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

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Test Your Geekdom


View original post Vol XVI: A Novel Idea


View original post15 questions for 32 possible points, name the books and authors. 1 point for the book, 1 for each author (some have more than one), Good Luck!


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.

Got everything up to here, although I did give myself the points for the Wizard of Oz despite missing the "Wonderful" part.
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.

I somehow managed to get one of the two authors despite never having read this book or anything else by either author, not having any clue about the content of the book, and only recognizing the title after I saw the answer. I think that mostly says something about how unusual SF novels with two authors are...
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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 871 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 540 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 691 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 591 Views
Re: You know what surprises me... Isaac - 01/07/2013 02:52:46 AM 624 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 594 Views
Oi. nossy - 01/07/2013 07:17:05 PM 583 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 618 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 669 Views
Yes, it's around a third of the way into the book Isaac - 02/07/2013 10:16:20 PM 582 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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