Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror - Word Association Thread - Part III

Last three on-topic posts:

Polgara

farm boy fantasy

Farmer in the Sky

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Philip José Farmer

Damn. Touchstone not working, so I linkified the name.

to your scattered bodies Go (his most popular work on LT)

The Bachman Books including the novella "The Body" which became the hit movie "Stand By Me."

Star Trek- TNG

Star Wars

Darth Vader

Dark Helmet

Dark City.

Symphony of Enchanted Lands

Lothlorien

Silvanost

War of the Lance

Lancre

Nicole du Lancret

Ever After

...like Arabian days (from Aladdin)

The Majriti Sands

The Sanpashir Desert

Dune

Kwisatz Haderach

Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha.

(Charm of Making, Excalibur)

Hood

Hook

Jack Ketch

(Not strictly sf/f, but that's who came to mind. And he or his name as an euphemism has featured in a lot of sf books that I've read...)

Captain Jack (take your pick)

Starship Captain

Hunger Games

The Forgetting
(something that happened in the back history in Century Rain)

Forgetfulness (short by by John W. Campbell)

Terminator

Toasters (the cylon kind)

Helo

The Death Star

uplift

Space elevator

docking station

"I'm sorry Dave..."

Marvin the Paranoid Android

Data

Babylon 5

Names (Shemoth)*

Not sci-fi. but some might say parts of it qualilfy as fantasy. Idoes have a couple of supernatural episodes (which,outside of early Genesis are the exception rather than the rule in the HebrewBible (= Christian Old Testament.)

* Shemoth (Names) Hebrew title of the book translated in Englilsh Bibles as: Numbers

His Dark Materials Trilogy (only because it has a lot of Biblical references)

dæmoni

Bartimaeus (the trilogy by Jonathan Stroud)

Ed Stroud*

*old time MLB player ( the original?) Wash. Senators)

Heroes of the Valley

Edit to fix Touchstone.

Valley of Cobras

GI Joe: Origin of COBRA (well, it's pretty fantasy...)

Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Mighty Mouse

The Mouse that Roared

fantasy? perhaps not; satire with some use of fantasy. It was the only "mouse" that came to mind.

Fifth Element

(Guards! Guards! -> Fifth Elephant -> Fifth Element)

Dawn by Octavia Butler (involves alien crossbreed surrogacy)

The Shadow knows!

Loki

The Mighty Thor

The Avengers

Emma Peel

John Steed (who, by coincence, not my parent's choice, is also my brother)

John Silver

Silver on the Tree

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Free-Ranger (from the movie Chicken Run)

Freebooters*

* a chapter heading in Dostoevskyʻs "Karamazov", named after a character named Stilyagin, translated as Fributin

Memento

edited to fix atrocious spelling

The Ill-made Mute

(Both deal with memory loss of some kind.)

Poison Ivy

the Whomping Willow

(don't yell, I'm just trying this. I'm new and just figuring out how you free associate here.)

Wicked Willow II: Shattered Twilight

(Yup, I'm new, too, and still getting the hang of touchstones.)

"Out Our Way" *

*comic strip of the 1940s; itʻs "hero was Willis Willett, whose name sort of rhymes with "limit", but that wasʻt what reminded me.

(As a child, the word "limit" always reminded me of the neighboring neighboring town, Wilmington MA, and v ice-versa, though even the phonetic association is pretty superficial.)

Waystone Inn

The King-Killer

Dragon Weather (by Lawrence Watt-Evans)

Here be dragons (interesting read: http://www.maphist.nl/extra/herebedragons.html)

The Dragonʻs Teeth*

*Greco-Phoenician mythological theme about the origin of strife in Thebes, Colchis, etc.

Pern

Acorna's World

The Day the World Ended (by Sax Rohmer)

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Our Dimensionality by Timothy James Faulkner

The Man who Folded Himself

(Just as a general note to newcomers to the game since I didn't see one: association is absolutely free. If you associate it with the previous and it's fantasy/sf/horror-related, it goes. But if it's something you think is fairly obscure... Well, we're all curious creatures and would love to hear how the relation works. ^-~)

and he built a crooked house

A heinlen short story, (it folds).

