Science Fiction Trivia

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:26 pm

Pak Protectors... I'd never been able to remember that!

Aaaargh! My turn...

okay, an easy one I think: in what novel does the main spaceship use a Sakharow drive?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:54 pm

That should be Arthur C. Clark, but I can't remember if its 2001 or 2010 or both - aarrgghh!

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:02 pm

mmmm...

Well allright, you're right. (It's the second novel)

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:07 pm

Most kind!

OK, in which novel does the idea of a Binary Millenium hover in the background of a multi-threaded (and dense!) story line, involving AI spaceships, nanotech and a murder plot?

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:02 pm

Greg Bear, novel plays in 2047 towards 2048....

But the title escapes me....

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:12 pm

Rxke wrote:
Greg Bear, novel plays in 2047 towards 2048....

But the title escapes me....

Thanks for the clue Rxke... is it 'Queen of Angels'?

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:37 pm

I would have never guessed that! One of the few novels I read in Dutch, so another title...

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:13 pm

Is it common for Belgians to know dutch?

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:34 pm

Lucidor wrote:
Is it common for Belgians to know dutch?

More than half the population of Belgium (roughly the northern part) is Flemish, or Dutch-speaking. Our accent is different, but our vocabulary is 99.999% identical (if we don't speak a local dialect, but the official language, that is.)

Flanders was part of The Netherlands, as recent as 1830.

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:06 pm

Ok. I thought flemish was a language different from dutch.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:13 pm

El Viejo wrote:
Rxke wrote:
Greg Bear, novel plays in 2047 towards 2048....

But the title escapes me....
Thanks for the clue Rxke... is it 'Queen of Angels'?

That's the one.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:32 pm

A great book…
I seem to recall a sequel but I‘m staying clear of Google and the Wiki for this thread… it’s more fun.

I’ll ask a nice easy one:

‘Push the button, throw the switch, cut the beam. Make it march.’

Which character said that, in which book by which author?

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:32 pm

Two clues:

This character (who appears in more than one novel) hijacked a Starship.
His collected sayings were later published as a standalone book.

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:49 pm

It sounds kind of like something Han Solo would say.

CheeseRedux · Post by **CheeseRedux** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:49 pm

I like how the clues are posted exactly 24 hours after the initial question.
I'm also wondering what will happen at 10:32pm Wednesday if noone's got it by then.

(Personally, I've no clue whatsover.)