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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:56 pm
by ffutures
first clue - none of them is Lionel Fanthorpe!
second clue - one has a connection to this site!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 3:00 pm
by Disembodied
I'm guessing that Robert Faulcon is a pseudonym for Robert Holdstock - which leads me to wonder if this is part of the origin of the Faulcon deLacy brandname …
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 7:32 pm
by ffutures
Disembodied wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 3:00 pm
I'm guessing that Robert Faulcon is a pseudonym for Robert Holdstock - which leads me to wonder if this is part of the origin of the Faulcon deLacy brandname …
Exactly right - no idea on the brand name. Anyone got any ideas for the other four
Another clue - Harrison Denmark is NOT Harry Harrison
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:35 am
by spud42
no idea,have not read any of these "pseudonym" authors but google tells all.......
Edward P. Bradbury, pen name of Michael Moorcock (born 1939), English writer, i have read Moorcock but havent read any of his pen names..
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 8:36 pm
by ffutures
spud42 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:35 am
no idea,have not read any of these "pseudonym" authors but google tells all.......
Edward P. Bradbury, pen name of Michael Moorcock (born 1939), English writer, i have read Moorcock but havent read any of his pen names..
Exactamundo - it was a pen name Moorcock used for some John Carter pastiches.
OK, another clue
Harrison Denmark is/was American
Hank Dempsey is/was American
Tully Zetford is/was British
and another - in random (dice rolled) order their real initials are KB, RZ, and HH
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:08 am
by Disembodied
I'm guessing HH is Harry Harrison and RZ is Roger Zelazny … a British writer with initials KB isn't ringing any bells, though.
Is "Harrison Denmark" Harry Harrison, making "Hank Dempsey" Roger Zelazny?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 11:52 am
by ffutures
So close.. but I already said Harrison Denmark is NOT Harry Harrison. Right authors, wrong pseudonyms.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 12:12 pm
by Disembodied
Aha! Should have spotted that … so I assume that "Harrison Denmark" is Roger Zelazny, and "Hank Dempsey" is Harry Harrison?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 8:01 pm
by ffutures
Exactly right. And I think that since nobody seems to have a clue about Tully Zetford, the pseudonym used by fairly prolific British author Ken Bulmer (160+ books under his own name and as Alan Burt Akers, Frank Brandon, Rupert Clinton, Ernest Corley, Peter Green, Adam Hardy, Philip Kent, Bruno Krauss, Karl Maras, Manning Norvil, Chesman Scot, Nelson Sherwood, Richard Silver, H. Philip Stratford and Tully Zetford) for his Ryder Hook space opera series, we'll chalk that up as a win for you.
I hurl the (unspecified word ending in ippper) in your general direction.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:55 am
by Disembodied
I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of Ken Bulmer! Although checking on wikipedia, I think I must have read at least some of the editions of
New Writings in SF which he edited in the 1970s. Every day's a school day!
New question: give me five named makes of projectile weapon, from different SF sources (books, films, TV, comics, games, whatever). For clarity, these weapons should fire solid physical objects, not beams or blobs of plasma. They should also have some sort of brand name: the
black-powder-and-bamboo contraption cobbled together by Captain Kirk would not count. Neither would e.g. a Na'vi bow and arrow from
Avatar, being a
type of projectile weapon, not a
make.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 9:39 am
by spud42
start you with
Stargate FN P90
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:32 am
by Disembodied
I'll allow it, as the P90 is "
proven alien-fighting technology", but - to avoid people pitching Colt .45s from
Westworld, artillery pieces used to destroy Martian war machines, etc. - all future suggestions should be fictional!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:10 pm
by Cody
... all future suggestions should be fictional!
Damn, I was going to mention a replica of a weapon from a bygone age!
Okay... how about the Fauchon-Oliphant Railgun?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:33 am
by spud42
LAPD 2019 Blaster Blade Runner
The sidearm carried by Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) in the film Blade Runner is a specially constructed handgun prop that has been referred to unoffically by several names including "The PKD" (Steyr Pflager Katsumata Series-D Blaster, a name coined by Rick Ross to have the same abbreviation as Philip K. Dick), "2019 Detective Special", "M2019 Blaster", or "LAPD 2019 Blaster". This prop was constructed from parts of a Steyr Mannlicher .222 Model SL and a Charter Arms Bulldog revolver. Side covers were added to cover the Bulldog's cylinder, and different bolt heads and screw heads were used to offer an illusion of knobs and controls. The gun was also equipped with at least 6 LED lights, though not all of them worked throughout the production.
i had no idea the P90 was a real gun...live and learn, i hope this is more acceptable?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:01 pm
by Disembodied
The LAPD 2019 Blaster from Blade Runner is fine. Thats two …