If science fiction is the mythology of of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. --Ursula K. Le Guin

Often works of literary science fiction are transformed into cinema. Can you guess who wrote the book or short story these movies came from:

1. Next

2. 2001, A Space Odyssey

3. 2010

4. Total Recall

5. Minority Report

6. I, Robot

7. Blade Runner

8. Destination Moon

9. Soylent Green

10 Starship Troopers

11. A Scanner Darkly

12. Screamers

13. The Puppet Masters

14. The Running Man

Answers:::

1. Not Micheal Crichton, Philip K. Dick " The Golden Man"

2. of course-Arthur c. Clarke

3. Gave you this one, Arthur C. Clarke, " 2010: the Year We Made Contact"

4. Philip K. Dick, "We Can Remember If for You Wholesale."

5. Philip K. Dick

6. Isaac Asimov

7. Philip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

8. Robert A. Heinlein

9. Harry Harrison, "Make Room! Make Room!" (no cannibalism!)

10. Robert A. Heinlein

11. You just guessing-- Philip K.Dick

12. Philip K. Dick, "Second Variety"

13. Robert A. Heinlein

13. Richard Bachman (that's Stephen King)

Scoring:

1-4, You could have gotten 5 answering Dick every time!

5-9, Expand your horizons. Read more science fiction.

10-13, Smart, but did you know the titles of the works that spawn the movies?

14 , I bow to your knowlege.