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Iconic Science Fiction Novels: Multiple Choice
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- 01What is the name of the highly addictive, mind-altering drug at the center of Philip K. Dick's novel *A Scanner Darkly*?
- 02In Douglas Adams' *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*, what supercomputer was built to find the 'Answer to the Ultimate Question'?
- 03Ursula K. Le Guin's *The Left Hand of Darkness* is set on a planet whose inhabitants are ambisexual. What is the planet's name?
- 04What is the designation of the sentient computer that controls the Discovery One spacecraft in Arthur C. Clarke's *2001: A Space Odyssey*?
- 05In Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World*, what is the name of the government-issued drug that provides pleasure and distraction to the citizens?
- 06In Isaac Asimov's *Foundation* series, what is the name of the science that can predict the future of large populations?
- 07Which 1984 novel by William Gibson is widely credited with popularizing the term 'cyberspace'?
- 08In Orson Scott Card's *Ender's Game*, what is the common name for the insectoid alien species that humanity is at war with?
- 09In Kurt Vonnegut's *Slaughterhouse-Five*, Billy Pilgrim becomes 'unstuck in time' and is abducted by aliens from which planet?
- 10Who is the author of the 1965 science fiction epic *Dune*?
- 11In George Orwell's *Nineteen Eighty-Four*, what is the name of the ever-watchful, enigmatic dictator of Oceania?
- 12In Ray Bradbury's *Fahrenheit 451*, what is the protagonist Guy Montag's profession?