Another story request :-) I remember reading a science fiction story where everyone wore augmented reality glasses in order to keep them from seeing the worn down world. Your city might be falling apart with garbage stacked on the streets, but it all looks like wonder and light. The glasses also hide the diseased and disfigured folks. So, everyone is existing in a fiction that they all accept in order to keep from despair. thoughts, kenny

The series Star Trek: Discovery , due to be released in early 2017, will be the first new Star Trek series since Enterprise . According to Wikipedia : Set to premiere on CBS in January 2017 before moving to All Access, the series will introduce new characters to the Star Trek franchise, and will not be related to the 2016 film Star Trek Beyond. The same article mentions that it will take place in the original timeline. Has there been any confirmation of what year the series is set in? Is it before or after Star Trek: Beyond ? Answer Bryan Fuller has revealed that it will be set in about 2255 in the Prime Timeline ( source ). To put that into the context of the Prime Timeline, that puts it about 100 years after Enterprise and 10 years before TOS . In terms of the Reboot Timeline, it occurs 22 years after Nero's arrival, the same year that Kirk joins Starfleet and we see the Enterprise being constructed in Iowa in Star Trek (2009); and well before the events of Beyond .

In CoS Wood comments before Quidditch practice we should have won the Quidditch Cup last year...But unfortunately owing to circumstances beyond our control... p84, chapter 7 We learn Harry's reaction to this is that Harry shifted guiltily in his seat. He had been unconscious in n the hospital wing for the final match of the previous year, meaning Gryffindor had been a player short and had suffered their worst defeat in three hundred years. page 84, chapter 7 However when Harry was given detention for wounding Malfoy and thus missing a Quidditch game against Ravenclaw, Ginny was drafted in as a replacement seeker. Therefore what's the difference as to why a replacement was sought for one game and not the other? And furthermore is there not a Quidditch squad for each team in order to accommodate for possible injuries and suspensions to one of the starting 7? Answer Probably not always As Oliver Wood explained, in at least one Quidditch match substitutes were brought in for exha

I think I read this no later than the year 1986. English language, hardback, available in a public library in Indiana in the mid-1980s. I don't think it was by any of the Big Names of 20th Century science fiction, or else I would have run across it again by now. It was a stand-alone novel; no cliffhanger ending, and no indication it was intended as part of a series. The novel is written in the third person, with the emphasis on the thoughts and actions of the male protagonist. I think his thoughts were the only ones we saw throughout the entire book, but I could be forgetting something. Here's what I remember about the plot. Plot Points As the novel starts, we are seeing Protagonist (as I call him) arriving by spaceship to begin his prison sentence -- which I believe is meant to be the rest of his life, however many years that may be. I don't recall him thinking anything along the lines of "if I just keep my nose clean for the next ten years, I can get parole!" I

I keep seeing this situation in Star Trek series: "Captain, they've raised shields!" "Now they're charging their weapons!" "Captain, they're targeting our engines!" "OK Ensign, evasive maneuvers." BOOM "Shields are holding, Captain, we're at 25%." "They're coming about for another pass!" BOOM "Captain that one took out our warp drive, shields are offline as are phasers" "Ensign, target their weapons array with a photon torpedo." "Captain, they're hailing us..." "Ok, belay that, put 'em on-screen." & from this point they're possibly boarded, taken hostage, all kinds of bad outcomes that they have to come back from. One might imagine that a well-equipped cruiser would drill for such eventualities. I'd imagine it more like: "Captain, they're raising shields!" "Folks, you know what to do - defend the ship!" All over the ship the

I wanted to know that through this question of mine. However, my perception of the quote was wrong there. Anyways, are there any canon sources which can explain/infer how good was the Dark Lord in the art of Divination? It is said to be a very difficult art to get right, as explained by Dumbledore to Harry at the end of Book - 3, and how he was impressed by Prof, Trelawney's overall second correct prediction in her career. Related: How good was Voldemort at reading minds?

