The 3 most influential Science-Fiction writers of the Golden Age.
Who are Robert A Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke?
100
Cyberpunk is a portmanteau of these two words.
What are cyberspace and punk?
100
In our elective explore texts that represent a __________ of imagined worlds.
What is spectrum?
100
Armitage is a personality created to hide another personality named this?
Who is Corto?
100
These two characters have modified eyes.
Who are Molly and Wage?
200
The two early ‘Grandfathers of Science Fiction’.
Who are H.G. Wells and Jules Verne?
200
A text that consists of adventures set on one or more exotic alien planets is often categorised in this subgenre.
What is a planetary romance?
200
According to the rubric, this is at the core of Science-Fiction.
What is developments in science and technology?
200
Roy Batty wants more of this.
What is Life?
200
The homeland of Paul Maud'Dib.
What is Caladan?
300
William Gibson wrote two these two sequels to ‘Neuromancer’. Bonus 100 points if you name this title of the trilogy.
What is ‘Count Zero’ and ‘Mona Lisa Overdrive’? and What is the Sprawl Trilogy?
300
This is the origin of the term ‘space opera’.
What soap opera?
300
The texts set for study present a __________ range of concerns, styles and textual forms.
What is dynamic?
300
In Dune, this has been fought over by generations of families.
What is spice.
300
The character who says, “The holographic paradigm is the closest thing you've worked out to a representation of human memory, is all. But you've never done anything about it."
Who is Wintermute?
400
The SF writer who made quite accurate predictions for 50 years into the future.
Who is Isaac Asimov?
400
The two terms that form the dichotomy which categorises the main subgenres of science fiction.
What are hard and soft (sciences)?
400
The two other prescribed texts for this elective (that we did not study).
What are Left Hand of Darkness and Galaxy Quest?
400
A console cowboy is another name for this.
What is a hacker?
400
The name of a company that holds an interplanetary monopoly in many worlds in the universe of Dune.
What is the CHOAM company?
500
The writer of the Introduction of the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction.
Who is Farah Mendlesohn?
500
The term New Wave is borrowed from the French film movement known as this.
What is nouvelle vague?
500
According to the rubric, Science-Fiction texts question or disrupt traditional perspectives on these four aspects.
What are human form, morality, behaviour and power?
500
A bird that flies off as the sun breaks in Bladerunner.