Six-word SF synopses

Fox — 10/28/2006 3:16:24 AM (archived)

Sitting here looking at the fine thread below, another idea came to mind: six-word synopses of existing stories.

It's probably been done somewhere before... but so what?

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Six-word SF synopses - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:16:24 AM
- Enemy Mine: Louis Gosset Jr. delivers (n/t) - SDG - 11/2/2006 3:42:38 PM
  - Dennis Quaid performs role of midwife (n/t) - SDG - 11/2/2006 3:43:42 PM
- Pssthpok the pak finds lost Breeders (n/t) - Adam - 11/2/2006 10:03:00 AM
  - Rishatra, Vampires, Ghouls, series dies ignobly (n/t) - FrankC - 11/2/2006 10:14:29 PM
- Diebold Computer hacked. Kirk Passes Exam. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 11/1/2006 9:11:17 PM
- Too much time on your hands.... (n/t) - azstrummer - 10/31/2006 11:24:27 PM
  - Using feet distributes time more judiciously. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/1/2006 10:55:30 PM
- Against conspiracy theorists, reason is futile. (n/t) - ER - 10/31/2006 1:40:53 PM
- 2026 to 1933 killed Hitler returned...? (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 10/31/2006 11:57:01 AM
- Prevent war, girl, find Durand Durand (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/31/2006 10:26:16 AM
- Evolved sea anemones steal gas giant (n/t) - Adam - 10/31/2006 8:14:09 AM
- Six pieces, Pete, Time, Fibuli, Androids. (n/t) - Mr Fibuli - 10/31/2006 4:19:32 AM
- Earthmen came, Martians died. Did They? (n/t) - Adam - 10/31/2006 1:05:34 AM
- Lanik a rad, becomes a god - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:26:54 PM
- "The Ramans do everything in threes" (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:23:40 PM
  - Eggs and pork with the noodles? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/1/2006 10:56:53 PM
  - Kinky. (n/t) - TB - 10/30/2006 11:55:19 PM
    - Sex in Space. Radiation. Crab Nebula. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 11/1/2006 2:16:57 AM
- All is lost! deux ex machina - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:48:54 PM
- Child saves humanity, xenocide, humanity lost? - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:39:06 PM
  - "Piggies are people too", says Human (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:43:16 PM
    - "except for females, they are Varelse" (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:45:02 PM
  - Descolada even worse: send little Dr (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:41:42 PM
- The White Mountains, Don't get capped! (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:35:24 PM
- Lying Bastard, Ring World, migod agoraphobia (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:34:37 PM
- palm print color, run Logan run! (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:33:26 PM
  - Dome dwellers solve Social Security crisis (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/31/2006 10:47:17 AM
- Humans, Ousters fight. Shrike! the Beware (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 8:33:00 PM
  - Ouch, squashed by Mega G smarts (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 9:07:47 PM
    - I need to read the sequels..... :-) (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:34:59 PM
  - Farcasters exploit your brain; choose again. (n/t) - podrock - 10/30/2006 8:41:02 PM
- Big Brother, A hate love relationship (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:32:10 PM
- Computer befriends man on moon, rebellion - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:28:07 PM
- Empire, human epic, decay, regression, rebirth - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:22:16 PM
- Space: the longest thread? yes, no (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:15:40 PM
- By the way......best. thread. ever. :-) - Tony - 10/30/2006 5:20:26 PM
- 1.21 jigawatts? 1.21 jigawatts? Great Scott! (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:51:55 PM
  - What the hell is a jigawatt? (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:52:30 PM
    - Something to do with Charlie's Angels? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/1/2006 10:58:13 PM
- Mice first, porpoises second, humans third (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:20:41 PM
- Khaaaaaaaaan! - REB - 10/30/2006 3:13:04 PM
  - Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Archer, Next? (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:42:03 PM
- Got potato mountain? See the universe! (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:39:17 PM
- Half-Life: Time To Choose, Mr. Freeman. (n/t) - SDF - 10/30/2006 1:27:57 PM
- Saturn Rukh Giant Flying Extraterrestrial Maw (n/t) - SDF - 10/30/2006 1:24:38 PM
- Trilogy Sublime. Sequels Suck. Prequels Sucker! - nick hoffman - 10/30/2006 12:40:13 PM
  - Jar Jar Binks meets Sarlacc, please? (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 10:49:27 PM
  - 9 movies? show me the sequels! (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 7:27:37 PM
    - Sequels - nick hoffman - 10/31/2006 9:09:35 AM
  - Luke? Father! Sister? Mother? Father! Emperor!! - nick hoffman - 10/30/2006 12:43:10 PM
- A gift of flight on Jupiter. (n/t) (n/t) - Mr Fibuli - 10/30/2006 10:48:01 AM
- Pupeteers, bi ped cat, unlucky, shadow sqaures. (n/t) - Mr Fibuli - 10/30/2006 10:37:21 AM
  - You scream and you leap... great. (n/t) - Fox - 10/31/2006 1:17:04 AM
- Axis wins, things get really weird - Fox - 10/30/2006 3:46:05 AM
  - Jesus on Mars? Not bloody likely... (n/t) - Fox - 10/31/2006 1:19:11 AM
  - Dick writes. Arnie Stars. Major Hit! - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:37:08 PM
    - Lost like tears in the rain (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 9:15:15 PM
- Rape, walk, walk, walk, laugh, win! - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:53:23 AM
  - Leper dies badly, a Foul defeat (n/t) - Adam - 10/31/2006 8:16:19 AM
  - Clockwork Orange came to mind (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:45:22 PM
    - Only 5 words??? Outcast! Leper! Unclean! - Tony - 10/30/2006 3:59:05 PM
      - I give up, oh mighty one. (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 5:40:44 PM
        
