1. This Donald Kingsbury novel involves a colony on an arid world in cultural extremis because of its lack of resources, and the central characters becoming involved with a challenge to its established order.
2. Which author coined the term “cyberspace?”
3. What was the name of the ship’s computer in Alien?
4. Who was the main character in James Blish’s classic novel Doctor Mirabilis?
5. What was Diaspar?
6. What is written in large, friendly letters on the cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
7. In what year were the first Hugo Awards presented?
8. The Robinsons were Lost in Space in their trusty spaceship. What was its name?
9. Which Federation star ship in manned completely by Vulcans?
10. Robert Silverberg wrote about the imprisonment of criminals in the late Cambrian age of Earth’s history in what 1968 novel?

(Answers below the fold)

1. Courtship Rite (1982) U.K. title: Geta
2. William Gibson coined this useful term in his 1984 novel Neuromancer.
3. Mother.
4. Roger Bacon.
5. Diaspar was the last city on Earth in Arthur Clarke’s The City and the Stars (also known as Against the Fall of Night).
6. DON’T PANIC
7. 1953.
8. The Jupiter II
9. The U.S.S. Intrepid
10. Silverberg wrote about his “prehistoric” criminals in Hawksbill Station.