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Cody wrote: Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:21 am
Meanwhile, have a listen.
You have seen that the link contains the answer, haven't you? And you just play with us, don't you?
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Moi? Perish the thought! Set a question to which one doesn't know the answer? Neat idea!


I suppose I've got to think of a question now, yes?
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Yes amigo! 8)
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Okay, an easy one: name the song, name a popular method of space travel.
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"Sail Away" on a Solar Sail.
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<grins> Keep 'em coming!

I was thinking interstellar travel, though I suppose the method in question could be used in-system.
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Clue the first (cryptic): over five hundred split (10)
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Cody wrote: Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:05 pm
Clue the first (cryptic): over five hundred split (10)
Overdrive - Over D (500 in Latin numerals) Rive (split)

Except that's 9 letters, not 10!
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You got the Latin - now you need a bit of Greek!
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Hyperdrive?
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Give the man a coconut! Hyperdrive it is! The track being by Jefferson Starship - '70s hippy tosh at its finest!
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I presume it's me then... OK, 1960s Hugo nominee SF novel with fantasy overtones (or fantasy novel with SF overtones) in which the hero sets out on a quest for the Egg of the Phoenix. Title and author, please.
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Robert Anson Heinlein Glory Road.

no google read it last month.... working my way through Heinlein alphabetically on my Ebook reader....
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
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Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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Absofragginglutely - well done, especially since most searches on Egg of the Phoenix come up with RPG modules, Harry Potter fanfic, etc.

I had this cover illustration

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My mother was not amused...

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Lets try this.
A crew and colonists land on a planet of hostile indigenous races. the crew ( over time) develop technology to transfer the soul to a new body. they set themselves up as gods to the many generations of colonists who they keep at a medieval technology level.

book title and author please.
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
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