{"id":6290,"date":"2018-02-15T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2018-02-18T15:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T20:16:56","slug":"a-game-that-wasnt-balderdash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6290","title":{"rendered":"A Game that wasn’t Balderdash!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the February 2018 meeting, we played a game! It wasn’t Balderdash.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/h3>\n
\"\"<\/a>Pick out the correct synopsis for each story, among the many alternate-timeline versions devised by MonSFFA members.<\/h5>\n

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, Alexis, Adam, Agata, Yvon, & Yves\u00a0\u00a0 [note: not everyone participated in every round]
\nLeader: Danny Sichel<\/p>\n

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 ever changing 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* a world where body scans have no effect on humans because the technology is obsolete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

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* 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
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

* 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
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

* 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
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

10: THE ENDANGERED CAMP<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Dinosaurs were going to the moon but then the asteroid wiped out their civilization
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

* 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
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

* 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

ANSWERS ARE HERE!<\/a><\/h4>\n