Science Fiction Trivia

[Yah-Ta-Hey]

crickets????!!!!!????

clue. time travel to the past to Beaker people. the "Reds" send a plane after them.. American Female writer....

1958... Andre Norton Time Traders. name of my anaconda.

[ffutures]

Your browser should be able to play an ogg - Waterfox/Firefox do.

It fired up something called "Rhythmbox" but - silence. Whatever.
I shall have to think of something ... {turns to bookshelf}

OK.
One day, the sun of an inhabited planet (one of many) rose, and it's core turned from degenerate hydrogen-helium to iron. This had terminal effects on the planet, and an expanding wave of other inhabited systems with the steamroller certainty of neutrinos sleeting through human space at the speed of light.

Author and book title.
Just for a change - does anyone have vaguely realistic ideas for building a "star killer" device.

This sounds a bit like Poul Anderson's Supernova (AKA Day of Burning) which is in his collection The Earth Book of Stormgate. I suspect it isn't the one you're looking for...

[RockDoctor]

This sounds a bit like Poul Anderson's Supernova (AKA Day of Burning) which is in his collection The Earth Book of Stormgate. I suspect it isn't the one you're looking for...

{SELF: adds books to "grab when seen" list. Unexpected side effect.}
Nope, any more suggestions?

[Disembodied]

Is it Iron Sunrise, by Charles Stross?

[RockDoctor]

Is it Iron Sunrise, by Charles Stross?

Give the man the mike!

(NASA panel discussing the UT fly by. Up to about 2 pixel by 6 pixels now. Which is "What!!" So how is it rotating, or is it not rotating? Why no light curve?)

[Disembodied]

OK, hopefully a quick one - I'm going to be offline for a few days so may not be able to confirm the answer, so if anyone gets it before I'm back, just go ahead and claim the prize!

Name three SF bounty hunters, from three different universes (books, TV, film, etc.)

[ffutures]

Lobo - the DC universe especially Superman comics.
Boba Fett - Star Wars
Rick Deckard - Bladerunner

If nobody disagrees with any of these I'll post a question tomorrow evening.

[Disembodied]

I'm not away yet! Lobo and Boba Fett are fine, but I'd disallow Rick Deckard: he's a cop with the LAPD, not a bounty hunter.

One more to get!

[ffutures]

I'm not away yet! Lobo and Boba Fett are fine, but I'd disallow Rick Deckard: he's a cop with the LAPD, not a bounty hunter.

One more to get!

OK - Johnny Alpha from Strontium Dog

[Cody]

I guess ffutures gets the prize - such as it is!

[ffutures]

Accepts poisoned chalice...

OK, let's see now (fx, cracks knuckles)

Let's have five books, films, TV series, comics or whatever with some sort of singularity event going on. No two from the same fictional universe please!

[cbr]

Let's post some movies I like

Event horizon
The black hole
Sunshine

[ffutures]

Let's post some movies I like

Event horizon
The black hole
Sunshine

OK, I wasn't actually thinking of that sort of singularity, but they certainly qualify. Two to go.

[RockDoctor]

Let's post some movies I like

OK, I wasn't actually thinking of that sort of singularity, but they certainly qualify. Two to go.

So, a technological singularity rather than one for the laws of physics. As, for example, Charlie Stross' Accelerando, and the subsequent Eschachachaton (speelung?) universe. But that's one technological singularity. (Strictly, I don't think Maester Stross has said that the two singularities are one, but I'm not sure either way.)
(A caveat : I don't think any of those movies actually starred a singularity, as at all times the implied singularity obeyed the Principal of Cosmic Censorship and stayed decently off-stage behind the curtain of an event horizon.)

[ffutures]

Yep - that's actually one of the examples I had in mind. But it could also be some sort of evolutionary singularity, e.g. a change in how people's minds work etc. One more to go.