1. What author, better known for his fantasy writing, wrote a sci-fi “biography” series about the Tyrant of Jupiter?
2. In this Vernor Vinge novel, the Milky Way is divided into four concentric zones, the Unthinking Depths, the Slow Zone, the Beyond and the Transcend. Name it!
3. The 1958 Japanese classic, The Hidden Fortress was acknowledged as a primary source of inspiration by the producer of this genre-changing science fiction classic.
4. What is the proper name of the “spice planet”?
5. The influence of Poe’s “Hans Pfaall” on this novel by Jules Verne remains uncertain, for most of the narrative is given to building a cannon and locating the site from which the shot is to be made. Name the novel!
6. World War III looms as an asteroid starship mysteriously orbiting Earth is taken over by Americans, who discover that it is an artifact from the future that offers a gateway to infinite opportunity. Name this Greg Bear novel!
7. A TV series first appearing in 1993 with a 2-hour pilot, this popular series saw Harlan Ellison as conceptual consultant. Set in the year 2257, the action takes place on a 5-mile-long space station. Name the series!
8. The book The Silver Locusts is much better-known by what title?
9. In H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds, where did the first Martian ship land?
10. Whose “Shaper/Mechanist” series culminated in the novel Schismatrix?

(Answers below the fold)

1. The Bio of a Space Tyrant series was written by Piers “Too Much is Never Enough” Anthony.
2. A Fire Upon the Deep
3. Star Wars
4. Arrakis
5. From the Earth to the Moon
6. Eon
7. Babylon 5
8. The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
9. The Horsell Commons. (In the radio broadcast, the location was changed to Grover’s Mill, New Jersey.)
10. Bruce Sterling