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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:51 pm
by cbr
Commander_X wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 5:09 pm
I'd start with an "en vogue" example, Foundation by Isaac Asimov (which Apple's Foundation managed to twist to an extremely poor resemblance to the original).
And I was thinking I had missed something in the books...
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:30 pm
by Disembodied
In book 2 of Jack Vance's "Demon Princes" series, The Killing Machine, Kirth Gersen manages to create vast amounts of counterfeit currency which he uses to ransom Alusz Iphigenia Eperje-Tokay (who has kidnapped herself, as the only way to keep herself free from the clutches of the second Demon Prince, Kokor Hekkus) from Interchange, a quasi-criminal organisation that acts as a clearing house for victims of kidnapping and slaver raids.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 7:36 pm
by ffutures
Disembodied wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:30 pm
In book 2 of Jack Vance's "Demon Princes" series, The Killing Machine, Kirth Gersen manages to create vast amounts of counterfeit currency which he uses to ransom Alusz Iphigenia Eperje-Tokay (who has kidnapped herself, as the only way to keep herself free from the clutches of the second Demon Prince, Kokor Hekkus) from Interchange, a quasi-criminal organisation that acts as a clearing house for victims of kidnapping and slaver raids.
Yes, that works; the forgery plot is a scam of sorts, and the way he gets the
materials he needs to make the forgeries is definitely a scam.
Two to go - and no more Vance!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2023 9:38 am
by spud42
James Bolivar diGriz goes by many aliases, including "Slippery Jim" and "The Stainless Steel Rat". He is a futuristic con man, thief, and all-round rascal.
The Stainless Steel Rat. Harry Harrison
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:19 pm
by ffutures
spud42 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 9:38 am
James Bolivar diGriz goes by many aliases, including "Slippery Jim" and "The Stainless Steel Rat". He is a futuristic con man, thief, and all-round rascal.
The Stainless Steel Rat. Harry Harrison
Yes indeed - one of the answers I've been waiting for, have a meaningless bonus point.
One to go, and no more Foundation and/or Asimov, Star Trek, Jack Vance or Harry Harrison.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 9:06 pm
by ffutures
Still one to go, and a huge amount of material out there. A little surprised that nobody has mentioned possibly the most famous example in golden age SF.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 6:12 pm
by ffutures
Hint: The Man Who...
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:50 pm
by ffutures
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 2:25 am
by spud42
the Moon. Heinlein.
quote from wiki cause i couldnt remember the name correctly .....
Delos David "D. D." Harriman, "the last of the Robber Barons", is obsessed with being the first to travel to—and possess—the Moon.
had to put this one out of its misery...lol
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:55 am
by Nite Owl
This whole time the only thing in my brain was the David Bowie song
The Man Who Sold The World. Did not fit the Genre well enough to be a legit answer though.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:00 pm
by ffutures
spud42 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 2:25 am
the Moon. Heinlein.
quote from wiki cause i couldnt remember the name correctly .....
Delos David "D. D." Harriman, "the last of the Robber Barons", is obsessed with being the first to travel to—and possess—the Moon.
had to put this one out of its misery...lol
Absofragginglutely - Harriman repeatedly cons his investors and the public to get his ship financed and the funding for future operations, including promising to take some stamps to the moon and frank them there (left out because they ended up weighing too much, and faked afterwards) and taking diamonds to the moon to salt lunar mineral samples.
You have the fifth answer, and inherit the poisoned chalice.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2023 12:36 pm
by spud42
well the next question.... hmmmmm.
how about 5 common place technologies/items that were written into sci fi as common place; decades before present use... evidence of both instances req.
this could be quick or take forever...lol
usual rules 1 per Author/universe.... yada yada yada.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2023 11:08 pm
by ffutures
Low hanging fruit coming right up...
Modern mobile phones - in written SF used by characters in Heinlein's Space Cadet (1948), on TV there are several predecessors, most notably the Star Trek communicator (1968), which was the size of a modern mobile at a time when the smallest real mobile phone was the size and weight of a brick.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:54 pm
by spud42
either reference will do but pick one. rule out all Heinlein or all startrek....
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:31 pm
by ffutures
Star Trek if I have to choose just one. Heinlein had several other ideas ahead of their time.