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and you would be right, its not Robert Heinlein.

aditional clue , the author is American as in USA...lol

more clues...

the ship is in 3 parts.

Teacher finds out he is not the first, the ship( part of it) generates another teacher when the last one dies.

everyone is generated? from the DNA data bank which has some weird and dangerous versions depending on the planet they eventually are supposed to arrive at.

Author passed away last year.

should be enough info to google with...lol

Greg Bear for the author (probably the most notable hard SF author to die last year, I think)? Possibly the Eon sequence, but I really can't remember enough about it - I suspect it isn't the right answer.

half right.. yes Greg Bear. not EON though. A stand alone book. rare in these days where everyone seems to want to turn a mediocre idea into 5 books.....

spud42 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:17 pm

half right.. yes Greg Bear. not EON though. A stand alone book. rare in these days where everyone seems to want to turn a mediocre idea into 5 books.....

OK, just been through Wikipedia's list of Greg Bear books and this would appear to be Hull Zero Three, which I have never read. Not sure I want to from the description, but never mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_Zero_Three

well technically i didnt read it either. it was an audiobook i listened to in the car...

its not that bad i made it sound worse because i didnt want to make it too easy...

that wiki article is about right...lol

the broken down chalise is now in your command sir!

OK, Mr. Brain is a bit tired tonight - let's try a "five things" question again.

I'm looking for five SF works (books, films, TV series, games, whatever) in which vessels designed for use in or under water are REPURPOSED for space travel. I DON'T want vessels that are designed from the outset to travel in both, or spaceships that are designed from the outset to take off or land in the sea. It must be a repurposed water-going vessel, with space travel a later addition to its capabilities.

Usual rules - only one from any given fictional universe or author, only one answer at a time, and please leave an hour or two before posting the next to give other people a chance to show off their erudition. I have two answers in particular in mind, and will award a meaningless bonus point if either is used. The person posting the fifth answer gets to set the next question - but if there is a long hiatus I'll give the next question to whoever gave the last answer.

Ken MacLeod's Lightspeed trilogy - Beyond the Hallowed Sky; Beyond the Reach of Earth; third volume not yet named - features nuclear submarines that have been fitted with a combination antigravity and FTL drive.

Disembodied wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 2:05 pm

Ken MacLeod's Lightspeed trilogy - Beyond the Hallowed Sky; Beyond the Reach of Earth; third volume not yet named - features nuclear submarines that have been fitted with a combination antigravity and FTL drive.

And we're off with a very good example which gets an MBP.

This idea has been around for quite a while and appears in at least one other work by another well-known SF author. For an MBP, can anyone give me the publication date, author and magazine for an influential ARTICLE (not a story) which promoted the idea in the SF community in the 1960s?

Four to go!

OK - some clues - where two letters are together they represent a compound word.

T D E or I O H,T S (novel)

S B Y or S B (anime, variant titles in different countries, series, and films.)

LL (YA novel series)

T D-Q O U (novella)

V B (novel, part of a series)

GG S B (Japanese live action TV)

ffutures wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:37 am

OK - some clues - where two letters are together they represent a compound word.

T D E or I O H,T S (novel) - 1970

S B Y or S B (anime, variant titles in different countries, series, and films.) - 1974-5, filmed 1977, film sequel 1978, lots more spinoffs etc.

LL (YA novel series) - 2006-8 (some sources show 2006-9)

T D-Q O U (novella) - 1927 (but first published much later)

V B (novel, part of a series) - 2007

GG S B (Japanese live action TV) - 2006-7, some footage reused in a later series.

Added dates for publication / release.

Submarines and space:
This is no book/story/movie. It is truth.
Yet I believe noone intended human transport in submarines...

https://www.nasa.gov/general/titan-subm ... aken-mare/

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/niac-titansub

ok, TDE is The Darleth Effect by Harry Harrison.
i knew i read something along these lines but couldnt remember. checked my ebook collection and didnt find anything. Turns out i dont have this novel but i supposedly had a "complete" collection..!! lol

S B Y = Space Battleship Yamato. Named after the World War II Japanese Battleship. Although, if memory serves, in the Anime it more closely resembled a submarine then a battleship.

hiran wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:20 am

Submarines and space:
This is no book/story/movie. It is truth.
Yet I believe noone intended human transport in submarines...

https://www.nasa.gov/general/titan-subm ... aken-mare/

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/niac-titansub

Pretty sure that that's a drone designed to be landed on Titan by something a lot more like a conventional space probe; it isn't in itself a space-going vehicle, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to say no.

spud42 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:59 pm

ok, TDE is The Darleth Effect by Harry Harrison.
i knew i read something along these lines but couldnt remember. checked my ebook collection and didnt find anything. Turns out i dont have this novel but i supposedly had a "complete" collection..!! lol

The Daleth Effect, AKA In Our Hands, The Stars. An Israeli scientist invents antigravity, realises that it will probably cause war, and deflects to Denmark where the first antigravity spaceship is built as a converted research submarine by the peaceful Danes. That's one of the ones I was particularly looking for, so have an MBP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daleth_Effect



OK, that's

Nite Owl wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:21 pm

S B Y = Space Battleship Yamato. Named after the World War II Japanese Battleship. Although, if memory serves, in the Anime it more closely resembled a submarine then a battleship.

Absolutely - Space Battleship Yamato, also known as Star Blazers in translation, lots of series subtitles etc. for both. It's actually a spaceship built as the conversion of a wrecked battleship. According to Wikipedia:
The inhabitants of Earth secretly build a massive spaceship inside the ruins of the gigantic Japanese battleship Yamato which lies exposed at the former bottom of the ocean location where she was sunk in World War II. This becomes the "Space Battleship Yamato" for which the story is titled.
Admittedly it does have a bit of a submarine look to it - I can only assume that they made a few changes during the conversion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato

https://youtu.be/w6LFkMniuTk?si=X11YSjdyTp3gJ7l-



I would love to see a version of this as an OXP for Oolite!

This is another I was especially looking for, so you get an MBP too.

Two to go!