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Test Your Geekdom

Vol XVI: A Novel Idea

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View original post1. This 1985 SF Novel revolves around a game that ends with the complete destruction of an alien homeworld, much to the horror of the winner of the game.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

View original post2. This 1965 SF Novel is often compared to Lawrence of Arabia, set in the distant future on a bleak desert world it tells the story of a young man and his mother's flight from the destruction of their home and the loss of his father at the hands of her father, and their plans for the future.

Dune by Frank Herbert

View original post3. This 1984 Fantasy novel was the first collaborative novel of a writing duo who would publish dozens of novels together. Set in a world still recovering from a cataclysm centuries prior, it begins the chronicles of a group of several adventurers as they meet back up in the Autumn at the Inn of the Last Home, after a five year period of lone travels.

The Dragonlance Chronicles, Vol I, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

View original post4. A collection of five short stories, which were first published together as a book in 1951, this book spans a period of roughly 150 years chronicling the early period of a group struggling (initially unknowingly) to be the foundation of a new empire as the ancient Galactic Empire is destined to collapse, as calculated by the science of psychohistory.

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

View original post5. This 1984 Novel, considered one of the originators of the Cyberpunk genre, tells the story of a washed up computer hacker name Case.

Neuromancer by William Gibson

View original post6. First published in 1899, this book tells the story of an orphan girl after her home is hit by a cyclone, and her travels and encounters as a street walker with a number of cowardly, heartless, and stupid men in a land totally unlike her home in rural Kansas.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

View original post7. This book is a collection of short stories published in 1950 chronicling the colonization of Mars and the colonists’ interaction with the native Martians.

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

View original post8. This 1968 book, set in a distant future, more closely resembles fantasy as it focuses on the story of Lessa, a young girl who was the sole survivor of her family's brutal massacre, and her plots for revenge before becoming telepathically bonded to a golden dragon.

Draognflight by Anne McCaffrey

View original post9. A Saga of the Year 3000, this 1982 book follows the events on Earth as it becomes a battlefield between the few surviving scattered human tribes fighting their alien conquerors.

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, by L. Ron Hubbard

View original post10. This 1950 novel is the first in a series of high fantasy novels chronicling the events in a magical world. The first book focuses on four children living in an old country house in the English countryside during World War 2 who stumble across the entrance to a magic realm hidden in a wardrobe.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

View original post11. This 1989 book is a frame story set around several individual tales of seven pilgrims who tell their tales to each other as they journey to the Time Tombs, where legend has it all but one of them will be slaughtered but that one granted a wish.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

View original post12. This 1985 novel originated some years before as a screenplay but did not become a film until 1997, starring Jodie Foster. The book focuses around mankind's first contact with alien intelligences via a radio signal of a repeating sequence of the first 261 prime numbers with a speech by Hitler and a 30,000 page manual for a machine embedded into it the signal.

Contact by Carl Sagan

View original post13. This 1969 techno-thriller documents the efforts of Wildfire, a team of scientists investigating an alien microorganism killing or driving people insane.

The Andormeda Strain by Michael Crichton

View original post14. This 1984 book is the first in a series of dark fantasy novels chronicling an elite company of mercenaries with a black reputation.

The Black Company by Glen Cook

View original post15. This 1974 SF novel has a pair of authors. Beginning roughly ten centuries in the future in orbit of the planet of New Chicago this story revolves around the crew of the INSS MacArthur as they encounter an alien probe and track it back to its origin system, and of mankind's first encounter with aliens.

