- Which of the following have not been adapted from a Heinlein story:
A) Destination Moon
B) The Abyss
C) The Brain Eaters
D) Starship Troopers - Firemen no longer put out fires; they start them, for the purpose of burning books. The title refers to the temperature at which paper will catch fire. Name this Ray Bradbury classic.
- What is the name of the villain in the silent movie classic Metropolis?
- In this 1950’s movie, the creature is trapped in a Coney Island amusement park near a roller coaster and shot with a radioactive isotope.
- What term, derived from an influential novel by Alvin Toffler, describes the psychological impact of technology on society?
- Guy Williams, who played Professor John Robinson on Lost In Space, also played what Disney hero?
- Name the main character in Greg Bear’s Moving Mars.
- On the 1978 sitcom Quark, what was Adam Quark’s profession?
- What is the southern counterpart to the Aurora Borealis?
- In Samuel R. Delany’s tale of the far future the nonhuman inhabitants of Earth mine the mythologies of the ancient past in search of meanings appropriate to their own existence; the hero must undertake an Orphean quest into the underworld of the collective unconscious, confronting its archetypes. Name it.
(Answers below the fold)
- B) The Abyss. If you picked C) The Brain Eaters, this 1950’s schlock movie was a direct rip-off of Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters. Heinlein sued and settled out of court for the removal of his name and certain identifiable material from the movie.
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
- Rotwang (in our opinion, one of the best-ever names for a villain).
- The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
- Future Shock
- Zorro
- Casseia Majumdar
- Garbage collector
- Aurora Australis
- The Einstein Intersection