Science fiction trivia question
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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?
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote:
In my opinion, Dick wasn't a great writer.
What he was is a stark raving lunatic. Didn't he believe all his stories were true and were told to him by an entity from another dimension or some similar nonsense?
You aren't thinking of L. Ron Hubbard are you? The founder of Scientology?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun -
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Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
Who? :-D
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Who? :-D
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Nobody you would know, I'm sure. Just some schmuck. :rolleyes:
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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You aren't thinking of L. Ron Hubbard are you? The founder of Scientology?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von BraunNo, no I'm not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick[^]
Throughout February and March 1974, he experienced a series of visions, which he referred to as "2-3-74", shorthand for February–March 1974. He described the initial visions as laser beams and geometric patterns, and, occasionally, brief pictures of Jesus and of ancient Rome. As the visions increased in length and frequency, Dick claimed he began to live a double life, one as himself, "Philip K. Dick", and one as "Thomas", a Christian persecuted by Romans in the 1st century A.D. He referred to the "transcendentally rational mind" as "Zebra", "God" and "VALIS." Dick wrote about the experiences, first in the semi-autobiographical novel Radio Free Albemuth and then in VALIS, The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, i.e., the VALIS trilogy. At one point Dick felt that he had been taken over by the spirit of the prophet Elijah. He believed that an episode in his novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was a detailed retelling of a story from the Biblical Book of Acts, which he had never read.
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No, no I'm not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick[^]
Throughout February and March 1974, he experienced a series of visions, which he referred to as "2-3-74", shorthand for February–March 1974. He described the initial visions as laser beams and geometric patterns, and, occasionally, brief pictures of Jesus and of ancient Rome. As the visions increased in length and frequency, Dick claimed he began to live a double life, one as himself, "Philip K. Dick", and one as "Thomas", a Christian persecuted by Romans in the 1st century A.D. He referred to the "transcendentally rational mind" as "Zebra", "God" and "VALIS." Dick wrote about the experiences, first in the semi-autobiographical novel Radio Free Albemuth and then in VALIS, The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, i.e., the VALIS trilogy. At one point Dick felt that he had been taken over by the spirit of the prophet Elijah. He believed that an episode in his novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was a detailed retelling of a story from the Biblical Book of Acts, which he had never read.
ah, yes, I remember reading about that at one point. Makes me wonder about Roger Zelazny...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun -
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?
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
The genre of science fiction is typically considered to have begun in the mid 1920s, which saw the start up of Amazing Stories in 1926 and the release of the movie Metropolis in 1927. The earliest date I've seen is 1920, with the publication of the Czech novel R.U.R (which coined the word "robot"); the latest date is March 1938, when John Campbell took control of Astounding Stories and renamed the magazine Astounding Science-Fiction. Wells and Verne, as proto-science fiction writers, definitely had a strong influence on the early literature. But they are not considered to be writers of science fiction.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote:
In my opinion, Dick wasn't a great writer.
What he was is a stark raving lunatic. Didn't he believe all his stories were true and were told to him by an entity from another dimension or some similar nonsense?
They aren't? :omg:
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Gregory.Gadow wrote:
In my opinion, Dick wasn't a great writer.
What he was is a stark raving lunatic. Didn't he believe all his stories were true and were told to him by an entity from another dimension or some similar nonsense?
It is believed that Dick had some kind of psychotic break in the mid 70s; whether it was a mental condition, a stroke or the result of drug experimentation is a matter of lively debate (I've read reasoned arguments that A Scanner Darkly was a lot more autobiographical than he let on.) The VALIS books, I think, were the only ones he considered himself to have "dictated", though.
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The genre of science fiction is typically considered to have begun in the mid 1920s, which saw the start up of Amazing Stories in 1926 and the release of the movie Metropolis in 1927. The earliest date I've seen is 1920, with the publication of the Czech novel R.U.R (which coined the word "robot"); the latest date is March 1938, when John Campbell took control of Astounding Stories and renamed the magazine Astounding Science-Fiction. Wells and Verne, as proto-science fiction writers, definitely had a strong influence on the early literature. But they are not considered to be writers of science fiction.
Gregory.Gadow wrote:
But they are not considered to be writers of science fiction.
