Post 6 of 6: The Wrap!

This is post 6 of 6 this afternoon and will bring to a close our July 2021 virtual meeting. If you are just now joining us, scroll back to today’s Post 1 of 6 to enjoy the whole meeting, start to finish.

10) ANSWERS TO OUR SCI-FI SUMMER QUIZZES!

Summer Sci-Fi QUIZ Number 1

Following are the answers to our first quiz of the afternoon, challenging you to correctly match working titles or production code names with the actual titles of 30 well-known genre films. The answers were given earlier over Zoom during our mid-meeting break, but here they are again, in writing, just in case you missed our live chat.

  1. Monster from Beneath the Sea was the working title of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953). The original Monster title was abandoned when producers bought the rights to the Ray Bradbury short story upon which the script was loosely based so that they could use Bradbury’s more dynamic Beast title. The author subsequently renamed his famous short story “The Fog Horn.”
  2. Star Beast was the working title for Alien (1979). Screenwriter Dan O’Bannon decided to change the cheesy title, which sounded like that of a cheap B-movie, after reviewing his script and noticing just how many times the word “alien” jumped off the page!
  3. Oliver’s Arrow was the phony title for Inception (2010). This one sounds like a nod to superhero Green Arrow, but the “Oliver” here is director Christopher Nolan’s son. It’s apparently the filmmaker’s habit to use the names of his children as code names for his movies.
  4. A Boy’s Life was, in fact, the Steven Spielberg favourite E. T.: The Extraterrestrial.
  5. Prime Directive was the fake title not of a Star Trek film, but of Michael Bay’s Transformers (2007).
  6. Corporate Headquarters was the fake title of a Star Trek movie, that film being J. J. Abrams’ reboot of the franchise, Star Trek (2009).
  7. Rory’s First Kiss was the code name for The Dark Knight (2008), “Rory,” here, being the oldest of director Christopher Nolan’s sons. The boy appeared briefly in the film.
  8. Magnus Rex was code not for a Jurassic Park movie, but for The Dark Knight Rises (2012), sequel to the aforementioned. This one was named for another of Christopher Nolan’s sons, Magnus.
  9. Changing Seasons was the code name for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). To guard against theft, when prints of the movie were delivered to theatres, the film canisters were labelled “Changing Seasons.”
  10. Wimpy was the false title selected by director Alfred Hitchcock for his production, Psycho (1960)! While shooting the thriller, Hitchcock feared that if the actual title became known, audiences might simply read the Robert Block novel of the same name upon which the film was based, and so know how the story ends.
  11. Babysitter Murders was the working title for Halloween (1978), and simply encapsulates the nucleus of this early John Carpenter movie, which inspired many a slasher flick to follow.
  12. House Ghosts was the working title of the fantasy/comedy Beetlejuice (1988). Warner Bros. disliked the title Beetlejuice, strongly favouring the rather pedestrian House Ghosts, much to director Tim Burton’s chagrin. Tongue in cheek, he suggested Scared Sheetless as an alternate, and was mortified when the studio actually gave his suggestion serious consideration! Burton finally put his foot down and the catchy Beetlejuice prevailed.
  13. Rasputin was, in fact, Iron Man 2 (2010). This code name seems to reference history’s infamous “Mad Monk,” who, like the movie’s villain, Ivan Vanko/Whiplash, was Russian.
  14. Frostbite, hinting, perhaps, at the film’s ending, was the code name for Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).
  15. Group Hug was secretly the Marvel superhero team-up The Avengers (2012).
  16. Watch the Skies was the working title for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
  17. Grand Tour was the code name for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  18. Till Death, For Glory was code for Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  19. Artemis was the code name used for The Hunger Games (2012). In Greek mythology, Artemis is the goddess of the hunt, and is often shown with her bow and arrow, a quiver slung over her shoulder. Similarly depicted was this movie’s heroine, Katniss Everdeen.
  20. Caesar was code for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). In the film, Caesar is the name of a laboratory chimpanzee of pharmaceutically enhanced intelligence who leads his fellow apes in revolt against man.
  21. Genre was the code name for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Simple enough!
  22. Autumn Frost was, in fact, Zack Synder’s Man of Steel (2013)
  23. Red Sun was code for Superman Returns (2006), no doubt a riff on the Superman graphic novel Red Son.
  24. Paradox was code for Back to the Future, Part II (1989), referring to a common trope of time travel stories.
  25. Project 880 was, in reality, James Cameron’s bloated sci-fi epic Avatar (2009).
  26. Pacific Air Flight 121 was ever so briefly the studio’s stated title for Snakes on a Plane (2006), which had been the film’s working title throughout much of production. But star Samuel L. Jackson wanted to stick with bluntly descriptive Snakes on a Plane as the final title! “We’re totally changing that back,” he said in an interview at the time of the studio’s pronouncement. “That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title!”
  27. Incident on 57th Street was the cover name for the first of many Harry Potter sequels, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). The title was apparently suggested by a Bruce Springsteen song of the same name.
  28. How the Solar System Was Won was, in fact, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). This code name is a play on the epic Western title How the West Was Won, released a few years prior to Space Odyssey.
  29. Farewell Atlantis was, in actuality, Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi/disaster movie 2012 (2009). John Cusack plays a struggling science fiction writer named Jackson Curtis in the film, and one of his books was entitled Farewell Atlantis.
  30. Yellow Harvest, a wink at the Blue Harvest deception, was really The Simpsons Movie (2007)!
Summer Sci-Fi QUIZ Number 2:

