Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 1:57 pm
Correct. I said it was easyspud42 wrote:Halting State a novel by Charles Stross.
Now's your turn.
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 1:58 pm
Good idea!Tichy wrote:This thread was fun. Can I reanimate it?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:58 pm
had no idea so i googled just to start things off... wont do it again unless it gets bogged down.Tichy wrote:Correct. I said it was easyspud42 wrote:Halting State a novel by Charles Stross.
Now's your turn.
ok here is my question.
the story is about human civilisation driven underground so far in the past that the protagonists dont know when or why. the main characters have a brush with the authorities and escape to the surface which is covered with robotic run farms and where they meet an alien.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:03 pm
Asimov's The Naked Sun?spud42 wrote:the story is about human civilisation driven underground so far in the past that the protagonists dont know when or why. the main characters have a brush with the authorities and escape to the surface which is covered with robotic run farms and where they meet an alien.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 9:29 pm
This reminded me of an polluted earth cleaned by robots and the robots kept the earthlings down below until they surfaced and some kind of coexisting society grew out of it.the story is about human civilisation driven underground so far in the past that the protagonists dont know when or why. the main characters have a brush with the authorities and escape to the surface
But my guess will be Logans Run
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 12:06 am
I'd guess it's Tumithak of the Corridors by Charles R. Tanner - published in 1932 but I think Asimov's adventure magazine reprinted it in the eighties.
http://www.charlesrtanner.com/TumithakO ... ridors.htm
http://www.charlesrtanner.com/TumithakO ... ridors.htm
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:20 pm
sorry been away for a while. no,no and no
this is less mainstream . first clue is a quote from a review...
this is less mainstream . first clue is a quote from a review...
Earth, 2000 years after the final holocaust which drove man deep underground; a ghostly, deserted planet peopled only by the diligent robots who, century after century, silently harvest grain which no man will eat.
Up into this eerie world comes Mel, a questioning young Roamer who has disobeyed the Law which says he must never venture into or beyond the Lost Levels. Together with three companions, and a companion not of this Earth, Mel takes on the awesome task of freeing human beings from the tyranny imposed on them by their remote ancestors; of justifying the agonized cry of Barney as he died in a Forbidden Level: "I am a man! Everything is for man!"
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:30 pm
The anime Gurren Lagan?
Some tip?
EDIT: I found the title just by searching an exact phrase from the review... I won't say it. Some other could guess it by other means
Some tip?
EDIT: I found the title just by searching an exact phrase from the review... I won't say it. Some other could guess it by other means
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 11:21 am
well this one is from left field as the yanks tend to say so to keep this thread rolling post your answer...
all i ask is have you heard of the author and some of his other very fine books?
p.s. it was the barney line wasnt it?
all i ask is have you heard of the author and some of his other very fine books?
p.s. it was the barney line wasnt it?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 10:22 pm
Ok. It was Kuldesak by Richard Cowper.spud42 wrote:well this one is from left field as the yanks tend to say so to keep this thread rolling post your answer...
all i ask is have you heard of the author and some of his other very fine books?
This author was unknown to me.
This one could be a bit harder: "When your brain controls your body remotely, you have to deal with lags"
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 4:19 am
Avatar? 
(Nevr saw the movie)
(Nevr saw the movie)
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 4:37 am
You didn't miss out on anything. Too long, too predictable. Everyone dies except the two main protagonists.Rxke wrote:Avatar?
(Never saw the movie)
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:43 am
Just like Nightmare on Elm Street... and every slasher horror... Oh! I just realized that Avatar is a western in space with blue indians that ends like a slasher.Wildeblood wrote:You didn't miss out on anything. Too long, too predictable. Everyone dies except the two main protagonists.Rxke wrote:Avatar?
(Never saw the movie)
No. It's not Avatar.
Tip: the brain was removed from the body
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:55 am
Sounds *very much* like one of the thought experiments in Gödel Esher Bach... But that's hardly science fiction, more science philosophy...
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:08 am
I've no idea what story you're referring to, and I also immediately thought of Logan's Run for the previous one.
So, a pointless digression...
So, a pointless digression...
I suppose most people nowadays recognize that phrase only as a movie title. It was only recently that I realized it's an allusion to the assassination of John Kennedy. If I were asked where that happened, I would have answered Dealy Plaza. I only learned from a TV documentary a few years ago the street is in fact Elm Street.Tichy wrote:Just like Nightmare on Elm Street..