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1. Dane Thorson is an orphan, and after graduating from the Academy he goes to The Pool to be assigned to his first ship. This vital, machine made decision, will set the course of his entire life as a spacer, and cannot be appealed or overturned. In the series of books by Andre Norton, which ship is Dane assigned to as junior cargo officer?
2. In "Dauntless" (2006) we meet a man who has been awakened from a century long cryogenic sleep to "save the world". He is the last hope for the Alliance of humankind against the marauding Syndic Fleet. Who is this legendary hero?
3. A dead man, and his dead wife, and their daughter who isn't (either dead or their daughter), are sent to colonise a planet that doesn't exist, in a place that isn't there, in secret, and then their luggage gets lost... and then the aliens intent on wiping them out arrive... John Scalzi twists a plot like a pretzel in his "The Last Colony"(2007), but who is the patriarch of the family in question?
4. "Hammer's Slammers" are one of the roughest, toughest troops of mercenaries ever to slash and burn their way across a page. Can you remember the first name of their Colonel, for whom the troop is named?
5. Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock is marooned on a nasty, humid, jungle planet on the very edge of civilised space, with only his battalion of "Bronze Barbarian" bodyguards, a few servants, and his personal chef to save him as they "March Upcountry" to the spaceport. Which planet is it?
6. In the trilogy by John G. Hemry, Sergeant Ethan Stark is charged with keeping the Moon safely out of "enemy hands". Which of these is NOT one of the titles in the "Ethan Stark" series?
7. When the Earth's first contact with an alien race consists of missiles launched from Ganymede, mankind's only hope is a single ship, armed with obsolete weaponry, and crewed by orphans. If they fail, humanity will be wiped out...
Who is the hero of the "Orphanage" series by Robert Buettner?
8. In the "Clone" series by Stephen L. Kent, who is the "Rogue Clone"?
9. The first book in this series by Graham Sharp Paul was published in 2007, and is called "The Battle at the Moons of Hell". It tells how 'our hero' must infiltrate enemy territory and rescue the hijacked passengers and crew of the space liner Mumtaz, including his own mother and sister. Who is this hero?
10. In the alternative history series by David Drake and Eric Flint, who is the Byzantine General who must lead the forces of Earth against the invading Malwa?
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