A Sci-fi/fantasy game !

[avaunt]

Someone posts a name, or a placename from a famous book ( play fair kiddies ) and the winner is the person able to identify the book.<br /><br />Like so.<br /><br />Placename : Mundberg

 

[mariecurie]

I'm not sure if it's the Mundberg you mean, but that is the name of the battlefield before the gates of Gondor, where Theodan fell and was buried in LOTR.<br /><br /><br />New Place:<br />Caladan

 

[avaunt]

<img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> close, very close. So close I have to award 9/10ths of a point. It is the Rohirrim name in their tounge, for Minas Tirith, Mundberg : guardian-fortress.<br /><br />Your turn. A well known book remember, give us a fair shot.

 

[mariecurie]

I put up a new place already.<br /><br />It is Caladan.<br /><br />It's from a very popular book turned series turned movies.<br /><br />No more clues now. <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" />

 

[mariecurie]

Great. So what's my prize?<font color="black"><br />" .................. " <font color="white"><br />What's that you say? I can have whatever I want?<font color="black"><br />" ................. ... ......" " ........................... .. ...... "<br />" ................ .... " <font color="white"><br />Cool. Let's see now...<br />How about you make a good post to the "Sci Fi Books You’ve Just Read Thread" ??? <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <br /><br /><font color="orange">"You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform".. Jack Chalker/'Midnight at the Well of Souls' <br /></font></font></font></font></font>

 

[kauboi]

Dune?<br /><br />My turn! <br /><br />Place: Terminus

 

[wmdragon]

Portal : A Dataspace Retrieval ? <br /><br />in case I win - ship name: Vorga <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#993366"><em>The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.</em> <br /> --- James Clerk Maxwell</font></p> </div>

 

[kauboi]

nope, I wasn't thinking about that. Much more famous. Think russian <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[rhodan]

Foundation by Asimov?

 

[kauboi]

Good job!! your turn! <br /><br />By the way, I think I'll start reading those books again. Its been a long time since I read them and is an absolute favourite of mine. Asimov was genius!

 

[rhodan]

I read the Foundation trilogy last year or so. It was OK, but not my cup of tea. <br /><br />Hmmm...can't say I read much sci-fi or fantasy...but here it goes: <br /><br />Ishtar Gate

 

[kauboi]

Babylon?? <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /> hehe I saw a reproduction of the Ishtar Gate once in a museum, pretty impressive. <br /><br />I wouldn't know this one. Let's see who's next guessing right.

 

[rhodan]

Babylon is not the name of the book. But Babylon is <i>in</i> the book. Ishtar Gate is an entrance to Babylon.

 

[yevaud]

Klendaathu. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[avaunt]

Starship Troopers. R Heinlein

 

[yevaud]

We have a winner.<br /><br />Next: The burning Bridge at Orion's Belt (this is a toughy). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[mariecurie]

HEY! It should be Avaunt’s turn to pick a place.<br />You gotta win before you can go, right???<br /> <br />Am I missing something again?

 

[avaunt]

Bladerunner!<br /><br />Maybe?<br /><br />Or if we mean book, then "Do androids dream of electric sheep?"

 

[spacefire]

I'm willing to bet another Heinlein book. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[wmdragon]

rhodan, your clue has yet to be solved, no? Snowcrash? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#993366"><em>The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.</em> <br /> --- James Clerk Maxwell</font></p> </div>

 

[rhodan]

<i>Snowcrash?</i><br /><br />Nope. <br /><br />The book I'm looking for is really trying to stay close to reality. A 'what if?' story.

 

[mariecurie]

Rhodan:<br /><br />My memory has it that the Ishtar gate was in more than one book, but my best guess would be Riverworld by PJ Farmer.<br />

 

[mariecurie]

No? <br />Doesn't seem to fit.<br />Can't be Bester's short 'The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"..<br />Dan Simmons "Hyperion" ?<br />too far from reality....<br /><br />Can you tell us what decade it was written in?<br />

 

[rhodan]

It was first published in 1985. It was made into a movie in 1997. Yes, Babylon and Isthar Gate probably can be found in dozens of books and stories, in the book I'm referring to, they are in the US.

 

[mariecurie]

Well, I think I've got it figured out now.<br />Anybody else?<br /><font color="orange"><br />It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. Carl Sagan</font>