        Unbelievable, they don't have white gold! (n/t) - podrock - 10/30/2006 6:27:39 PM
  - Oh, I see: a generic synopsis - Fox - 10/30/2006 3:35:50 AM
    - No, see post above to REB. - Tony - 10/30/2006 4:00:51 PM
      - podrock's post provided clue: Covenant series (n/t) - Fox - 10/30/2006 6:50:36 PM
    - Impenetrable jungle, noble savages, white hero - Fox - 10/30/2006 3:50:48 AM
- Martian grasshoppers build spaceship, modify hominids (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 11:09:38 PM
- I'm home: dirty apes not aliens (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 10:50:43 PM
- Man, robots, mock 'This Island Earth' (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 8:52:57 PM
- On Mars with monkey, liberates Friday (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 8:16:01 PM
- Manifold: Malenfant Suffers For His Ambition. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 4:10:26 PM
  - Baxter's new genre: The parallel serial (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:12:02 PM
- Pandora's Star: Prime Lifeform Destroys All. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 4:07:00 PM
  - Arrggh, Fords and MickeyD in 2300 (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 9:02:21 PM
    - Worse! Taco Bell in Demolition Man! (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:10:16 PM
- Redemption Ark: Inhibitors Destroy Spacefaring Races. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 4:01:24 PM
- Killdozer: possessed juggernaut squashes people flat (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 3:57:27 PM
- Coalescent. Exultant. Transcendent. Malthusian. Dystopian. Baxterian. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 3:51:01 PM
  - Coalescent. Exultant. Transcendent. Malthusian. Darwinian. Baxterian. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 3:52:52 PM
- Eon: Asteroid bigger inside than outside. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 3:45:53 PM
- All the Suns set. Civilisation burns! (n/t) - nick hoffman - 10/29/2006 2:16:34 PM
  - Book was great, Movie was strange. (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 10:50:20 PM
  - (Nightfall) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:35:11 PM
  - Monolith: Arise, monkey! Your destiny awaits! (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:25:08 PM
  - Against the fall of night, Alvin (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:22:36 PM
    - Between the city and the stars (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:28:07 PM
      - Cities take flight; politics as usual (n/t) - Fox - 11/3/2006 1:59:32 AM
        
        Round and round we go! Spindizzy! (n/t) - Robert - 11/3/2006 2:19:20 AM
        
        Ohhhhhhhhhhh! It wash pure Blish, too! (n/t) - Robert - 11/3/2006 2:21:07 AM
- Bringing civilizations alive, using special inks. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 2:08:06 PM
- Another I place at Star's End... (n/t) - Adam - 10/29/2006 1:54:55 PM
  - Who's this Mule guy? Oh crap! (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:11:19 PM
  - Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:09:49 PM
    - Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:31:03 PM
      - The Caves of Steel; I, Robot (+...) - Robert - 10/30/2006 9:54:07 PM
- Space bug turns blood to powder (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 4:15:03 AM
- Starbuck's a girl, Cylons are sexy (n/t) - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:52:31 PM
- Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars (n/t) - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:50:56 PM
- re: Six-word SF synopses - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:44:02 PM
- I Robot: Three laws broken, nevermind. (n/t) - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:43:15 PM
  - R. Daneel Olivaw, wherefore art thou? (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:27:04 PM
    - AKA Chetter Hummin and Eto Demerzel (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:34:20 PM
      - "Alas, Giskard, I knew him well" (n/t) - Robert - 10/30/2006 9:55:51 PM
  - Robots don't need no stinking rules! (n/t) - podrock - 10/29/2006 5:06:35 AM
- QT'ing Greek Gods mess with time (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 11:20:13 PM
- Clay simulacra walk Earth, do chores. (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 7:12:17 PM
  - Kiln People? - Mr Fibuli - 10/30/2006 10:40:31 AM
- The game needs a name: scifaiku? (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 5:59:32 PM
  - Genius. (n/t) - Bowser - 10/29/2006 3:57:01 AM
    - Six word meme, won't let go - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:20:53 PM
      - This time, lets make them rhyme? (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 8:41:29 PM
      - Brevity, a blessing in subject lines - Fox - 10/29/2006 4:06:41 PM
        
