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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:04 am
by JazHaz
JazHaz wrote:JazHaz wrote:
My question is simply: Who wrote "Shards"?
It should be a difficult one to find on Google, being just a single word title!
OK will give you something to help narrow it down. It's not a full length novel, but a short story. And it's by a major author.
Here's another clue, it was first published in 1962.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:02 am
by Disembodied
The closest I can get is Robert Sheckley, whose collection of short stories Shards of Space was published in 1962 ... but I can't find a story in that collection called "Shards"!
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:53 am
by Cody
'Shards' seems to be a popular title with authors.
I'll have another go... Brian Aldiss.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:25 am
by Zieman
Sounds oddly familiar, but can't get the hang of it - I'll guess Kurt Vonnegut.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:47 am
by JazHaz
El Viejo wrote:'Shards' seems to be a popular title with authors.
I'll have another go... Brian Aldiss.
At last! Brian Aldiss is correct!
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:03 pm
by Cody
Can’t think up a good question right now, so I’ll throw an anagram at you.
Re-arranged, this is the title of a well known fifties sci-fi book by a well known author:
‘Catch the lame ronin sir’
Can anybody solve it without any clues?
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:57 pm
by Zieman
Hey!
I read this book a few weeks ago, it's
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, right?
At least the anagram fits
.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:02 pm
by Cody
'In maze' gets it right.
Your turn sir.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:32 pm
by Zieman
A good one
- implemented!
As for a question... as usual, I've had several *good* ones ready, but now that it's my turn, I can't remember any
...
This will have to do:
Name the book and author, the hint is: a version of Earth exists where the Second World War didn't happen.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:55 pm
by JazHaz
Zieman wrote:
Name the book and author, the hint is: a version of Earth exists where the Second World War didn't happen.
Don't think this is right, but I will guess:
Vinland The Dream, by Kim Stanley Robinson?
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:11 am
by Rxke
Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:48 am
by Zieman
Ah, it was an easy one again
.
Rxke got it, your turn.
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:58 am
by Rxke
Problem with winning a trivia-question, is you have to come up with one yourself...
I consider this one a classic, no idea if I'm alone in this, we'll see:
Title and author of the book wherein a scientist goes crazy after losing his wife and kids in a Irish terrorist bombing... and in revenge creates a rather 'novel' and hence very effective disease to wipe out humans.
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:15 am
by Commander McLane
I seem to remember this (or something very similar) as a movie plot. But I couldn't say which movie...
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:19 am
by Rxke
I don't think it has been made into a film.
Let's make this a bit more Google-friendly: the guy was a molecular biologist.
aaaand was nominated for a Locus Award for best science fiction novel but lost to Isaac Asimov’s novel Foundation's Edge. (Got that last piece of info from Wikipedia)