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Nominated William Herschel, not least since he was the first person since antiquity to discover a new planet and hence open the possibility of still others to be discovered.

That's the one. "Reviewer's comments" include not only excoriating it as "rhodomontade and piffle", as quoted, but threats to horsewhip the Baron on the steps of his club. You're next! (To pose a question, that is. Not for a horsewhipping.)

There's really only one SF author who could use a word like "rhodomontade" and get away with it … alas I'm currently away from my books and I don't want to have to resort to Google to check the details! The actual book series is five books long, and the imaginary book series has a one-word title (a...

Okay. Which fictional book series* is dismissed by one fierce critic as "rhodomontade and piffle"? Name and title of both the book series and the other book series in which it appears.

(*as in, the book series itself does not exist but is referenced repeatedly as part of the backdrop)

I was all set to pose a question, but it's been asked in this thread a small matter of six years ago (thank you Google). Will need a little longer...

Camelot 3000? It's a comic mini-series from the 1980s and it's about Arthurian legend reappearing in the year 3000, with science-fiction elements including genetic engineering, aliens from another planet, and nuclear weapons.

Yes indeed. Batter up!

Hiya. Sorry for the wait, again. It's a book (by one of my favourite authors) and it revolves around an unusual medical complaint, hypokalemia . At least, it's uncommon here and now; in the story it is all too common and the plot describes the measures taken against it and the social order that resu...

(There's one in The Russian Creed , an outstanding work by an author who is unjustly neglec^C The Harlan Ellison short story We Mourn For Anyone is set in a near future in which duelling is commonplace. The protagonist witnesses a duel over a traffic dispute, and is later set up for a fatal duel wit...

That ought to do - off you go!

Sorry for the delay! I'm on holiday in sunny* Devon this week and internet access is patchy. Please give me any instance from a non-Asimov book or movie that alludes to his Laws of Robotics. Thanks!

*ha, as if.

And Larry Niven once again - humanity in Known Space (by the time of Beowulf Schaeffer in "Flatlander" and later Louis Wu in "Ringworld") had teleport booths, and the Puppeteers went one better with "stepping discs".

Hiya. I never did work out how to do discount vouchers on Amazon, but I've made Sidewinder Precision Pro free to download for five days starting now. I know you can always read the thread version in this very forum, but if you'd like a free copy for your Kindle (or reading app), now's the time.

2001: A Space Odyssey - it all kicks off when TMA-1 is discovered on the Moon.

I think you've missed Malacandra's Sidewinder, Norby - he was being too modest. :lol: The Sidewinder is a core Elite / Oolite ship and I'd never claim that for my own. But the original novel Sidewinder Precision Pro introduced a couple of new ships, the Claymore and the Purdy. (There are one or two...