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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:34 pm
by Cody
A musical clue:

The novel shares it’s title with a Moody Blues song, from an album inspired by space travel (whether that’s outer or inner space, depends on your point of view… and state of mind).

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:55 pm
by Disembodied
That's got to be Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt!

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:57 pm
by Cody
Indeed it is... back to you sir.

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:18 pm
by Disembodied
OK ... still in the post-apocalyptic vein, name the author and the (as-yet unfinished?) series of books set some centuries after a nuclear war, with more than a hint of the Wild West ...

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:22 pm
by Cody
The Amtrak Wars?
Cant remember the name... Tilley or something?

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:25 pm
by Disembodied
Patrick Tilley's The Amtrak Wars it is indeed. And back to you! :D

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:27 pm
by Cody
His first novel, Fade-out was really good.

Back with another question in a while.

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:07 pm
by Cody
Okay… a quick and easy one:

Which sci-fi movie uses, as it’s title, a term first coined by an English natural philosopher and geologist in 1783?

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:14 pm
by Thargoid
Dark Star?

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:40 pm
by Cody
A very clever man, John Michell.

Correct... over to you, Thargoid.

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:59 pm
by Selezen
Disembodied wrote:
Patrick Tilley's The Amtrak Wars it is indeed. And back to you! :D
damn it!! One I actually knew!!

curse you!

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:49 pm
by Thargoid
OK a little inspiration as it's a book I finished reading yesterday. Title and author please.

Clue 1 - it's central character's first name is Valentine.

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:34 am
by Gnudoll
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein?

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:19 am
by Thargoid
Right first time - onto you.

Love that book :D

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:23 am
by Gnudoll
Trilogy about a race of mercenaries driven to near extinction by a double-cross by their former employer. Hint: Author's name was disguised due to prejudices of the time.