- What science-fiction epic by John Wyndham involves a group of youths who speak through “thought-shapes” in a God-fearing society where a deviation of any kind must be immediately exterminated?
- Which SF novelist also wrote radio scripts for the British Broadcasting Corporation?
A) Jeff Noon
B) George Orwell
C) Charles Platt
D) Keith Roberts
E) M. John Harrison - In Greg Bear’s novel Eon, what did the people call the corridor?
- Whose “Shaper/Mechanist” series culminated in the novel Schismatrix?
- What football star was the other head in the 1972 Ray Milland film The Thing with Two Heads?
- What was the title of Philip K. Dick’s only children’s book?
- What book begins, “On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back”?
- In Ed Wood, Bill Murray plays Ed Wood’s friend and occasional actor Bunny Breckinridge. In Plan 9 From Outer Space, what character did the real Breckinridge play?
- The first of Stanley Kubrick’s SF films starred Peter Sellers playing three roles: one, a sinister ex-Nazi scientist aroused by the idea of a cleansing nuclear holocaust. Name it.
- Which of these is not a part of the Childe Cycle?
A) Dorsai
B) Necromancer
C) Tactics of Mistake
D) The Dragon and the George
E) The Final Encyclopedia
(Answers below the fold)
- The Chrysalids
- B) George Orwell. He worked in room 101, which was the name of a torture chamber in his novel 1984.
- The Way
- Bruce Sterling
- Rosie Grier
- Nick and the Glimmung
- I Am Legend
- The ruler of the aliens
- Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
- D) The Dragon and the George. Dickson wrote them all, but “Dragon” is a standalone.