The Door into Summer

also from Heinlein, with a cat that keeps hoping one of the doors in the house will lead to summer

The Summerlands

Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear

Dinosaur Planet by Anne McCaffrey

Threshold

(It deals with fossils - sort of - and, also, the author is a paleontologist. Which I'm not having doubts I spelled correctly.)

Sinner (by Sara Douglass, who also wrote Threshold)

Saint Sinner ( Clive Barker)

Cat Women of the Moon (1953 movie)

Sorry I couldn't help myself

Death Star

The Ethics of Star Trek by Judith Barad

The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss

Star Trekkinnnnn'
Across the Universe

Tales of Known Space; the Universe
of Larry Niven by Larry Niven

Siege Perilous by Lester Del Rey

Mankind's Perilous Journey by Jason Egroff

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin. I can't help it, but when it comes to dragons, this book has something special.

The Shores of Tomorrow
by Roger Macbride Allen

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

(You have got to watch the book trailer to believe. Out this Sept. Said to be 60% Austen 40 % monster.)

Cthulhu

Davey Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean Movie. Oooo, that mouth!

Out of the Mouth of the Dragon
by Mark Geston

Dragonsphere.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Moon's Spawn

Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Mars attacks!!

John Carter (of Mars)

A Fighting Man of Mars (one of Burroughs' very best)

Cave Women on Mars

Asimovʻs Caves of Steel

Man of Steel, AKA Superman

Jimmy Olson

Lois Lane

Margot Lane (of The Shadow stories)

The Serpentʻs Shadow by Mercedes Lackey

The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

Bad Moon Rising

Anomander Rake

Dragon

Firedrake

Polgara

ETA: Hee. I just realised we're (almost) back at the beginning of this thread now.

Hedwig

Rocky Horror Picture Show

(via Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
by (of all people!) Ambrose Bierce

Casper

Braveheart

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (through Mel)

Frankenstein (aka mad scientist)

Young Frankenstein

Space Balls

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Hardware Wars

Buck Rogers

Space Quest

Qwestʻs "How is that POSSIBLE!?" ads

Jonny Quest

John Stark (Hounds of Skaith

Kingʻs Stark: the Dark Half

Christine Feehan's Dark Celebration: A Carpathian Reunion

The Hunter

(From C. S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy)

Grubbʻs Night of the Hunter

The Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling.

Queen Tamir (from Lynn Flewelling's prequel trilogy)

Borg Queen

"The Queen of Heaven: I miss her.
(We were divorced.)" -- Robert Lowell*

* I canʻt guarantee that the author, whom I knew slightly, intended this as fantasy. *and certainly not as horror.) Not sure of the punctuation, either.

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White Queen (from Queen by Queen - a musical contribution)

The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House* by Seymour Hersh

*Might pass as horror, if youʻre a Liberal,
as fantasy, if youʻre a Conservative.

The White Tower, Tar Valon.

Green Angel Tower, TOR books (that's kind of wierd!)

Soylent Green

C.Buckleyʻs Little Green Men

Children of Men

The City of Lost Children

Clifford Simak's City

Sci-Fi City

City of Illusions by Ursula Leguin

gnome illusionists

Robesonʻs Evil Gnome

Red November
(http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=36&enmi=Red%20November)

The Hunt For Red October

The Great Hunt for the Horn.

Where the Wild Things Are

Minnesota Wild 2009-2010
(in the NHL * Media Guide series)

Not exactly fantasy or horror, but hockey can produce some horrible law cases.

George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards

Where the Wild Things Are

(How does hockey relate to fantasy sci/fi?) :P

Needful Things by Stephen King

Thing (from The Addams Family)

The Thing

The movie.

Bierceʻs The Damned Thing*

*classic horror short story

Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Children of Men

Children of the Corn

Children of the Lens by E.E. "Doc" Smith

Sunchildren

Lackeyʻs Sun in Glory

Gloryhole

(The name of the ship in The Tar-Aiym Krang, no really...it is...)

Visions of Glory

Heinleinʻs Glory Road

Blaze of Glory by Michael Pryor

His Dark Materials (series)
by Philip Pullman

His Golden Eyes

(all to do with Twilight)

Bellairsʻs Eyes of the Killer Robot

Rossum's Universal Robots

Emmy Rossum (in Dragonball Evolution)

Briar Rose

The Rose Sisters Trilogy

Dakar's Black Rose Prophesy

Aragorn

Arathorn

Sigil of Arathor

"Sig" Obispo*

*character in Huxleyʻs After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Sig Sauer (legendary gun used by Butler of Artemis Fowl series)

Bergerʻs Arthur Rex; a Legendary Novel

Mary Stewart's The Hollow Hills (and the rest of her fine Merlin trilogy)

Irvingʻs The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Hollow Lands by Michael Moorcock

Stormbringer!

