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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:24 am
by Disembodied
Moonshadow, by J. M. DeMatteis.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:50 am
by marcusrg
Yes, that's it. One of the best comics I have read. Over to you.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:55 am
by Cody
Rats! Now I've got that Cat Stevens song running on a loop in my head - arrgh!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:14 pm
by marcusrg
@EV The comic was inpired by that song!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:23 pm
by Cody
marcusrg wrote:@EV The comic was inpired by that song!
Ahh...
Teaser and the Firecat was a good album (which Cat Stevens adapted into his children's book of the same name).
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:55 pm
by Disembodied
OK: what – according to one particular science-fiction sequence of short stories and novels – is causing our sun, and other stars, to age more quickly than they should?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:00 pm
by Rxke
palenkis?
edit: with whips)
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:00 pm
by Cody
Ooh, an easy one (I think): Photino Birds?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:47 pm
by Disembodied
El Viejo wrote:Ooh, an easy one (I think): Photino Birds?
Yup, EV gets it! Photino birds, it is. They're not bad, just non-baryonic ...
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:11 pm
by Cody
Name the character: he is a fiercely loyal and ruthless Admiral, infamous for sterilising a troublesome colony world in the cause of Imperial Reunification!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:41 pm
by Tricky
Admiral Lavrenti Kutuzov.
The Mote in God's Eye.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:45 pm
by Cody
Tricky wrote:Admiral Lavrenti Kutuzov. The Mote in God's Eye.
Yes indeed - and an excellent character he is too.
The Mote in God's Eye is probably one of the best sci-fi novels out there!
Over to you, sir!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:55 pm
by Tricky
Just found a book in my collection.
Parahuans
Which book and by whom.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:08 am
by Tricky
Ok Parahuans are a race in this book. The book was also first published in Analog under a different title.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:21 pm
by Cody
<resorts to Google> The Demon Breed by James Henry Schmitz?