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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:45 am
by Disembodied
The author is a Hugo and Nebula award-winner ... he won one this year (although not for the novel in question).
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:18 am
by Zieman
Ach,
had to resort to Google
.
The author is
Jack Vance and the novel is titled
The Blue World
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:32 am
by Rxke
He's still writing -and winning awards?
wow!
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:26 am
by Disembodied
Zieman takes the pot! No shame in using Google: if you don't know something, then you can use your google-fu to find it out. I get to see what people type in as searches for a website I run ... some people obviously try to have little conversations with their computer and end up in the oddest places.
@ Rxke: he's still going, right enough, at 94. The award-winning book was his autobiography. I don't think he's published any fiction since 2004, though.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:50 pm
by Zieman
Man, I begin to bore myself
!
Name the book & author.
Clue: The story is about studying a truly alien intelligence.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:26 pm
by Cody
One of the classic books on that subject is Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem.
Probably too obvious, but is that it?
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:33 pm
by Zieman
El Viejo wrote:One of the classic books on that subject is Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem.
Probably too obvious, but is that it?
That's it.
Looks like it was all too obvious
.
Your turn.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:12 pm
by Cody
Such a good book... the 1972 film hardly did it justice, good as it was (I won't mention the recent remake).
Onward... a ‘hard' sci-fi novel:
A British astronaut, on a mission to blow-up an Earthbound asteroid with a nuke, discovers evidence of intelligent alien life inside the asteroid. He refuses to plant the bomb until he has explored further.
Title and author, please.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:30 am
by Zieman
Hmm, this definitely does ring a bell or two...
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:36 pm
by Selezen
Gregory Benford's "In The Ocean Of Night"?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:40 pm
by Cody
Correct... it is
In the Ocean of Night, the first novel in the
Galactic Centre Saga, by Gregory Benford.
Over to you, sir.
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:38 am
by Cody
<nudge> Selezen...
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:03 pm
by Selezen
I know, I know, I'm trying to think of something but every time I might get time to spend on it something kicks of IRL to distract me.
For example, at the moment I'm also browsing the web to try and find out if we can legally take the kids out of school to go on holiday without a £200 fine...
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:29 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Selezen wrote:I know, I know, I'm trying to think of something but every time I might get time to spend on it something kicks of IRL to distract me.
For example, at the moment I'm also browsing the web to try and find out if we can legally take the kids out of school to go on holiday without a £200 fine...
Been there done that.
With my school - I gave them an itinerary of what they'd learn with us while travelling to the Highlands of Scotland compared to them sticking them in front of the DVD player for the last four days of the summer term - and asked them to prove that they'd learn more at school than they would with us.
They "told us off" - but no fine.
Good luck.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:25 pm
by Selezen
OK, here we go. Apologies for the delay.
Since we've all gone to town on the "name the obscure old sci-fi books" theme, I'm going to bring this back to TRIVIA!!!
What interstellar location specifically links the films Bladerunner and Soldier?