Can You Master This Unique Sci-Fi Trivia Challenge?

In summary, the author of the series of novels written under the pseudonym of Paul French, was not French and the book's hero was a robot who passed an impossible test.
  • #71
Ivan Seeking said:
Another clue?

Sure...

Silence in the coldest season

Namesake of Ogden
 
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  • #72
Taking a longshot that I can't decipher your second clue: Rand al'Thor; Winter's Heart?

Otherwise, I'm stumped.
 
  • #73
Ivan Seeking said:
Taking a longshot that I can't decipher your second clue: Rand al'Thor; Winter's Heart?

Otherwise, I'm stumped.

A WoT reference! I love you for thinking of it, but no.

The answer: Wintermute... the AI from Neuromancer by William Gibson, created by the man Ogden Wintermute.

I'll cede the next round to you, for the WoT reference (RIP Mr. Rigley/Jordan).
 
  • #74
Frame Dragger said:
A WoT reference! I love you for thinking of it, but no.

The answer: Wintermute... the AI from Neuromancer by William Gibson, created by the man Ogden Wintermute.

I'll cede the next round to you, for the WoT reference (RIP Mr. Rigley/Jordan).

Heh, I was truly grasping at straws.

What sci-fi movie has a basis that was arguably first suggested by a famous 16th/17th century Philosopher?
 
  • #75
Ivan Seeking said:
Heh, I was truly grasping at straws.

What sci-fi movie has a basis that was arguably first suggested by a famous 16th/17th century Philosopher?

Would the movie be Cube? The prisoners were able to excape using a Cartesian coordinate system, invented by René Descartes.
 
  • #76
You are sooooooo close.
 
  • #77
I'll go with the "Matrix", based on Descartes' argument that you cannot trust your perceptions, as an evil demon might be controlling your every experience. This evolved into the whole "How can I know that I'm not just a brain hooked up in a lab being fed sensations by some scientist." idea.
 
  • #78
Janus said:
I'll go with the "Matrix", based on Descartes' argument that you cannot trust your perceptions, as an evil demon might be controlling your every experience. This evolved into the whole "How can I know that I'm not just a brain hooked up in a lab being fed sensations by some scientist." idea.

That's the one. :biggrin:
 
  • #79
If you need it, you can find it in Suffolk county.
 
  • #80
Janus said:
If you need it, you can find it in Suffolk county.

Hmmmm... swinging blindly now... "The Forgotten" (the movie, not the tv series)? That, or Needful Things... but that's in Maine. I'm stumped!
 
  • #81
Ivan Seeking said:
You are sooooooo close.

If I was using an ICBM to make my guess I would of hit it. :-p
 
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  • #82
Argentum Vulpes said:
If I was using an ICBM to make my guess I would of hit it. :-p

You were very close! Just Google [descartes sci-fi movie]. Matrix is mentioned on the first page.

Janus said:
If you need it, you can find it in Suffolk county.

Frame Dragger said:
Hmmmm... swinging blindly now... "The Forgotten" (the movie, not the tv series)? That, or Needful Things... but that's in Maine. I'm stumped!
 
  • #83
True Ivan, it's just the math link made a bit more sense to me so that was the tree I was barking up.

Janus said:
If you need it, you can find it in Suffolk county.

Would it be http://www.iconsf.org/" held at Stony Brook University, in Stony Brook, New York. Which is in Suffolk County, New York.
 
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  • #84
New clue:

Be sure to bring plenty of singles.
 
  • #85
Hmm, no new guesses. so here's two more:

When you get there, you might find out that it is Punday night.

The author can spin a fine tale.
 
  • #86
Janus said:
Hmm, no new guesses. so here's two more:

When you get there, you might find out that it is Punday night.

The author can spin a fine tale.

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon?
 
  • #87
Correct! Callahan's place, a creation of Spider Robinson and along the tradition of A. C. Clarke's "White Hart".

Drinks are a dollar. (50 cents actually, but you only get your change if, upon finishing your drink, you don't exercise your option of making a toast and throwing the glass into the fireplace.)

It is a place where the odd and wonderful can, and often does, happen. Like the time the fellow betted everyone in the bar that his dog could talk. Ventriloquism turned out to be the trick, only it was the guy that was mute and the dog that threw his voice. (Mutation had given him the intelligence, and surgery the ability to talk.)
 
  • #88
It is the city of eternal darkness.
 
  • #89
Janus said:
I'll go with the "Matrix", based on Descartes' argument that you cannot trust your perceptions, as an evil demon might be controlling your every experience. This evolved into the whole "How can I know that I'm not just a brain hooked up in a lab being fed sensations by some scientist." idea.

Ooooo, nice!

Of course it wasn't the much later philosopher, Baudrillard. He said that if it were based on his own writings, then it was based on a misreading of them. Also, worth repeating, that if the matrix was to make a film, “The Matrix” would be the sort of film it would make.
 
  • #90
MotoH said:
It is the city of eternal darkness.

Would it be The city of Ember? A book series by Jeanne DuPrau. It was also made into a movie I believe.
 
  • #91
Dark City
 
  • #92
Ehhh not really. You are somewhat on track Arg.

Another hint.

Mother left them, and it is no longer true darkness.
 
  • #93
MotoH said:
Ehhh not really. You are somewhat on track Arg.

Another hint.

Mother left them, and it is no longer true darkness.

MotoH said:
It is the city of eternal darkness.

This new question will be from the same genre, and when one of the questions is answered, the other will be easy to answer also.
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Could the strong kill the emperor?
 
  • #94
Only two champions could kill the emperor.
 
  • #95
Who the hell banned MotoH before he could tell us the answer? ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!
 
  • #96
Uh oh, it looks like have lost motoh for a time.

The thread is open to a new question. Feel free to post.
 
  • #97
Practice makes perfect, literally.

P.S. Additional clue: entropy takes it in the chops in this book.
 
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  • #98
Shalashaska said:
Practice makes perfect, literally.

P.S. Additional clue: entropy takes it in the chops in this book.

Would this be The practice effect by David Brin?
 
  • #99
I couldn't remember the title, but that was my first idea.
 
  • #100
Argentum Vulpes said:
Would this be The practice effect by David Brin?

A Winner! We have a winner!
 
  • #101
MotoH sent me the answers to his questions:

Black Coral is the first one. The Tiste Andii are the dwellers of the dark, and mother dark left them when they betrayed her.

Rhulad Sengar, The Emperor of a Thousand Deaths is the second.

Both are from the Malazan books of the Fallen. The first one is from Reapers Gale, the second from Toll The Hounds and Midnight Tides.


Argentum Vulpes said:
Would this be The practice effect by David Brin?

Shalashaska said:
A Winner! We have a winner!
 
  • #102
Ivan Seeking said:
MotoH sent me the answers to his questions:

That was very thoughtful of him. Thanks MotoH, I hate unanswered questions.
 
  • #103
Ok now that I'm back from work I guess I should post my question. So here it is:

It was a test bed, with some live action.
 
  • #104
Argentum Vulpes said:
Ok now that I'm back from work I guess I should post my question. So here it is:

It was a test bed, with some live action.

Wow... um... Virtuosity? *wild swing, probable miss!*
 
  • #105
Next Clue:

This refers to the movie that was made as a result of the movie I'm after. Monarch butterfly, a lion, and a pair of slippers.
 

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