The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Previous Quizzes
Vol I: Quotes
Vol II: The Sequel
Vol III: Openers
Vol IV: Name That Toon
Vol V: The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Vol VI: Big Dumb Objects
Vol VII: Apocalypse How
Vol VIII: Time Loop
Vol IX: You Bet Your Life
Vol X: Parodies
Vol XI: Zombie Apocalypse
Vol XII: Humanitarians
Vol XIII: Scary Movies
Vol XIV: Circle Quiz 2.0 or the Scif-FI Circle Quiz
Vol XV: Comic Crossover

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Test Your Geekdom, Vol XVI: A Novel Idea Isaac - 30/06/2013 05:57:49 PM 1078 Views

Answers Isaac - 30/06/2013 06:06:11 PM 872 Views

I got 24 points random thoughts - 30/06/2013 08:12:36 PM 659 Views

For my money you should get partial credit for "Mona Lisa Overdrive." Joel - 11/08/2013 11:41:04 PM 541 Views

18, and a couple of them I only got because the title is rephrased in the hint. *NM* Tom - 30/06/2013 08:28:09 PM 309 Views

This won't go well.

nossy - 30/06/2013 08:46:13 PM 689 Views

Re: This won't go well.

Isaac - 30/06/2013 11:27:23 PM 692 Views

I'm not picking on you, I just wanted more points.

nossy - 01/07/2013 07:18:11 PM 641 Views

Well, I'll have to take it up with High Council of Geeks but you raise a valid point Isaac - 01/07/2013 10:20:34 PM 593 Views

Twenty-five. That's more than I was expecting... Legolas - 30/06/2013 08:47:14 PM 644 Views

You should try reading it random thoughts - 30/06/2013 09:09:06 PM 570 Views

That's true Isaac - 30/06/2013 11:14:16 PM 653 Views

Not as strong as my comic or movie replies

16 points ironclad - 30/06/2013 11:03:18 PM 703 Views

You know what surprises me... Isaac - 30/06/2013 11:11:34 PM 586 Views

Re: You know what surprises me... Nate - 01/07/2013 12:31:29 AM 592 Views

Re: You know what surprises me... Isaac - 01/07/2013 02:52:46 AM 625 Views

Re: You know what surprises me... random thoughts - 01/07/2013 05:23:47 PM 590 Views

Re: You know what surprises me... Isaac - 01/07/2013 05:32:02 PM 595 Views

Oi. nossy - 01/07/2013 07:17:05 PM 584 Views

come on the numbers time you have said "random thoughts posted what I was going to post" random thoughts - 02/07/2013 01:11:23 AM 617 Views

That probably includes several people who haven't even read it, or seen the movie. Legolas - 01/07/2013 06:11:51 PM 579 Views

Kansas and cyclone? nossy - 01/07/2013 07:16:08 PM 592 Views

Exactly. Joel - 11/08/2013 11:38:34 PM 508 Views

You would really need to rephrase it for people not to get it. Tom - 01/07/2013 10:16:05 PM 570 Views

I'll have a bash Edit: I got just 14. Should have gotten number 2. Stephen - 01/07/2013 01:38:47 AM 780 Views

Despite having read only a fraction of these, I would have scored 29/32 if I hadn't checked Larry - 01/07/2013 07:40:29 AM 1000 Views

For what it is worth, I recommend the Sprawl Trilogy as entertaining and thought provoking. Joel - 11/08/2013 11:49:41 PM 619 Views

Re no. 2 – did we find out her parentage in that book? If not, I don't think the question's fair. Tim - 02/07/2013 09:42:09 PM 670 Views

Yes, it's around a third of the way into the book Isaac - 02/07/2013 10:16:20 PM 583 Views

Playing along with this one solely for sake of #5; 22. Joel - 11/08/2013 11:35:54 PM 612 Views

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<center>Test Your Geekdom

<center>:reading: Vol XVI: A Novel Idea :reading: 
The Answers</center>

<quote id="277461">1. This 1985 SF Novel revolves around a game that ends with the complete destruction of an alien homeworld, much to the horror of the winner of the game.</quote>
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

<quote id="277461">2. This 1965 SF Novel is often compared to Lawrence of Arabia, set in the distant future on a bleak desert world it tells the story of a young man and his mother's flight from the destruction of their home and the loss of his father at the hands of her father, and their plans for the future.</quote>

Dune by Frank Herbert

<quote id="277461">3. This 1984 Fantasy novel was the first collaborative novel of a writing duo who would publish dozens of novels together. Set in a world still recovering from a cataclysm centuries prior, it begins the chronicles of a group of several adventurers as they meet back up in the Autumn at the Inn of the Last Home, after a five year period of lone travels.</quote>

