Oolite Bulletins

Huh. I'm old enough to remember the latter years of Jeff Hawke but I don't remember Chalcedon. Googling, it turns out he was a recurrent villain.

Also from the Wikipedia article, I see that in 1959 the strip predicted the first Moon landing ten years in the future -- and got the date right to within two weeks.

this should be easy so i will start with a single clue.....

the gun club

title and author please.

spud42 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2017 8:15 am

this should be easy so i will start with a single clue.....

the gun club

title and author please.

From The Earth To The Moon, Jules Verne

see,i said it was easy..... im actually reading the ebook on my phone in the down time between service calls at work....lol

i think the kipper is turning..... glad to get rid of it....

spud42 wrote:

...reading the ebook on my phone...

If you like Verne, there's a good translation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas here (though I don't know if it's readable on a phone).

Here we go then:

This debut end-of-civilisation novel (he wrote some others too) featured, among other things, the UK government ordering the H-bombing of British cities for the greater good.

That sounds like John Christopher's The Death of Grass …

Disembodied wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2017 2:45 pm

That sounds like John Christopher's The Death of Grass …

Hoo boy, that was quick. Over to you. *hands over increasingly dubious kipper*

Oh, it's starting to come apart … maybe sellotape?

Anyway, while I get busy with that, here's the question. Name the author and short story: a professional photographer begins to experience troubling hallucinations.

The hallucinations started after the photographer was hired to photograph examples of an American style of architecture.

The Gernsback Continuum, William Gibson?

That's the one! Back to you. Sorry about the kipper.

<Smivs is starting to feel a bit guilty about the Kipper.....>

*bags up the kipper in a ziploc to keep it from decaying any more and at least bottle the smell up a bit*

Short story name and author:

A student who dabbled unwisely in the occult has to trick a demon into undertaking a task that will take an infinitely long time to complete.

First clue: We're talking about mathematical concepts here.