Were you able to correctly match all 24 of the genre films we listed to the works of short fiction upon which they were based? Here are the answers:

1 = X

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), adapted for the silver screen from “Farewell to the Master” (novelette, Harry Bates, 1940). This classic SF film was remade in 2008 with Keanu Reeves as alien emissary Klaatu.

2 = Q

Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), adapted from “The Cosmic Frame” (short story, Paul W. Fairman, 1955). Noted SF fan and memorabilia collector Forrest J Ackerman’s literary agency (Ackerman Science Fiction Agency) handled the sale of the film rights to Fairman’s story. Well-known B-movie special effects technician Paul Blaisdell recalled that the film was initially to have had a serious tone but gradually developed into a hybrid of sci-fi/horror and comedy.

3 = F

Fiend Without a Face (1958), adapted from “The Thought Monster” (short story, Amelia Reynolds Long, 1930). A British independent sci-fi/horror production, the action takes place in the fictional town of Winthrop, Manitoba! Stop-motion animation was employed to bring to life the film’s “brain creatures,” an unusual approach at the time for a low-budget production. Here, too, Forrest J Ackerman served as writer Long’s agent, brokering the sale of her story to the film’s producers.

4 = G

Target Earth (1954), adapted from “Deadly City” (novelette, Paul W. Fairman as Ivar Jorgensen, 1953). A robot army from Venus invades Chicago in this low-budget B-movie. Only one robot suit was fabricated for the production, however—some army! Actor Steve Calvert, who donned the suit during the seven-day shoot, also worked regularly tending bar at the popular Sunset Strip nightclub Ciro’s! Fairman’s story was first published in the March 1953 issue of If magazine under his Ivar Jorgensen pseudonym.

5 = M

Stand by Me (1986), adapted from “The Body” (novella, Stephen King, 1982), featured an outstanding cast of young actors, including future Star Trek star Will Wheaton and teen-aged Indiana Jones River Phoenix.

6 = C

Hellraiser (1987), adapted from “The Hellbound Heart” (novella, Clive Barker, 1986).

