Alphabetical SFF

[chrispenycate]

Chronicles Network :- SFF website
John W. Cambell the magasine editor of the "golden years"
Cohen the barbarian
Orson Scott Card
Lewis Carrol:- Fantasy wouldn't be the same without Alice
Cherenkov radiation- what happens when something finds out that it's travelling faster than light.
Conservation laws :- matter/energy, momentum, spin
Law of contagion- one of the "laws" of magic
Authors:-
Bernard Cornwell
Jack L. Chalker
A. Bertrand Chandler
John Christopher

[hermi-nomi]

Aww shucks, there was a whole list that I had prepared in the vaults of my abismal mind for the leap to the letter 'C', and now that we're here ~ I can' think of any except for;

C Canavan, Trudi YA fantasy writer of The Black Magician trilogy
C Cpt Carrot Captain of the Discworld Watch
C Centaurs Mythical half man, half horse creatures from Greek(?) myth & the Potter stories. Commorated in starlight as the constellation of Saggitarius

(there was something else, but it escapes me right now.)

[Brown Rat]

Author: Clarke, Arthur
Book: Childhood's End
TV series: Crusade
Entity: Cthulhu
Concept: crystal-powered starships

[hermi-nomi]

Duh ...
C Conventions (hehehe)
C Cybermen (Making a comeback in the second [73rd] series of Dr Who)

[GrownUp]

Originally Posted by hermi-nomi

Duh ...
C Conventions (hehehe)
C Cybermen (Making a comeback in the second [73rd] series of Dr Who)

Brilliant. And might I say, hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!

Cybermen!

[Quokka]

Crypts, Cadavers, Coffins, Castles and Crowns... were would fantasy/horror be without them.

Charlie (Flowers for Algernon)
Clockwork Orange
And I'm told Computers pop up in sci-fi from time to time.

[kyektulu]

C.

Canavan, Trudi, Fantasy Author.

Chester, Deborah, Fantasy Author.

Caldwell, Clyde, Fantasy Artist.

Clarke, Arthur, C, Author.

Card, Orson, Scott, Author.

Christopher, John, Sci Fi, Author.

Cunningham, Elaine, Fantasy Author.

Crispin, A, C, Fantasy Author.

Cliffton, Mark, Sci Fi Author.

[hermi-nomi]

Elaine Cunningham! Hehe, the name rings a bell (I have alot in common with one of them ) What did she write? I cna now tell you that I'v rememered the 'C' I got stuck on ...

C
Chris Carter The X-Files superemo. (I knew it was somethin I knew)
C.MO.T Dibbler Cut My Own Throat Dibbler, Discworld merchant (or casual assassin perhaps?)
Collins, Graham fantasy artist

And, 'cos I'm abit slow,

B
Boromir

A
Arwen and Aragorn

[chrispenycate]

Nobody's been filling in early letters recently; feels like about time for "D"
Dragons (of course), and dungeons for them to inhabit (and dungeon dimensions to accomodate the precedent). Devils, demons and daemons.
DEATH, devastation, destruction and decay (these aren't unique to the genre, but seem essential)
Drink , which while being essential for writing is also sent me by Del Rey
Dracula, and Darkness (with a capital, not mere lack of light)
Dwarves, Detrius and Dryads, on the [color=red]Discworld - dinosaurs dematerialise, deities dogmatic, Dumbledore disappears
In authors Philip K. Dick, Grdon Dickson, Thomas M. Disch (camp concentration, nasty) Sir arthur Conan Doyle (for professor Challenger, rather than S. Holmes) L. Spague DeCamp, David Drake, Stephen Donaldson, Gardner Dozois (more an editor) Samuel Delaney.

Dancing damsels daintily deleted;Wot! no authoresses? Diane Duane.

[Rosemary]

Two more authoresses here Chris!

Cecilia Dart-Thornton - The Bitterbynde, Crowthistle Chronicles
Sara Douglass - The Axis Trilogy, The Wayfarer Redemption

Roald Dahl - author - The Minpins, The Witches
Larry Dixon - Valdemar: Mage Wars
David Drake - The Fortress of Glass
Charles de Lint - Moonheart Series
Stephen Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

[pyan]

Some old favourites:

Doctor Who

Dan Dare (does he count Double?)


Darth Vader


Dune (the planet)

[hermi-nomi]

D Damn, damn you all with your Dragons and Doctor Who and DEATH and Dumbledores! But I can still beat all that with D Dementors!! Ha ha!
Oh, and I raise you a D Dalek and Davros!!! Mah hahaha!!!

[Brown Rat]

Another double: Dennis Danvers.

And an author / title alphabetical slide: Cory Doctorow Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

[chrispenycate]

Doctors: an integral part of sci-fi, some of them (both sides of the pen) cut down to "Doc"s (as in EE "Doc" Smith) some even comonig in multiples, with a pair'o'docs, like the Forwards (probably a temporal pair'o'docs)
Dreams: they're what we're selling, either direct (as in Zelazney's "Dream master") or indirect

[hermi-nomi]

D
Duchovny, David.
Davies, RT
Dumanfestin (Home of the Gods in Discworld)
Discworld (World were series of Terry Pratchett books are set)
DATA (Character in ST:TNG...)
Druid (Ancient cast of magic users)
Daphne (a Goddess in Roman times(?)
Divination
Delphi (a Greek provence, site of the Temple of Apollo and the Delphic Sibyl ~ see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi)
Dragonite (a valuable stone found inside Dragons heads)

Okay, I think that's all I know without cheating and using a sc-fi compendium or encyclopedia ... I may not have all the facts about Delphi correct which is why I included the link. I'm definatly unsure about Daphne being a Roman Goddess, maybe she was a nymph ...no, actually I looked her up @ she was a Dryiad (connected to trees...) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne