Science fiction trivia question
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Asimov? [wild guess, 90% chance of being wrong]
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
90% chance of being wrong
Is that estimate based on psychohistory?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
90% chance of being wrong
Is that estimate based on psychohistory?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
Can't be: psychohistory cannot be applied to small groups. Not even a single planet, for that matter.
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There is a science fiction author who has had more stories turned into movies than any other science fiction author: ten since the early 1980s, with another 5 somewhere between initial planning and awaiting release. Who is it?
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Asimov? [wild guess, 90% chance of being wrong]
Regards, Nish
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You beat me to it. Although it's probably the wrong answer. I was thinking of him because he was a pretty prolific writer.
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There is a science fiction author who has had more stories turned into movies than any other science fiction author: ten since the early 1980s, with another 5 somewhere between initial planning and awaiting release. Who is it?
Phillip K Dick
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There is a science fiction author who has had more stories turned into movies than any other science fiction author: ten since the early 1980s, with another 5 somewhere between initial planning and awaiting release. Who is it?
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There is a science fiction author who has had more stories turned into movies than any other science fiction author: ten since the early 1980s, with another 5 somewhere between initial planning and awaiting release. Who is it?
Ian Shlasko
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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There is a science fiction author who has had more stories turned into movies than any other science fiction author: ten since the early 1980s, with another 5 somewhere between initial planning and awaiting release. Who is it?
Alex Jones?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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That's not a nice thing to say!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
he asked for it
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We have a winner! The author is Philip K. Dick. He had 44 published novels and around 120 short stories. The movies are:
- Blade Runner (1982), based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
- Total Recall (1990, 2012), based on the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (The 2012 version is not a remake of the first movie, but a re-adaptation of the short story.)
- Confessions d'un Barjo (1992), based on the novel "Confessions of a Crap Artist" (filmed in France; released in an English-language version in the US as Barjo)
- Screamers (1995), based on the short story "Second Variety"
- Minority Report (2002), based on the short story "The Minority Report"
- Impostor (2002), based on the short story "Impostor" (The story also served as the basis for the 1962 BBC television series Out of This World.)
- Paycheck (2003), based on the short story "Paycheck"
- A Scanner Darkly (2006), based on the novella "A Scanner Darkly"
- Next (2007), based on the short story "The Golden Man"
- The Adjustment Bureau (2011), based on the short story "Adjustment Team"
Movies being planned are an animated adaptation of the short story "The King of the Elves" by Disney, due for release in 2012; Radio Free Albemuth, based on the short story "Radio Free Albemuth", now awaiting distribution; an adaptation of the novel "Ubik", currently in "advanced negotiations"; and announced plans to adapt the novels "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as a movie and "The Man in the High Castle" as a BBC mini-series. Not including movies, Dick's novel "Valis" has been adapted as an opera, and "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", "Radio Free Albemuth" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" have been adapted for the stage. The stories "Mr. Spaceship", "Colony" and "The Defenders" have been adapted and broadcast as radio plays. "The Electric Ant" was adapted as a limited edition comic by Marvel. In my opinion, Dick wasn't a great writer. Where he shined, and the reason why he was put up for so many awards, was his ideas: the fragility of personal identity and a focus on ordinary people. Which is why so many of them have been stolen adapted by other writers.
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We have a winner! The author is Philip K. Dick. He had 44 published novels and around 120 short stories. The movies are:
- Blade Runner (1982), based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
- Total Recall (1990, 2012), based on the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (The 2012 version is not a remake of the first movie, but a re-adaptation of the short story.)
- Confessions d'un Barjo (1992), based on the novel "Confessions of a Crap Artist" (filmed in France; released in an English-language version in the US as Barjo)
- Screamers (1995), based on the short story "Second Variety"
- Minority Report (2002), based on the short story "The Minority Report"
- Impostor (2002), based on the short story "Impostor" (The story also served as the basis for the 1962 BBC television series Out of This World.)
- Paycheck (2003), based on the short story "Paycheck"
- A Scanner Darkly (2006), based on the novella "A Scanner Darkly"
- Next (2007), based on the short story "The Golden Man"
- The Adjustment Bureau (2011), based on the short story "Adjustment Team"
Movies being planned are an animated adaptation of the short story "The King of the Elves" by Disney, due for release in 2012; Radio Free Albemuth, based on the short story "Radio Free Albemuth", now awaiting distribution; an adaptation of the novel "Ubik", currently in "advanced negotiations"; and announced plans to adapt the novels "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as a movie and "The Man in the High Castle" as a BBC mini-series. Not including movies, Dick's novel "Valis" has been adapted as an opera, and "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", "Radio Free Albemuth" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" have been adapted for the stage. The stories "Mr. Spaceship", "Colony" and "The Defenders" have been adapted and broadcast as radio plays. "The Electric Ant" was adapted as a limited edition comic by Marvel. In my opinion, Dick wasn't a great writer. Where he shined, and the reason why he was put up for so many awards, was his ideas: the fragility of personal identity and a focus on ordinary people. Which is why so many of them have been stolen adapted by other writers.
woohoo! what a treat. i never win anything!
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There is a science fiction author who has had more stories turned into movies than any other science fiction author: ten since the early 1980s, with another 5 somewhere between initial planning and awaiting release. Who is it?
Michael Crichton? Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Chris Losinger wrote:
Dick
Tom
Harry
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That's not a nice thing to say!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Thanks a bunch. Now my coworkers are looking at me like I'm stranger than usual because I laughed out loud. :laugh:
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There is a science fiction author who has had more stories turned into movies than any other science fiction author: ten since the early 1980s, with another 5 somewhere between initial planning and awaiting release. Who is it?
I'd have to say H.G. Wells one of my favorites. There have been films based on his stories going back to 1902 with "La voyage dans la lune".