So let me get this straight... You are saying The Time Machine[^] and War of the worlds[^] are NOT science fiction. You will need to elaborate on this some more because ya know the ol' saying "Looks like a duck, talks like a duck".. Well by golly these stories sure sound like ducks to me (and most everyone that has read them). Not sure why you are citing Amazing stories as the beginning of Sci Fi... [Edit] The only reference I can think of that you are using is Wiki's Sci Fi history. You have mis-interpreted it however. "The development of American science fiction as a self-concious genere dtates in part from 1926, when Huo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories magazine, which was devoted exclusively to science fiction stories". There are multiple things to take from this quote. 1.) Self Consious genre means that the genre now knows it exists, not that it did not exist before 2.) A magizine dedicated exclusively to something implies that, that something existed before the magazine. It may not be fully tracable, but it did clearly exist 3.) Americans did not create Sci-Fiction nor were they the first to have a self-consious genre of sci fi
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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Albemuth isn't a short story. And Ubik will be a bitch to make. :laugh:
So I rounded up my camel Just to ask him for a smoke He handed me a Lucky, I said "Hey, you missed the joke." My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
GenJerDan wrote:
And Ubik will be a bitch to make.
Loved the book. Now I know what I will be reading tonight. :thumbsup:
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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Gregory.Gadow wrote:
But they are not considered to be writers of science fiction.
So let me get this straight... You are saying The Time Machine[^] and War of the worlds[^] are NOT science fiction. You will need to elaborate on this some more because ya know the ol' saying "Looks like a duck, talks like a duck".. Well by golly these stories sure sound like ducks to me (and most everyone that has read them). Not sure why you are citing Amazing stories as the beginning of Sci Fi... [Edit] The only reference I can think of that you are using is Wiki's Sci Fi history. You have mis-interpreted it however. "The development of American science fiction as a self-concious genere dtates in part from 1926, when Huo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories magazine, which was devoted exclusively to science fiction stories". There are multiple things to take from this quote. 1.) Self Consious genre means that the genre now knows it exists, not that it did not exist before 2.) A magizine dedicated exclusively to something implies that, that something existed before the magazine. It may not be fully tracable, but it did clearly exist 3.) Americans did not create Sci-Fiction nor were they the first to have a self-consious genre of sci fi
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
Verne and Wells wrote social commentary. "The Time Machine", published in 1895, was not about the theory and science of time travel: it was about where society might end up if it continued along its current trajectory. In that story, time travel is a MacGuffin, a device that lets the plot unfold. By the 1941 publication of Robert Heinlein's By His Bootstraps, time travel was the plot. Likewise in "War of the Worlds", the invasion by Mars was a MacGuffin that let Wells explore the collapse of society, and how different people would respond to that situation. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was a warning against tyranny; in later stories, Captain Nemo spoke against the growing consumerist culture and the need to protect natural areas like the sea from human depredation. Early science fiction was driven by gee-wizzery. Verne and Wells did not write those kinds of stories, so scholars of literature generally do not consider them to have written science fiction.
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Verne and Wells wrote social commentary. "The Time Machine", published in 1895, was not about the theory and science of time travel: it was about where society might end up if it continued along its current trajectory. In that story, time travel is a MacGuffin, a device that lets the plot unfold. By the 1941 publication of Robert Heinlein's By His Bootstraps, time travel was the plot. Likewise in "War of the Worlds", the invasion by Mars was a MacGuffin that let Wells explore the collapse of society, and how different people would respond to that situation. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was a warning against tyranny; in later stories, Captain Nemo spoke against the growing consumerist culture and the need to protect natural areas like the sea from human depredation. Early science fiction was driven by gee-wizzery. Verne and Wells did not write those kinds of stories, so scholars of literature generally do not consider them to have written science fiction.
Gregory.Gadow wrote:
"The Time Machine", published in 1895, was not about the theory and science of time travel: it was about where society might end up if it continued along its current trajectory.
Not sure how this makes it non-Sci-Fi. Most 'good' sci-fi IMO follow this same pattern. A hypothetical situation is made - How does man or a single person react. It does not have to be about the fictional technology. Many modern sci fi follow this same theme. Ditto for the others. I do not see how their story about 'society' makes it non-Sci fi. That is the most common idea of sci fi. Please give citations for these scholars. You didn't respond to where you got the '1920's' info, and if it is from Wiki, well that very site refers to Wells and Verne as Sci Fi writers. Please look at 'The Time Machine' and 'War of the Worlds' links. I would like to see references to the literature scholars that claim these are not Sci-Fi.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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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.