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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| ethical issues in science fiction | 2/9/2012 | Geoff |
| Q: I am a school librarian working with the Science Department to use Science fiction texts to explore ... A: This may be difficult. I am not really sure what exactly is considered to be suitable for children ... | ||
| book/story title | 1/12/2012 | Geoff |
| Q: Sir, A quick question if you would be so kind. I can remember reading when I was younger a book ... A: "Iceworld" by Hal Clement is the only SF novel I know of in which the word "tofacco" is used by ... | ||
| Satirical Science Fiction | 11/21/2011 | Geoff |
| Q: I am a big fan of Stanislaw Lem and his short stories featuring Ijon Tichy, especially those of a ... A: Here are some excellent satiricial SF books and short story anthologies:- The Stainless Steel Rat ... | ||
| Please help | 10/10/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: A few years ago I started reading a book and do not remember the name. I am desperate to find this ... A: Sorry - I never read this book. Good luck finding it. I can recommend other books that you might ... | ||
| Help with SF Books | 10/2/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: Bill, i googled Sci-Fi Expert and your name came up so i'm really hoping i can get a few questions ... A: Ryan, I'm sorry, but I don't know the value of books and magazines. For that my guess is that you ... | ||
| Sci fi book with either Lion/Tiger men | 9/30/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: I read a book about 20 years ago that had a lion or Tiger type man on the cover with a laser in his ... A: My favorite cat-people sci-fi is a three-book series by Anne McCaffrey about the Catteni cat-people. ... | ||
| Timothy Zahn books | 9/22/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: Do you know which Timothy Zahn books are free of excessive violence and sex scenes? I'm a somewhat ... A: I haven't read any of his recent work. I liked him and read his books when he was a young author. ... | ||
| Lost time travel story | 9/18/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: I am requesting your help in locating the title and author of a time travel short story I heard ... A: I read this short story a LONG time ago, but can't think of the name. Sorry. Like you, I also ... | ||
| Old Annapolis Town short story | 8/21/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: Looking for a story called Old Annapolis Town. Published in SciFi mags. Can anyone help me find a ... A: Couldn't find it by this title in the Locus Index. http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/0start.htm ... | ||
| Short story by H.G. Wells | 8/9/2011 | Geoff |
| Q: I really hope you can answer this question because it seems to have baffled one of the other experts ... A: I've read a number of anthologies of H G Wells and have never come across this story, though I see ... | ||
| Wells short story | 8/2/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: i am looking for a specific short story by H.G. Wells entitled 'The Final Men.' I have been unable ... A: According to my sources, there is no such story. I found The Flying Man by H.G. Wells. Here is a ... | ||
| sci-fi novel 60s era | 7/22/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: I read this novel in the late 60s..so please bare with me...takes place on earth..in the alps I ... A: Haven't read that one. But I can highly recommend a very similar short story titled "Who Goes ... | ||
| SF Short Stories | 7/12/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: I've been trying on and off for several years to track down two short stories that I read long ago ... A: Also drawing a blank. But here's a resource for you to check out. ... | ||
| Strategy for populating an alien world. | 7/2/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: The following conditions are given: 1) The alien world is almost identical to Earth -- gravity, ... A: you might want to read about kibbutz lifestyle in Israel. Popular in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. ... | ||
| Strategy for populating an alien world. | 6/27/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: The following conditions are given: 1) The alien world is almost identical to Earth -- gravity, ... A: What a fun question! What class assigned it. Of course, there are no right or wrong answers. ... | ||
| Short story author | 6/20/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: long ago , I read an anthology in which a story stood out for me. A young engineer graduates with ... A: Sorry - I never read this one, but it sounds great. Please let me know if you find the title or ... | ||
| forgotten book | 6/7/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: I read a series of books in school teenage science fiction. The premise was of humans colonising ... A: After thinking more about it, I think my best fit is going to be L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Forever Hero ... | ||
| 1970's short story collection read in late 70's not later than 1980 | 6/4/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: it was hardback blue in color and i am fairly sure it had planets on it. I am also reasonable sure ... A: never read this particular anthology, but have read the second story. unfortunately, can't remember ... | ||
| Looking for two books | 5/30/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: Looking for two books, both SF, published by the early '90s at the definite latest. 1) Looking for ... A: no idea on #1. story #2 may be The Big Front Yard by Clifford Simak, collected in several ... | ||
| Trying to locate a sci-fi book | 5/25/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: So this will be a very vague description, but I remember reading this book when I was a kid, in the ... A: The closest thing I can think of is a short story by Isaac Asimov in the excellent anthology I, ... | ||
