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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