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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:26 pm
by Rxke
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?
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:54 pm
by DaddyHoggy
That should be Arthur C. Clark, but I can't remember if its 2001 or 2010 or both - aarrgghh!
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:02 pm
by Rxke
mmmm...
Well allright, you're right. (It's the second novel)
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:07 pm
by DaddyHoggy
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?
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:02 pm
by Rxke
Greg Bear, novel plays in 2047 towards 2048....
But the title escapes me....
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:12 pm
by Cody
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'?
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:37 pm
by Rxke
I would have never guessed that! One of the few novels I read in Dutch, so another title...
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:13 pm
by Lucidor
Is it common for Belgians to know dutch?
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:34 pm
by Rxke
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:06 pm
by Lucidor
Ok. I thought flemish was a language different from dutch.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:13 pm
by DaddyHoggy
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:32 pm
by Cody
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?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:32 pm
by Cody
Two clues:
This character (who appears in more than one novel) hijacked a Starship.
His collected sayings were later published as a standalone book.
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:49 pm
by Lucidor
It sounds kind of like something Han Solo would say.
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:49 pm
by CheeseRedux
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.)