SF quiz

Oct. 28th, 2011 09:39 pm
wellinghall: (Jo Grant #2)
1. Who worked for the EBC?
2. Who can stand on Zanzibar?
3. Where is Montival?
4. Who lost her heart to a starship trooper?
5. Who always do things in threes?
6. Who worked at the Nuclear Utilisation Technology Centre?
7. Who speculated on what would have happened if Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg?
8. Which bishop write about going to the moon?
9. What is Wells's Law?
10. What are Clarke's (three) Laws?
11. What are the terms of the Clarke - Asimov treaty?
wellinghall: (Default)
Best Novel: Blackout / All Clear, Connie Willis

Best Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang

Best Novelette: The Emperor of Mars, Allen M Steele

Best Short Story: For Want of a Nail, Mary Robinette Kowal

Best Related Work: Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It, ed Lynne M Thomas and Tara O’Shea

Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, written Phil and Kaja Foglio; art Phil Foglio; colors Cheyenne Wright

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Inception, written & dir Christopher Nolan

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang, written Steven Moffat; dir Toby Haynes (BBC Wales) - the only award-winner I have read / seen

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wellinghall: (Firefly)
"The estate of legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov, who passed away in 1992, has authorised a trilogy of sequels to his seminal I, Robot short story series, to be written by fantasy author Mickey Zucker Reichert."

http://www.keepingthedoor.com/2009/10/30/asimov-estate-authorises-i-robot-sequels/

Er - why??? Can't we just enjoy the original stories, and the sequels that Asimov himself wrote?

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