| Unknown 70s children's sci-fi book | 5/21/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: Sorry to ask yet another barely-remembered-title-from-the-past question but I am trying to track ... A: cover art changes with each edition, so that's not much of a clue. When people think kids sci-fi ... | ||
| Trying to Find A Specific Sci-Fi Short Story | 5/12/2011 | Geoff |
| Q: It was published, I believe, in Playboy Magazine in the late 60's or 70's. The storyline was that a ... A: Sounds like Arthur C Clarke's short story "Dial F for Frankenstein":- ... | ||
| Need to know! | 4/26/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: Denholm I'm sorry but i did not receive your answer the first time . If you could resend it I would ... A: Robert, As Experts, we can answer a question, and we have three different ways of doing that, or, ... | ||
| novelette and short story re psi-talented group getting a conscience | 4/24/2011 | Geoff |
| Q: Based on a SS (perhaps titled *Baby Makes three*)-- a telepath, a telekenesist, a teleporter and (I ... A: OK, I had a look, and only 2 stories came up with anywhere near the same sort of title, "Baby Makes ... | ||
| Science Fiction | 4/13/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: Back in the early 1960's my father brought a book home which I secretly read. It turned me into a ... A: It is possible (and likely) that the book you read was Space Prison (Pyramid Books, 1960) by Tom ... | ||
| Science fiction story from an anthology of early 1970's | 4/10/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: As an undergraduate science student in the early 1970's I read a great deal of science fiction to ... A: Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon - one of my favorite short stories ever. Found in several ... | ||
| Science Fiction Series from sixties? fifties? | 4/7/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: I read a series where the protagonist was a male human and extremely fast and strong and was trying ... A: This sounds like the Dumarest saga by E. C. Tubb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Charles_Tubb ... | ||
| Lost Anthology Story | 4/1/2011 | Geoff |
| Q: I was given a wonderful anthology of Science fiction stories when I was about 12 and I'd like to re ... A: Well, this involves more than one alien, but might be the story you seek, given that the author does ... | ||
| unknown science-fiction book | 3/31/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: My brother read a book when we were in middle school that he remembered he really liked, but he ... A: I have a vague recollection of reading something like this. It may have been one of the Ethshar ... | ||
| Juvenile series about detective and alien sidekick on Mars | 3/7/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: As a child in late 80s/early 90s I read a series of books about a detective who had an alien ... A: Never read this one. Sorry. But I can highly recommend Asimov's mystery series starring a ... | ||
| questions about extraterrestrial life | 3/6/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: Denholm, As a student in the Gifted and Talented Program at Eastern Regional High School, I am ... A: This is not the kind of question I am usually asked, but I would be willing to share some of my ... | ||
| SF Book | 3/5/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: Back in the late 70's I read a SF book about a man's head incased in a special helmet, I think they ... A: I'm not sure this is the book (books) that you remember reading. ... | ||
| unknown sci-fi book | 3/3/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: I am trying to remember a book that I read when I was in High School back in the early 70's and can ... A: sorry - never read this book. good luck finding it. it sounds like a "juvenile", few of which ... | ||
| science fiction art | 2/26/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: I am looking for a specific artwork from a science fiction book cover. I think it was a Del-Rey ... A: I think the book you are looking for is Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster. This book had two covers (at ... | ||
| Titles of 3 older Sci-fi books... | 2/24/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: I'm looking for the titles of 3 older scifi books I read when I was a child - early 1990's, one of ... A: No clue on the first two. The third might be one of a series by James Blish. The series is Cities ... | ||
| Short story sci fi | 2/22/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: Back in the mid 70s', I read a compilation of short stories but cannot remember the name of the book ... A: If it was The Sound by A. E. Van Vogt, the story is in these collections Astounding magazine, Feb ... | ||
| classic sci fi short story | 2/16/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: Looking for a story about a man who transfers his conciousnes to a body on the moon. He gets killed ... A: This is one of my favorite stories. There are two versions: the novela which was published in the ... | ||
| Sci-Fi short story collection | 2/14/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: In the 70's I read an anthology of sci-fi stories that had humorous or personal anecdotes about each ... A: Most of the anthologies in my collection are in boxes, so I can't check the actual books. I found ... | ||
| Name of 1970's Children's Book - Sci - Fi | 2/11/2011 | Sue Kayton |
| Q: I'm searching for the title of a book I read in the 70s about a boy who lives in a futuristic ... A: There are many such books. My favorite is "Dark Universe" by Galouye. Hard to find. There is no ... | ||
| sci-fi short story compilation | 2/10/2011 | Bill Denholm |
| Q: Took a high school english class in 1974 or 75 that focused on science fiction. We read a sci-fi ... A: I think I can identify this book for you. I think it is probably Science Fact/Fiction published by ... | ||
Sue Kayton
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Engineer who has read thousands of science fiction books and short stories. Can recommend stories on specific subjects and comment on technical feasibility. Especially good at older out-of-print books and authors.
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