OK, new hint. Famous Sci Fi author. A lot of you probably read this in High School.

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Must be Harry Potter.

Sounds like stuff that could be in Dianetics, but that's been made into a little more than a movie.

I have no idea.

Adams, Douglas
Alexander, Lloyd
Anderson, Poul
Anthony, Piers
Asimov, Isaac
Baum, L. Frank
Bear, Greg
Blish, James
Bova, Ben
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Bradbury, Ray
Brin, David
Brooks, Terry
Bujold, Lois McMaster
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Capek, Karel
Card, Orson Scott
Cherryh, C. J.
Chesterton, G.K.
Chopra, Deepak
Clarke, Arthur C.
Crichton, Michael
Davidson, Avram Dick, Philip K.
Ellison, Harlan
Farmer, Philip Jose
Foster, Alan Dean
Gibson, William
Greeley, Andrew
Heinlein, Robert A.
Henderson, Zenna
Herbert, Frank
Hickman, Tracy
Hubbard, L. Ron
Jordan, Robert
King, Stephen
L'Engle, Madeleine
Larson, Glen A.
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Leiber, Fritz
Lem, Stanislaw
Lewis, C. S.
Lucas, George
McCaffrey, Anne
Niven, Larry
Orwell, George Perry, Anne
Pohl, Frederik
Rice, Anne
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Roddenberry, Gene
Sagan, Carl
Shelley, Mary
Silverberg, Robert
Simmons, Dan
Smith, Cordwainer
Stapledon, Olaf
Stephenson, Neal
Straczynski, J. Michael
Sturgeon, Theodore
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Turtledove, Harry
Verne, Jules
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
Miller, Jr., Walter M.
Wells, H.G.
Willis, Connie
Wolfe, Gene
Wolverton, Dave
Zelazny, Roger

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Brave new World
1984

Those are the only sci fi books I read in school.

As for the idea of Alien Life. I sure hope so, it would be so awesome to talk to some aliens before I die.

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I swore late in that book (I assume movie as well) that they claimed life couldn't exist on earth because of the high oxygen level.. hmmm might have to add that to the reading list again.. although it has been years since I read it.

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Pack - Wasn't the Andromeda Strain about a meteor hitting Earth and a lot of people died due to the virus that the meteor contained? I don't think the book left Earth, if I remember correctly.

Oh, Zero did name the author, but that doesn't count. So the answer is in Zero's post.

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Yes it was... now that you mention it.. that is the piece I remember.. it was the virus (or infected) that couldn't survive long term (or something to that effect) on earth due to the high oxygen levels.. or maybe I am "misremembering" the details.. anyway.. that is where I pulled the reference from in my cloudy mind.

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[strike]I'm gonna go with Philip K Dick. I've read a few of his novels, but don't recall that phrase. There's a lot of movies based on his works, and he's a relatively popular sci fi author. It seems like something one of his characters might say in jest too.[/strike]

Ooh actually, it could be Carl Sagan in Contact. That seems like a good possibility. I'll go with that.

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Alright folks.

It was Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. In one of the stories, Martians were talking to each other about Earth and said something along the lines of "that's impossible. There's no way there could be life on that planet because there's too much oxygen."

And yes, oxygen saved the day for us in Andromeda Strain. Had it not been for oxygen, if I remember correctly, the human race would have been wiped out.

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Interesting. I've never read or even heard of that book. So must've been a high school reading 'requirement' back in the day. =)

Andromeda Strain was one of the VERY few Micheal Crichton books that I haven't read. I can't list his books in any order of which I liked most to least, as they are alllll good.

While I'm on this subject... A Crichton book I read had swarms of something that would mimic humans/objects and would terrorize the heroes.. What was the name of that book? EDIT: I looked it up.. But I'll keep the question up as a trivia. BTW, there are two new Crichton books that have been released that I never seen before.. One in 2006 and the other last year. Hmmmmmmm..

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