7 = R

The 10th Victim (1965), adapted from “Seventh Victim” (short story, Robert Sheckley, 1953), is a sexy, stylish Italian production starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress. It was the first movie to feature a televised reality-type killing game and influenced later films of that sub-genre. Andress plays a highly successful “assassin” in a near-future society that satisfies man’s violent tendencies and mitigates war by sponsoring “The Big Hunt,” a globally popular game of stalkers and prey. She has negotiated a lucrative corporate endorsement deal with the Ming Tea Company as she pursues her tenth and final victim. According to comedian Mike Myers, Ming Tea, the groovy ’60s band fronted by Myers’ super-spy Austin Powers in his comedic film series, derived its name from this same company!

8 = V

John Carpenter’s They Live (1988), adapted from “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” (short story, Ray Nelson as Ray Faraday Nelson, 1963).

9 = B

The Beast Must Die (1974), adapted from “There Shall Be No Darkness” (novelette, James Blish, 1950). 

10 = U

Die, Monster, Die! (1965), adapted from “The Colour Out of Space” (short story, H. P. Lovecraft, 1927).

11 = O
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Total Recall (1990), adapted from “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (short story, Philip K. Dick, 1966).

12 = S

The Thing from Another World (1951), adapted from “Who Goes There?” (novella, John W. Campbell, Jr. as Don A. Stuart, 1946). Subsequent adaptation The Thing (1982) and its prequel, also entitled The Thing (2011), adhered more closely to the source material than had Howard Hawks’ original classic. 

13 = E

She Devil (1957), adapted from “The Adaptive Ultimate” (short story, Stanley G. Weinbaum, 1935). “They created an inhuman being who destroyed everything she touched!” screamed the tagline advertising this film starring beautiful femme-fatale Mari Blanchard, a B-movie screen siren of the 1950s and early ’60s.

14 = J

Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity (1987), adapted from “The Most Dangerous Game” (short story, Richard Connell, 1924). Considered one of the most popular English-language short stories ever written, this story has been adapted many times over the decades, including as action/thriller, horror/suspense, and science fiction; this particular adaptation is a sci-fi sexploitation schlocker!

15 = K

Arrival (2016), adapted from “Story of Your Life” (novella, Ted Chiang, 1998).

16 = T

The Turning (2020), adapted from “The Turn of the Screw” (novella, Henry James, 1898).

17 = D

Millennium (1989), adapted from “Air Raid” (short story, John Varley, 1977). The story was later expanded as a screenplay, which was eventually released as the novel Millennium (1983); both novel and film are considered based upon the original short story.

18 = L

Death Race 2000 (1975), adapted from “The Racer” (short story, Ib Melchior, 1953). The Roger Corman-produced original was remade as Death Race (2008), spawning a franchise. Corman returned to the concept with Roger Corman’s Death Race 2050, a sequel to his original.

19 = I

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), adapted from “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” (short story, Brian W. Aldiss, 1969).

20 = P

Charly (1968), adapted from “Flowers for Algernon” (short story, Daniel Keyes, 1959). Keyes later expanded his short story into a novel of the same name (1966).

21 = N

The Haunted Palace (1963), adapted from “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” (novella, H. P. Lovecraft, written 1927, first published, in abridged form, 1941). While considered part of director Roger Corman’s series of films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and marketed as such, the plot is unmistakably taken from the Lovecraft story, despite the film bearing the title of a like-named Poe poem.

22 = H

Maximum Overdrive (1986), adapted from “Trucks” (short story, Stephen King, 1973). King himself directed the film!

23 = A

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), inspired by “The Sentinel” (short story, Arthur C. Clarke, written 1948, first published as “Sentinel of Eternity,” 1951). Clarke’s dissent on the topic aside, the short story is considered by most critics and scholars as the starting point for what became both the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.

24 = W

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), adapted from “The Fog Horn” (short story, Ray Bradbury, 1951). Bradbury’s story, first published in the Saturday Evening Post, loosely served as the basis for this film. The short story was originally titled “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” and, wishing to capitalize on Bradbury’s name, the film’s producers bought the rights to the story and changed their movie’s working title, Monster From Beneath the Sea, to The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. Bradbury then changed the title of his story to “The Fog Horn.” His boyhood friend Ray Harryhausen designed and executed the stop-motion special effects for the film. Beast is often cited as the inspiration for Gojira (1954; U.S. title, Godzilla) and other giant monster movies of the atom age.