I understand that Smeagol was a Hobbit-like creature at least and always thought the "river-folk" were distantly related beings (similar to say, the Hyena and the Dog, but not actually exactly the same species. Many people seem to believe the contrary and talk as if the "river-folk" were, in fact, Hobbits for sure. The Tolkien Gateway , Wikia, and others even specify he was originally a stoorish hobbit, where does the evidence to support this come from - or is there any? The thing relevant quote from The Hobbit: Riddles were all [Gollum] could think of. Asking them, and sometimes guessing them, had been the only game he had ever played with other funny creatures sitting in their holes in the long, long ago, before the goblins came, and he was cut off from his friends far under under the mountains. Gollum brought up memories of ages and ages and ages before, when he lived with his grandmother in a hole in a bank by a river (…) Gollum remembered thieving from nests lo

When Isildur cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand, he returned again. But when Frodo went to Mount Doom and accidentally Gollum cast the Ring along with himself, Sauron was defeated and never came back again. Why is this? Answer Sauron passed a tremendous amount of his own native power as a Maia into the Ring he forged. Gandalf outlines the situation to Frodo in "The Shadow of the Past": He only needs the One; for he made that Ring himself, it is his, and he let a great part of his own former power pass into it, so that he could rule all the others. Tolkien, the Old English scholar, uses "great part" here. The Oxford English Dictionary has this gloss (with citations going back to Middle English) for a subsense of great c.With the . That constitutes more than half, larger, as the great body (of), the great part (of), etc. indicating specifically more than half. However, as dfri noted in a comment, here Gandalf says "a great part," not "the great

The Wall of Darkness by Arthur C. Clarke (1949) is a piece of Math fiction, usually quoted in semi-academic circles as illustrating the geometry of the Moebius band . It deals with a universe with a single sun and planet but no other stars. The world supposedly always stayed light, with only a slight change with the sun dipping toward the horizon a bit in winter. Their planet has an inhospitably hot north, a temperate middle, and an extremely cold south. The south is barren, except for an insurmountable wall that stretches across the world at a point so far south that people can barely reach it during the summer, when things warm up. There is a rumor that seeing what is on the other side of the wall will make a man go mad. But a curious, wealthy guy named Shervane decides he just has to do it anyway. In a massive project that takes more than 7 years, he has a series of platforms built, and he walks up on the wall, making sure his friend will blow everything up if something horrible ha

Philip José Farmer is the first modern author that I know of to rework another author's scifi/fantasy character. He rewrote Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan character from a first person perspective in two novels: A Feast Unknown, 1969 , and Lord of the trees, 1970 . He then wrote the E.R.B character's fictional biography: Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, 1972 . If P.J.F. isn't the first author to rework another author's storyline, who is, and what book or character was the story based on? Answer There are different versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh , so some unknown writer reworked an existing character. That's from around 1900 BC.

When I say "most", I primarily mean the Marvel Avenger series. Out of all of them, even Ant-Man pretty much up and exposed himself, revealing his true identity to anyone he looked at. One of the few movie series that keeps the "secret identity" trope alive is Spider-Man, keeping true to the comics, which added all the tension of keeping his friends and family safe, while having to deal with the stress of not being able to explain his common disappearances, injuries, etc, which (IMO) added a lot to the story. So why has the superhero "Secret Identity" become little more than an easter egg? Answer Quite simply, because Marvel thought the idea was "overplayed". Kevin Feige explained this to BleedingCool a few years ago : KF: The one we haven’t done in the MCU is the secret identity thing. I thought that had been overplayed for a long time which is why we had Tony Stark out himself at the end of his first movie. We were sort of announcing to the au

I want to be very careful about how I ask this question – I am not asking How did Voldemort die? [CLOSED] Below the text is the relevant passages from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows if anyone wants to review them (I'm sorry for the amount of text). How did Expelliarmus beat Avada Kedavra and kill Voldemort? I feel the reason Harry's Expelliarmus overpowered Voldemort's Avada Kedavra curse has to do with who was master of the Elder Wand and how the Elder Wand works. I've always had trouble understanding fully how the Elder Wand works, though. How much did the fact that Voldemort never truly won or mastered the Elder Wand factor into how Expelliarmus reacted to Avada Kedavra and caused Avada Kedavra to rebound and kill Voldemort? An answer based in book canon would be especially welcome, but any canon source really is fine. Harry heard the high voice shriek as he, too, yelled his best hope to the heavens, pointing Draco’s wand: ‘ Avada Kedavra !’ ‘ Expelliarmus !

Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy, consisting of The Amulet of Samarkand , The Golem's Eye , and Ptolemy's Gate , is set in a version of our world (mainly London, with some scenes in Prague and the English countryside) in which magic and demons are real and the government and upper class consists entirely of magicians. Besides these facts, the setting is remarkably similar to the real world, and even certain real historical figures, most notably William Gladstone, also exist in this world. Given this, it should be possible to get a ballpark figure for the year in which the series is set. Certainly after Gladstone's time (the late 19th century), but is it meant to be 'the present day' - the books were published in the early 2000s - or perhaps earlier or even later? What information do we have on when the Bartimaeus books were set? Answer The events of the Bartimaeus trilogy happened in the then present day. I would base this on the following from the second

  Shortly before Battle of Crait we see Resistance soldiers occupying trenches and gun emplacements ahead of the large armored base door. Later those positions were attacked by Tie fighters, but the Millennium Falcon draws them away. It doesn't look like they were destroyed, especially since Poe, after his failed run on battering ram cannon, manages to run to them and finds them still occupied. Also, after breaching the base door, the First Order opens fire on Luke, but not on those positions. What happened to those soldiers ? It is highly unlikely they were evacuated in small Millennium Falcon, the only Resistance craft still operational after the battle.

In the first Star Wars (spoilers incoming), there is a scene where Luke, Ben, and the 'droids come across a bunch of dead Jawas. These were the same Jawas that had found and sold the 'droids, and they'd been killed by the same Stormtroopers who killed Luke's aunt and uncle. But before the main characters leave for Mos Eisley, they make sure to throw the bodies into a pile and light them on fire. Now this, to me, seems like a potentially incredibly offensive thing to do. Funerary practices are really important to many cultures here on Earth, and I know there are some sects of Christianity that are wholly against cremation. Similarly, think of the Fremen from Dune , to whom cremation would be an unforgivable waste of water. Considering the Jawas are scavengers, I'd have assumed they'd want their bodies, or at least their personal belongings, to be put to good use rather than just burned. Is there any explanation given for whose idea it was to burn these bodies, a

In the movie, After Earth: Humans have been away from Earth for over a thousand years living on other planets outside of our solar system. It is mentioned Humanity was under attack by an alien race, but it did not mention terraforming or any particular change of the Earth's ecosystem. Why did Humans who were not native to Earth appear to be unable to breathe on Earth without technology? I don't remember anyone explaining why humans couldn't breathe there. Was there something I missed or is this a plot hole we were expected to hand-wave away? Answer As per Forbes review by Carol Pinchefsky: In a phone interview, screenwriter Gary Whitta told me, “We started from the premise that this is less of an extinction and more of an eviction. Earth basically decides to get rid of us…through changes in atmospheric conditions.”

I saw a few episodes of this anime series between 1986 and 1990, and it was on during childrens shows so it was definitely directed at children rather than adults. The plot lines I can remember are floating alien space ships over earth cities, alien robot mech suits fighting with human piloted mechs, human hover style tanks working with the human mechs in combat. In one episode a scientist postulates that the enemy ships can be disabled by hitting one very precise spot on the ship with a shot from a tank - for some reason he goes along on the attack in the back of a tank, but in the middle of the attack he is grabbed from the back of the tank by an alien mech (kidnapped, killed, unsure). The attack goes ahead, the spot is hit and it does nothing. Another episode involves a group of human piloted mechs that manage to get inside one ship and explore it, while being periodically attacked. Another plot point is that they discover the alien mechs are not robots but actually remotely piloted

Years ago (mid 90's) I saw a show on network TV, and I'm trying to figure out what the name of it was. The parts of the plot I remember are: The crew consisted of 20-year-olds (half were women). They were on some mission when they lose their commander. They must then try to get back home, while being tracked down by a foe in a faster, more powerful ship. One of the main characters turns traitor. He's locked up in the brig pending a decision on his fate. He hangs himself, and his body is incinerated by the crew. One of the main characters plays a video game that basically looks like a visor over his face. While playing the game, he's given an idea on how to outwit their foe by using the laser cannon on their ship to create a holographic projection of a larger ship. In the end, they are about to be destroyed by a torpedo launched from the enemy ship. The torpedo is destroyed by a laser beam from a friendly capital ship that arrives at the last moment. I remember there bei

