Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:00 am
Is it maybe Dome World, by Dean McLaughlin?
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Congrats! Never heard of the book but looking on line I think it's plausible. Hope you have successfully put this one out of its misery...
You Are Correct. The Chalice is yours. It might be a bit soggy and suffering from compression after spending all of that time at so obscure a depth.
Low hanging fruit time - Arthur C. Clarke's Dolphin Island (1963) is a juvenile novel entirely about a future project to study cetaceans, and numerous dolphins, a killer whale and (I think) a sperm whale make appearances in it. The dolphins especially are very important to the plot, eventually helping the hero to save most of the characters' lives.Disembodied wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:14 pmOK … keeping with the sub-aquatic theme: five instances of cetaceans (dolphins, orcas, whales) as characters/important plot points in SF - books, TV, film, gaming, etc.. Usual rules: one example per universe, MBPs available for anyone who mentions a named cetacean character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBL9dTwVi4I
Definitely. That makes four - one more takes the fishy prize …ffutures wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 7:09 pmFor a fourth have Startide Rising (1983) by David Brin, in which an exploratory ship largely crewed by uplifted dolphins is inadvertently caught up in a multi-species interstellar war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startide_Rising
Oh-kay, I think that'll do it! TBH I was expecting something rather more low-hanging, like So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, but this fits the bill. And have an MBP for coming up with a cetacean character with a name.ffutures wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 11:24 pmBunch of wimps...
Penelope (1963) by William C. Anderson
Another one I read in the sixties or early seventies - Penelope is a dolphin trained to speak English as part of a USAF research program. For reasons that now escape me the project is cancelled, and the scientist and an air force friend take her to Florida in a hearse equipped to accommodate her tank. I think it's borderline SF anyway.