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Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:11 pm

[...] fictionalized adventures of Nikola Tesla.
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Not sure if it fits the bill, but after her notoriety in Stargate (SG1) series, there was a series with Amanda Tapping, called Sanctuary (her hero character name being Hellen Magnus). Bit of sci-fi & fantasy & cyberpunk, focusing on "abnormals".
Won't bug you with the details, but besides Jack The Ripper, another member of her crew turned out to be Nikola Tesla (a completely fictionalized one). Thus his adventures throughout, were also fictionalized

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:11 pm

Fictionalized adventures of Nikola Tesla.

Commander_X wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:48 am

Not sure if it fits the bill, but after her notoriety in Stargate (SG1) series, there was a series with Amanda Tapping, called Sanctuary (her hero character name being Hellen Magnus). Bit of sci-fi & fantasy & cyberpunk, focusing on "abnormals".

That seems to ring a bell; I believe I caught a glimpse of it, while channel surfing after midnight, once.

Commander_X wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:48 am

Won't bug you with the details, but besides Jack The Ripper, another member of her crew turned out to be Nikola Tesla (a completely fictionalized one). Thus his adventures throughout, were also fictionalized

So, this fictional version of Tesla was dislocated from the real Tesla's historical period? I'm unsure how to respond, is there precedent for awarding half bonus points? I am going to suggest you should self-certify, either one or a half, MBPs.

And, you're not the chalice winner.

No, I'm going to do better: I'm placing you in a super-position of both/either/or 1.0 or 0.5 MBPs, depending on what becomes convenient later.

I have no idea on the Tesla question, unfortunately, apart from Tesla being the creator of the central McGuffin of Christopher Priest's novel The Prestige (also filmed).

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:52 pm

FM - short story, 1980s - Told in the first person by a movie personality - British author

I have no idea what that clue refers to.

This is Famous Monsters (1988) by Kim Newman, which is basically an Earth-born descendent of Martian survivors of The War of The Worlds talking about his career in Hollywood films and working with various stars of the twenties onward, first as an extra, next as a dumb sidekick, internment during the second War of the Worlds and subsequent war with the Selenites, then playing a thug in endless war movies including something that sounds a lot like Casablanca in Spaaaace! Eventually the humans wipe out the Martians, apart from a few survivors on Earth. After that being part of the Rat Pack, narrowly avoiding the House Unamerican Activities Committee, and so forth. It's a lovely little story, and is the title story for Newman's second anthology and has appeared in a lot of other collections:

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41935

ffutures wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:05 am

I have no idea on the Tesla question, unfortunately, apart from Tesla being the creator of the central McGuffin of Christopher Priest's novel The Prestige (also filmed).

A novel that was also a film! You then shall have either one or one-and-a-half bonus points, and may - or may not - currently be in the lead.

But you didn't insta-win the chalice.

Commander_X wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:48 am

...there was a series with Amanda Tapping, called Sanctuary (her hero character name being Hellen Magnus). Bit of sci-fi & fantasy & cyberpunk, focusing on "abnormals".
Won't bug you with the details, but besides Jack The Ripper, another member of her crew turned out to be Nikola Tesla (a completely fictionalized one). Thus his adventures throughout, were also fictionalized

ffutures wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:05 am

Tesla being the creator of the central McGuffin of Christopher Priest's novel The Prestige (also filmed).

No more bids? This was the novel I had in mind: The Tesla Legacy by best-selling Australian author Robert Barrett, another tale in which Tesla was the creator of the central McGuffin:-

https://www.harpercollins.com.au/978073 ... la-legacy/

Barrett was a top bloke, and is sadly missed. RIP

Back to you, I'm afraid, ffutures.

OK, if I must I suppose I must...

Let's go back to our roots and have five stories / films / whatever about space traders - people who fly the spacelanes in ships that they own themselves, transporting cargo either for a customer or for sale, etc., whether legally or not. It must be a MAJOR part of the story, not something that is mentioned once in a while e.g. an occasional episode of a TV show which is predominantly about military spaceships or something of the sort.

