- This Robert L. Forward novel is about a race that evolves on the surface of a neutron star and which lives on a vastly compressed time scale, but nevertheless manages to make contact with human observers. Name it!
- What does the “T” in “James T. Kirk” stand for?
- This first collection of R.A. Lafferty precedes Strange Doings (1971), Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? (1974) and Ringing Changes (1984). What is it?
- Which of these movies takes place on a planet with a green sky and pink sand as well as two moons?
A) Dune
B) Outland
C) Dark Star
D) Forbidden Planet - A mentally retarded man’s intelligence is enhanced to that of a normal adult and then to supergenius. “Progress reports” in his diary, with successive changes in diction and spelling as well as intellectual content, chronicle his triumphant progress; and then, as the treatment fails, the reports record his collapse back into subnormality. Name this classic by Daniel Keyes!
- Who is the main character in Frederik Pohl’s Gateway/Heechee series?
- What song did HAL sing as Dave deactivated him in 2001?
- Some of Heinlein’s work has been animated. True or False?
- In this book Philip Jose Farmer writes of the entire human race being reincarnated along the banks of a huge river. Sir Richard Francis Burton sets off to find out who accomplished this remarkable feat, and why.
- Firestarter and The Tommyknockers are science fiction works by what famous horror fiction writter?
(Answers below the fold)
- Dragon’s Egg
- Tiberius
- Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970)
- D) Forbidden Planet
- Flowers For Algernon If you answered Charly you’re partially right. But that’s the name of the movie.
- The main character is millionaire and cybercorpse Robinette Brodhead.
- The song was “Bicycle Built for Two” (a.k.a. “Daisy, Daisy”). This song was the very first tune played on a computer, at Bell Labs in the 1950’s. The implication was that HAL was “devolving.”
- True! Starship Troopers, an Anime version of Heinlein’s novel and Robert A. Heinlein’s Red Planet, a 3-part Saturday morning serialisation. Neither are notable for Heinlein fans.
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Stephen King