- What’s missing from the original US edition of Anthony Burgess’ classic novel A Clockwork Orange?
A) Any references to drug use
B) A polemic against Americans
C) The final chapter
D) The word “droog”
E) Any references to Beethoven - Filmed by Hammer in 1967, Quatermass and the Pit involved the discovery of Martian remains in an archaeological dig. What was the title of the American release of this movie?
- Winston Smith is the main character of what novel?
- Part of the novel Cosmonaut Keep is set on the planet Mingulay, in a complex society of humans, saurs, and…giant squid! Who wrote this obviously O*W*C-friendly book?
- In the TV series Max Headroom, which character’s mind was Max generated from?
- This author’s characters include an orangutan librarian, an animated piece of luggage, and Death (who really likes cats). Name him.
- This gender-bending story by Gwyneth Jones concerns a reporter who is contacted by an apparently female alien. Although they look human, their thought patterns are radically different.
- The dominant star traveling culture in many of Ian Banks’ SF books is known as what?
- What is written in large, friendly letters on the cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
- In Babylon Five, to what religion does Dr. Franklin belong?
A) Foundationism
B) Christianity
C) Mezentianism
D) Scientology
E) Buddhism
(Answers below the fold)
- C) The final (21st) chapter. Burgess’ US publisher docked the last chapter, and then Stanley Kubrick based his film on the US version, immortalizing the shorter story.
- Five Million Years to Earth
- George Orwell’s 1984
- Ken MacLeod
- Edison Carter
- Terry Pratchett
- White Queen
- The Culture
- DON’T PANIC
- A) Foundationism