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It was the title used in an issue of the fantastic four when li'l cutie Franklin got all grown up.
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And the author used to present a mysterious programme all about unexplained thing. Oh someone please guess it. I thought it was a really really easy question too 
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Based on the hints you've given, I'm going to guess "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke (it's been a long time since I've read it, and I have no recollection of the bit you mentioned in the original question).
"Gee, Brainy, what do you want to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Bouncing Boy: try to take over the United Planets!!"
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Absolutely right BRM, well done, you're up next.
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New Question:
Who was not harmed by exposure to the Total Perspective Vortex ?
"Gee, Brainy, what do you want to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Bouncing Boy: try to take over the United Planets!!"
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Zaphod Beetlebrox, since it only confirmed for him that the most important man in the universe, which revolves around him. He then proceeded to eat the power source. [Okay, so it was a VR universe created so that he wouldn't have to go through the real thing. And the power source was a piece of fairy cake. Still...  ]
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Wow, I expected that to be more of a challenge, since it's from the second Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, which is probably the least-known H2G2 material ... of course, living in the UK, Reboot doubtless has more opportunities to listen to BBC Radio than those of us in the USA (I'm lucky enough to own a copy of the published H2G2 radio scripts; also got the complete episode set on audiotape  ). For those of you less fortunate, I quote the Guide's entry on The Total Perspective Vortex: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Episode 8:
The Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.
To explain - since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of Creation, every Galaxy, every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition, and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake. The Man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.
Trin Tragula, for that was his name, was a dreamer, a speculative thinker, or as his wife would have it, an idiot.
And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he would spend staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake. "Have some sense of proportion" she would say thirty-eight times a day.
And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex, just to show her. And in one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a fairy cake, and in the other end he plugged his wife, so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock annihilated her brain, but to his satisfaction he realized he had conclusively proved that if life is going to exist in a Universe this size the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. Oh, and it's "Beeblebrox". Over to Reboot.
"Gee, Brainy, what do you want to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Bouncing Boy: try to take over the United Planets!!"
They're B.B. and The Brain ...
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Originally posted by Bicycle Repair Man: Wow, I expected that to be more of a challenge, since it's from the second [b]Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, which is probably the least-known H2G2 material ... of course, living in the UK, Reboot doubtless has more opportunities to listen to BBC Radio than those of us in the USA (I'm lucky enough to own a copy of the published H2G2 radio scripts; also got the complete episode set on audiotape ).[/b] Actually, I was working from my (recent) memories of reading (the book version) of [i]Restaurant at the End of the Universe , and haven't yet heard the radio series/read the scripts. This is obviously an instance where they agree And whoops on the typo Aaaaannnnnyyywwaaaayyy: Where is the place where Arthur hadn't ducked at the time when Agrajag summoned him?
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In that case, it's my whoops: I could've sworn the Total Perspective Vortex was one of the many things from the second radio series that never made it into the books. Obviously it's been too long since I last reread the books.
I believe the answer to your question is "Stavromula Beta".
"Gee, Brainy, what do you want to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Bouncing Boy: try to take over the United Planets!!"
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Nope, Chapter 8 of Restaurant And as for your answer to MY question, it is indeed Stavromula Beta. Your go.
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Reboot, you may like to look here for more on the HHG radio show - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/ Bxx
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New question concerns the classic SF short story "Arena" by Fredric Brown (which inspired the Star Trek episode of the same name in which Captain Kirk faced a reptilian Gorn in single combat):
What did the alien in the short story look like?
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A badly in need of repair bicycle?
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I read that a long time ago... I imagined a creature, kinda hard to describe, tho.
some sorta slimy, shellless-mollusky thing with some sort of limited limb/limbs... I remember my imagined version from the description better than the desription itself.
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Our Founder got it.
The alien in "Arena" was a red spheroid about a yard in diameter, with tentacles for picking things up (which were retractable because it moved by rolling).
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"Gee, Brainy, what do you want to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Bouncing Boy: try to take over the United Planets!!"
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Thanks BRM. Haven't read the story in quite awhile but remembered how different it was than the ST adaption.
I'll post another question later tonight. Promised Caroline I'd take her to the Comic store so she could log into CoH for an hour or so.
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Which Samuel Delany novel focused on the main character's final decision to have a sex change in order to find love?
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The really annoying thing about this question is I'm positive I've read it - and found it rather disturbing too if memory serves me correctly.
Any clues?
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Yeah, I'm trying to think of a good one. I promise I'll post by tomorrow morning with it. Don't know how much longer I'll have the PC tonight.
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The main character immigrated to a world (the original title of the book) that was at war with Earth.
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Okay, maybe too out there for some. Here is the last hint then I'll give the answer and post a television or movie related sci-fi question if no one gets it.
The main character was said to be a "happily reasonable man" and was named Bron Helstrom.
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