Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:35 am
Is it "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes? 
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: 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?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: 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...*)
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: 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
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
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:06 pm
Indeed, although I'm trying avoid a go that can just be Googled, at least without having to put a few clues together first.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...*)
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:47 am
Next clue - the author was a Kindred spirit.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: 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.
Yes, I googled, But I knew that Phillip K Dick's middle name was Kindred. So There.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:37 am
Yup, as first published in the April 1966 edition of the magazine.
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: 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.
It's from a SciFi film, but does have a link to Star Trek.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:45 pm
Damn - the filename of the image tells me nothing!Selezen wrote:OK, something slightly different. What's this?
It's from a SciFi film, but does have a link to Star Trek.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: 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 ...
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:47 pm
Looks like a pump. An artificial heart perhaps? 
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:23 pm
Picard had an artificial heart but I don't think we ever saw it...
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:28 am
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.DaddyHoggy wrote:Picard had an artificial heart but I don't think we ever saw it...
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!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: 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?