We will award pie to any complete answer we get to this set of questions, or to the top three answers if we receive no complete and correct ones. Incomplete answers and guesses are encouraged.
Please email your answers by 4pm on Thursday Dec. 7 to Stephanie and to your TF.
(Note also that Stephanie will hold ordinary office hours, 1:30-4pm, next Tues. Dec 6; Stephanie will also be available to meet by appointment when on leave this spring.)
1. Where is Miriam called Miriam, where is she called Helge, and why?
2. What tattooed hero denies that he is a Sin-Eater?
3. What book of poetry set in the future features a main character who lived through the Kwangju uprising?
4. What name does Sax Russell later assume?
5. Why do scanners live in vain?
6. What do Sarah, Alison, Helena, Cosima, Tony, Beth, Krystal and Rachel have in common?
7. What got New Worlds magazine in legal trouble?
8. Did Doro die? If so, who killed Doro?
9. What 1990s rapper told the people of California he was born on Jupiter?
10. What French composer introduced electronic instruments to his postwar orchestra?
11. What British poet who died in 2015 edited sf and later wrote about Stalin?
12. What novella about a charismatic abbess is probably a tribute to James Tiptree, Jr.?
13. What are slipstream and steampunk?
14. What's the difference between the New People and the rest of the people in Bangkok?
15. What Easthampton, Mass.-based magazine had an amazing story about jellyfish, near-future genderqueer kids, and water pollution in its environmental-themed 33rd issue?
16. Who created a habitable future world that extends for 360 degrees around the sun?
17. Why will Ken Liu be in Quincy, Mass. in July 2018?
18. What was Deirdre's profession, when she was human?
19. What aliens' Language requires two speakers or phonemes at once?
20. How is a land ironclad like a communications satellite?
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