Science Fiction Trivia

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:50 pm

Zieman wrote:
R. Daneel Oliwaw

That's the one!!! Olivaw though isn't it? (now I've seen it)

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:53 pm

I'm the exact same situation concerning my Foundation and Robot -novels as DaddyHoggy, so I have to rely on my (nowadays increasingly faulty) memory...

Next in line: Giskard (a robot which - or who - became incapacitated by not upholding the first law throught inaction in favor of the then new zeroth law)

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:56 pm

Giskard it is, though he was too modest to admit it. (He said that he and Daneel came up with it together)

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:04 pm

Whee!

My turn:

What happened to Sandra Voi?

(Not just: "she died" - What were the circumstances?)

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:48 pm

I haven't read a thing by Alastair Reynolds. Does he write well?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:55 pm

Lucidor wrote:
I haven't read a thing by Alastair Reynolds. Does he write well?

I recently discovered Alastair Reynolds - Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days to be precise (two vaguely related novellas wrapped up in a single cover) - his style is excellent and I will be adding other titles that exist within his Revelation Space Universe to my book collection.

However, while I know the name of Sandra Voi - I have no idea how she died!

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:50 am

I'll have to check those out then. It's hard to find good scifi.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:34 am

Ooh I know! She is killed by robot sandworms on Mars that shouldn't be there- (at that spot, at least) it was a set-up to derail peacetalks.

(Read virtually everything of Reynolds, and fear the day in the not to distant future when I will have read all that has been published...)

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:41 am

Correct!

Your turn.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:49 am

Yay!

(Kee-rap... A question....

)

Errrrr....

Which reasonably well-known actor played Gnomen in one of the film adaptations of "Nightfall" (from Asimov)

Tip: he also plays in Kill Bill

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:14 pm

David Carradine?

CptnEcho · Post by **CptnEcho** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:14 am

Lucidor wrote:
David Carradine?

Looks correct to me.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249840/

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:59 am

Oh wow, correct!

(Soory for belated reply, evening lessons)

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:40 am

Took it on the Kill Bill lead.

In which book series do we get to know the character Angus Thermopyle?

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:32 am

The Gap series.