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Spec. Fiction Author
YGK These Authors of Speculative Fiction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The 1818 novel that laid the groundwork for science fiction by contrasting Enlightenment progress with Romantic nature | Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus |
| The Swiss scientist who reanimates dead tissue, only to have his creation murder his brother, friend, and wife | Victor Frankenstein |
| The explorer to whom Victor Frankenstein tells his story before dying in the Arctic | Robert Walton |
| Mary Shelley's 1826 novel about a 21st-century plague that devastates human civilization | The Last Man |
| The 1864 Jules Verne novel following an expedition from Iceland to the volcano Stromboli | Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| The narrator of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea who accompanies Captain Nemo on the Nautilus | Pierre Aronnax |
| The Englishman who wins a bet with the Reform Club by circumnavigating the globe with his valet Jean Passepartout | Phileas Fogg |
| The 1895 H. G. Wells novella depicting the divergence of humanity into the surface-dwelling Eloi and subterranean Morlocks | The Time Machine |
| The 1897 alien invasion novel featuring Martian "Tripods," "Black Smoke," and an eventual defeat by Earth microbes | The War of the Worlds |
| The vivisectionist who transforms animals into human-like "Beast Folk" on an isolated island | Dr. Moreau |
| The physics student named Griffin who uses a scientific discovery to enact a "reign of terror" | The Invisible Man |
| The 1932 dystopian novel featuring the "World State," human clones, and the drug soma | Brave New World |
| The social castes of the World State in Brave New World, named after Greek letters | Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon |
| The "Savage" from a New Mexico reservation who quotes Shakespeare but grows disgusted with "civilization" | John the Savage |
| The 1945 allegory of the Russian Revolution featuring pigs named Snowball and Napoleon | Animal Farm |
| The horse in Animal Farm who is exploited and eventually sent to be slaughtered | Boxer |
| The final, degraded principle of "Animalism" in Orwell's Animal Farm | All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others |
| The 1949 novel about Winston Smith's failed rebellion against "Big Brother" in the superpower Oceania | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| The linguistic distortion of English used for political control in Nineteen Eighty-Four | Newspeak |
| The location where Winston Smith and Julia are tortured into compliance by the government | The Ministry of Love |
| The author known for the "Three Laws of Robotics" and the Foundation series | Isaac Asimov |
| The Czech author who introduced the word "robot" in his 1920 play R.U.R. | Karel Čapek |
| The first law of robotics according to Asimov | A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm |
| The "psychohistorian" who founds the Foundation to limit the duration of a galactic Dark Age | Hari Seldon |
| The Asimov story describing a rare moment of darkness on a planet with multiple suns | Nightfall |
| The author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| The 1953 novel depicting a dystopian future where "firemen" burn books | Fahrenheit 451 |
| The protagonist of Fahrenheit 451 who flees a "Mechanical Hound" to join a community of book-memorizing rebels | Guy Montag |
| The title character of a Bradbury collection whose tattoos foretell the future | The Illustrated Man |
| The author who drew on his experience as a POW during the firebombing of Dresden for his fiction | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The protagonist of Slaughterhouse-Five who becomes "unstuck in time" and is kidnapped by Tralfamadorians | Billy Pilgrim |
| The recurring Vonnegut character who is an unsuccessful science fiction writer | Kilgore Trout |
| The substance in Cat’s Cradle that instantly turns liquid water into a solid | Ice-nine |
| The prophet in Cat’s Cradle who lives on San Lorenzo and teaches "bittersweet lies" | Bokonon |
| The Canadian author of The Handmaid’s Tale and the MaddAddam trilogy | Margaret Atwood |
| The patriarchal republic that replaces the United States in The Handmaid’s Tale | Gilead |
| The narrator of The Handmaid’s Tale who is forced to bear children for "the Commander" | Offred |
| The underground resistance movement mentioned in The Handmaid’s Tale | Mayday |
| The post-apocalyptic Atwood trilogy beginning with a novel about bioengineered diseases | Oryx and Crake (or the MaddAddam trilogy) |
| The Atwood novel that retells Homer's Odyssey from a female perspective | The Penelopiad |
| The author who created The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and wrote for Monty Python’s Flying Circus | Douglas Adams |
| The ordinary Englishman who becomes one of the last humans in the universe after Earth is destroyed | Arthur Dent |
| The alien race responsible for the destruction of Earth in the Hitchhiker’s series | Vogons |
| Arthur Dent's friend and a researcher for the Hitchhiker’s Guide | Ford Prefect |
| The starship used by Arthur Dent and his companions to travel the universe | Heart of Gold |
| The "paranoid android" who accompanies Arthur Dent | Marvin |
| The two-headed president of the galaxy in the Adams series | Zaphod Beeblebrox |
| The specific number that is the "answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything" | 42 |
| The two-word advice displayed on the cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Don’t Panic |
| The essential item the Hitchhiker’s Guide encourages all travelers to carry at all times | A towel |
| The potent drink whose recipe is provided in the Hitchhiker’s Guide | Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster |
| The "holistic detective" who is the protagonist of two supernatural novels by Douglas Adams | Dirk Gently |
| The author of the authorized Hitchhiker’s sequel And Another Thing… | Eoin Colfer |
| The books co-authored by Adams that provide comic definitions of British place names | The Meaning of Liff (and The Deeper Meaning of Liff) |
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