At the February 2018 meeting, we played a game! It wasn’t Balderdash. 😉
Pick out the correct synopsis for each story, among the many alternate-timeline versions devised by MonSFFA members.
Here are the titles of 11 SF/F stories, along with several descriptions for each one. Can you figure out which description is accurate (albeit perhaps misleading and/or grotesquely oversimplified), and which are too silly for this timeline because they were invented by members of MonSFFA?
Participants: Keith, Jay, Joe, Marquise, Alexis, Adam, Agata, Yvon, & Yves [note: not everyone participated in every round]
Leader: Danny Sichel
1: SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN
* life in a photo archive is futile
* robots live and look like humans but cannot reproduce and all of their emotions are preprogrammed
* cyborgs are angry because a scientist wants to fill spaceships with oysters
* the intergalactic rock band, “Scanners”, play a concert in Vain, Colorado, and solve a mystery in the process.
* a gang of mediums organize a community in which they try to manage the ever changing future they see, to save their jobs
* a world where body scans have no effect on humans because the technology is obsolete
* mind reading serves nothing
* police radar speed scanner goes too high and kills all policemen
* in a futuristic world, aliens charged with reading the minds of humans mysteriously start committing suicide
* life is a digital fake
2: WHEN IT ENDS, HE CATCHES HER
* the story of every boy-meets-girl-meets-bug-eyed-monster film.
* a dying alien finally catches a fleeing human woman after a thousand-year chase across the universe, but dooms himself in so doing.
* a pilot is lost in his derelict spaceship, until the planetoid he is on in extremis is saved by her.
* android opera in china
* the last man on earth dies of the flu
* the zombie apocalypse makes a ballet dancer sad
* how a hint force runs every space ship
* men are enslaved for reproductive purposes but one man falls in love with a client and plots to run away with her
3: THE TROUBLE WITH EMILY
* doctors at a space hospital teach a brontosaurus to be telekinetic
* Emily has a bad habit of starting fires with her brain.
* A small cooing furry ball travels with Emily
* Emily the sentient communication AI has a bug.
* a man’s pet spaniel has cold feet about the upcoming wedding
* AI goes rogue and annihilates all life
* Woman AI goes mad
* A sentient octopus wants to rollerskate
* Emily is a bitch android
4: UNICORN VARIATION
* multicultural unicorns
* drunk chess against a unicorn, for the fate of humanity
* farmers were fed up with growing just one type of corn, and demanded variations
* someone tried to make unicorns exist via genetics
* genetically altered horses
* unicorn composes music
* teen girl gangs in the Arctic
* hypothesis about death of universe
5: THINGS WITH BEARDS
* what is a story set on jeopardy?
* MonSFFA’s vice-president was not as human as he appeared to be, despite the beard
* Oxhorns vanquished poverty in his life the day he grew a beard, and taught modern people to do the same.
* the Bearded Lady has new competition at the freak show, which has just introduced android members
* The Thing From Another World moves to New York and gets involved with activists
* Remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
* Someone tries to invent a spell to banish beards
* A walrus floats on radioactive waste in Miami Beach
* The first men on Earth
6: LOVE IS THE PLAN THE PLAN IS DEATH
* a James Bond story that was never made into a film
* aliens threaten humanity with death, until they are made to understand love
* a mantis falls in love with an Earthling
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* coming of age during the era of AIDS
* sequel to the Fifth Element
* an alien spider tries to survive winter, until his mate eats him
* a Satanic couple take up competitive boxing
* future management of population growth
7: GO GO GO, SAID THE BIRD
* Instructions to a young bird flying over a statue
* British go-go dancers take over London
* An alien civilization attempts space travel after having been in contact with humans
* An android story about a Paul Klee painting
* Lady Byrd sends her lover home
* Adventures with a bird-shaped spaceship
* A patient breaks out of a mental institution
* A woman flees cannibals, but her family are cannibals also
* Evolution of space flight
8: BOOKWORM RUN!
* The story of a bullied genius
* Batman warns his latest nemesis to run, lest he take a batarang to the crotch
* Society invented a way to publish minds, but there are concerns about privacy
* A superintelligent chimpanzee flees the US military
* A worm farmer’s experiments run amok
* Someone goes to all the greatest libraries of the galaxy
* Sequel to ‘Book Thieves’
* A nerdy high school student gets recruited by murderous cyborgs
* Knowledge revolution
9: HUNGRY DAUGHTERS OF STARVING MOTHERS
* a Dr Who episode set in Venice
* the zombie apocalypse begins to wind down
* people are concerned their mutually-forming star systems are dying because of the state of their dying nebulae
* story of alien incest
* story about a world where all males have disappeared
* sequel to Book Thieves
* a nerdy high school student gets recruited by murderous cyborgs
* larvae of extraterrestrial nature
* a psychic vampire eats the badness of people she meets on dating sites
10: THE ENDANGERED CAMP
* Dinosaurs were going to the moon but then the asteroid wiped out their civilization
* Hikers are put upon by a sasquatch
* Xenoarchaeologists cannot find the object of their search because they are camping directly over the dangerous location
* Camp comedies come with a severe penalty
* Someone stalks L. Sprague de Camp
* Four astronauts on the international space station try to set up a tent, but end up murdering each other
* Planet destruction
11: YELLOW SNOW
* Sulphur mining on the moons of jupiter goes horribly wrong
* a volcano erupts sulphur after which a flying saucer crashes into a mountain, resulting in sulphuric acid snow precipitation
* Time-travelling drug dealer genetically engineered to pee heroin
* A lethal form of cocaine is distributed in a Martian colony
* Father Christmas laughs himself silly
* sequel to Snow Crash
* a UFO from Uranus experiences a fuel leak, is stranded on Earth
* pollution ending humanity