Sci-Fi Guessing Game

Let’s start a new game!

The first person describes a character. The second person gives the name of the character and book/movie/show.

For instance, if I were to say, “I grew up on a desert planet and later befriended a couple of droids, blew up a big space ship, became romantically involved with my sister, and found out my father was a Sith lord. Who am I?”
Then someone would answer, “Luke Skywalker, Star Wars IV, V, VI.”
That person would then post their clues.
Remember, this is Sci-Fi. Make it as easy or as hard as you want

Sound like fun?

Okay, I’ll start.

“I was a hero for my country in a terrible war. One night, while staring up at the planet Mars, I was actually transported there. How, I cannot say. But, I met a variety of strange and often savage creatures. Some were of the highest moral calibre, others were vile. I fell in love with a princess whom I had saved from a horrible fate. Who am I?”

John Carter, A Princess of Mars, several other Burroughs books.

“I am a revolutionary. My best friend is a computer and my girlfriend is named for an American state. I have an artificial arm.”

Manny, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.

I am a government agent. I hunt ruthless criminals and, when forced to do so, unlicensed mothers. I, too, have an artificial arm…and an imaginary one.

Gah…up too late.

Not an artificial arm…but not original equipment either.

That would be Gil the Arm of ARM from The Girl in Del Ray Crater and about half a dozen other short stories by Larry Niven.

“I’m the wild card that upsetted a thought to be perfect plan though my empire isn’t as large as the last one.”

The Mule from “Foundation.”

Relatively obscure, but a dead giveaway to anyone who’s read the book:

“I was king for a time. King of the fools, and that takes wisdom.”

Davy by Pangborn. Great book.

For an author with a similar style:

“She was a girlygirl and they were true men, the Lords of Creation, but she pitted her wits against them and she won”

Fenris

“The Ballad of Lost C’Mell”

I’m guilty of rape, murder, and selling 23 humans to a fate worse than death. I made one of my victims addicted to the stimulus from a highly illegal implant I put in her brain myself, and impregnated her while she was my sex slave. Despite my horrendous crimes I saved humanity from extinction and earned the respect of those who hated (and still do hate) me.

I dunno, Badtz, but if it’s not John Norman or Piers Anthony, I’ll be surprised! (If his victim is under say…17, I’ll go with Anthony. If his victim likes it, 'cause all women wanna be raped I’ll go with Norman)

:wink:

Fenris

Nope. Victim is too old for Piers Anthony (I believe the character is in her early 20s, maybe late teens), and she definitely did not enjoy it.

Hmm, this is taking a while…it’s not that obscure. It’s a series of novels by an author better known for a fantasy series he wrote, which also had a rapist for a protagonist.

That would be a Angus Thermopylae from Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap series. Great books. Brutal, but great.

Lessee here…

I was one of the leading lights in physics before I joined humanity’s first permanent colony to a new planet. I was instrumental in the terraforming effort, and later, as a revolutionary, designing weapons for the underground movement to wrest control of the planet from Earth. The most frustrating, yet ultimately rewarding experience of my life was my desire to please a woman who was against everything I stood for.

This is still circulating? I was letting other people answer it since I did one but the character is Angus Thermopyle of Donaldson’s Gap series.

“I’m a former amnesiac who tends to walk everywhere and I have some very strained relations with some members of my very large family.”

I’m pretty sure Ferrous’s is from David Brin’s Red Mars and it’s sequels, but as I’ve never read any of them (couldn’t get more than a hundred pages into RM), I can’t guess the character’s name.

On the other hand, Just Some Guy’s has to be Corwin of Amber, from Roger Zealazny’s Nine Princes in Amber.

Next:

“I’m a vetern, a former inmate of an alien zoo, and I’ve had sex with a porn star.”

“… Although not necessarily in that order.”

Corwin of Amber


I’m one of the elite 'cause I’m so smart, it’s easy to tell 'cause I have a symbol after my name that says so (only 9 other people share this honor). I spend much of my book showing my babe around our exciting society of the FUTURE!

At one point, she gets kidnapped by space pirates, but eventually, I rescue her and we live happily ever after!

Fenris

Ferrous: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, right? :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: GD&R

“I’m a vetern, a former inmate of an alien zoo, and I’ve had sex with a porn star.” **
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Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse Five
next: I earned my name after visiting an inclidibly large world with two humans and a leaf eater.

Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse Five
next: I earned my name after visiting an inclidibly large world with two humans and a leaf eater. **
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Just to join the two sub-games back together:

Speaker-To-Animals (aka Chmee(?) ) from Ringworld

and to repeat my last one:

I’m one of the elite 'cause I’m so smart, it’s easy to tell 'cause I have a symbol after my name that says so (only 9 other people share this honor). I spend much of my book showing my babe around our exciting society of the FUTURE!

At one point, she gets kidnapped by space pirates, but eventually, I rescue her and we live happily ever after!

Fenris

Speaker-to-Animals, is that you? <evades large, angry kzin>
Sorry, Chmee.

next: I was a prisoner who, while unable to comment knowledgably on wines, taught my captors a thing or two about coffee.

Ralph 124C41+

I won’t add one now, so we can get back to one thread.

Im an alien male who gave birth to my own grand daughter (even though thats biologically imposssible for my species)