        The beat goes on and on (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:09:28 PM
        
        Stop me before I scifaiku again! (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:10:09 PM
        
        Help! I'm stuck in this meme! (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:10:54 PM
        
        No you're not! (Yes he is!) (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 3:40:57 PM
  - Kewl (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 9:02:16 PM
- Discworld: Turtles all the way down. (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 3:43:02 PM
  - Witches Abroad: Crone, Mother, Wet Hen (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 3:43:59 PM
    - The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret (n/t) - Ankh-Morpork Times - 10/28/2006 3:45:23 PM
      - Yet Another Death on Vacation Yarn - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:46:23 AM
        
        Vampires suck. Granny is human garlic. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 10:50:34 PM
- monoliths turn Jupiter into second sun (n/t) - Daniel - 10/28/2006 2:52:53 PM
  - Helen Mirren with cute Russian accent (n/t) - D. - 10/28/2006 2:53:52 PM
- Toddler World Saviour Dies Unexpectedly... maybe (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:27:36 AM
- Arnie Kott again... again... again... dead (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:26:08 AM
  - Man returns from Proxima a God? (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:30:00 AM
- Tiger masked sociopath roams space time (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:23:50 AM
  - "Where are the stars?" "What stars?" (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:31:03 AM
- Oh HAL. Oh hell. OH HELL! (n/t) - Bowser - 10/28/2006 5:41:22 AM
- Bootstraps, hell... lend 'em a hand! - Fox - 10/28/2006 5:31:15 AM
  - Sentient dolphins mock patrons, how human... (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 7:02:15 PM
- Uh-Oh, Did you hear that? (n/t) - Pugs - 10/28/2006 5:27:17 AM
- Three clones look for laser source. (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:41:58 AM
  - (Ophiuchi Hotline?) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:54:35 AM
    - yup - podrock - 10/28/2006 5:10:23 AM
- Oceans dead; Soylent Green is people! (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:35:25 AM
- That V2 rocket turns me on. (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:12:05 AM
  - Uh, Houston. We have a problem. (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 7:02:52 PM
- Journey interrupted - Alien life! Run away... (n/t) - nick hoffman - 10/28/2006 4:03:26 AM
- The future isn't what I expected - nick hoffman - 10/28/2006 4:01:38 AM
  - Shoot the Moon -- gun big enough? (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:17:24 AM
- "Let there be Light!" "Oh Bugger!" - nick hoffman - 10/28/2006 4:00:07 AM
- "It's just a game," said Ender. (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 3:58:24 AM
  - "Oh no it isn't " say Buggers. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:40:37 AM
  - Ender saves humanity, Bean is backup (n/t) - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:48:46 PM
    - Peter isn't bad, he's just meglomanic (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:55:10 PM
      - Keep an eye on Achilles, though. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/1/2006 11:05:49 PM
  - "And, I speak for the dead" (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:07:00 AM
- Hobbit saves world, Elves leave anyway (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:43:02 AM
  - One Ring to rule them all (n/t) - nick hoffman - 10/29/2006 12:18:57 PM
    - and in the darkness bind them. (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:19:09 PM
  - shoulda tossed it into the fire (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:21:15 AM
    - There, and back; "Well, I'm home." (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 5:25:52 AM
  - Feanor's pride: three ages of wandering. (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:08:09 AM
    - Sauron's a wolfie wimp. Morgoth rooolz! - Tony - 10/30/2006 4:16:06 PM
  - Or...Elves has left the building. (n/t) - ER - 10/28/2006 4:01:01 AM
- Kill those bugs, on the bounce! (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:24:04 AM
  - Prophet genesis: be raised by Martians (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:28:48 AM
  - very old man tells many stories (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:25:35 AM
    - Moon declares independence, computer leads revolt (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:29:47 AM
      - TANSTAAFL my ass! Ctrl alt delete (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 4:12:59 PM
- Exotic spice, Byzantine politics, big worms (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:18:29 AM
  - Book bound Muad'Dib couldn't sing power. (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 7:08:15 PM
  - Worm sign! Where's the ornithopter? Aiiiieeee! (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 4:02:06 PM
    - Thump thump thump thump thump gulp (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 4:09:31 PM
  - Baron Harkonnen, see fat boy float (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 3:56:56 PM
    - Alia's Gom Jabbar bursts his baloon. (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 9:23:05 PM
  - DeLaurentis: Sting in a leather jockstrap! (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 3:55:24 PM
    - Sting a ling a ding dong - REB - 10/30/2006 7:40:06 PM
      - Sting! Stinglehopper! Makin' copies. The McStingster! (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 7:43:14 PM
- Martians invade; Earth saved by bacteria (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:17:15 AM

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