The Dragonlance Chronicles, Vol I, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

<quote id="277461">4. A collection of five short stories, which were first published together as a book in 1951, this book spans a period of roughly 150 years chronicling the early period of a group struggling (initially unknowingly) to be the foundation of a new empire as the ancient Galactic Empire is destined to collapse, as calculated by the science of psychohistory.</quote>

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

<quote id="277461">5. This 1984 Novel, considered one of the originators of the Cyberpunk genre, tells the story of a washed up computer hacker name Case.</quote>

Neuromancer by William Gibson

<quote id="277461">6. First published in 1899, this book tells the story of an orphan girl after her home is hit by a cyclone, and her travels and encounters as a street walker with a number of cowardly, heartless, and stupid men in a land totally unlike her home in rural Kansas.</quote>

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

<quote id="277461">7. This book is a collection of short stories published in 1950 chronicling the colonization of Mars and the colonists’ interaction with the native Martians.</quote>

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

<quote id="277461">8. This 1968 book, set in a distant future, more closely resembles fantasy as it focuses on the story of Lessa, a young girl who was the sole survivor of her family's brutal massacre, and her plots for revenge before becoming telepathically bonded to a golden dragon.</quote>

Draognflight by Anne McCaffrey

<quote id="277461">9. A Saga of the Year 3000, this 1982 book follows the events on Earth as it becomes a battlefield between the few surviving scattered human tribes fighting their alien conquerors.</quote>

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, by L. Ron Hubbard

<quote id="277461">10. This 1950 novel is the first in a series of high fantasy novels chronicling the events in a magical world. The first book focuses on four children living in an old country house in the English countryside during World War 2 who stumble across the entrance to a magic realm hidden in a wardrobe.</quote>

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

<quote id="277461">11. This 1989 book is a frame story set around several individual tales of seven pilgrims who tell their tales to each other as they journey to the Time Tombs, where legend has it all but one of them will be slaughtered but that one granted a wish.</quote>

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

<quote id="277461">12. This 1985 novel originated some years before as a screenplay but did not become a film until 1997, starring Jodie Foster. The book focuses around mankind's first contact with alien intelligences via a radio signal of a repeating sequence of the first 261 prime numbers with a speech by Hitler and a 30,000 page manual for a machine embedded into it the signal.</quote>

Contact by Carl Sagan

<quote id="277461">13. This 1969 techno-thriller documents the efforts of Wildfire, a team of scientists investigating an alien microorganism killing or driving people insane. </quote>

The Andormeda Strain by Michael Crichton

<quote id="277461">14. This 1984 book is the first in a series of dark fantasy novels chronicling an elite company of mercenaries with a black reputation.</quote>

The Black Company by Glen Cook

<quote id="277461">15. This 1974 SF novel has a pair of authors. Beginning roughly ten centuries in the future in orbit of the planet of New Chicago this story revolves around the crew of the INSS MacArthur as they encounter an alien probe and track it back to its origin system, and of mankind's first encounter with aliens.</quote>

The Mote in God's Eye by  Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Previous Quizzes
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/238696/">Vol I: Quotes</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/239423/">Vol II: The Sequel</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/247217/">Vol III: Openers</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/247345/">Vol IV: Name That Toon</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/248198/">Vol V: The Sincerest Form of Flattery</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/248494/">Vol VI: Big Dumb Objects</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/248899/">Vol VII: Apocalypse How</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/249448/">Vol VIII: Time Loop</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/249923/">Vol IX: You Bet Your Life</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/252076/">Vol X: Parodies</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/256717/">Vol XI: Zombie Apocalypse</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/267484/">Vol XII: Humanitarians</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/267576/">Vol XIII: Scary Movies</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/276191/">Vol XIV: Circle Quiz 2.0</a> or the <a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/237230/">Scif-FI Circle Quiz</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/277252/">Vol XV: Comic Crossover</a>
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