Science Fiction Trivia

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:13 am

El Viejo wrote:
Rxke wrote:
Frank Herbert wrote some interesting stuff besides his Dune novels.
That's for sure... 'The Dosadi Experiment' is one of my favourites.

Whipping Star (part of a series I think), is excellent (in concept at the very least)

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:36 am

JazHaz wrote:
Ahruman wrote:
With such a ridiculously vague clue, it could only be Philip K. Dick, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale – except that’s a novella normally (only?) published in collections.
Yes, you got it too quick! The film of course was the Arnie flick, Total Recall.

Over to you Sir!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:26 pm

Oh, right. Er…

A man! A jungle! A species of insect men! Very long swords! And most frightening of all, seven sequels!

snork · Post by **snork** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:16 pm

Alan Dean Foster - Spellsinger ?

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:11 pm

Ahruman wrote:
Oh, right. Er…

A man! A jungle! A species of insect men! Very long swords! And most frightening of all, seven sequels!

Somehow this brings Edgar Rice Burroughs to my mind.
Alas, AFAIK there were no insect-men in his Mars -books or Pellucidar -books. A man! and Swords! do fit though...

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:19 am

Ahruman wrote:
A man! A jungle! A species of insect men! Very long swords! And most frightening of all, seven sequels!

I'll try The Eric John Stark Saga by Blue Tyson.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:06 am

Nope. Burroughs was definitely an influence, though.

Post by **Disembodied** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:33 am

Jandar of Callisto (and the seven sequels) by Lin Carter, I think!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:29 pm

Correct!

Post by **Disembodied** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:58 pm

All right!

OK, it's a Hugo-award-winning story. On a distant planet, an isolated human colony – perhaps the last human outpost in existence – struggles to survive. Scattered and divided, they fight amongst themselves, using strange cross-bred creatures for transport and combat. Long ago, humanity lost a war with an alien race: now every few generations the aliens harry the planet, capturing any humans they find and preventing the colony from developing. And it looks like they might be due to return ...

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:13 pm

Reminds me of Mick Farren's "Their Master's War"

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:33 pm

The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance?

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:13 am

Is it Brightness Reef by David Brin?

Post by **Disembodied** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:08 am

Commander McLane wrote:
The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance?

Commander McLane makes the score! It is indeed Jack Vance's gem of a novella The Dragon Masters.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:14 pm

Okay, me again.

Will a superweapon, controlled by three philanthropic individuals, be able to force the UK and the US to abstain from a bloody war against each other?

Author and title of this quite early SF-novel, please.