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The Dedication to Arthur C. Clarke's Report on Planet 3 reads: "In accordance with the terms of the Clarke/_____ treaty, the second best science writer dedicates this book to the second best science fiction writer."
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Who was the author of A Midsummer Tempest, in which everything Shakespeare wrote is literally true?
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Who is the author of the Lord Darcy mysteries?
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Who wrote the science fiction short story, "Boys, Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!"
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth"
... is the beginning of ...
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What was the third book published in the classic Foundation series by Isaac Asimov?
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The Science Fiction Writer's Association awards the "SFWA Grand Master Award" to SF writers. The award has been renamed the "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award" after Damon Knight, founder of SFWA, passed away.
The award is never awarded posthumously... it must be given to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in SF or fantasy.
The following authors are deceased. Which TWO were not recognized as Grand Masters while alive, and will thus never receive the SFWA Grand Master Award?
Poul Anderson
Isaac Asimov
Alfred Bester
Arthur C. Clarke
Philip K. Dick
Robert A. Heinlein
Damon Knight
A.E. Van Vogt
Jack Williamson
Roger Zelazny
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Isaac Asimov had a fear of traveling by....
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Which was the first novel to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards?
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