11) THANK YOU!

We hope you have enjoyed your time with us this afternoon, and we ask all of you to check in regularly here at www.MonSFFA.ca for additional content during this continuing vaccination push/gradual reopening, and for any news as to when the club expects a return to regular, face-to-face meetings. Thank you for your interest and attention, and don’t forget to comment on today’s meeting!

We’d like to thank our special guest speaker this afternoon, François Vigneault, as well as presenters Joe Aspler and Danny Sichel for their contributions this afternoon. A thank-you, also, is due Quiz Master Keith Braithwaite and Meeting Coordinator Cathy Palmer-Lister for putting this July 10, 2021 DIY, Virtual MonSFFA e-Meeting together, with a nod, as well, to our supporting contributors.

Until next month, when we will gather virtually once more on August 14, please continue to exercise all recommended safety practices, and get your shots as soon as possible! The sun has come out, in fact as well as metaphorically, and we’re almost there!

12) MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS

Just a closing reminder to club members that MonSFFA has resumed the collection of annual membership fees. Note that every active club member has benefitted from a full year of fees-free membership.

For most MonSFFen, our 2020 renewal dates became 2021 renewal dates. So if your annual membership fees were due in July 2020, that’s been bumped up a year to July 2021. If your fees were due last August, they are now due this upcoming August; September 2020 shifts to September 2021, and so on.

But what about those few MonSFFen who had, in fact, paid their fees last year, most prior to pandemic lockdowns going into effect and our suspension of in-person meetings? These folk, having paid last year’s dues, will not miss out on the fees-free year enjoyed by their fellow club members! Those who fall into this category will see their annual fees next become due beginning in 2022.

Of course, we welcome back any former members who may have let lapse their memberships, and we invite to join our ranks any prospective members who may have discovered the club via our virtual meetings.

Note that there is no change to our fee structure. A standard one-year membership is still only $25; the premium Platinum Level membership, $35; a family membership (up to four people, single postal mailing address), $40; and the Platinum Family Level, $50. Make your cheques or money orders out to “MonSFFA” and mail to our new postal mailing address:

MonSFFA, c/o

125 Leonard

Châteauguay, Québec, Canada

J6K 1N9

To those MonSFFen who have recently renewed their memberships, we thank you for your prompt attention and patronage of this club.

Post 5 of 6: Shakespeare in SF

Shakespeare in SF is presented in 4 acts. Danny Sichel will be giving this presentation on Zoom.

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Post 4 of 6: François Vigneault

This segment is on Zoom. Our Guest speaker, François Vigneault, will give a presentation on his projects in comics and Graphic Novels, and be available for a Q&A.  For those unable to attend the Zoom, some samples of his work appear below.

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Post 3 of 6: The Break

Post 3 of 6: Time for a Break!

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It’s time for the break!

CLUB NEWS

We welcome two new members to the club! Say hello to Valérie Bédard from Lévis, and John Mansfield from Winnipeg.

Wayne cannot join us today, his mother is in hospital, and has been for at least a week now. The club wishes her prompt recovery!

I received a letter from Derwin Mak, who writes:

Click image to enlarge

Hello, Cathy,

I discovered another photo of Sylvain in Akihabara, Tokyo. The photo is attached. Here we are posing at a cutout used to promote the movie Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, which was released at that time (2007). I’m looking out of Asuka Langley Soryu (left), and Sylvain is looking out of Rei Ayanami.

Sincerely,
Derwin.

 Display Table

Brian wrote:

I’m attaching a few photos of the models I showed during last month’s meeting. I finally finished weathering the Mecha and building the bases. I’m also attaching two Microgames from Metagaming to be added to the monthly raffles.

(Thanks, Brian!)

