Science Fiction Trivia

[Gimbal Locke]

The award which this novel won was first established in 1973, and is associated with an American university.

Would that be the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel from Kansas University?

But I still have no clue for the correct answer, even after going trough the list of winners in the above link.

[Disembodied]

The award which this novel won was first established in 1973, and is associated with an American university.

Would that be the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel from Kansas University?

But I still have no clue for the correct answer, even after going trough the list of winners in the above link.

That's the award, right enough! To summarise the three most important clues so far:

The novel won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
The author's dead, and would not be thought of by most as a writer of science fiction.
The novel is set in an alternative timeline to our own.

[Gimbal Locke]

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) - John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1977.

Alternate parallel-world novels in The Alteration

Just as The Man in the High Castle features a book entitled The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, depicting a world (but not our own) in which the Allies won World War II, so The Alteration refers to an alternate history book by one Philip K. Dick entitled The Man in the High Castle. This book-within-a-book depicts a world in which Stephen II was never born, so the "Holy Victory" never happened, and Henry VIII became king legitimately. As in our world, Henry married Catherine of Aragon, but their son Henry, Duke of Cornwall survived infancy, becoming Henry IX in 1547. Martin Luther became "schismatic" in this world, as he did in our own, and a "Union" of former English North American colonies breaks away in 1848 instead of 1776.

Galliard, an alternate-universe counterpart to Keith Roberts's Pavane, is also mentioned in this tribute to the subgenre. (The Galliard and the Pavane were both forms of Renaissance dance.)

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Disclaimer: I used Google-Fu to find this.

[Rxke]

/grumbles/

When we wuz young, these trivia questions were actually pretty dang trivial, we didn't need no newfangled gizmo's like Google-fu! We had it all in our own heads, young man!"

[Disembodied]

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) - John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1977.

That's the one - over to you!

Disclaimer: I used Google-Fu to find this.

No shame in it ... I see this as a test of google skills as well as SF trivia!

[Cody]

When we wuz young, these trivia questions were actually pretty dang trivial, we didn't need no newfangled gizmo's like Google-fu!

Ah yes... those were the days!

[Fatleaf]

Even with 'Google Foo' I hardly get any of these

[Gimbal Locke]

New question: we are looking for a military spaceship, destroyer class, built by humans on or from Earth. It later became the flagship of a fleet attacking Earth.

[Zieman]

First thing that came to my mind:
EAS Agamemnon - Omega class Destroyer acting as Sheridan's flagship in Earth Alliance civil war 2261 in Babylon 5 (season 4)?

[Gimbal Locke]

First thing that came to my mind:
EAS Agamemnon - Omega class Destroyer acting as Sheridan's flagship in Earth Alliance civil war 2261 in Babylon 5 (season 4)?

Great mind! Over to you.

[Zieman]

Yay!

Here comes somewhat related (bonus points if you get the connection) two-parter:

Who is Orphu of Io and what really happens when he is rumbling?

[Wyvern Mommy]

Orphu rumbled his deep laugh—tones that always made Mahnmut think of aftershocks from a Europan icequake or follow-on waves to a tsunami.

[Zieman]

You got the rumble=laugh part right, what about the rest: who (or what) is Orphu of Io?

[Wyvern Mommy]

a somewhat crabby moravec ?

[Zieman]

Moravec indeed.

Your turn.