More on the clues
TMWMM - Story - Late 1950s, American author, Hugo Award nominee.
TIWUaSMwT - Film (a reversal of this plot, trying to keep someone alive who was historically killed) - 1970s, Not English language, humour
TLSfE - Novel - 1960s, American author, begins in an alternate history.
MH - Novel - 1990s, British author
SD - TV series - Late 1990s, American
Two of these involve Hitler!
Science Fiction Trivia
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TIWUaSMwT - Film (a reversal of this plot, trying to keep someone alive who was historically killed) - 1970s, Not English language, humour
How did this get a 7.1/10 rating on IMDB? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213322/
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
it took a while to find this and only because of the unusual title....
not seen it and after reading the plot i think i will give it a miss...lol
How did this get a 7.1/10 rating on IMDB? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213322/
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
it took a while to find this and only because of the unusual title....
not seen it and after reading the plot i think i will give it a miss...lol
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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OK, one to Spud for a very silly time travel film with plot by SF author Josef Nesvadba, which amused a lot of SF fans when he was guest of honour at a British convention in 1980-ish. Watch out for the reversed video title sequence and the impressive number of accidental deaths the hero causes while trying to prevent Hitler from being saved. It's free to watch on Youtube, but the subtitles are a pretty dire translationspud42 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:50 amTIWUaSMwT - Film (a reversal of this plot, trying to keep someone alive who was historically killed) - 1970s, Not English language, humour
How did this get a 7.1/10 rating on IMDB? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213322/
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
it took a while to find this and only because of the unusual title....
not seen it and after reading the plot i think i will give it a miss...lol
https://youtu.be/tVBPNfKfgNo?si=QEKp7rlTSF5X3liM
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Is that a good thing or a bad thing?ffutures wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:21 pmIt's free to watch on Youtube, but the subtitles are a pretty dire translation
https://youtu.be/tVBPNfKfgNo?si=QEKp7rlTSF5X3liM
EDIT : Downloading ; I may live to regret this.
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"Speaking as an outsider, what do you think of the human race?" (John Cooper Clark - "I married a Space Alien")
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Meanwhile, does anyone have any more answers?
Let's expand the remaining clues again...
TMWMM - Story - Late 1950s, American author, Hugo Award nominee. The last word of the title is the name of a historically important figure.
TLSfE - Novel - 1960s, American author, begins in an alternate history. Religion plays a large part in the story, and space travel is an important part of the story.
MH - Novel - 1990s, British author. A fairly grim plot from an author best known as a humorist.
SD - TV series - Late 1990s, American. The pilot episode is most relevant, and uncannily parallels one of the incidents from a Tom Clancy novel published only four years earlier (yes, I'm being sarcastic). Some alien technology is involved.
Let's expand the remaining clues again...
TMWMM - Story - Late 1950s, American author, Hugo Award nominee. The last word of the title is the name of a historically important figure.
TLSfE - Novel - 1960s, American author, begins in an alternate history. Religion plays a large part in the story, and space travel is an important part of the story.
MH - Novel - 1990s, British author. A fairly grim plot from an author best known as a humorist.
SD - TV series - Late 1990s, American. The pilot episode is most relevant, and uncannily parallels one of the incidents from a Tom Clancy novel published only four years earlier (yes, I'm being sarcastic). Some alien technology is involved.
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Sorry, I was remembering the plot of this one wrong, it's time travellers trying to STOP an assassination. The assassins are not time travellers. If anyone can figure this one out I'll still accept it as an answer since the error is my fault.
Or do people want to throw the towel in on this and have another question, since we really haven't got very far with it?
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the last few questions about killing and assinations is a bit off... i think we have done enough of that...
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OK... given the lack of response and general apathy that seems to have set in I'm going to halt this round here and set another question - apologies that I picked a theme that people didn't like.
The answers to the clues I gave
TMWMM - Story - Late 1950s, American author, Hugo Award nominee. The last word of the title is the name of a historically important figure.
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed by Alfred Bester. It turns out that trying to change history just breaks your connection to the real world.
TLSfE - Novel - 1960s, American author, begins in an alternate history. Religion plays a large part in the story, and space travel is an important part of the story.
The Last Starship from Earth by John Boyd - starts off in a world where Christ was executed by crossbow, time travellers want to change history and eliminate him altogether and get it a little wrong.
MH - Novel - 1990s, British author. A fairly grim plot from an author best known as a humorist.
Making History by Stephen Fry (of Fry and Laurie) - an attempt to stop Hitler being born works, but the result is not good.
SD - TV series - Late 1990s, American. The pilot episode is most relevant, and uncannily parallels one of the incidents from a Tom Clancy novel published only four years earlier (yes, I'm being sarcastic). Some alien technology is involved.
Seven Days - The pilot episode featured an attempt to stop the assassination of the US president (by crashing a plane containing nerve gas into the White House. They use time travel to stop it, but it turns out there's a second team of assassins and they have to make another time trip to stop that one too. Tom Clancy used the idea (without time travel or nerve gas) a few years earlier in Debt of Honor
OK, so we want another question that has nothing to do with assassination, and I think we need to give time travel a miss for a while too, although I will accept time travel stories if they are valid answers to the question below:
Let's have five works of science fiction (books, films, TV, comics, whatever) that feature characters returning from the dead. It needs to be an important part of the story, but it doesn't have to be the be-all and end-all of the plot. Death must be real and apparently permanent - no comas, mistaken identity, stunt doubles, etc. unless they are unusually convincing, funny, or both.
For example, if the Harry Potter series was SF the multiple returns of Voldemort would definitely qualify, as would Harry's own return at the end of the series.
Usual rules - no two from the same author / fictional universe, and please leave a few hours between one answer and the next to give others a chance to participate.
The answers to the clues I gave
TMWMM - Story - Late 1950s, American author, Hugo Award nominee. The last word of the title is the name of a historically important figure.
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed by Alfred Bester. It turns out that trying to change history just breaks your connection to the real world.
TLSfE - Novel - 1960s, American author, begins in an alternate history. Religion plays a large part in the story, and space travel is an important part of the story.
The Last Starship from Earth by John Boyd - starts off in a world where Christ was executed by crossbow, time travellers want to change history and eliminate him altogether and get it a little wrong.
MH - Novel - 1990s, British author. A fairly grim plot from an author best known as a humorist.
Making History by Stephen Fry (of Fry and Laurie) - an attempt to stop Hitler being born works, but the result is not good.
SD - TV series - Late 1990s, American. The pilot episode is most relevant, and uncannily parallels one of the incidents from a Tom Clancy novel published only four years earlier (yes, I'm being sarcastic). Some alien technology is involved.
Seven Days - The pilot episode featured an attempt to stop the assassination of the US president (by crashing a plane containing nerve gas into the White House. They use time travel to stop it, but it turns out there's a second team of assassins and they have to make another time trip to stop that one too. Tom Clancy used the idea (without time travel or nerve gas) a few years earlier in Debt of Honor
OK, so we want another question that has nothing to do with assassination, and I think we need to give time travel a miss for a while too, although I will accept time travel stories if they are valid answers to the question below:
Let's have five works of science fiction (books, films, TV, comics, whatever) that feature characters returning from the dead. It needs to be an important part of the story, but it doesn't have to be the be-all and end-all of the plot. Death must be real and apparently permanent - no comas, mistaken identity, stunt doubles, etc. unless they are unusually convincing, funny, or both.
For example, if the Harry Potter series was SF the multiple returns of Voldemort would definitely qualify, as would Harry's own return at the end of the series.
Usual rules - no two from the same author / fictional universe, and please leave a few hours between one answer and the next to give others a chance to participate.