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The first model is a 1/144 HG Bandai’s MS-05 Zaku I (Char Aznable) from the Gundam the Origin manga and OVA series. The main colors are from Testors 1/4 ounce bottles that are still available (Gloss Dark Red, Flat Grapefruit, & Flat Red). I found a different way of painting a “flame” effect on the Heat Hawk Axe using Testor’s Flat Sunflower and Gloss Tangerine. The base is Kotobukiya’s Chain Base 009. I’ve covered over most of the positioning holes with sheet plastic. The crates and containers are from Shapeways. The figures are a mixture of Wave’s 1/144 Mobile Staff & Bandai’s MS Figure 01 sets. The Zaku I markings are from Gundam Decal. The hanger deck markings are Warning placard set from TSDinc.com.

The second kit is Nitto’s 1/20 MA.K “Fireball” S.A.F.S Space Type. I had picked up some MA.K. Paints a long time ago and finally got a chance to try these out. I believe the final base colors were Spinach Green and Moon Green Grey. The female mechanic is from Hasegawa’s Maschinen Krieger Figure Set A (Mk02). I stained the wooden base, then cut a plastic sheet circle insert and scribed the checkerboard pattern to represent the concrete base.

Participation Prizes

3 or 4 names (depends on how many become involved) will be drawn from a hat. All you have to do is be here! But we really would like you to also leave comments on our website.

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Mecha Japanese Capsule Toy, donated by Brian
Knapp
The USS Enterprise, model donated by Brian
Knapp
Stikfas Super villain & hero set donated
by Brian Knapp
Puzzle featuring cats that are just being cats! Made of beech, designed by Judy Peterson, cut by Cathypl 1972 edition, good condition, but my name is
cut out of it. Dust jacket a bit torn. Donated by Cathy
Celestial Charts, Antique Maps of the
Heavens
by Carole Stott, donated by Cathy because I
had two copies. Beautiful, full colour charts. Excellent
condition.
DVD, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Donated by Joe Aspler
Grand Prix 2005 de la science-fiction et du
fantastique québécois, Prix Boréal 2005, Prix 2006 des
lecteurs Radio-Canada

 

Post 2 of 6: Dr Who’s Who

Dr Who’s Who: A Guide to the Doctors Before Who and After Who

As we all know, many actors have played the role of The Doctor. Sources – fannish and canonical – tell us about the lives of the Doctors, from regeneration to regeneration. But what do we know about the actors who have played The Doctor? What do we know about their careers before Who and after Who?


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Post 1 of 6: Introduction

This is post 1 of 6 related posts which together make up our July 10, 2021, DIY, MonSFFA e-Meeting!

1) ZOOM CHAT OPENS RIGHT NOW!

We officially open today’s Zoom chat now, at 1:00PM, the exact same moment we’ve put up this first post of the afternoon. Our Zoom will run in parallel to the Web site-based content that will be presented throughout this e-meeting and will afford folk opportunity to catch-up, talk about the latest in sci-fi, discuss today’s presentations and ask questions directly of our presenters.

To join our Zoom session today, click below and follow the prompts: This Afternoon’s MonSFFA Zoom

If you’re not fully equipped to Zoom by computer, you can also join in by phone (voice only); in the Montreal area, the toll-free number to call is: 1-438-809-7799. If you’re from out of town, find your Zoom call-in number here: International Call-In Numbers

Also, have this information on hand as you may be asked to enter it:

Meeting ID: 831 5550 8837
Passcode: 456227

 

Summer Sci-Fi QUIZ Number 1

Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi famously filmed under the title Blue Harvest. Big-budget franchise movies in particular often use a false title or code name while in production so as to deter unwanted attention. Blue Harvest was supposedly a horror movie; fake marketing materials sported the slogan “Horror Beyond Imagination” and the production crew even wore Blue Harvest T-shirts! The idea was to throw off the scent any overly curious fans or nosy entertainment journalists eager to uncover spoilers and let the cat out of the bag. In this modern age of social media, especially, movie studios will go to great lengths in order to keep things a secret until a film is released.

