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Science Fiction Trivia
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The scenic route, alright - that google search led me (amongst other places) to Huckleberry Finn, and thence into another sci-fi subject.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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It were the 7.6mm Spandaus that gave it away
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Germans are not fit to travel to the moon, men from Spain and old women however are.
Title & author of this short story, please?
Bonus points for the language and year in which it is written.
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New question:
Germans are not fit to travel to the moon, men from Spain and old women however are.
Title & author of this short story, please?
Bonus points for the language and year in which it is written.
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New hint:
The son of a witch and (presumably) a fisherman travels overseas and becomes the student of a famous scientist.
The son of a witch and (presumably) a fisherman travels overseas and becomes the student of a famous scientist.
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Somnium, by Johannes Kepler? If this is the answer, it was written in Latin and published in 1634, although I can't find an exact date for when it was written: between 1620 and 1630, probably.
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Grats, this is most correct.Disembodied wrote:Somnium, by Johannes Kepler? If this is the answer, it was written in Latin and published in 1634, although I can't find an exact date for when it was written: between 1620 and 1630, probably.
The first manuscript of Somnium circulated around 1611, which may have triggered the witchcraft trial against Kepler's mother (who was a herbalist). Kepler added hundreds of footnotes to the text after that incident to explain the allegories.
Online text of Somnium (in English with annotations).
According to Carl Sagan & Isaac Asimov this was the first SF story: fragment of COSMOS on Somnium.
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Here:Disembodied wrote:
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SandJ scores! WALL-E is hiding behind the Cyberbully:SandJ wrote:There's some old favourites on there. Who else remembers the Telly-witch from Will o' the Wisp (voices by Kenneth Williams)?
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<nudge> Who's up next?
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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Okay he's a quick easy one that will only take 2 seconds - consider it a race to see who posts first!
"Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain."
Name the film and the year it was released.
"Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain."
Name the film and the year it was released.
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That was George McFly in Back to the Future - 1985 ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
You named one of the films but I won't say which one, but you didn't say what year it was released! ![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
Edit: Smivs got the film right!
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Edit: Smivs got the film right!
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and added the date when he realised you'd asked for that as wellPleb wrote:You named one of the films but I won't say which one, but you didn't say what year it was released!
Edit: Smivs got the film right!
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