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Disembodied wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:38 am

spud42 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:33 am

Red Dwarf. Dave Lister

Dave Lister would definitely qualify. That makes three.

I think Rimmer would disagree with the "intelligent" criterion.

OK, another one - Second Ending by James White (1961). The hero is frozen because he has cancer (I think, it's a long time since I read it) and is revived several hundred years later to find he's the last man on earth, with robot nurses looking after him. They don't have much food etc. for him and all life is extinct thanks to a nuclear war, but he eventually finds some grass seeds in turn-ups of his old trousers, and the robots set to work to breed plants while he goes back into suspended animation. Several million years later he's woken because the entire planet is covered in a variety of grass species and the robots are sure that they can feed him - he lives with them for a while then decides that what he really wants is people, so he puts the robots to work trying to develop animal species from the plants. Several million more years later, and after some failures, they take him to another planet which has its own ecosystem with beautiful and surprisingly human-looking women who rather like him. Fade out to happy ending in which it's revealed that the "alien" world was actually seeded by the robots, the breeding experiment worked, and the robots are pleased that they have finally done everything the last human wanted so that they can now head off and transcend into godlike super-AIs without having to worry about looking after those nasty fleshy primitives.

OK, that isn't quite the way it was expressed, but there are several long (many millions of years) periods of suspended animation so I'm pretty sure it qualifies.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184 ... ond-ending

ffutures wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:52 pm

OK, another one - Second Ending by James White (1961). [...]

OK, that isn't quite the way it was expressed, but there are several long (many millions of years) periods of suspended animation so I'm pretty sure it qualifies.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184 ... ond-ending

Nice plot!

The beginning reminded me of Red Dwarf, the end more of The Last Question.

I like them all...

ffutures wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:52 pm

OK, another one - Second Ending by James White (1961).

Yes, that would definitely count. That's four. If anyone's struggling for others, one very long-running BBC scifi TV series (biddely-bum, biddely-bum, whooo-hoo …) has used this particular trope quite a lot …

RockDoctor wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:12 pm

Disembodied wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:38 am

spud42 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:33 am

Red Dwarf. Dave Lister

Dave Lister would definitely qualify. That makes three.

I think Rimmer would disagree with the "intelligent" criterion.

as if Rimmer is in a position to judge intelligence..lol Not the sharpest tool in the shed.

OK, since nobody else seems to want to do it I'll leap on the grenade - Silurians, from Doctor Who. Vast armies of them from millions of years ago, living in suspended animation in very deep bunkers. Every now and again some of them come to the surface, usually to wreak havoc or steal our women - sorry, that last is only Madame Vastra's love life, not a species-wide thing.

ffutures wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 6:33 pm

OK, since nobody else seems to want to do it I'll leap on the grenade - Silurians, from Doctor Who. Vast armies of them from millions of years ago, living in suspended animation in very deep bunkers. Every now and again some of them come to the surface, usually to wreak havoc or steal our women - sorry, that last is only Madame Vastra's love life, not a species-wide thing.

Bravely done there … the Silurians - along with their marine cousins the Sea Devils and at least one Ice Warrior - are indeed one of several reawakened ancient races from Doctor Who.

Back to you for the next question!

Disembodied wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 7:59 pm

Back to you for the next question!

Oh, I accidentially bumped into a quizz show?

<sits down and starts munching chips>

OK, since we went there with my last answer, let's have five SF works or settings in which humans have alien (or otherwise non-human but NOT robotic / android) sexual partners. To make it a little harder, let's have works where they're actually married***. Meaningless Bonus points for what I can best describe as the "cute couple" factor.

*** Or in a committed long-term relationship, not just a quick one-night probe or something.

Usual rules - no two from the same creator or fictional universe, and only one answer per reply, please give others a little time to respond before posting again.

My example here is Madame Vastra and Jenny, a Silurian/Human lesbian married couple, from Doctor Who; since they're wildly popular they'd get the Cute Couple MBP. But since I've used this (and since it's way too easy) I'm ruling out the Who-verse completely including Torchwood, Sarah-Jane Adventures, etc.

My second example here is various Cylon / Human marriages from Battlestar Galactica. This would not be allowed because they're androids, not true aliens.

From Futurama: Kif Kroker, an Amphibiosan, who's married to Amy Wong.

Disembodied wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 10:06 am

From Futurama: Kif Kroker, an Amphibiosan, who's married to Amy Wong.

OK, that's definitely one, and I think qualifies for the "Cute Couple" MBP. Four to go!

ffutures wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 4:18 am

OK, since we went there with my last answer, let's have five SF works or settings in which humans have alien (or otherwise non-human but NOT robotic / android) sexual partners.

Would this one qualify?

hiran wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 8:58 pm

ffutures wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 4:18 am

OK, since we went there with my last answer, let's have five SF works or settings in which humans have alien (or otherwise non-human but NOT robotic / android) sexual partners.

Would this one qualify?

What on earth is this?

And I thought you said that you were going to sit quietly at the back munching on your crisps! What is this?!

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 9:22 pm

What on earth is this?

And I thought you said that you were going to sit quietly at the back munching on your crisps! What is this?!

The picture shows a human and a thermian in tight embrace.

Well, I ran out of chips.

Hehe lol, i liked that movie with the toolguy...