Science Fiction Trivia

[Disembodied]

In which book would you find the ANR?

There's also the Army of the New Republic in Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction.

[SandJ]

Fatleaf! Question! We demand it!!

and something easier than "What links the cane holding up my tomatoes with a dead frog in Paraguay?" please

Your tomato canes are bamboo, a product we associate with China and import into Europe.

Another product traditionally imported from China to Europe was heroin.

A major smuggling group for heroin was the French Connection, which started smuggling it in the 1930s.

Frenchman Auguste Ricord, nicknamed Il Commandante, was one of the founding members of the French Connection. He was extradited to the US and served 10 years in gaol for heroin distribution. He then returned to Paraguay and died there in 1985.

Tomato cane --> deaf frog in Paraguay.

Incidentally, a UK Google search for [ "tomato cane" heroine ] returns Marti Caine on Wikipedia as its first hit.

The film, The French Connection, tells the story of US police department narcotics detectives.

The Tomato Frog comes from Madagascar, not Paraguay. But the Cane Toad does come from Paraguay; and anyone who has tried to sleep when they are barking all night will wish them dead.

[Tricky]

In which book would you find the ANR?

There's also the Army of the New Republic in Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction.

You win!!!

[Smivs]

Fatleaf! Question! We demand it!!

and something easier than "What links the cane holding up my tomatoes with a dead frog in Paraguay?" please

Your tomato canes are bamboo, a product we associate with China and import into Europe.

Another product traditionally imported from China to Europe was heroin.

A major smuggling group for heroin was the French Connection, which started smuggling it in the 1930s.

Frenchman Auguste Ricord, nicknamed Il Commandante, was one of the founding members of the French Connection. He was extradited to the US and served 10 years in gaol for heroin distribution. He then returned to Paraguay and died there in 1985.

Tomato cane --> dead frog in Paraguay.

Truly brilliant.

[Disembodied]

OK: name the novel that has the same title as the book being written by the protagonist of the novel, who has the same name as the author of the novel ... appropriately enough, the protagonist is caught in a time loop.

[Fatleaf]

Is it "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" Charles Yu.

[Disembodied]

Is it "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" Charles Yu.

It is indeed! The book also features a nonexistent but "ontologically valid" dog.

Fatleaf is up!

[Fatleaf]

>Fatleaf checks that Smivs isn't looking before he posts this question <

Which film links this symbol and a murderous computer that runs a city?

[Cody]

Logan's Run?

[Smivs]

>Fatleaf checks that Smivs isn't looking before he posts this question <

Oi! I saw that!

[Fatleaf]

>Fatleaf checks that Smivs isn't looking before he posts this question <

Oi! I saw that!

>chuckles<

And EV swoops in for the kill

Over to you.

[Cody]

Experiments in gravity control have an unfortunate result - the Earth gets stolen! Title and author, please.

[marcusrg]

I'm quite sure that's not the answer, but I found this interesting: Man who stole a planet, in mp3, as an old radio transmission: http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/my ... w-205.html which was created by Wylis Cooper: http://www.myoldradio.com/old-radio-epi ... anet-ep-58

[Cody]

Clue the first: the Earth is stolen through a wormhole, and finds itself inside a huge Dyson Sphere, along with dozens of other stolen planets.

[Tricky]

The only author I know that talked about Dyson spheres was Larry Niven.