Hodgesʻs The Fire Bringer

Bringers of the First Evil (c.f. Buffy)

The Mastermind of Mars by E.R. Burroughs

Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars

The Sands of Mars

Dune

sands of Cape Cod

Against the Grain by Joris Karl Huysmans

The Man with two Brains

I met a man with seven wives

Fosterʻs The Man who Used the Universe

Andy Richter Rules The Universe!

Boeseʻs Daughters of Terra

Raistlin's Daughter

Teyʻs Daughter of Time

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

Calvinoʻs If, on a Winterʻs Night, a Traveller

Dragons in the Waters
by Madeleine LʻEngle

Who Goes Here by Bob Shaw

Fosterʻs Who Needs Enemies?

Fred Flintstone

T.H. Whiteʻs The Sword in the Stone

Elric of Melnibone

Moorcockʻs Elric: the Sleeping Sorceress

B urtonʻs The Anatomy of Melancholy

Richard Francis Burton's 1001 Nights

Andrewsʻs Star Trek Quiz Book; 1001 Trivia Teasers for Trekkies

I am Spock: the Beloved Vulcan from the Star Trek Phenomenon by Leonard Nimoy

Fringe - new tv show with Leonard Nemoy as mastermind -mwehhhhh

Denethor (from LOTR, John Noble plays him and Walter Bishop in Fringe)

The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights
by John Steinbeck

The acts of Caine series

auto-erotic asphyxiation (Caine -> Kwai Chang Caine -> David Carradine)

Chang and the Bamboo Flute

by Elizabeth Starr Hill

The Bamboo Saucer (1968)

Earth Vs the Flying Saucers

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Star Wars

Star Trek

"Trek, the next..." *

* as in: Star Trek, the Next Generation

"DATA!!!!!"

Geordi

"I can't do it, Cap'n."

There's Klingons on the starboard bow
Starboard bow, starboard bow
There's Klingons on the starboard bow
Starboard bow, Jim!

The Klingon language by
Klingon Language Institute

Charles Fort; the Man who Invented the Supernatural*
by Jim Steinmyer

*not that I think he really did

A Glastonbury Romance (Powys was a fan)

Radcliffeʻs Romance of the Forest

b t w (curiosity) Powys was a fan of whom?

Peter Pan

Pan Science Fiction (Publisherʻs series)

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

speaking of pan

A Tolkien Compass by Jared Lobdell

Schaeferʻs American Bestiary

American Gods

Olympian gods

Thor

The Avengers (of comics, not british tv)

The Defenders (another mighty Marvel super hero team)

#332 Powys was a fan of Charles Fort.

#344 Watchmen (Avengers deconstructed?)

To justifiedsinner (#346):

Thanks

Planetary (hidden Warren Ellis comic gem)

"Captain Jack Zodiac"

Captain Jack Harkness

Jack Morris

Whiskeyjack

Kickaha

Aha!: Aha Insight, and AhA Gotcha
by Martin Gardner*

*sounds like it should be fantastic; but I guess this author wouldnʻt like to be in that category.

Also, many purists would object to the use of 2 consecutive punctuation marks (!:).

Feehanʻs Night Game

Titan, Wizard and Demon (John Varley)

The Fall of a Titan by Igor Gouzenko

Vonnegutʻs Sirens of Titan

The Odyssey

The Iliad

Dan Simmons' Ilium and Olympos

The Destruciton of Ilium* (Anonymous)

*Translation of the Greek title: Iliopersis

Riordan's series Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Percy Shelleyʻs Queen Mab

The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart (her merlin books are awesome)

Oz

Buffy

Fearless Vampire Killers

Polish paedophiles

The Gepetto Files

The X-Files

X-Men

Wellsʻs The First Men in the Moon

Spiderman

Aquaman

Batman

The Riddler

Magic Bus

White Magic by Kelly Easton

Hospital Station by James White

Farpoint Station

Q

V

V in the Perennial Classics Series
by Thomas Pynchon

Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems

Barakaʻs The System of Danteʻs hell

i have never really been a fan of star trek sorry but i see no sence to it

just looking at the cover of the appals me sorry to say that but it looks like the guy is in extreme pain and wants to break free. that book is something a guy or gothic person would read i would probley not read it.

