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It's the Midshipman books, or the Seafort Saga if you prefer, the main character is the rather annoying Nicholas Seafort....

Good book aren't they....

Smartarse.

xx

He bought us the series for an xmas present - cheater!

Keith's in Barcelona for a couple of weeks so I vote we give Numf the next question as he rightly called Keith a smartarse. Wotcha all think?

Oops - just noticed this...

I don't have a question ready, so I'll get back to you later..............

Took my time, I know. Sorry.

Which British artist, famous for his sci-fi book covers, designed the spaceship for Alien?

Hint - it wasn't HR Geiger.

Andrew Skilleter (sp?) ?

Fraid not Kent, but keep trying.

To clear up a possible point of confusion I am talking about the spaceship that they're on (Nostromo), rather than the ship that they find on LV426.

Some more info - His artwork has graced quite a few sci-fi book covers (probably 70's / 80's), and generally have at least one great big, colourful spaceship as the main feature of the picture.

Upon further research about this artist I came upon an interesting article on a Dune related website.

It might not help you much, but it’s interesting all the same.

Circa 1974 Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky started pre-production of his vision of Dune. Sadly it remains unmade (I didn’t read too much into it – only the stuff relevant to the artist in question).

Pink Floyd had agreed to do most of the music, Dan O’Bannon the special effects, HR Geiger the Harkonnen planetscapes, and Salvador Dali was in the frame for a starring role as well.

From the web-site, by Jodorowsky -

“For the third warrior I required a clever dreamer who can draw the space ships in different way than that of American films:
"I do not want that the man conquers space
In the ships of NASA
These concentration camps of the spirit
These gigantic freezers vomiting the imperialism
These slaughters of plundering and plunder
This arrogance of bronze and thirst
This eunuchoid science
Not the dribble of transistorised and riveted hulks
The divine one
The delirious one
The superb one
CHAOS
UNIVERSAL
I want magical entities, vibrating vehicles
To prolong to be to it abyss
Like fish of a timeless ocean. I want
Jewels, mechanics as perfect as the heart
Womb-ships anterooms
Rebirth into other dimensions
I want whore-ships driven
By the sperm of passionate ejaculations
In an engine of flesh
I want rockets complex and secret,
Humming-bird ornithopters,
Sipping the thousand-year-old nectar of dwarf stars... "


This is why I wrote to ????????, an English draughtsman who illustrated covers of science fiction books...... With a great enthusiasm, he left London and settled in Paris... This artist, with the ships which he produced for Dune, marked the cinema. He could produce semi-alive machines which could be metamorphosed with the color of the stones of space... He could produce "thirsty battleships dying century after century in a star desert awaiting the alive body which will fill their empty tanks of subtle secretions of its heart..."

"????? arrived very nervous and mistrustful. He was afraid that we would impose a style on him, that we would limit him. But when he realized that he had total freedom he fell into ecstasy. He bought himself a special glass drawing-board which made his paper transparent, so that the lines seemed to float in space. And he plunged into his work for hours, millennia. He would go for long walks in the small hours to a little plaza where lepidopterous creatures with human skin and prehistoric perfumes would entwine their pink tongues with long, transparent hairs around his British member. I also saw him slake his physicoemoto- intellectuometaphysical thirst with alcohols seeping like tears from eyes slashed open in the aggressive air of a hotel corridor.

"And thus were born the mimetic spaceships, the leather and dagger-studded machines of the fascist Sardaukers;- the pachydermatous geometry of Emperor Padishah's golden planet; the delicate butterfly plane and so many other incredible machines, which I am sure will one day populate interstellar space. ???????? knows that today's technical reality is tomorrow's falsehood. ?????? also knows that today's pure art is tomorrow's reality. Man will conquer space mounted on ????????' spaceships, never in NASA's concentration camps of the spirit. I was grateful for the existence of my friend. He brought the colours of the apocalypse to the sad machines of a future without imagination."

Would it be Chris Foss? I seem to remember him doing covers for Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.

'tis indeed. Well done.

Your go.

Okay, here goes.

What director turned down the chance to direct Return of the Jedi to make another sci-fi movie which, in turn, was considered a flop? And what was the other movie?

Steven Spielberg -- the Goonies?

I don't really consider the Goonies a sci-fi movie. Either way it wasn't Goonies or Spielberg. The director in question is not known for his work in sci-fi. In fact this director's most well known creation was a television show.

Okay, this well known television so was very popular but only last a couple of seasons. They did one movie after the series was over. Much more than that will give it away.

Last hint. The series featured a cross-dressing FBI agent who later became famous for playing yet another FBI agent.

David Lynch?

David Lynch was the director who turned down directing Return of the Jedi. Now, what movie did he turn it down for?

If I get this wrong, you can't get mad at me...Dune...?

I'm not really up on my sci-fi, that's why I never post here.

Viv, it was Dune. Since you and Lance each got half the question right I'll let you decide who gets the next one. Or both of you may post a new question.

Lance...like I said, My Sci-Fi is shakey.

Um, ok...but I had no idea what the movie was...here we go...

Who is the only actor to be killed by a Predator, an Alien, and a Terminator? (Obviously, his characters were killed, not the actor himself.)

Well the first one that comes to mind is Michael Biehn but I don't recall him being in either of the first two Predator movies. And I haven't seen Alien vs. Predator yet.

Nope...try again...