For information and discussion about Oolite.
https://bb.oolite.space/
Would that be the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel from Kansas University?Disembodied wrote:The award which this novel won was first established in 1973, and is associated with an American university.
That's the award, right enough! To summarise the three most important clues so far:Gimbal Locke wrote:Would that be the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel from Kansas University?Disembodied wrote:The award which this novel won was first established in 1973, and is associated with an American university.
But I still have no clue for the correct answer, even after going trough the list of winners in the above link.
Disclaimer: I used Google-Fu to find this.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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That's the one - over to you!Gimbal Locke wrote:The Alteration by Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) - John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1977.
No shame in it ... I see this as a test of google skills as well as SF trivia!Gimbal Locke wrote:Disclaimer: I used Google-Fu to find this.
Ah yes... those were the days!Rxke wrote:When we wuz young, these trivia questions were actually pretty dang trivial, we didn't need no newfangled gizmo's like Google-fu!
Zieman wrote: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)?
Orphu rumbled his deep laugh—tones that always made Mahnmut think of aftershocks from a Europan icequake or follow-on waves to a tsunami.