2star

i personly don't think i would like it .

i saw that movie and loved it i thought that it was thrilling and kept it viewers on edge!

i saw only the reivews for that and thought that it seemed facenating

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To continue from #400:

Rider at the Gate

Slitheen

Raxacoricofallapatorian

*whew*

El Pato Donald*

playing on the 8th and 9th syllables of #410

*The Spanish title of Donald Duck (aka El Pato Pascual) Wil that pass for "fantasy"?

Howard the Duck

Tom Howard*

m.c. of the old radio show "It Pays to be Ignorant"
He was in his 70s during the years the show was flourishing.

Conan by Robert E. Howard

"Barbarian Ascendancy"*

long chapter, or sub-section in Ridpathʻs multi-volume World History; first time I ever saw the word "barbarian" in print.

Shadowthrone

The Last Airbender

Foosʻs Mind Bending

And He Built A Crooked House by Heinlein

House of Night (Series)

Daughter of the Night (Lanfear)

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu in the
Dover Classic mysteries Series
by Sax Rohmer

Flash-Future Kung Fu

"Flash Gordon"

Monsarratʻs White Rajah*

*Havenʻt read it, but have given it out to library users of the 1960s; hope it is fantastic enough.

Planet of Twilight in the Star Wars Series
by Barbara Hambly

Planet of the Apes

Castle Greyskull!!!

"...cleave his head-skull" *

*one of the heroʻs lines, in Tegnerʻs
Fritjiofʻs Saga

Orcrist, the Goblin-Cleaver!!

Goblin Market by Christina G. Rossetti

Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines

Gollum

The Too Ghoul for School Series
by B. Strange

--- nobody played Glamdring, the Foe-Hammer, which Gandalf kept for himself.
nothing popped up for me on #443 so carry on...

Ghoul Daze, Pokemon

Magic: The Gathering (a real fantasy card game)

Avalon Tarot Card Deck by Lo Scarabeo

rime of the ancient mariner

Even though poetry it's pretty close to fantasy!

Mailerʻs Ancient Evenings

Those who Went Remain there still
by Cherie Priest

The Hunter (from the Coldfire Trilogy)

Sandsʻs Rogue Hunter in the Argeneau Vampire
Series

How to be Rich by J. Paul Getty

Might this pass for fantasy? (Even though he was honest enough to say "to BE" not "to get" ?

Richie Rich

Trump: How to Get Rich by Donald Trump

Well, what Getty didnʻt go so far as, (see #457)
Trump did! Fantastic!

Corwin's Trump (lets get back to SF & F)

Charles Williamsʻs War in Heaven

The War of the Flowers

The Sapphire Rose

Touchstone giving trouble again.

well of shiuan (features drowning moons)

Midnightʻs Children by Salman Rushdie*

* he probably wouldnt agree that its fantasy, but it is based on the Indian folklore that all the children born at the moment in August, 1947, when India became independent, share a certain mysterious affinity.

Tales of Midnight

Poeʻs Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Magic: The Gathering

White Wolf's Vampire the Maskerade (also a cctg)

Traci Lords (star of many SF films and TV series and more naughty stuff)

Lord Vader

Fade

Bruenor Battlehammer - of Forgotten Realms fame

Battlestar Galactica

Encyclopedia Galactica

Hari Seldon (tech point for justifiedsinner)

Marygay Potter-Mandella (Forever War)

Potiphar Breen, Heinlein's Year of the Jackpot

Fantastic Voyage

Douglas Adams

Don Adams from Get Smart. That's kind of scifi, with the Cone of Silence, shoe phones and all that jazz.

Pocahontas a la Disney.

Earthman Come Home

Castle in the Sky (A Miyazaki film)

Dragonsdawn > Pern

dracomen

Draconians of Dragonlance

Dragon at the Border by Gordon Dickson

Lamia and The Velvets

Door

i hope i get to read this book cause it sounds like a really good book