Science Fiction Trivia

[Tricky]

20000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne.

Stretching the sunken ship definition there and trapped people - prisoners.

[Cody]

20000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne.

A truly great tale, is that... but alas, not the tale I'm after.

[Rxke]

Goliath awaits (that was what I was thinking of when I blurted to raise the Poseidon )

[Cody]

Goliath awaits

I've never seen, nor heard of, that film... sounds interesting, though.

Clues the first (though there have been a couple of subtle, indirect clues already): the people trapped in the sunken ship manage to survive for generations.
Meanwhile, a fleet of alien spaceships is heading for Earth - this is a novel of first contact!

[Gimbal Locke]

"The Watch Below" by James White?

[Cody]

Indeed - and a right good tale, it is. Over to you, sir!

[Gimbal Locke]

Who (or what) sings "praise to the master" backwards, and for who (or what) is it being sung?

(Off-topic: is my question grammatically correct?)

[Cody]

(Off-topic: is my question grammatically correct?)

<nods>

[Gimbal Locke]

Who (or what) sings "praise to the master" backwards, and for who (or what) is it being sung?

I'm looking for a television adaptation of a short story by one of the SF giants.

The song was composed by a female British composer.

[Cody]

The song was composed by a female British composer.

Ah... that could only be Delia Derbyshire, goddess of electronic sound (I love her stuff, especially An Electric Storm), which leads me to: robots sing it to QT1 or 'Cutie'?
The short story is Reason by Asimov, and was adapted into an episode of Out of the Unknown entitled The Prophet (I think).

[Gimbal Locke]

Ah... that could only be Delia Derbyshire, goddess of electronic sound (I love her stuff, especially An Electric Storm), which leads me to: robots sing it to QT1 or 'Cutie'?
The short story is Reason by Asimov, and was adapted into an episode of Out of the Unknown entitled The Prophet (I think).

That is mostly correct. They do not sing it to QT1 ("the Prophet"), but to their power source ("Master") which is the god of the religion started by QT1.

The original song is here, a 2009 live version of the song with images of the show is here, Delia Derbyshire discusses the song here.

The complete lyrics are: "Praise to the Master/His Wisdom and His Reason/Praise to the Master/Forever and OO-OO-OO-OO/His Wis.../His Wis.../OO-OO-OO-OO."

Back to El Viejo.

[Cody]

An easy one: a rogue planet destroys Earth. A few hastily-built ships, carrying a few people, animals etc, make it to another rogue planet that has replaced Earth in its orbit. Title and author, please.

[Smivs]

Would this be "When Worlds Collide", by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer?

[Cody]

Yep... over to you!

[Smivs]

Blimey, that was easy! Back soon with a question.