peligroraton
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Hi folks
I'm trying to find a few sci-fi books I read back in the day, early to mid 70s but I still recall them though I don't remember what they are called or who they are by
Some of these books (like Hothouse and Non Stop) I remembered the names, and reread
Some of them like The Godwhale I recalled a character like A.R.N.O.L.D (Augmented Renal Nucleus Of Larry Dever) and google did the rest.
However there are others that google won't help.
One all I remember is the 'BOLG' is coming - all I recall this Bolg destroys worlds and was a gaint 'macro antibody' basically. Anyone know what book that is? Google insists I am dyslexic and am really searching for the Blog doh!
Another one I am trying to find was a really weird story where a group of people go to a planet (or are taken there by a mysterious character?) to search for something? Things get very strange, everyone has the same Tattoo that says 'Perseus 7 or Perseus 9' or something like that but no one knows why - there are insects with 'miniature television cameras', someone or something is killing the characters or they are disappearing one by one and the world all gradually falls apart, eventually in a kinda apocalyptic way. Then you find out reason and what their situation really is.
SPOILER Actually they are all trapped on a crippled spaceship (called Perseus 7/9) with no possibility of rescue and they are using a 'virtual reality entertainment' machine to pass time because there is nothing else they can do. The whole story is a kinda 'bad trip' they experience caused by one of the people in the virtual reality I think. This is a probably a precursor in a lot of ways to The Matrix or Dark City. But written in the 50s or 60s most likely. Anyone know what that is? (sorry there is some spoilers here if anyone wants to read it)
The other I only really vaguely remember - there were two novellas in one book and possibly a female author... On story starts ; 'in the beginning (the lead character????) had two blue eyes and (something) in the end he had neither' but I don't remember anything else about it. In the other story it is set on a generational colony ship I think and is about some powerful being they encounter. There is like a nursery rhyme/urban myth at the beginning of the story 'she walked in the ponics???? and the (people?) cried, she walked in the (nursery??) and the children died - and people think the rhyme cried/died is back to front. The whole story is about discovering what really happened. I read that in the 70s got it from the public library so it could be older. I really don't remember much about this one but it sticks in my mind I really enjoyed both novellas at the time.
One other but this was a film not a book This was shown several times in the early/mid 70s on UK public TV. This one starts with some people (on a university?) with a time machine that is like a big square window in a room, They can use it but only to look into the past or future but then something happens and they find they can walk through the time window. They then go into the future where there is a robotic society ? and people? who are trying to escape from something on a huge rocket/spaceship. They somehow end up back at the time machine room but moving out of sync with time (too fast so their own past selves still in the room who can not see them - bit like a famous Star Trek episode) they do something to the time machine then escape through the window again into another time in the past or future. Then it loops back to the beginning where the original version of the characters find they can walk through the window This would have been made in the 60s I am pretty sure. Anyone know what that film is?
I am sure you good folks here can identify some of these
Thanks for your time
Rich
I'm trying to find a few sci-fi books I read back in the day, early to mid 70s but I still recall them though I don't remember what they are called or who they are by
Some of these books (like Hothouse and Non Stop) I remembered the names, and reread
Some of them like The Godwhale I recalled a character like A.R.N.O.L.D (Augmented Renal Nucleus Of Larry Dever) and google did the rest.
However there are others that google won't help.
One all I remember is the 'BOLG' is coming - all I recall this Bolg destroys worlds and was a gaint 'macro antibody' basically. Anyone know what book that is? Google insists I am dyslexic and am really searching for the Blog doh!
Another one I am trying to find was a really weird story where a group of people go to a planet (or are taken there by a mysterious character?) to search for something? Things get very strange, everyone has the same Tattoo that says 'Perseus 7 or Perseus 9' or something like that but no one knows why - there are insects with 'miniature television cameras', someone or something is killing the characters or they are disappearing one by one and the world all gradually falls apart, eventually in a kinda apocalyptic way. Then you find out reason and what their situation really is.
SPOILER Actually they are all trapped on a crippled spaceship (called Perseus 7/9) with no possibility of rescue and they are using a 'virtual reality entertainment' machine to pass time because there is nothing else they can do. The whole story is a kinda 'bad trip' they experience caused by one of the people in the virtual reality I think. This is a probably a precursor in a lot of ways to The Matrix or Dark City. But written in the 50s or 60s most likely. Anyone know what that is? (sorry there is some spoilers here if anyone wants to read it)
The other I only really vaguely remember - there were two novellas in one book and possibly a female author... On story starts ; 'in the beginning (the lead character????) had two blue eyes and (something) in the end he had neither' but I don't remember anything else about it. In the other story it is set on a generational colony ship I think and is about some powerful being they encounter. There is like a nursery rhyme/urban myth at the beginning of the story 'she walked in the ponics???? and the (people?) cried, she walked in the (nursery??) and the children died - and people think the rhyme cried/died is back to front. The whole story is about discovering what really happened. I read that in the 70s got it from the public library so it could be older. I really don't remember much about this one but it sticks in my mind I really enjoyed both novellas at the time.
One other but this was a film not a book This was shown several times in the early/mid 70s on UK public TV. This one starts with some people (on a university?) with a time machine that is like a big square window in a room, They can use it but only to look into the past or future but then something happens and they find they can walk through the time window. They then go into the future where there is a robotic society ? and people? who are trying to escape from something on a huge rocket/spaceship. They somehow end up back at the time machine room but moving out of sync with time (too fast so their own past selves still in the room who can not see them - bit like a famous Star Trek episode) they do something to the time machine then escape through the window again into another time in the past or future. Then it loops back to the beginning where the original version of the characters find they can walk through the window This would have been made in the 60s I am pretty sure. Anyone know what that film is?
I am sure you good folks here can identify some of these
Thanks for your time
Rich
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