Word Association - Freestylin'

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Welcome to the first stage of Hugo & Nebula Giveaway!

The rules of this game are very simple:

- the theme of the game is Sci-fi (and of course novelists of the genre themselves)

- a player must reply to the previous post with a word that they associate it with.

- the association, while not strictly obvious, shouldn't be the first thing that comes to mind

- in case the association is too far-fetched, feel free to explain your train of thought in two words (or ask for an explanation )

Once we've reached the goal of at least 100 entries, there will be a lottery for every member who participated in the game.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

I will kick off with:

Singularity

[Robin]

Art wrote: "I will kick off with:

Singularity"

Singularity--> Overlord (as in our AI overlords)

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

Robin wrote: "Overlord (as in our AI overlords)"

Fallout ( As in the end of the world)

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Fallout -> Roadside picnic.
Not very obvious, but this is the title of Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky novel that used the wods stalker, which became a title of popular game set in Chernobyl with some references to Fallout game series

[Ed]

Roadside picnic -> Sphere
(There is a magic sphere in the book.)

[Antti]

Sphere -> Satellite
(Dyson sphere is made of countless satellites)

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Satellite -> Contact (SETI)

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

Contact --> First (obviously, lol)

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

First-->Channel

A book title First Channel (Sime~Gen Book 3)
by Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg

an obscure series that I really really like

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ref=nb_sb_n...

And actually the first chronologically, so start there if you are interested.

[Sara]

Chanel - black hole (seen interstaler recently, *spoile alert* the black whole was a Chanel though time)

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Black Hole --> Neutron Star by Larry Niven. But this is more than one word so how about just work off of Neutron (trying to get back to the game rules)

[Jeff]

Kateblue wrote: "Black Hole --> Neutron Star by Larry Niven. But this is more than one word so how about just work off of Neutron (trying to get back to the game rules)"

Neutron --> Proton
The planet where Stile, the main character in Piers Anthony's "Apprentice Adept" series, carried forth.

[Allan]

Proton > Chaos
A reference to Cixin Liu's "The Three-Body Problem" and its relationship to chaos theory.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Chaos -> Engine

Long story short, The Chaos Engine is a Nintendo game from the early 90s, believe it or not inspired by Sterling and Gibson's Difference Engine.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Art wrote: "Chaos -> Engine."
Mortal Engines

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Engine-->Engineers The Ringworld EngineersThe Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

engineer[s] --> magicians
ref Clarke's Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[Allan]

Magician > master
As in the classic Raymond Feist Riftwar series

[Antti]

Master -> Birds (Valerian and Laureline comic "Birds of the Master")

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Birds > Birds of prey DC comics, maybe borderline SF

[Jeff]

Starship --> Trooper
One of Yes' most excellent songs. No, wait. Just kidding. Heinlein, of course. lol
(PS: the movie - a bazillion thumbs down)

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Troopers==Star Wars (Storm Troopers yes? "Aren't you a little short to be a storm trooper?")

And Jeff, I agree with everything you said about Starship Troopers

And after a extended search--8 minutes--found Starship Troopers in iTunes back up. I forgot how much I liked this song

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Not An Entry synchonicity much?

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Collision -> CERN

[Allan]

"Aren't you too short....."
A few years ago at Alamo City Comic-Con, there was a guy costumed as Galactus. Not a bad homemade costume, but the guy was probably about 5'6". I thought to myself, "You'd think that a guy who eats planets would be taller."

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Let me rephrase that.

Collision -> Particle [Collider] (CERN)

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

CERN -> Half-life

[Ed]

Half-life -> Portal (Video games)

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Gateway -> Abaddon's Gate

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Abaddon -> Chaos

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Art wrote: "Abaddon -> Chaos"

The Guns of Avalon, Where nine princes of Chaos are introduced

[Antti]

Avalon -> Merlin

[Ed]

Merlin -> Eternity. (Port Eternity)

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Eternity -> Forever War

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Armageddon -> Flowers for Algernon

(view spoiler)[ Losing your own conscience is one of the forms of end of the world for me (hide spoiler)]

[Robin]

Flowers for Algernon -> Nimh

[Allan]

Nimh > Secret

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Secret -> Bot
as in this year hugo novelette winner The Secret Life of Bots

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Bot -> Isaac Asimov

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Asimov -> Law
as in Three laws of robotics

[Allan]

Law > gravity

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Gravity -> well

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Marrow-->Dark Angel

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Dark Angel -> Blood Angels (Warhammer 40k)

[Antti]

Blood Angels -> vampire (in WH40K the Blood Angels are depicted as somewhat vampiric.)

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Vampire -> Magicka

Bleh!!

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Gyro -> gyroscope -> Macroscope

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

Macroscope --> Dinosaurs

I don't know why...it just makes me think of it...

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Dinosaurs -> Butterfly
cf. A Sound of Thunder, butterfly effect of changing the past