jodawi: (alien answer)
Apophenia ([personal profile] jodawi) wrote2005-04-12 03:46 pm
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Guess the Author

  1. vidphone receiver, empathy box, mood organ, poop sheet, false animal, harness bull, laser tube, brain unit, three andys, tomb world, bone marrow test, humanoid robot
  2. vision screen, hibernation control, space pod
  3. her magelight, nonned years, bet jahr, nine nonned, two threfts, dozen threfts, weather triad, tallow soot, shadow ciphers, casting tent, casting passage, balance triad, training triad, leading triad, cast passage, proxy chain, three mages, runner boy, your triad, local triad, junction chamber, one mage, casting circle, other mages, had scribed
  4. new archmage, alder stick, grass bag, old mage, great mage, burned child, milking shed
  5. free grails, her grail, control gondola, polar mountains, belly hatch, acorn bread, hangar bay, had been resurrected
  6. mag ship, reweaving system, stepping disks, sonic fold, rescue bubble, spill mountains, cabin gravity, hyperdrive motor, mag specs, superconductor grid, rescue pod, mass pointer, float plates, little protector, antimatter explosion, working spacecraft, rim wall, shadow squares, attitude jets, service stacks, stasis field, virtual window, mass detector, galactic core, pressure suit
  7. great white cube, backpack computer, prayer fans, food mines, ship handling
  8. genomic viruses, fever scent, big trooper, younger trooper, virus children, isolation suits, endogenous retrovirus, pilot thinker, trench domes, descriptor theory, medical nano, foamed rock, mother cysts, mirror matter, time tweak, red rabbits, third uncle, warm sleep, main lab
  9. interstellar credit, magnetic lift, needle rifle, power cannon, power pistol, control pad, atmosphere ship, hand cannon, needle guns, power rifle, blue bubble, private lounge, void pistol, charismatic talent, bay commander, courier ship, knitted jacket, fourteen worlds, power pistol, cadaverous man, intuitive logic
  10. etheric physics, indenting mass, zero gravity field, normal robots, positronic brain paths, dead average, gravity volume, fist gun
  11. pagan banner, magical scabbard, her attendant priestesses, holiday tunic, been made priestess, fairy country, old royal line, treaty troops, little sickle, holiday gown, little dark people, wooden knights, sickle knife, great priestess, deerskin tunic, your kinswoman, breeding woman, old priestess, old worship, her harp, young stag
  12. liquor console, optimisation programme, tailored bacteria
  13. passenger liaison, unborn god, causal channels, portal station
  14. haunted quarter, cactus man, mosquito people, her proboscis, his tentacles, possibility mining, pirate city, chariot ships, aft edge, voice petered, fucking city, surrounding ships
  15. red giant system, orbital forest, final fax, forest ring, spin arms, thousand klicks, command deck, our bug, fusion engines, containment fields, snow dome
  16. radio cabin, atmosphere suit, living ocean, panoramic window, hangar deck, molecular remote
  17. fuligin cloak, guild cloak, young sieur, pale towers, our guild, sealed house, brown mantle, cooing voice
  18. twenty revs, central cable, buzz bombs, flak suit
  19. bonsai maple, sixth gee, full gee, delta vee, brassy voice, credit code, new foot, pilot computer, artificial foot, little maple, your cane
  20. man with red eyes, itt iss, cloven pine, rapid wrath, watching rock, fateful hour, ancient harmonies, silver mane, north pasture, glacial rocks, several wings

[identity profile] akaspeedo.livejournal.com 2005-04-12 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
3. Um, [livejournal.com profile] irongall? I think I need to read more.

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
And here I was afraid they'd all be too easy.

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
I've added a shiny Image</ for you.

[identity profile] akaspeedo.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Very nice.
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[personal profile] boxofdelights 2005-04-13 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
17 is Gene Wolfe, yes?

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
which book?
Shadow & Claw : The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

[identity profile] zaiah.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
19. Moon is a harsh mistress.. Heinlien of coursen.

[identity profile] plantgirl.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
I thought I remembered a Heinlein with a bonsai, but wasn't sure which one.

[identity profile] plantgirl.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
#11 reminds me of Mists of Avalon, but it's been so long since I've read it I have no idea if that's right.

This is a fun quiz. I'm looking forward to seeing the answers revealed.

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
shiny checkmark for you

dick

[identity profile] frankepi.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
1- PK Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[identity profile] plantgirl.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
#4 - Ursula LeGuin, one of the Earthsea series.

[identity profile] plantgirl.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's not any of the first three, which I've read many times, so it must be one of the later ones, which I've read once or never, depending.

[identity profile] akaspeedo.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
Tehanu. I should've seen that.

[identity profile] sebab.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
the only one we both got was Robert Heinlein.

which I think means you read a lot of fantasy, I used to read a lot of SF, but we both cross over on occasion.
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[personal profile] reedrover 2005-04-13 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
#9 Bujold?
#20 L'Engle?

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
20 yes, 9 no. 1.0 shiny checkmarks for you.
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[personal profile] reedrover 2005-04-13 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
OH! OH! #8 is the guy who wrote Darwin's Radio... "endogenous retrovirus" has gotta be Greg Bear.

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
2! 2 shiny checkmarks for you!
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[personal profile] reedrover 2005-04-13 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay!

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Aahz appears by proxy, saying 6. Larry Niven, _Ringworld_

[identity profile] beaq.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I guess #14, or does the guesser need to exist?

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps if you guess, you exist.

Aha!

[identity profile] akaspeedo.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I knew 14 had to be China Mieville. The Scar, right?

Re: Aha!

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
mhm

[identity profile] misterx.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Trying the last two...

16. Stanislaw Lem in "Peace on Earth"?
18. John Varley in "Demon"?

I now know what a SIP is, and realize I'm good at spotting them.

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Lem, but Solaris
Varley: yep

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
actually, i'm wrong, 'molecular remote' is from peace on earth

[identity profile] misterx.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't claim to have read them, I just googled. Are these phrases all from Amazon's SIP lists?

[identity profile] misterx.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
*poking at it* The program they are using to do this would be a handy resource for professors who need to watch for plagarism, methinks.