Science Fiction Trivia

[Rxke]

asimov, hmmm, I've read waaaay too much short stories in too short a time-span, waaaay back when I had time to spare!

[Gimbal Locke]

As nobody seems to know (or remember this), Google-Fu kicks in:
pen-and-paper arithmetic

That is correct, in the future they will call it "graphitics".

From Asimov's The Feeling Of Power.

Over to Zieman!

[Zieman]

Oo-kay!

Who is Marmalade?

[Zieman]

Clue time:
He's sort of a messenger & guide in this story, where he isn't really the protagonist.

[Cody]

This question is nagging away at me... I'm sure that I know the damn answer, but it eludes me!

[Colonel Wasabi]

me too......

Hmmmm - can't dig anything out - but there's something in the back of my mind !

[Tricky]

The Google-Fu says "Milky Way Marmalade" as the book and the character is "Caffrey Quark". A Douglas Adams type of book.

[Cody]

Ha... I'd considered that one the other day, but dismissed it as I've never read it!

[Zieman]

Nope, not "Caffrey Quark".

Hint:
If you know the story, you know who Marmalade is.

[Cody]

Marmalade is The Beancounter's Cat... yes?

[Zieman]

Marmalade is The Beancounter's Cat... yes?

Yes indeed.
Congrats & over to you!

[Cody]

Good... it had been bugging me for days... onwards:

One character in this novel is a life-support specialist on a mining ship out in the asteroid belt.
The usual... title and author, please.

[Gimbal Locke]

One character in this novel is a life-support specialist on a mining ship out in the asteroid belt.
The usual... title and author, please.

"Misfit" by Heinlein?

[Cody]

One character in this novel is a life-support specialist on a mining ship out in the asteroid belt.
The usual... title and author, please.

"Misfit" by Heinlein?

Nope!

[Cody]

Another character in this tale is an archaeologist, excavating ruins on Mars... searching for the past that he cannot remember.