Science Fiction Trivia

[ffutures]

Hint - there are examples in very early (Victorian and pre WW1) SF, one of which has a proverbial title.

[Disembodied]

There's the H. G. Wells short story "In the Abyss", about an explorer in a bathysphere discovers a civilisation of aquatic frog-like creatures under the sea, five miles down.

[ffutures]

There's the H. G. Wells short story "In the Abyss", about an explorer in a bathysphere discovers a civilisation of aquatic frog-like creatures under the sea, five miles down.

That will do nicely, we have a winner!

The proverbial one I hinted at was also Wells, The Country of the Blind

And there are numerous other Victorian and Edwardian "hidden land" stories, the one I was especially thinking of was The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which has an underground civilization with strange powers based on the life-force Vril, which was immortalized by the name of Bovril. Would it be Boovril in the Ooliverse?

OK, over to Disembodied!

[Disembodied]

OK … let's have five races/entities which lie sleeping/dormant, where it would probably be better for the current local inhabitants if they remained that way. One per author/universe!

[cbr]

The creatures from the movie Pitch Black...

Facehuggers from Alien...

[Disembodied]

I'll give you the facehuggers from Alien - the alien eggs are definitely lying dormant until they're disturbed. I don't think we can count the creatures in Pitch Black, though: as far as I understand it these are just subterranean/nocturnal predators, allowed to roam a bit further than usual because of an eclipse. The humans in the movie don't do anything to wake them up.

[RockDoctor]

OK … let's have five races/entities which lie sleeping/dormant, where it would probably be better for the current local inhabitants if they remained that way. One per author/universe!

Chthluhuhuhu - though opinions differ on whether he is currently dreaming in R'yleh or golfing with his Tangerine meatpuppet at Mar Al Largo.

[ffutures]

The Space Vampires Blake's Seven encountered in one episode (think that was from a novel by Tanith Lee who wrote the episode).

And the space vampires that are recurring villains in Stargate Atlantis - more or less dormant until the Terran bods blow up one of their ships.

[Commander_X]

Reapers in Mass Effect 1,2, and 3.
They lay dormant for ~50k years, and then come to harvest all "intelligent organic life" in the galaxy.
They actually have a sort of relay (Citadel) to wake them up.

[Disembodied]

Ol' squidface, the revenant alien from the Blake's 7 episode "Sarcophagus", the Wraith from Stargate Atlantis, and the Reapers from Mass Effect are all good. That makes five - Commander_X is up next!

[Commander_X]

Will try to break the series of five, with a single answer question: book and author where humanity couldn't name a beast other than Monster.

[Commander_X]

Hints:
#1 - the book is translated to English.

[RockDoctor]

Ol' squidface,

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Such disrespect to the Nightmare to end all dreaming!
In other disrespect (found while looking for Sam Starfall without his environment suit), here's My Little Chthulhu Pony Daydream

[Commander_X]

#2 - the beast actually gets another name ... on occasions.

[Commander_X]

[bonus hint] #1.01 - the author "is guilty" (as some more traditional Englishmen would call his nation )

#3 - although the title doesn't suggest it, time travel is one of the main aspects of the book