Looking at the original cast of the Avengers, they all came from previous existing comic runs. Have any members of the Avengers been created specifically for the Avengers comic? i.e. Their first appearance in a Marvel comic was in an Avengers comic (not necessarily as a member of the Avengers). Answer The following Avengers have all had their first appearance in an Avengers comic some on the side of Good some on the side of Evil. Vision first appeared in Avengers #34 Swordsman (Jacques Duquesne) first appeared in Avengers #19 Black Knight first appeared in Avengers #47. He infiltrated the Masters of Evil to help the Avengers bring them down. Mantis first appeared in Avengers #112 on the side of good. Wonder Man first appeared in Avengers #9. Given his powers by Baron Zemo to help him and the Masters of Evil destroy the Avengers. Jocasta first appeared in Avengers #162 built as the mate of Ultron by Ultron Moira Brandon first appeared and died in Avengers: West Coast #100 she own

In Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, I find the character of Molly Grue is something of a cipher. She seems to serve as a councilor and all-around wisewoman, but never seems to take an active role in the course of events. And there are a few points where the book seems to go out of its way to add some mysterious elements to her. One such element is when Molly sings the song of Elli - associated earlier by Mama Fortuna with Old Age, death and decay. Schmendrick's reaction seems to make it clear that her knowledge of this song is surprising and significant (chapter 6): Schmendrick peered over the unicorn's back into Molly's territory. "Where did you hear that song?" he demanded. It was the first he had spoken to her since the dawn when she joined the journey. Molly shook her head. "I don't remember. I've known it a long time." Another intriguing point is when, at the book's closing, Molly refuses to tell the others the unicorn's partin

Godzilla is always referred to as male and referenced with "he" or "him." Do we know, for sure, if Godzilla is a male? Has beast gender ever been a factor within any kaiju movies? Answer Short answer: No, we don't. Mostly because the Godzilla series has no decent continuity. Long answer: In the original Japanese versions of the movies Godzilla and other kaiju are mostly referred to by the gender-neutral it . In the English translated versions they refer to Godzilla mostly as he, hence the confusion. So basically they (the creators/trademark owners) don't really want to put a gender on Godzilla. He has a son, however, who hatched from an egg. This again enhances the confusion about its gender, especially since it's never cleared up where the egg came from and if Godzillas son is actually his offspring or just another member of his species. According to my Google-Fu the 1998 Hollywood remake movie is so far the only one to put a gender on Godzilla (asex

I am trying to remember the title of a children's SF book I once read, maybe 20 to 25 odd years ago. I don't have a great number of details (and some of what I recall may be completely wrong), but the details (such as they are): A war between two alien groups ended, and some technology that should have been destroyed was instead imprinted into a human baby. A few years later, both groups find this out and attempt to retrieve it. The main characters are the child, and an alien that I believe was called "Yacob" (or similar) who was sent to protect the child/retrieve the technology, and the antagonists were the other group of aliens that had previously lost the war and were trying to get the technology to start it up again (again, I don't remember the exact details, but I think it was a fairly simple black & white/good vs. bad scenario, being a children's book and all). There was a scene in which Yacob/the alien gives the child blue food, who complains that i

Pursuant to What's with "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"? , it's plausible that the typical witch or wizard would use 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named' (if they assume Taboo Spell is intact after death of Voldemort). But, why would the Aurors and those in the Ministry of Magic (who had first rate protection) also use it? Even Snape (the Half-Blood Prince) hesitated to say 'Voldemort', and he was under the protection of Dumbledore, Dumbledore being the only wizard Voldemort ever feared. What was the point of the Death Eaters being scared to say 'Voldemort' when, ostensibly, Voldemort wasn't even alive? Yes, it's true that some believed Voldemort would return, but, at the time, it was just that -- a belief. Were people scared that the Death Eaters might give a list of all those who used Voldemort's name to Voldemort upon his return?

