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

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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.

Never cared to read Card's Ender's Game and this was before his socio-political views became known to me.

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.

Frank Herbert, Dune. Actually read this.

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.

Weiss and Hickman, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. D&D stuff, which I never read when growing up and had no interest in later.

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.

Asimov's Foundation. You really need to write harder questions. Never read this one either, as Asimov's other fiction was so terribly written that I had no interest after Nightfall.

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.

William Gibson's Neuromancer. Have a copy, but for some reason I never finished reading it a decade ago.

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.

Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Actually read this.

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.

Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. One of the few I actually loved as a kid.

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.

McCaffrey's Dragonflight. Never cared to read it.

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.

L. Ron Hubbard's crap, Battlefield Earth. Not interested at all in reading it.

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.

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. First read this when I was 9...err...around 30 years ago.

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.

Dan Simmons, Hyperion. Read and enjoyed this one. Too bad most of his other fictions aren't as entertaining.

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.

Carl Sagan, Contact. Heard of it, but had no interest in reading it.

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.

I knew this was a Michael Crichton novel, but I couldn't remember the name. No interest in reading it.

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.

Glen Cook, The Black Company. Did read the first volume and have others to read at some point.

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.

Had to check the answers to see the names. Should have known. No interest at all in them.

So let's see...I've read 6 out 15 yet heard of virtually all the rest...and detest at least half of those

Thought this thread needed a curmudgeonly response

View original postPrevious Quizzes

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/238696/">Vol I: Quotes</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/239423/">Vol II: The Sequel</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/247217/">Vol III: Openers</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/247345/">Vol IV: Name That Toon</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/248198/">Vol V: The Sincerest Form of Flattery</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/248494/">Vol VI: Big Dumb Objects</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/248899/">Vol VII: Apocalypse How</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/249448/">Vol VIII: Time Loop</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/249923/">Vol IX: You Bet Your Life</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/252076/">Vol X: Parodies</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/256717/">Vol XI: Zombie Apocalypse</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/267484/">Vol XII: Humanitarians</a>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/267576/">Vol XIII: Scary Movies</a>

View original post<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>

View original post<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/277252/">Vol XV: Comic Crossover</a>

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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Test Your Geekdom, Vol XVI: A Novel Idea Isaac - 30/06/2013 05:57:49 PM 1065 Views

Answers Isaac - 30/06/2013 06:06:11 PM 860 Views

I got 24 points random thoughts - 30/06/2013 08:12:36 PM 649 Views

For my money you should get partial credit for "Mona Lisa Overdrive." Joel - 11/08/2013 11:41:04 PM 529 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 303 Views

This won't go well.

nossy - 30/06/2013 08:46:13 PM 678 Views

Re: This won't go well.

Isaac - 30/06/2013 11:27:23 PM 680 Views

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

nossy - 01/07/2013 07:18:11 PM 626 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 581 Views

Twenty-five. That's more than I was expecting... Legolas - 30/06/2013 08:47:14 PM 630 Views

You should try reading it random thoughts - 30/06/2013 09:09:06 PM 558 Views

That's true Isaac - 30/06/2013 11:14:16 PM 640 Views

Not as strong as my comic or movie replies

16 points ironclad - 30/06/2013 11:03:18 PM 691 Views

You know what surprises me... Isaac - 30/06/2013 11:11:34 PM 577 Views

Re: You know what surprises me... Nate - 01/07/2013 12:31:29 AM 577 Views

Re: You know what surprises me... Isaac - 01/07/2013 02:52:46 AM 610 Views

Re: You know what surprises me... random thoughts - 01/07/2013 05:23:47 PM 581 Views

Re: You know what surprises me... Isaac - 01/07/2013 05:32:02 PM 582 Views

Oi. nossy - 01/07/2013 07:17:05 PM 570 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 603 Views

That probably includes several people who haven't even read it, or seen the movie. Legolas - 01/07/2013 06:11:51 PM 568 Views

Kansas and cyclone? nossy - 01/07/2013 07:16:08 PM 577 Views

Exactly. Joel - 11/08/2013 11:38:34 PM 497 Views

You would really need to rephrase it for people not to get it. Tom - 01/07/2013 10:16:05 PM 555 Views

I'll have a bash Edit: I got just 14. Should have gotten number 2. Stephen - 01/07/2013 01:38:47 AM 766 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 991 Views

For what it is worth, I recommend the Sprawl Trilogy as entertaining and thought provoking. Joel - 11/08/2013 11:49:41 PM 611 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 655 Views

Yes, it's around a third of the way into the book Isaac - 02/07/2013 10:16:20 PM 571 Views

Playing along with this one solely for sake of #5; 22. Joel - 11/08/2013 11:35:54 PM 595 Views

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<quote id="277486">
<quote id="277461"><center>Test Your Geekdom</quote>

<quote id="277461">:reading: Vol XVI: A Novel Idea :reading: </center></quote>

<quote id="277461">15 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!*</quote>

<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>

Never cared to read Card's Ender's Game and this was before his socio-political views became known to me.

<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>

Frank Herbert, Dune. Actually read this.

<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>

Weiss and Hickman, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. D&D stuff, which I never read when growing up and had no interest in later.

<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>

Asimov's Foundation. You really need to write harder questions. Never read this one either, as Asimov's other fiction was so terribly written that I had no interest after Nightfall.

<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>

William Gibson's Neuromancer. Have a copy, but for some reason I never finished reading it a decade ago.

<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>

Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Actually read this.

<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>

Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. One of the few I actually loved as a kid.

<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>

McCaffrey's Dragonflight. Never cared to read it.

<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>

L. Ron Hubbard's crap, Battlefield Earth. Not interested at all in reading it.

<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>

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. First read this when I was 9...err...around 30 years ago.

<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>

Dan Simmons, Hyperion. Read and enjoyed this one. Too bad most of his other fictions aren't as entertaining.

<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>

Carl Sagan, Contact. Heard of it, but had no interest in reading it.

<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>

I knew this was a Michael Crichton novel, but I couldn't remember the name.  No interest in reading it.

<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>

Glen Cook, The Black Company. Did read the first volume and have others to read at some point.

<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>

Had to check the answers to see the names.  Should have known.  No interest at all in them.

So let's see...I've read 6 out 15 yet heard of virtually all the rest...and detest at least half of those :P

Thought this thread needed a curmudgeonly response ;)

<quote id="277461">Previous Quizzes</quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/238696/">Vol I: Quotes</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/239423/">Vol II: The Sequel</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/247217/">Vol III: Openers</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/248198/">Vol V: The Sincerest Form of Flattery</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/248494/">Vol VI: Big Dumb Objects</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/248899/">Vol VII: Apocalypse How</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/252076/">Vol X: Parodies</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/256717/">Vol XI: Zombie Apocalypse</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/267484/">Vol XII: Humanitarians</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/267576/">Vol XIII: Scary Movies</a></quote>

<quote id="277461"><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></quote>

<quote id="277461"><a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/community/messageboard/277252/">Vol XV: Comic Crossover</a></quote>
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