A Sci-fi/fantasy game !

[mariecurie]

Well, OK.<br /><br />My latest guess is Contact by Carl Sagan.<br /><font color="orange"><br />Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald</font>

 

[rhodan]

You are correct; it's Contact. <img src="/images/icons/cool.gif" />

 

[wmdragon]

finally! next! <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>

 

[mariecurie]

NEW BOOK<br /><br />Location: <font color="yellow">Sri Kanda, the Sacred Mountain.<br /><font color="orange"><br /><br />That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</font></font>

 

[tap_sa]

Fountains of Paradise (A.C.Clarke)<br /><br /><br />Here's another location from another book: Americans called it the Stone, Russians called it the Potato.<br /><br />

 

[mariecurie]

Well, I was trying to make it easy.<br />Guess I tried too hard! Next one I get, I'm gonna do ya a doozy!<br /><br /><font color="black">The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible... Arthur C. Clarke</font>

 

[wmdragon]

"Here's another location from another book: Americans called it the Stone, Russians called it the Potato."<br /><br />sounds very familiar. was it one of the martian moons in the Red/Green/Blue Mars series? <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>

 

[tap_sa]

Nope. Another hint: The location was a hollow asteroid.

 

[wmdragon]

I think I found the answer on google while looking in the wrong place (I was checking Pohl's Gateway, which I read ages ago), so I will recuse myself from this one. <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>

 

[summoner]

<font color="yellow">"Here's another location from another book: Americans called it the Stone, Russians called it the Potato."<br /></font><br /><br />Would that be Thistledown from Greg Bear's Eternity? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:271px;background-color:#FFF;border:1pxsolid#999"><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="height:35px"><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/htmlSticker1/language/www/US/MT/Three_Forks.gif" alt="" height="35" width="271" style="border:0px" /></div>

 

[tap_sa]

The asteroid appeared originally in Eon, but was also in the sequel Eternity, so that's correct. The newest book in Eon series is Legacy, a prequel to Eon. Havent read that yet.

 

[summoner]

It's a spaceship named Dahak. Probably too easy. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:271px;background-color:#FFF;border:1pxsolid#999"><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="height:35px"><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/htmlSticker1/language/www/US/MT/Three_Forks.gif" alt="" height="35" width="271" style="border:0px" /></div>

 

[mariecurie]

Maybe another clue?<br /><br /><font color="black">So shines a good deed in a weary world. <br />William Shakespeare</font>

 

[summoner]

Wasn't sure if the thread had just died. Ok another clue.. The ship is exremely large about the size of a moon. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:271px;background-color:#FFF;border:1pxsolid#999"><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="height:35px"><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/htmlSticker1/language/www/US/MT/Three_Forks.gif" alt="" height="35" width="271" style="border:0px" /></div>

 

[summoner]

Dahak was the name of earth's moon/spaceship in Mutaneer's Moon. Thought that everyone would get that. I'll step aside now if someone else would like to make a question. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:271px;background-color:#FFF;border:1pxsolid#999"><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="height:35px"><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/htmlSticker1/language/www/US/MT/Three_Forks.gif" alt="" height="35" width="271" style="border:0px" /></div>

 

[mariecurie]

Who wrote that?

 

[summoner]

David Weber wrote it, it is copywritten in 1991. It's a very good book, a little different than other Weber books. But IMHO, Weber is the smoothest writer around and this book as his others are very smooth reading. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:271px;background-color:#FFF;border:1pxsolid#999"><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="height:35px"><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/htmlSticker1/language/www/US/MT/Three_Forks.gif" alt="" height="35" width="271" style="border:0px" /></div>

 

[wmdragon]

I'll put it out again, in case no one else offers: spaceship named 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>

 

[mariecurie]

Say, don't we get another clue?<br /><br /><font color="black">I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. <br />They're too much fun.<br />Babe Ruth <br /></font>

 

[wmdragon]

sorry, been away for a long time<br /><br />another clue: jaunting (teleporting at will) <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>

 

[jmilsom]

Hey, no one ever answered this: <br /><br />The spaceship <i>Vorga</i> features in the classic Alfred Bester book <i>The Stars My Destination</i> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[jmilsom]

Let me pose one from the book I am reading now:<br /><br />Q. Where in the SciFi world is <i>Beninia?</i> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[wmdragon]

yup <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>

 

[dragon04]

Africa. From Stand on Zanzibar <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"2012.. Year of the Dragon!! Get on the Dragon Wagon!".</em> </div>

 

[wmdragon]

no wonder it sounded familiar <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>