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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:43 pm
by 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!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:58 pm
by Gimbal Locke
Zieman wrote: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!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:34 pm
by Zieman
Oo-kay!
Who is Marmalade?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:10 pm
by Zieman
Clue time:
He's sort of a messenger & guide in this story, where he isn't really the protagonist.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:21 am
by Cody
This question is nagging away at me... I'm sure that I know the damn answer, but it eludes me!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:36 am
by Colonel Wasabi
me too......
Hmmmm - can't dig anything out - but there's something in the back of my mind !
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:53 am
by Tricky
The Google-Fu says "Milky Way Marmalade" as the book and the character is "Caffrey Quark". A Douglas Adams type of book.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:04 am
by Cody
Ha... I'd considered that one the other day, but dismissed it as I've never read it!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:33 pm
by Zieman
Nope, not "Caffrey Quark".
Hint:
If you know the story, you know who Marmalade is.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:34 pm
by Cody
Marmalade is The Beancounter's Cat... yes?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:41 pm
by Zieman
El Viejo wrote:Marmalade is The Beancounter's Cat... yes?
Yes indeed.
Congrats & over to you!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:04 pm
by 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.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:43 pm
by Gimbal Locke
El Viejo wrote: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?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:47 pm
by Cody
Gimbal Locke wrote:El Viejo wrote: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!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:21 pm
by Cody
Another character in this tale is an archaeologist, excavating ruins on Mars... searching for the past that he cannot remember.