NO ELITE OR DERIVATIVES including The Black Wheel, Elite Dangerous novelizations, the Elite Dangerous RPG, Oolite, etc. etc.

No two by the same author or set in the same fictional universe.

Some examples are painfully obvious but I really don't care!

Submitted for your approval, the painfully bad and incredibly low hanging fruit that is SPACE TRUCKERS.

"Low hanging fruit"++ : Starhunter

Nite Owl wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:00 pm

Submitted for your approval, the painfully bad and incredibly low hanging fruit that is SPACE TRUCKERS.

Yes, definitely, that was in the first two or three I thought of. Have an MBP for not being afraid to state the bleeding obvious!

Commander_X wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 8:35 pm

"Low hanging fruit"++ : Starhunter

Hate to say it, but according to Wikipedia that's a series about interstellar bounty hunters - cargo isn't even mentioned. Or is there something else?

ffutures wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 9:45 pm

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Hate to say it, but according to Wikipedia that's a series about interstellar bounty hunters - cargo isn't even mentioned. Or is there something else?

Hate to admit it, but now that you mentioned it, I think I remember the wording on the title screen starting with "I'm a bounty hunter, that's what I am" (or the sorts).
Ok, music allowed? The flower of Nite Owl's fruit would be Space Truckin by Deep Purple on their Machine Head album.

Firefly more dangling fruit....

Commander_X wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:47 pm

ffutures wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 9:45 pm

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Hate to say it, but according to Wikipedia that's a series about interstellar bounty hunters - cargo isn't even mentioned. Or is there something else?

Hate to admit it, but now that you mentioned it, I think I remember the wording on the title screen starting with "I'm a bounty hunter, that's what I am" (or the sorts).
Ok, music allowed? The flower of Nite Owl's fruit would be Space Truckin by Deep Purple on their Machine Head album.

Yes, Space Truckin' seems to qualify. The lyrics definitely refer to space travel and that's good enough for me. Have an MBP for one that I've never heard of before!

Recording here - https://youtu.be/hHOrpFeXUao?si=VkXmAYKAbU5ybOU9

spud42 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 3:36 am

Firefly more dangling fruit....

Yes indeedy - the first one I thought of, in fact, so have an MBP for (tries to think of something... um...) great minds thinking alike?

title sequence here - https://youtu.be/osPsUFrvrSQ?si=fcJwN6X2_ln2JxFT

OK, that's three - two to go. I can think of more examples, including at least one British one.

While I remember, there's a Firefly OXP, and I think that someone did one based on Space Truckers but I can't seem to find it.

D.T.T. Ship Builders Inc. - Heavy Metal Freight Hauler

Heavy Metal is available in both single and double trailer versions. Specifications for each are slightly different.

Stats for Heavy Metal S (single):

Cargo capacity - 50 TC
Energy recharge rate - Medium
Energy banks - 8
Pitch - .5
Roll - .9
Maximum speed - 0.25 LM
Acceleration - 10g
Missiles - 6
Weapon mounts - Fore, Aft
Price - 150,000 Cr
Availability - Tech level 5 and up


Stats for Heavy Metal D (double):

Cargo capacity - 100 TC
Energy recharge rate - Medium
Energy banks - 8
Pitch - 0.3
Roll - 0.75
Maximum speed - 0.20 LM
Acceleration - 7g
Missiles - 6
Weapon mounts - Fore, Aft
Price - 300,000 Cr
Availability - Tech level 5 and up

You tube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJqJWaEs0Ho

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 6:17 am

D.T.T. Ship Builders Inc. - Heavy Metal Freight Hauler

I should have remembered that, I'm a fan of the DTT ships, my preferred big freighter is the DTT Cyclops.

Just two to go - I'm sure that people will be able to remember two more, there are plenty in books, films, comics, etc. etc.

OK, some obvious clues (and I really do mean obvious)

ATC, run by AG

MF, piloted by HS

PE, owned by HJF

I'm pretty sure that two of these (at least) have ships in Oolite.