'm guessing HH is Harry Harrison and RZ is Roger Zelazny … a British writer with initials KB isn't ringing any bells, though.

Is "Harrison Denmark" Harry Harrison, making "Hank Dempsey" Roger Zelazny?

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So close.. but I already said Harrison Denmark is NOT Harry Harrison. Right authors, wrong pseudonyms.

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Aha! Should have spotted that … so I assume that "Harrison Denmark" is Roger Zelazny, and "Hank Dempsey" is Harry Harrison?

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Exactly right. And I think that since nobody seems to have a clue about Tully Zetford, the pseudonym used by fairly prolific British author Ken Bulmer (160+ books under his own name and as Alan Burt Akers, Frank Brandon, Rupert Clinton, Ernest Corley, Peter Green, Adam Hardy, Philip Kent, Bruno Krauss, Karl Maras, Manning Norvil, Chesman Scot, Nelson Sherwood, Richard Silver, H. Philip Stratford and Tully Zetford) for his Ryder Hook space opera series, we'll chalk that up as a win for you.

I hurl the (unspecified word ending in ippper) in your general direction.

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I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of Ken Bulmer! Although checking on wikipedia, I think I must have read at least some of the editions of New Writings in SF which he edited in the 1970s. Every day's a school day!

New question: give me five named makes of projectile weapon, from different SF sources (books, films, TV, comics, games, whatever). For clarity, these weapons should fire solid physical objects, not beams or blobs of plasma. They should also have some sort of brand name: the black-powder-and-bamboo contraption cobbled together by Captain Kirk would not count. Neither would e.g. a Na'vi bow and arrow from Avatar, being a type of projectile weapon, not a make.

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start you with

Stargate FN P90

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Stargate FN P90

I'll allow it, as the P90 is "proven alien-fighting technology", but - to avoid people pitching Colt .45s from Westworld, artillery pieces used to destroy Martian war machines, etc. - all future suggestions should be fictional!

[Cody]

... all future suggestions should be fictional!

Damn, I was going to mention a replica of a weapon from a bygone age!


Okay... how about the Fauchon-Oliphant Railgun?

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LAPD 2019 Blaster Blade Runner

The sidearm carried by Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) in the film Blade Runner is a specially constructed handgun prop that has been referred to unoffically by several names including "The PKD" (Steyr Pflager Katsumata Series-D Blaster, a name coined by Rick Ross to have the same abbreviation as Philip K. Dick), "2019 Detective Special", "M2019 Blaster", or "LAPD 2019 Blaster". This prop was constructed from parts of a Steyr Mannlicher .222 Model SL and a Charter Arms Bulldog revolver. Side covers were added to cover the Bulldog's cylinder, and different bolt heads and screw heads were used to offer an illusion of knobs and controls. The gun was also equipped with at least 6 LED lights, though not all of them worked throughout the production.

i had no idea the P90 was a real gun...live and learn, i hope this is more acceptable?

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The LAPD 2019 Blaster from Blade Runner is fine. Thats two …