Answers for Yesterday

Science Fiction and Fantasy also didn't fare as well as I expected. Like Roy, I tend to devour a particular author and not read widely. These are books I read often.

1. Split Infinity by Piers Anthony (this was more from my teenage years, but I read them all)
   
2. Another Fine Myth by Robert Lynn Asprin. I love humor.
   
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
4. The Dragon and the George by the same author that brought you Neuromancer, Gordon Dickson. It was a toss-up which I used. I was introduced to the latter in my single English class in college, Physics in Fiction.
   
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
6. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey - I was surprised no one got that.
   
7. Dune by Frank Herbert
8. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart - my favorite Arthurian books
   
9. Conflict of Honors by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, arguably the Liaden series (which this leads off) are my husband's and my favorite books. Period.
   
10. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. I'm surprised no one got this either, but then I'm a huge Heinlein fan and this is one of his all time best.
    

So, now you know.

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Carrying on the List From Yesterday

See, you all probably thought I'd give you all the answers today. Haha, not so fast. I'll be the first to say that I would have struggled to determine some of these books from the first line, but I do know my characters. And, besides, I got the idea from Relax Max. Again. So, for all the ones not guessed, I'm going to provide character names and let you try again. If there was a character mentioned in the first line, I'll assume it wasn't enough and add a second character.

1. Stile
2. Aahz
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
4. Jim Eckert and Gorbash
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
6. Lessa and F'lar
7. Dune by Frank Herbert
8. Myrrdin Emrys
9. Shan Yos'galan
10. Manual Garcia O'Kelly Davis

And yes, though I should be addressing a space elevator, I'll be doing this on Ask Me Anything and Rockets and Dragons, too.

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Ten Science Fiction/fantasy Books

Relax Max did this on his blog and I enjoyed it, even though I did poorly guessing the classics. A large part of that is that I have very eclectic tastes in books (not necessarily the "classics").

These are among my favorites science fiction and/or fantasy books. I wonder how many of these will be recognized among my readers? (Note that Fahrenheit 451 is not one of them; I don't actually own it. The rest of these books I own).

1. He walked with the assurance of stature, and most others deferred to him subtly.
2. One of the few redeeming facets of instructors, I thought, is that occasionally they can be fooled.
3. A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Dreckard.
4. At 10:30 am, sharp, James Eckert pulled up in front of Stoddard Hall on the Riveroak College campus, where Grottwold Weinar Hansen had his lab.
5. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
6. Lessa woke, cold.
7. In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.
8. I'm an old man now, but I was already past my prime when Arthur was crowned King.
9. Eight chants past midsong: twilight.
10. I see in the Lunaya Pravda that Luna City Council has passed on first reading a bill to examine, license, inspect--and tax--public food vendors operating inside the municipal pressure.

I'm doing the same thing with "classics" on Rockets and Dragons and my favorite non-classic/non SF/Fantasy works on Ask Me Anything.

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