History of SciFi
Commonly acknowledged to be the first SciFi novel
What is Frankenstein?
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This quote: "like an onion, slip off layer after layer of personality, belief, response, infinite layers, no end to them, no center to him" describes this man
Who is Haber?
Year Lathe of Heaven was published
What is 1971?
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Name a minimum of 6 of the short selection authors
Who are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Octavia E. Butler’s, John Crowley’s, C.L. Moore, Sarah Howe, or Neil Gaiman?
Should be common knowledge
"a flash seen from on and off a hurtling train"
What is Relativity?
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John Crowley argues this is the actual first SciFi Novel
What is The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz?
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Won this award for Best Novel
What is the Locus Award?
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Year Poe wrote The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall.
What is 1835?
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This author's short selection was published in United States Magazine
Who is Hawthorne?
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"There’s one limit I can think of...Only one. My brain will wear out in another forty years or so."
What is No Woman Born?
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The two opponents in the Kitchen Debate
Who are Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev?
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Reason George dreams of the Aldebaranians
What is to give humans a common enemy?
The years dubbed "The Golden Age of science fiction"
What is 1938 to the late 1940s?
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This author's film Icarus Montgolfier Wright received an Oscar nomination
Who is Bradbury?
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"for the first and last time, I wept for her— for her and for myself."
What is Snow?
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Founders of Asimov’s Magazine
Who are Isaac Asimov and Joel Davis?
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President of the US in the novel
Who is Albert M. Merdle?
Year 2001: A Space Odyssey came out
What is 1968?
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This author won the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award
Who is Butler?
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“But I fear...that my rabbit is leading me a long way from the track of my legitimate quarry"
What is "Moxon's Master"?
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At least three authors named the "New Wave" of SciFi authors
Who are Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, Samuel “Chip” Delaney, Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhelm, or James Tiptree, Jr.
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Complete the quote: "like ____ left out in the sun,”
What is Jell-O?
Date the Gatling Gun was adopted by the US Army
What is August 21, 1866?
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This author was a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College
Who is Howe?
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“'Forgive,' some one of us whispered."
What is "I Sing the Body Electric!"?
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