- This 1963 film involved most of England’s population being blinded by light from a meteor shower and a small unaffected group trying to cope with lethal attacks from 7-foot, mobile vegetables. Name it.
- In Jack Chalker’s Well World series, what was the name of the god-like supercomputer?
- What was the title of Isaac Asimov’s first published story?
- What is known as “Clarke’s First Law?”
- This author wrote the vintage late ’60’s – early ’70’s VAMPIRELLA novels, and his ghostwriting shows that he hasn’t strayed far from his pulp tendencies. Who is he?
- Mars has received much notice in fact as well as in fiction lately. So here’s a fact-based question: Name the most prominent geographical feature on Mars.
- What do the short stories, “The Alien Machine”, “The Cosmic Frame” and “The Racer” all have in common?
- This first novel of a Brian W. Aldiss trilogy is about a planet whose sun eccentrically orbits a much brighter star and thus has a “great year” extending over hundreds of generations. Its societies undergo vast changes, interrupted by periodic plagues, and the relationship between humans and the cold-loving phagors also alters dramatically. Name this novel!
- Harry Stubbs wrote SF novels under what name?
- In what Twilight Zone episode do aliens come to Earth and disrupt a neighborhood’s electrical appliances?
(Answers below the fold)
- The Day Of The Triffids
- The supercomputer’s name was Obie
- Asimov began publishing SF with “Marooned off Vesta” for Amazing Stories in 1939.
- “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” Clarke’s Second and Third Laws are: “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” and “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
- Ron Goulart
- Olympus Mons– the largest volcano in the solar system–at over 15.5 miles tall and 370 miles in diameter at its base.
- They were all made into movies (This Island Earth, Invasion of the Saucermen and Death Race 2000, respectively)
- Helliconia Spring
- Hal Clement. Among Clement’s novels are Mission of Gravity and Close to Critical.
- “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”