- Who’s the Cap’n of the Bishops?
- In which planetary system did Luke take his Jedi training with Yoda?
- In this book, the child hero is subjected to horrific manipulation by the military in order to make him the perfect commander able to annihilate the insectoid aliens who have twice attacked the solar system. Name this novellette-turned-novel!
- This U.S. writer and film director graduated with an MD from Harvard Medical School. He first published SF under the pseudonym John Lange with Drug Of Choice. Who is he?
- James Blish won a Hugo for which novel?
- In this 1970’s movie, microscopic alien viruses can survive only within a narrow pH range.
- Who played Mork’s son on Mork and Mindy?
- This 1949 novel from George R. Stewart follows the fortunes of one group of plague survivors in the San Francisco Bay area, who subsist for quite some time on the bounties of civilization that have remained intact. Name it!
- Due to poor health and an inability to deal with the special make-up that he would have had to wear, Edward G. Robinson turned down the role of what character in Planet of the Apes?
- In this Frederik Pohl novel, mankind “inherits” the stars by finding and exploiting (with considerable difficulty) the starships and gadgets left behind by the alien Heechee. Name this book!
(Answers below the fold)
- Killeen, from Gregory Benford’s Great Sky River series.
- The Dagobah System
- Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
- Michael Crichton. (He also published under the pseudonym of Jeffery Hudson.)
- A Case of Conscience.
- The Andromeda Strain
- Jonathan Winters.
- Earth Abides
- Dr. Zaius
- Gateway