{"id":4410,"date":"2010-07-08T07:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2010-07-06T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T13:09:07","slug":"trivia-thursday-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4410","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. In what story by Arther C. Clarke does the spaceship Endeavour investigate a mysterious object from far, far away?<\/li>\n
  2. Coined in the late 1980s, on the analogy of Cyberpunk, this term describes the modern subgenre whose SF events take place against a 19th-century background.<\/li>\n
  3. In Jack Vance’s hauntingly beautiful story of a far future Earth “steeped,” as Norman Spinrad has put it, “in magic born of rotting history,” scientific experiment has given place to charms and enchantments that really work. Name it!<\/li>\n
  4. A fine collection by Zelazny, the title story (Nebula winner, 1965) concerns a man facing up to his fears in the shape of a Venerian sea monster, and “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” is a poignant story about a man who unwittingly brings faith to a Martian race on the brink of extinction. Name the collection!<\/li>\n
  5. In Asimov’s Foundation<\/I> series, what was the name of the planet on which the Encyclopedia Galactica was published?<\/li>\n
  6. What is Sector General?<\/li>\n
  7. What is the Moon Knight’s real name?<\/li>\n
  8. What George R.R. Martin novel features the cat- and mushroom-loving master of the Ark?<\/li>\n
  9. What is Mr. Spock’s father’s name?<\/li>\n
  10. 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?”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Answers below the fold)<\/p>\n

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    1. Rendezvous With Rama<\/I><\/li>\n
    2. Steampunk. Examples include Gibson and Sterling’s The Difference Engine<\/I>, Powers’ The Anubis Gates<\/I>, and Blaylock’s Lord Kelvin’s Machine<\/I>.<\/li>\n
    3. The Dying Earth<\/I><\/li>\n
    4. The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth<\/I><\/li>\n
    5. Terminus<\/li>\n
    6. A multispecies space hospital, described by author James White.<\/li>\n
    7. Marc Specter.<\/li>\n
    8. Tuf Voyaging<\/I><\/li>\n
    9. Sarek<\/li>\n
    10. I Am Legend<\/I>, by Richard Matheson<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      In what story by Arther C. Clarke does the spaceship Endeavour investigate a mysterious object from far, far away? Coined in the late 1980s, on the analogy of Cyberpunk, this term describes the modern subgenre whose SF events take place against a 19th-century background. In Jack Vance’s hauntingly beautiful story of a far future Earth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}