Science Fiction Trivia
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
ooh, he was a mathematicus, who made psycho-history, thus enabling some way to rouglylook into the future by calculating what people would do (except for one guy, the mule, who was unpredictable)
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
we have a winner!!! your turn Sir.....
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Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
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Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Dang... errrr
it's an asteroid floating though interstellar space. it's sentient.
It wanders into our neck of the woods and it meets a scoundrel (actually two)
title of the novel
it's an asteroid floating though interstellar space. it's sentient.
It wanders into our neck of the woods and it meets a scoundrel (actually two)
title of the novel
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Rogue in Space
the wiki quotes bad reviews...
the wiki quotes bad reviews...
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give that man a fresh coconutfish! 
story was indeed subpar
story was indeed subpar
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mmmm coconut crumbed friedfish..... different.
ok you next category for 20 points... ( starting with easy ones)
who is Sparhawk? author,series required. bonus points for stating his greeting to new people he meets.
ok you next category for 20 points... ( starting with easy ones)
who is Sparhawk? author,series required. bonus points for stating his greeting to new people he meets.
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Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
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Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
David Eddings, The Elenium. Can't remember his greeting though. Excellent series.
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no problem Neighbour.
the coconut fish is yours..........
the coconut fish is yours..........
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
What diminutive species evolved on the surface of a neutron star?
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Air pigs (in Stephen Baxter's Flux).
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i think cody has it..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
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True enough - iirc the air pigs and other native fauna in Flux live inside a neutron star, not on its surface!
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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Where's me coconut?
Staying with neutron stars: who flew a ship named Skydiver on a mission to one?
Staying with neutron stars: who flew a ship named Skydiver on a mission to one?
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Ain't no luck, I learned to duck
Ain't no luck, I learned to duck