Creative Writing Scifi Midterm

Who wrote "Rappacini's Daughter"?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who wrote "The Machine Stops"?

E. M. Forster

Who wrote "A Martian Odyssey"?

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Who wrote "Reason"?

Isaac Asimov

Who wrote "Desertion"?

Clifford D. Simak

Who wrote "Thunder and Roses"?

Theodore Sturgeon

Who wrote "That Only A Mother"?

Judith Merril

Who wrote "Coming Attraction"?

Fritz Leiber

Who wrote "All You Zombies"?

Robert A. Heinlein

Who wrote "Day Million"?

Frederik Pohl

Who wrote "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"?

Philip K. Dick

Who wrote "Closer"?

Greg Egan

Who wrote "Pretty Boy Crossover"?

Pat Cadigan

Who wrote "Think Like A Dinosaur"?

James Patrick Kelly

Who wrote "When It Changed"?

Joanna Russ

Who is the main character of "Rappacini's Daughter"?

Giovanni Guasconti

Who is the poisonous girl in "Rappacini's Daughter"?

Beatrice

Who is Beatrice's father?

Doctor Giacomo Rappacini

Who tries to warn Giovanni about Rappacini?

Professor PIetro Baglioni

How does Giovanni kill Beatrice?

Giving her Baglioni's antidote

Who is the main character of "The Machine Stops"?

Vashti

Who is Vashti's son?

Kuno

Where do people live in "The Machine Stops"?

Underground

What do people seek in "The Machine Stops"?

Ideas

What is Homelessness?

Being exposed to surface air as execution

Why is Kuno threatened with Homelessness?

He went onto the surface and found people

What is the first warning sign of the Machine stopping?

Problems with the music

Why did pain return to humanity in "The Machine Stops"?

Euthanasia was out of order

What happens first when the Machine stops?

People are killed by the silence

Why does Kuno insist there will never be another Machine?

Humanity has learned its lesson

Who is the main character of "A Martian Odyssey"?

Jarvis

What does Jarvis call the alien he meets on Mars?

Tweel

How do Tweel and Jarvis meet?

Jarvis saves Tweel from a dream-beast

What does Jarvis steal from the pushcarts?

A crystal that destroyed diseased tissue

Who is the main character of "Reason"?

Gregory Powell

What robot did Powell and Donovan assemble?

QT-1 (Cutie)

Who does Cutie believe made him?

The energy converter

What does Cutie call the energy converter?

The Master

What do the other robots at the station come to recognize Cutie as?

The Master's prophet

Why do Powell and Donovan abandon trying to convince Cutie?

Cutie still perfectly performs his duties to obey "The Master"

Who is the main character of "Desertion"?

Kent Fowler

What planet is Fowler working to colonize?

Jupiter

Who is Fowler's dog?

Towser

What are Fowler and Towser turned into?

Lopers

How do Fowler and Towser communicate?

Telepathically

Why don't men return after being turned into Lopers?

They don't want to go back to their inferior existence

Who is the main character of Thunder and Roses?

Pete Mawser

Who is the singer against nuclear retaliation?

Starr Anthim

How did Starr die?

Injuries from the bomb in Philadelphia

Who is the main character of "That Only A Mother"?

Margaret Marvell

Who is Margaret's husband?

Hank

Who is Margaret's daughter?

Henrietta

What is wrong with Henrietta?

She has no arms or legs

When does "That Only A Mother" take place?

1953; during WWIII

Why doesn't Margaret tell Hank about Henrietta's mutations?

She is in denial

Who is the main character of "Coming Attraction"?

Wysten Turner

What does Wysten save Theda from?

Having her clothes torn off by a car with hooks

Why do women in America wear masks in "Coming Attraction"?

To create mystery and be fashionable

Why does Theda ask Wysten to take her to England?

To get away from her abusive boyfriend

Why doesn't Theda leave with Wysten?

She enjoys Zirk hurting her

Who is the main character of "All You Zombies"?

Jane/The Unmarried Mother/The Bartender

What is the bartender's relation to The Unmarried Mother?

The bartender is a future version of Jane/The Unmarried Mother

How does The Unmarried Mother get his past self pregnant?

The bartender takes him back in time

Who is the main character of "Day Million"?

Dora

Where does Dora live?

Underwater

Who does Dora marry?

Don

What kind of man is Don?

Cybernetic

How does marriage work for Dora and Don?

They exchange recorded analogues of each other and never see each other again

Who is the main character of "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"?

Douglas Quail