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Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:23 am
by Tichy
It's Stanislaw Lem, but not Star Diaries. :)

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:22 am
by Zieman
Ach, I remember reading this story a few months ago, but don't remember its name.
Oh well, I should pay the local library a visit anyway. :)

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:54 am
by Tichy
Tip: It's a short story inside a short story (inside a book) :)

Extra points to whose who say the name of the stories :)

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:01 pm
by Tichy
Some stories of this book (but not this one) appears also in The Mind's I by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:46 am
by Tichy
The universe described by the book, is populated by robots.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:37 am
by Zieman
Whee, finally found time to visit our library.

I think I have these right, but the names may sound strange, because I'm translating story names from Finnish to English and these Finnish names are translations from English and German translations of the Polish original :shock: .

I think you're after The story of Prince Ferrens and Princess Kristalla from collection Mekamerone.
Here it gets a bit ambiguous, apparently the story was originally published in Cyberiada, but the book I saw it in was Stories and Fairy Tales of the Machine People (orig. Bajki robotów).

Oh yeah, Lem is one of the greates classic sci-fi writers, both on the wacky/humorous and on the other hand serious front.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:57 am
by Tichy
The book is The Cyberiad :)
The short story is Mimosh the self-begotten, which is inside Tale of the three storyteling machines of King Genius.
The story of Prince Ferrens and Princess Kristalla is also from the Cyberiad, but it isn's contained in the Tale of the three storytelling machine. :)
Lem is one of my favourite writers.

You guessed the book and the author.
Your turn. :)

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:44 pm
by Zieman
Yay, almost right, and correct enough. :wink:

Here goes:
Whose nickname is Ask?

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:04 pm
by Zieman
He likes to be first.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:24 pm
by Zieman
This guy was 800 years old when something happened.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:32 pm
by Selezen
I think you just set a record for the longest time between clues! Two weeks?

And I still have no idea...

:-)

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:45 pm
by Zieman
After that something he spent 300 years alone on a previously human-habited planet.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:47 pm
by Smivs
Plenty of clues, but I'm still clueless!

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:10 pm
by Zieman
This short story was first published, electronically, in 2011.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:26 pm
by Cody
<scatches head>