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ffutures River Tam from Firefly mmmm great character but not actually a pilot , Wash was... At the end of Serenity she's taken over as pilot following the death of Wash. Re films within films, Marvin the Martian is in a clip from Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century that shows on the hero's TV in Clos...

And one more for luck - River Tam from Firefly and Serenity

Would the Prophets in Deep Space 9 count? They live in a wormhole, not sure if they are an intelligent wormhole (which is sort of a star) or some sort of parasite...

Sorry, Dogsbody it is - the perils of answering from memory!

Star Maker by Stapledon qualifies, I think.

Starchild and Rogue Star by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson Sirius by Diana Wynne Jones? Not sure if it counts as SF, fantasy, or magic realism of sorts. There's a sentient white hole in Diane Duane's So You Want To be a Wizard , but that's more fantasy than SF. Ditto the fallen star in Neil Gaim...

Does Aldiss's Greybeard count? An epidemic of sterility and an aging population, initially triggered by peacetime bomb tests?

Also J.G. Ballard's The Wind from Nowhere, earth devastated by a global storm with incredibly violent winds.

I've suggested something similar, the snag is that all of the mechanisms that determine which cargoes, mail, passengers you get etc. seem to be based on your reputation and kills, so it is extremely difficult to get to a position where you can trade without constantly running out of money / letting ...

Well, an obvious one, the story that most of V's imagery was stolen from - The Overlords from Clarke's Childhood's End

And The Race, from Turtledove's Worldwar series - they conquer large swathes of the Earth and are still in occupation at the end of the series.

There's Space Ranger Roger … Never heard of him, but he certainly counts. Roger Korby, character in Star Trek TOS episode, "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" OK, a fairly small role but it counts. Stretching things a bit, there's Roger the alien from American Dad … Well, he's a significant character ...

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Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:17 am

Roger Ramjet?

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Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:11 am

Would the "Space Quest" game series count? The player character in that series was, coincidentally, "Roger Wilco".

Both are fine. Three to go!

Roger Wilco! OK, let's try a nice easy one - Five characters named Roger (NOT Rogers, so you can forget Captain America) from SF. Usual rules - only one character from any given source, e.g. all of the Marvel universe in all forms, all of Star Trek in all forms, etc. e.g. Roger Rabbit would probably...

would a series of books with the main author on each book but a different collaborator on each count? If they were written at (more or less) the same time, leading to the "herding cats" problem, I think yes. If they were a consecutive sequence ... no cats were herded, and so the herd was of size 2 ...

In a few million years whatever still lives here will probably decide that the thick strata of plastic marks the epoch...

I remember being very pleased when I found planet Beatle...

A lot of people have requested waypoints and "avoid this system" on the route planner over the years, I'm guessing it's a non-trivial problem.