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45. Sci - Fi
Air Bum by Orson Paper Stone ( Ile De Marie 1986 )
Riveting sequel to the popular welding manual : This time, John Bum’s flatulent diet results in the unintentional xenocide of an alien race.
Cap Hotel by Ute C Lurk ( Raglan 1979 )
Lurk’s best work from her later years depicts the age - old conflict between man and the powerful and elitist Callamooloo power elites. Hotshot engineer wants to build a 36,000km high hotel and if technical, political and financial problems aren’t enough – the only viable place to build it happens to be on the lawn
of the White House.
Control Escape by Harry Riven ( Titta Titta 1970 )
A maintenance crew sets out to re - install the Opia videocard’s only known set of SECAM/Linux drivers. The foursome survive encounters with tech support ( “nothing but savagery” ), who are seemingly very human. The apex of the Known Incompatibilities series, Riven’s hard sci - fi is far too technical and a bit
short on entertainment value for most tastes.
 Jc Woz Ere by Arthur C Clerk ( Felix 1973 )
A Captain Cook - obsessed commander fools crew into believing Australist Cement’s main stone quarry is not near 6000 but on a hidden planet on the other side of the sun. Won a Cement Association award.
Lunch Rising by Danyul Brin ( Showagong 1983 )
Bona - fide physicist Brin (brother to singer Jaen) wrote some of the most stirring sci - fi of the 1980s. The world’s first duly elected Russian prevents a Breakfast Club sequel, while unexpectedly developing a bond with Willy, a local Buddhist whale. Together they foil a Chinese plot to kill the Dalai Lama and then set out to explore the galaxy.
Planet Of The Aliens With American Accents by Ginger Spiekermann ( Mount Gutter 1968)
A space shot goes wrong and the crew is propelled 2000 years into the future, where they discover a planet where Americans are the dominant species and humans are slaves. While easy enough to guess, the resolution is nonetheless startling.
She Didn’t Tell Me She Had It by Ike Azimuth ( Ile De Marie 1972)
Rare Azimuth stand - alone about energy transfers with a parallel girlfriend. A small group learns the transference process used to acquire the seemingly abundant free energy will lead to School - bitch Tara’s annihilation. The peak of Azimuth’s maturation into a writer skilled in immature writing and inept characterization.
The Time Tube by Harry Hiscock ( Paine 1960 )
Homosexual Music Professor Rod Ramsbottom heads off into the future, visiting the three World Wars on the way. When he gets to the year 1976, he falls in love with a singer named Sid Vicious, a member of the Punk Race, and accidentally kills Sid’s girlfriend.
Unidentified Markets by Abe Vigoda ( Ile De Marie 1977 )
Hoping to get rich quick, humans use their spacecraft in all or nothing missions to sell “Lose kilos in 30 Days” schemes to gullible beings scattered around the galaxy. Wealthy three - mission veteran has to face what he has become.
X - The Man With The Single Chromosone ( US: Back My Snitch Up ) by Maurice ( Martial 1963 )
Doctor X uses himself as a guinea pig to test a sex - drug ( “heroin lite” ) he has invented. After a blinding flash he finds he can see through walls and spot easy to steal & easy to pawn electrical & electronic equipment. Better than it sounds.
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