Rival studios looking to pilfer plot twists, rip off a successful franchise and open a competing film first, or swipe a really cool title, are also thus deceived. So are any suppliers only too ready to overcharge when they know they’re dealing with the producers of a big-budget franchise like Star Wars rather than a run-of-the-mill horror movie production called Blue Harvest.

And sometimes, it’s simply that a final title has yet to be selected, and cast and crew labour under a “working title.”

Below is a list of 30 code names or working titles used by the producers of well-known genre movies. Can you name the actual film title to which each refers? We’ll reveal at least some of the answers in our Zoom get-together during the mid-meeting break, and list all of answers in our final post of the afternoon (5:00PM), for anyone who may have missed the live online chat.

  1. Monster from Beneath the Sea
  2. Star Beast
  3. Oliver’s Arrow
  4. A Boy’s Life
  5. Prime Directive
  6. Corporate Headquarters
  7. Rory’s First Kiss
  8. Magnus Rex
  9. Changing Seasons
  10. Wimpy
  11. Babysitter Murders
  12. House Ghosts
  13. Rasputin
  14. Frostbite
  15. Group Hug
  16. Watch the Skies
  17. Grand Tour
  18. Till Death, For Glory
  19. Artemis
  20. Caesar
  21. Genre
  22. Autumn Frost
  23. Red Sun
  24. Paradox
  25. Project 880
  26. Pacific Air Flight 121
  27. Incident on 57th Street
  28. How the Solar System Was Won
  29. Farewell Atlantis
  30. Yellow Harvest

3) TODAY’S MEETING: INTRODUCTION

We’ve got a busy, busy agenda, today, so we’ll get right to it!

Just real quick, suffice it to say that the inoculation programs across the land are unfolding quite successfully, and the country now stands at about 40 percent of Canadians fully vaxxed! Authorities expect to achieve stated vaccination goals well ahead of initial projections. Meanwhile, things are getting back to normal and many of the safety restrictions we’ve all been living with for over a year, now, have been relaxed or lifted.

As we gather online for this month’s virtual club meeting, we take a moment to encourage all MonSFFen, if they haven’t already, to book their second vaccine shot as soon as possible, and to please continue to take all necessary precautions in order to keep themselves and others as protected from the virus as can be. Even as many restrictions are removed, it is important that we not let up quite yet on those recommended safety protocols that do remain in place. The nasty variants, as always, a still a concern, but seem to be in check at the moment, which is good!

This is our 16th virtual MonSFFA meeting. The afternoon’s get-together will unfold right here on the club’s Web site over the course of the next few hours, beginning with this first post, and followed by subsequent posts at 1:30PM, 2:30PM, 3:00PM, and 4:00PM, with a concluding post at 5:00PM. All content will also be available concurrently on MonSFFA’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MonSFFA), however, note that the interface best suited for taking in this meeting is this very Web site.

Today we welcome a special guest speaker via Zoom, local sci-fi cartoonist François Vigneault, author of the graphic novel Titan and the monthly comedic series Orcs in Space (click here to visit François’ Web site). We’ll also be looking at the actors who have portrayed Doctor Who over the decades, and talk Shakespeare in SF! All that and more over the next few hours!

As we cannot quite, with complete safety for all, yet assemble in larger numbers indoors, this July virtual meeting has been prepared especially for you, MonSFFA’s membership. Sit back, check out each of the afternoon’s posts, scroll down leisurely through the proffered content, and enjoy! And join our Zoom this afternoon, as well (see first item for details)!

Don’t forget to comment on what we’ve presented. Let us know what you think of specific topics or the meeting overall. Your input helps us to tailor these virtual meetings for maximum interest and enjoyment.

4) MEETING AGENDA

 In This Afternoon’s Virtual Meeting:

1:00PM, Post 1 of 6 (Introduction, Zoom Opens)

1) Zoom Chat Opens

2) Summer Sci-Fi Quiz Number 1

3) Today’s Meeting: Introduction

4) Meeting Agenda

5) Summer Sci-Fi Quiz Number 2

1:30PM, Post 2 of 6  (Who’s on First?)

