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In 1995, Connie Willis entertained a convention audience with a litany of names and quotations from classic works of science fiction -- a history of the genre represented by a few hundred evocative words and phrases. Locus published her 'history' as a quiz, and then followed it up with a similar list of names and phrases from more contemporary works of sf. How many can you identify?

 

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Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond holland and into the hills, I have come to

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Katy drives like a maniac...

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Leonora Christine
Enterprise
Proteus
Discovery
Streaker
Rama

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Sarah Boyle
Alyx
Cirocco Jones
Molly
Marianne O'Hara

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Winter comes to water as well as land, though there are no leaves to fall.

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God, how I wish I could go with them.

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It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.

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Changing, the bureaucrat fell into the sea.

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I loved the Captain in my own way, although I knew that he was insane, the poor bastard.

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"I knew you'd come" she said, and the net opened.

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"In five years, the penis will be obsolete."

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the Shrike
Griaule
the Hefn
Mechanists & Shapers
the Chtorr
Dua, Odeen, and Tritt
the Xeelee

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We live in the lovely and quiet dark.

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The anomaly showed up most starkly in Base 11 arithmetic, where it could be written out entirely as zeros and ones.

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

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All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

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the Budayeen
the Unthinking Depths
Helliconia
Mars
cyberspace
Todos Santos

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Andrew Wiggin
Vergil Ulam
Miles Vorkosigan
Koriba
Ford Prefect
Shevek
Rat Korga
William Mandella

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...from that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the dying at the end. And the heartbreak in-between.

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Marvin the Paranoid Android
Roderick
R2D2
Data
Harlie

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"I'm HOME!" he yelled. Then he passed out.

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Eternally, it melts yes he turns and yes it melts and he falls through it melting and turning yes and yes eternally, it melts

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