In The Last Jedi, the resistance fleet, seemingly about to be destroyed, fortuitously comes across the planet Crait, and Leia "reveals" a plan to stealth down to the planet to escape. This is news to the audience, who thus far knew that Admiral Holdo's plan was... to just keep running until they died? ...or was it? Did Vice Admiral Holdo know about the presence of Crait and/or intend to go there all along? Answers directly from the movie are preferable, but other canon material is also acceptable. Incidentally, if she did know about Crait, why was this information not shared with the rest of the resistance command? Corollary question discussed here , though I would prefer an explanation from canon material instead of speculation. Answer Both Leia and Holdo knew where they were going when they executed their jump. Leia had info about a last-ditch, middle-of-nowhere base that they could use and Holdo must have known about their destination since Leia spent much of their

From my comment on this question/answer Why wasn't Superman naked when he was lifting Luthor's artificial continent? Supposedly the blanket is made of a super strong fabric, which is why it can withstand so much abuse; but if the material is so durable, how was Martha Kent able to tailor it into a form fitting costume? Thaddeus says: Martha Kent unwove the Kryptonian fabric and rewove it into his costume. It was indestructible, didn't get dirty or torn and neither did his cape. She also created the S-shield. Wouldn't her scissors break (or her hand) from the effort of trying to cut/tear/disassemble it? Answer Martha Kent was said to have unwoven the fabrics he was wrapped in and rewoven them into his only costume. The costume was indestructible except to Kal-El's heat vision, which was how she was said to have cut the material, when necessary. In this version of the character, baby Kal-El was so hard on his clothing due to his powers manifesting as a child, he wa

Considering that he's performed exceptionally for many years, has proven leadership capabilities and is highly intelligent, why haven't they given him a higher rank? Answer Because rank follows job Army rank isn't just a question of experience, heroics or capabilities. It's not like going up a level in a D&D game. After a certain point, an officer's rank implies his job , not only his abilities. A US Army Captain usually commands units the size of Companies or smaller, meaning at most a group of 80-250 soldiers . This is in keeping with Captain America's usual scale - he usually leads platoons, actually, but in the First Avenger movie we saw him lead a larger group to rescue hostages. Generally speaking, the work he does is not that of a Major, Colonel or General. He's a field agent and tactical warrior, not a strategist or high-level commander. Because you have to be in service to be promoted Of course, all this ignores the fact that as far as I know

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, Were the Seven Dwarf-destined rings actually different (aside from possibly physical fit due to finger size differences) from the Nine Ringwraith rings? Or were all 16 fully identical? NOTE: We know that the the same Ring of Power can have different effects on different people (witness different effects of The One on bearers), so merely citing "well, Dwarvish rings had different end result on bearers" is not sufficient proof of the fact that the rings differed. Answer Tolkien's clearest statement on the Rings suggests that all of the Rings made in Eregion with Sauron's help, both Great and lesser, differed at most in potency; it was only the Three made solely by the Elven-Smiths that were really unlike the others. The chief power (of all the rings alike) was the prevention or slowing of decay (i.e., 'change' viewed as a regrettable thing), the preservation of what is desir

So, I remember those moments: A man had a car accident. After that he is able to travel through time. Every time he travels he sort of hallucinates and he is in some sort of a huge cave with a some sort of a lake (a reddish, foggy lake). In this lake there's a monster, it looks like a giant claw. The man has to avoid the claw and reach the shore. I watched it like 10 years ago and might confuse details. I was sure it's The Outer Limits , but there's no episode like this. I would really appreciate some help!

So I've watched pretty much all the Star Treks and from what I've seen, Star Trek officers don't wear any protective gear! Why don't they wear any kind of armor like the Klingons? Is it because the weapons are so powerful that it doesn't matter if you wear armor or not? Ex: You're shooting antimatter so it doesn't matter if you have matter type armor? But then again, the Borg. They have personal shields, but everyone else doesn't for some reason. Why can't Geordi or Data figure out how to create portable force fields by putting down things similar to those power poles placed in a triangular formation when they need to teleport into an "interfering" atmosphere? Answer Given that the primary purpose of Star Fleet is peaceful exploration and all that good stuff, I'd be willing to bet that the primary reason they don't wear any sort of armor is that it goes against that particular mission statement (e.g., "Hey dude... if you'

In the Keys to the Kingdom, in each book, Arthur's family, and in extension, earth, get afflicted by punishment that appears Biblical. For example, in the first book, Arthur is afflicted with sickness (quarantine), in the second, poverty, in the third, flood, and so on. Do these punishments correspond to anything (most likely in Christianity)?

