Think you know Dick…Adams or Asimov? Can you recite the Three Laws of Robotics or sum up the meaning of the life, universe and everything in a single number? Then this is the quiz for you! Try to match these science fiction last lines with the books that sent them into orbit.
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2001: a Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet) by Madeleine L’Engle
Blue Light by Walter Mosley
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender’s Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Jurassic Park: A Novel by Michael Crichton
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nova by Samuel Delany
Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy (Paperback)) by C.S. Lewis
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Stranger in a Strange Land (Remembering Tomorrow) by Robert Heinlein
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sirens of Titan: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The War of the Worlds (Dover Thrift Editions) by H.G. Wells
Science Fiction Last Lines Resources
NPR: Your Picks—Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books
Tor.com: Making Lists—Mindblowing SF By Women and People of Color
AbeBooks.com: 50 Essential Science Fiction Books
And, of course, my own misspent youth. :)
Header Photo, “Leonid Meteor Storm, 1833,” from Vintage Printable
