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LITERATURE CONTEST #14 Name the classic science fiction work in which... Winners and answers below. |
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| 1 | ...Earth's latest spiritual leader is a Martian—if you can grok it. | ||||||||||
| 2 | ...the newly discovered world is hollow—and cylindrical. | ||||||||||
| 3 | ...the word "robot" was first used. | ||||||||||
| 4 | ...non-Aristotelian logic is promoted. | ||||||||||
| 5 |
 ...the alien crafts moved on tripods but the
the first Hollywood movie of the book made them look like this: |
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| 6 | ...the author appears in his own novel as—not one but—two characters! | ||||||||||
| 7 | ...the original Finding Nemo plot is found. | ||||||||||
| 8 | ...sex—and gender—take some wild turns in an Arctic environment... | ||||||||||
| 9 | ...well...one word: monolith—that should be all you need to know . | ||||||||||
| 10 |
 ...Charlton Heston goes bananas
after crashing on a strange planet...well, actually Heston's only an
actor in the first movie based on the book...and actually the book has a
different name, which is... |
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The winners are Kelly Martel of Walsingham, Ontario; Ibraheem Mohammed of Durham, North Carolina; and Audrey Laurence of Ottawa, Ontario. They chose as prizes respectively the books Far From the Madding Crowd, Robot Dreams and England, England. Answers: 1. Stranger in a Strange Land |
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