Marta Bausells 

Quiz: Can you identify these classic sci-fi books by their covers?

How well do you know your way around the bookshops' alternate worlds? How many of these classic novels can you identify from their jackets?
  
  


  1. Book number 1

    1. Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein

    2. Neuromancer – William Gibson

    3. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

    4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

  2. Book number 2

    1. Childhood's End – Arthur C. Clarke

    2. 1984 – George Orwell

    3. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

    4. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin

  3. Book number 3

    1. A Fire Upon the Deep – Vernor Vinge

    2. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

    3. The Wheel of Time series – Robert Jordan

    4. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

  4. Book number 4

    1. Island – Aldous Huxley

    2. Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card

    3. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein

    4. The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov

  5. Book number 5

    1. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

    2. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

    3. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

    4. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

  6. Book number 6

    1. Ubik – Philip K Dick

    2. Dune – Frank Herbert

    3. Cat's Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

    4. The Sandman series – Neil Gaiman

  7. Book number 7

    1. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke

    2. The Time Ships – Stephen Baxter

    3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

    4. The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

  8. Book number 8

    1. Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card

    2. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A Heinlein

    3. Foundation – Isaac Asimov

    4. The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester

  9. Book number 9

    1. The Princess Bride – William Goldman

    2. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood

    3. The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut

    4. Flowers For Algernon – Daniel Keyes

  10. Book number 10

    1. The Forever War – Joe Haldeman

    2. The Children of Men – PD James

    3. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne

    4. The War of the Worlds – HG Wells

Solutions

1:C, 2:B, 3:B, 4:C, 5:B, 6:C, 7:A, 8:A, 9:B, 10:D

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    Sci-fi is really, really not your thing. But zero? Really?

  2. 1 and above.

    Spaced out. Sci-fi really isn't your thing, is it?

  3. 2 and above.

    Spaced out. Sci-fi really isn't your thing, is it?

  4. 3 and above.

    Spaced out. Sci-fi really isn't your thing, is it?

  5. 4 and above.

    Not bad. But you could do with exploring a few more alternative worlds

  6. 5 and above.

    Not bad. But you could do with exploring a few more alternative worlds

  7. 6 and above.

    Approaching geek country, but could do geekier.

  8. 7 and above.

    Approaching geek country, but could do geekier.

  9. 8 and above.

    Well done! You're almost a pure geek.

  10. 9 and above.

    Well done! You're almost a pure geek.

  11. 10 and above.

    Great work! You know your way around many universes.

 

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