Science Fiction Trivia

Post by **Disembodied** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:35 am

Is it "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes?

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:33 pm

Can't really call it a clue, given that all you said was that it was published in a magazine. It's a bit like saying that "this advert is in Vogue magazine". No author? No rough idea what it's about?

Mauiby de Fug · Post by **Mauiby de Fug** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:19 pm

Believe it or not, that clue is easier to google than more specific clues! Just need more details and it ought to be easy! (*Prepares to fail once the clue is given...*)

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:04 pm

Not Flowers for Algernon or Daniel Keyes.

Next clue - it has been republished under the same authors name 7 times (in collections and anthologies mainly), and as of today once adapted into a motion picture.

Editted to get the repub count right

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:06 pm

Mauiby de Fug wrote:
Believe it or not, that clue is easier to google than more specific clues! Just need more details and it ought to be easy! (*Prepares to fail once the clue is given...*)

Indeed, although I'm trying avoid a go that can just be Googled, at least without having to put a few clues together first.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:47 am

Next clue - the author was a Kindred spirit.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:31 am

"We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", by Phillip Kindred Dick.

Yes, I googled, But I knew that Phillip K Dick's middle name was Kindred. So There.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:37 am

Yup, as first published in the April 1966 edition of the magazine.

Your turn...

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:26 pm

OK, something slightly different. What's this?

It's from a SciFi film, but does have a link to Star Trek.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:45 pm

Selezen wrote:
OK, something slightly different. What's this?

It's from a SciFi film, but does have a link to Star Trek.

Damn - the filename of the image tells me nothing!

Post by **Disembodied** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:53 pm

It looks like Wall-E's prostate. Or what I imagine Wall-E's prostate looks like, anyway; I think that bit of the film ended up on the cutting room floor ...

CommonSenseOTB · Post by **CommonSenseOTB** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:47 pm

Looks like a pump. An artificial heart perhaps?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:23 pm

Picard had an artificial heart but I don't think we ever saw it...

maaarcooose · Post by **maaarcooose** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:28 am

DaddyHoggy wrote:
Picard had an artificial heart but I don't think we ever saw it...

We did. It looked like a plastic potato with valve holes in it. Q has hold of it when he makes Picard experience his past and changes the event that causes him to get the artificial heart.

And I couldn't resist this:

The blueprint piece looks like the drive core from something. I recognise the main central gyroscope part, but can't place it.

!m!

Post by **Disembodied** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:49 am

Films with a link to Star Trek ... I assume we're talking about a SF film that shares a writer or director or actor(s) with some version of Trek? Ooh! It's not the communicator from Galaxy Quest, is it?

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