Post Quiz: How Sci-Fi Literate Are You?
Created | Updated Jan 6, 2019
Post Quiz: How Sci-Fi Literate Are You?
When asked, the Post Editor always said, 'No, I'm not a science fiction fan.' And then realised exactly how much science fiction he'd read in a lifetime. You may not think of yourself as a science fiction fan because you don't obsess over 'lore' or engage in cosplay, but you may know more than you think. See if you can identify these science fiction works – films, television series, or books – from their summaries.
- The story starts when the Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. It's all infinitely improbable.
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Martian Timeslip
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Shape of Things to Come
- Monoliths make early humans clever. Then one shows up on the moon, and there's a big light show.
- One Million Years BC
- Third Rock from the Sun
- Starship Troopers
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Children believe they are engaging in a computer simulation, but are really committing genocide.
- The Maze of Death
- The Wicker Man
- Ender's Game
- The Hobbit
- Humans stop reading books and only watch interactive electronic media on their flatscreen TVs.
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Martian Chronicles
- Eternal Beauty of the Spotless Mind
- Last night's programming on Fox News
- A man who has witnessed what he considers a war crime becomes 'unstuck in time' and lives his life completely out of order.
- The Maze of Death
- Slaughterhouse Five
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Passenger
- People living under the Nazi regime in North America discover the existence of parallel worlds.
- The Man in the High Castle
- The Forever War
- Fatherland
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June
- A man has a precognitive flash while shaking the hand of a politician and decides to kill him.
- The Shape of Things to Come
- Heaven Can Wait
- The Dead Zone
- 11.22.63
- Surprisingly civilised survivors from post-apocalyptic Earth time-travel to the 21st Century to try and save the planet. Unsurprisingly, this isn't as easy as it looks.
- Time Trax
- Seven Days
- The Time Machine
- Travelers
- Aliens from another planet disguise themselves as amazingly incompetent humans and move into an attic apartment in Ohio. No one really notices how odd they are because it is Ohio.
- Earth Girls Are Easy
- Third Rock from the Sun
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
- Red Dwarf
- A loser, a sentient cat, and a conceited hologram walk into a universe….
- Red Dwarf
- Third Rock from the Sun
- I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
- Galactic Pot-Healer
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