In Return of the Jedi , there's a garbage bin droid having his feet branded in Jabba's palace. It sounds like it's screaming in fear of pain, and makes more pained noises as the hot irons touch it's feet. Was the droid actually feeling pain 1 ? [embedded content] 1. " Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." Meaning, pain is not merely a recording or acknowledgement of sensory input, but must be processed as unpleasant. Other definitions of pain may exist, but they're outside the scope of this question. Answer C-3PO offers good canon answers - he can feel both pleasure and pain Pleasure A New Hope: C-3PO says "thank the maker, this oil bath is going to feel so good" http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Oil_bath Pain Empire Strikes Back: C-3PO exclaims "Ouch! Oh! Ah! That hurt, Bend down, you thoughtless...Ow!" when Chewie bonks 3PO'

I'm looking for a fanfic that I have read before. Harry's abuse by the Dursleys is discovered after an incident involving a potion. In the story, Harry and Draco both get the potion on themselves and have to go into Snape's office and strip off their robes to get the potion off of themselves. Harry then ends up hiding under Snape's desk so that Draco and Snape don't discover his abuse. Then later, Snape and Draco heal Harry together since Draco helps Snape with potions and whatnot. So they heal Harry when he is in "detention" with Snape as Harry just sits on a stool.

I'm trying to find the name of a book series I read about 10 years ago. It might be a children/young-adult series since I was fairly young. There is also a small chance it was written by a french author, as I read it in french. The series is composed of at least three books, maybe more. Here is what I remember : The main character is a poor girl/young woman, but there are several point of view characters At the beginning of the first book the plot is set in a city where rich people live in the city center and the further you go from the center the poorest people are. Moreover, the houses are painted according to the wealth of the owner. It was something like : the richer had red houses, the poorer blue houses, and the moderately wealthy purple (it was not those colors in particular but it was something like that) At the end of one of the book there is some kind of uprising and the people paint all the houses in multiple colorful shades (to symbolize the new found equality between t

At the beginning of Avengers: Endgame , there was exposition dialog explaining the rules of time travel this movie was working under. Banner explained that modifying the past will not alter the present. This movie does NOT work like Back to the Future , and they even mentioned that specific film. They said that going back into the past and removing the Infinity Stones would not change the effects they had on the present. Taking an object from the past wouldn't remove it from the present, so you would expect the opposite to be true: going back in time and leaving an object behind would not be adding it to the present. Then, right at the end: Steve Rogers went back in time, and chose not to come back. The other characters then encountered a very old Steve Rogers. Doesn't this break the rules? Something was left behind in the past (Steve Rogers himself), but he should not have appeared in their timeline. Answer Even though he was living his life with Peggy in the alternate timel

In both the comics and the show, Michonne first appears with two walkers that she essentially keeps as pets. The comics sort of half-explain this - as per the wiki : She notices walkers don't attack one another and hacks off the arms and lower jaws of Mike and Terry. She chains them up by their necks to use them as escorts for an escape that was successful. In S01E02 - Guts , we see that even if they still sort of smell like Walkers, the Walkers can smell/detect the living and will attack. In S03E11 - I Ain't a Judas , We see Andrea effectively making a new "pet" so that she can use to deter the Walkers that she comes across on her trip to the prison. Along the trip, she is shown to come within close range of Walkers, but they give her space when she points the "pets" in the right direction. Why would the Walkers not just attempt to go around the "pets"? What about them creates an effective protective barrier? Answer The walkers show a rudimentar

I've listed below 13 of R. A. Lafferty 's SF novels, omitting non-SF works such as Okla Hannali and The Fall of Rome , and limiting the list to works which are currently available at reasonable prices, arbitrarily defined as books listed for sale at AbeBooks.com for under $50. What I'm interested in is the order in which the books should be given to a neo who has not previously read any Lafferty. I appreciate the likelihood that nobody here is familiar with all of them (I've read 7 of them myself-- Master, Chantey, Reefs, Mansions, Devil, Aurelia, Klepsis ), so feel free to add to or subtract from my list in answering. Here are the titles, roughly in order of publication. Past Master [ Wikipedia page ] Space Chantey The Reefs of Earth Fourth Mansions [ Wikipedia page ] The Devil Is Dead Arrival at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine Apocalypses Aurelia Annals of Klepsis Serpent's Egg Half a Sky East of Laughter Sindbad: The 13 th Voyage Answer