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100

Which book, published in 1818, is commonly considered the first science fiction novel?

Frankenstein

100

Ursula K. Le Guin met her husband on the way to what country to undertake a Fulbright fellowship?

France

100

Who wrote the short story "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall"?

Edgar Allen Poe

100

Steampunk aesthetics are mainly inspired by what century of history?

1800's/1900

100

What is the name of the type of modern science fiction that envisions humans and their technology living in harmony with nature?

Solarpunk

200

What is the first science fiction novel to be published in the United States, according to Paul Collins?

Symzonia

200

What period of Sci-Fi did Urusla K. Le Guin Write in?

New Wave

200

Who wrote the famous story that ends "Ah, humanity!"?

Herman Melville

200

The period from around 1938 to the late 1940s is called by what name in the history of science fiction publishing?

The golden age

200

A dystopian story by Bruce Sterling, Published in the 1980's, would most likely be in what genre of science fiction?

Cyberpunk

300

What is the title of the 1984 novel by William Gibson that pioneered cyberpunk?

Neuromancer

300

What is the title of the novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that addresses gender and gender fluidity?

"The Left Hand Of Darkness"

300

Which author created the "three laws of robotics"?

Issac Asimov

300

In what decade did science fiction emerge as a generic force?

1930's

300

What word for a kind of science fiction was first coined jokingly by Keven Jeter in a letter to the editor?

Steampunk

400

Which novel, sometimes considered science fiction, was published in 1616?

The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

400

Which prestigious publishing house has republished at least seven of Ursula K. Le Guin’s novels in recent years?

The Library Of America

400

Who wrote the story "The Birthmark," about a man who tries to make his wfie acheive human perfection?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

400

What decade saw the development of a spate of science fiction TV shows such as Star Trek and The Time Tunnel?

1960's

400

What is the name of the type of dystopian science fiction, developed in the 1980s, that often involves the conflict between the powerful and the struggling?

Cyberpunk

500

What two famous early science fiction radio series are mentioned by the Resource Guide?

Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon

500

What year was Le Guin Born?

1929

500

Science fiction writers such as Nalo Hopkinson and Nisi Shawl are from a similar demographic as, and following in the footsteps of, which one of the authors of the shorter selections

Octavia Butler

500

What year was The Lathe of Heaven published?

1971

500

Which “science” is the science component of the German novel The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rozenkreutz?

Alchemy