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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We have a winner! The author is Philip K. Dick. He had 44 published novels and around 120 short stories. The movies are:
- Blade Runner (1982), based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
- Total Recall (1990, 2012), based on the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (The 2012 version is not a remake of the first movie, but a re-adaptation of the short story.)
- Confessions d'un Barjo (1992), based on the novel "Confessions of a Crap Artist" (filmed in France; released in an English-language version in the US as Barjo)
- Screamers (1995), based on the short story "Second Variety"
- Minority Report (2002), based on the short story "The Minority Report"
- Impostor (2002), based on the short story "Impostor" (The story also served as the basis for the 1962 BBC television series Out of This World.)
- Paycheck (2003), based on the short story "Paycheck"
- A Scanner Darkly (2006), based on the novella "A Scanner Darkly"
- Next (2007), based on the short story "The Golden Man"
- The Adjustment Bureau (2011), based on the short story "Adjustment Team"
Movies being planned are an animated adaptation of the short story "The King of the Elves" by Disney, due for release in 2012; Radio Free Albemuth, based on the short story "Radio Free Albemuth", now awaiting distribution; an adaptation of the novel "Ubik", currently in "advanced negotiations"; and announced plans to adapt the novels "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as a movie and "The Man in the High Castle" as a BBC mini-series. Not including movies, Dick's novel "Valis" has been adapted as an opera, and "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", "Radio Free Albemuth" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" have been adapted for the stage. The stories "Mr. Spaceship", "Colony" and "The Defenders" have been adapted and broadcast as radio plays. "The Electric Ant" was adapted as a limited edition comic by Marvel. In my opinion, Dick wasn't a great writer. Where he shined, and the reason why he was put up for so many awards, was his ideas: the fragility of personal identity and a focus on ordinary people. Which is why so many of them have been stolen adapted by other writers.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Chris Losinger wrote:
Dick
Tom
Harriet
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We have a winner! The author is Philip K. Dick. He had 44 published novels and around 120 short stories. The movies are:
- Blade Runner (1982), based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
- Total Recall (1990, 2012), based on the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (The 2012 version is not a remake of the first movie, but a re-adaptation of the short story.)
- Confessions d'un Barjo (1992), based on the novel "Confessions of a Crap Artist" (filmed in France; released in an English-language version in the US as Barjo)
- Screamers (1995), based on the short story "Second Variety"
- Minority Report (2002), based on the short story "The Minority Report"
- Impostor (2002), based on the short story "Impostor" (The story also served as the basis for the 1962 BBC television series Out of This World.)
- Paycheck (2003), based on the short story "Paycheck"
- A Scanner Darkly (2006), based on the novella "A Scanner Darkly"
- Next (2007), based on the short story "The Golden Man"
- The Adjustment Bureau (2011), based on the short story "Adjustment Team"
Movies being planned are an animated adaptation of the short story "The King of the Elves" by Disney, due for release in 2012; Radio Free Albemuth, based on the short story "Radio Free Albemuth", now awaiting distribution; an adaptation of the novel "Ubik", currently in "advanced negotiations"; and announced plans to adapt the novels "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as a movie and "The Man in the High Castle" as a BBC mini-series. Not including movies, Dick's novel "Valis" has been adapted as an opera, and "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", "Radio Free Albemuth" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" have been adapted for the stage. The stories "Mr. Spaceship", "Colony" and "The Defenders" have been adapted and broadcast as radio plays. "The Electric Ant" was adapted as a limited edition comic by Marvel. In my opinion, Dick wasn't a great writer. Where he shined, and the reason why he was put up for so many awards, was his ideas: the fragility of personal identity and a focus on ordinary people. Which is why so many of them have been stolen adapted by other writers.
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We have a winner! The author is Philip K. Dick. He had 44 published novels and around 120 short stories. The movies are:
- Blade Runner (1982), based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
- Total Recall (1990, 2012), based on the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (The 2012 version is not a remake of the first movie, but a re-adaptation of the short story.)
- Confessions d'un Barjo (1992), based on the novel "Confessions of a Crap Artist" (filmed in France; released in an English-language version in the US as Barjo)
- Screamers (1995), based on the short story "Second Variety"
- Minority Report (2002), based on the short story "The Minority Report"
- Impostor (2002), based on the short story "Impostor" (The story also served as the basis for the 1962 BBC television series Out of This World.)
- Paycheck (2003), based on the short story "Paycheck"
- A Scanner Darkly (2006), based on the novella "A Scanner Darkly"
- Next (2007), based on the short story "The Golden Man"
- The Adjustment Bureau (2011), based on the short story "Adjustment Team"
Movies being planned are an animated adaptation of the short story "The King of the Elves" by Disney, due for release in 2012; Radio Free Albemuth, based on the short story "Radio Free Albemuth", now awaiting distribution; an adaptation of the novel "Ubik", currently in "advanced negotiations"; and announced plans to adapt the novels "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as a movie and "The Man in the High Castle" as a BBC mini-series. Not including movies, Dick's novel "Valis" has been adapted as an opera, and "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", "Radio Free Albemuth" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" have been adapted for the stage. The stories "Mr. Spaceship", "Colony" and "The Defenders" have been adapted and broadcast as radio plays. "The Electric Ant" was adapted as a limited edition comic by Marvel. In my opinion, Dick wasn't a great writer. Where he shined, and the reason why he was put up for so many awards, was his ideas: the fragility of personal identity and a focus on ordinary people. Which is why so many of them have been stolen adapted by other writers.
H. G. Wells (85) and Jules Verne (145) Granted, many are done, re-done, re-made, digitally remastered etc. etc. But still, seems 85 is a lot more than 10 and 145 is even more than that. What is your comparing source?
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