6) Presentation: Doctor Who’s Who: Guide to the Doctors Before Who and After Who!

2:30PM, Post 3 of 6 (Break)

7) Mid-Meeting Break (Display Table, Raffle, Zoom Continues, What Are You Reading?)

3:00PM, Post 4 of 6 (Guest Speaker!)

8) A Zoom Conversation with Local Sci-Fi Cartoonist François Vigneault (Titan, Orcs in Space)! 

4:00PM, Post 5 of 6 (“And Thereby Hangs a Tale…”)

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5:00PM, Post 6 of 6 (Wrap-Up)

10) Answers to Our Summer Sci-Fi Quizzes!

11) Thank-You!

12) Membership Renewals

 

5) Summer Sci-Fi QUIZ Number 2:

 As sci-fi film fans know, Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner was based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Many if not most films are derived from a published work of fiction. And said work is not necessarily a full novel! Often, a short story or other short-form piece is all that’s needed to inspire a producer to make a movie.

Our second challenge to those of you joining us for this afternoon’s MonSFFA e-meeting is to correctly match the genre film (Blue List) to the work of short fiction upon which it was based (Beige List). Answers will be published later this afternoon, in the meeting’s closing post (5:00PM).

  1. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  2. Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
  3. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
  4. Target Earth (1954)
  5. Stand by Me (1986)
  6. Hellraiser (1987)
  7. The 10th Victim (1965)
  8. John Carpenter’s They Live (1988)
  9. The Beast Must Die (1974)
  10. Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
  11. Total Recall (1990)
  12. The Thing from Another World (1951)
  13. She Devil (1957)
  14. Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity (1987)
  15. Arrival (2016)
  16. The Turning (2020)
  17. Millennium (1989)
  18. Death Race 2000 (1975)
  19. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  20. Charly (1968)
  21. The Haunted Palace (1963)
  22. Maximum Overdrive (1986)
  23. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  24. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

A) “The Sentinel” (short story, Arthur C. Clarke, written 1948, first published as “Sentinel of Eternity,” 1951)

B) “There Shall Be No Darkness” (novelette, James Blish, 1950)

C) “The Hellbound Heart” (novella, Clive Barker, 1986)

D) “Air Raid” (short story, John Varley, 1977)

E) “The Adaptive Ultimate” (short story, Stanley G. Weinbaum, 1935)

F) “The Thought Monster” (short story, Amelia Reynolds Long, 1930)

G) “Deadly City” (novelette, Paul W. Fairman as Ivar Jorgensen, 1953)

H) “Trucks” (short story, Stephen King, 1973)

I) “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” (short story, Brian W. Aldiss, 1969)

J) “The Most Dangerous Game” (short story, Richard Connell, 1924)

K) “Story of Your Life” (novella, Ted Chiang, 1998)

L) “The Racer” (short story, Ib Melchior, 1953)

M) “The Body” (novella, Stephen King, 1982)

N) “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” (novella, H. P. Lovecraft, written 1927, first published, in abridged form, 1941)

O) “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (short story, Philip K. Dick, 1966)

P) “Flowers for Algernon” (short story, Daniel Keyes, 1959)

Q) “The Cosmic Frame” (short story, Paul W. Fairman, 1955)

R) “Seventh Victim” (short story, Robert Sheckley, 1953)

S) “Who Goes There?” (novella, John W. Campbell, Jr. as Don A. Stuart, 1946)

T) “The Turn of the Screw” (novella, Henry James, 1898)

U) “The Colour Out of Space” (short story, H. P. Lovecraft, 1927)

V) “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” (short story, Ray Nelson as Ray Faraday Nelson, 1963)

W) “The Fog Horn” (short story, Ray Bradbury, 1951)

X) “Farewell to the Master” (novelette, Harry Bates, 1940)