Here are the titles of 11 SF\/F stories, along with several descriptions for each one. Can you figure out which description is accurate (albeit perhaps misleading and\/or grotesquely oversimplified), and which are too silly for this timeline because they were invented by members of MonSFFA?<\/strong><\/p>\n Participants: Keith, Jay, Joe, Marquise, Alexei, Adam, Agata, Yvon, Yves 1: SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n * life in a photo archive is futile<\/p>\n * robots live and look like humans but cannot reproduce and all of their emotions are preprogrammed<\/p>\n * cyborgs are angry because a scientist wants to fill spaceships with oysters<\/p>\n * the intergalactic rock band, “Scanners”, play a concert in Vain, Colorado, and solve a mystery in the process.<\/p>\n * a gang of mediums organize a community in which they try to manage the everchanging future they see, to save their jobs<\/p>\n * a world where body scans have no effect on humans because the technology is obsolete<\/p>\n * mind reading serves nothing<\/p>\n * police radar speed scanner goes too high and kills all policemen<\/p>\n * in a futuristic world, aliens charged with reading the minds of humans mysteriously start committing suicide<\/p>\n * life is a digital fake<\/p>\n 2: WHEN IT ENDS, HE CATCHES HER<\/strong><\/p>\n * the story of every boy-meets-girl-meets-bug-eyed-monster film.<\/p>\n * a dying alien finally catches a fleeing human woman after a thousand-year chase across the universe, but dooms himself in so doing.<\/p>\n * a pilot is lost in his derelict spaceship, until the planetoid he is on in extremis is saved by her.<\/p>\n * android opera in china<\/p>\n * the last man on earth dies of the flu<\/p>\n * the zombie apocalypse makes a ballet dancer sad<\/p>\n * how a hint force runs every space ship<\/p>\n * men are enslaved for reproductive purposes but one man falls in love with a client and plots to run away with her<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3: THE TROUBLE WITH EMILY<\/strong><\/p>\n * doctors at a space hospital teach a brontosaurus to be telekinetic<\/p>\n * Emily has a bad habit of starting fires with her brain.<\/p>\n * A small cooing furry ball travels with Emily<\/p>\n * Emily the sentient communication AI has a bug.<\/p>\n * a man’s pet spaniel has cold feet about the upcoming wedding<\/p>\n * AI goes rogue and annihilates all life<\/p>\n * Woman AI goes mad<\/p>\n * A sentient octopus wants to rollerskate<\/p>\n * Emily is a bitch android<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4: UNICORN VARIATION<\/strong><\/p>\n * multicultural unicorns<\/p>\n * drunk chess against a unicorn, for the fate of humanity<\/p>\n * farmers were fed up with growing just one type of corn, and demanded variations<\/p>\n * someone tried to make unicorns exist via genetics<\/p>\n * genetically altered horses<\/p>\n * unicorn composes music<\/p>\n * teen girl gangs in the Arctic<\/p>\n * hypothesis about death of universe<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5: THINGS WITH BEARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n * what is a story set on jeopardy?<\/p>\n * MonSFFA’s vice-president was not as human as he appeared to be, despite the beard<\/p>\n * Oxhorns vanquished poverty in his life the day he grew a beard, and taught modern people to do the same.<\/p>\n * the Bearded Lady has new competition at the freak show, which has just introduced android members<\/p>\n * The Thing From Another World moves to New York and gets involved with activists<\/p>\n * Remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs<\/p>\n * Someone tries to invent a spell to banish beards<\/p>\n * A walrus floats on radioactive waste in Miami Beach<\/p>\n * The first men on Earth<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 6: LOVE IS THE PLAN THE PLAN IS DEATH<\/strong><\/p>\n * a James Bond story that was never made into a film<\/p>\n * aliens threaten humanity with death, until they are made to understand love<\/p>\n * a mantis falls in love with an Earthling<\/p>\n * coming of age during the era of AIDS<\/p>\n * sequel to the Fifth Element<\/p>\n * an alien spider tries to survive winter, until his mate eats him<\/p>\n * a Satanic couple take up competitive boxing<\/p>\n * future management of population growth<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7: GO GO GO, SAID THE BIRD<\/strong><\/p>\n * Instructions to a young bird flying over a statue<\/p>\n * British go-go dancers take over London<\/p>\n * An alien civilization attempts space travel after having been in contact with humans<\/p>\n * An android story about a Paul Klee painting<\/p>\n * Lady Byrd sends her lover home<\/p>\n * Adventures with a bird-shaped spaceship<\/p>\n * A patient breaks out of a mental institution<\/p>\n * A woman flees cannibals, but her family are cannibals also * Evolution of space flight<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8: BOOKWORM RUN!<\/strong><\/p>\n * The story of a bullied genius<\/p>\n * Batman warns his latest nemesis to run, lest he take a batarang to the crotch<\/p>\n * Society invented a way to publish minds, but there are concerns about privacy<\/p>\n * A superintelligent chimpanzee flees the US military * A worm farmer’s experiments run amok<\/p>\n * Someone goes to all the greatest libraries of the galaxy<\/p>\n * Sequel to ‘Book Thieves’<\/p>\n * A nerdy high school student gets recruited by murderous cyborgs<\/p>\n * Knowledge revolution<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9: HUNGRY DAUGHTERS OF STARVING MOTHERS<\/strong><\/p>\n * a Dr Who episode set in Venice<\/p>\n * the zombie apocalypse begins to wind down<\/p>\n * people are concerned their mutually-forming star systems are dying because of the state of their dying nebulae<\/p>\n * story of alien incest<\/p>\n * story about a world where all males have disappeared<\/p>\n * sequel to Book Thieves<\/p>\n * a nerdy high school student gets recruited by murderous cyborgs<\/p>\n * larvae of extraterrestrial nature<\/p>\n * a psychic vampire eats the badness of people she meets on dating sites <\/p>\n 10: THE ENDANGERED CAMP<\/strong><\/p>\n * Dinosaurs were going to the moon but then the asteroid wiped out their civilization * Hikers are put upon by a sasquatch<\/p>\n * Xenoarchaeologists cannot find the object of their search because they are camping directly over the dangerous location<\/p>\n * Camp comedies come with a severe penalty<\/p>\n * Someone stalks L. Sprague de Camp<\/p>\n * Four astronauts on the international space station try to set up a tent, but end up murdering each other<\/p>\n * Planet destruction<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11: YELLOW SNOW<\/strong><\/p>\n * Sulphur mining on the moons of jupiter goes horribly wrong<\/p>\n * a volcano erupts sulphur after which a flying saucer crashes into a mountain, resulting in sulphuric acid snow precipitation<\/p>\n * Time-travelling drug dealer genetically engineered to pee heroin * A lethal form of cocaine is distributed in a Martian colony<\/p>\n * Father Christmas laughs himself silly<\/p>\n * sequel to Snow Crash<\/p>\n * a UFO from Uranus experiences a fuel leak, is stranded on Earth<\/p>\n * pollution ending humanity<\/p>\n Pick out the correct synopsis for each story, among the many alternate-timeline versions devised by MonSFFA members. Here are the titles of 11 SF\/F stories, along with several descriptions for each one. 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