Question
In Octavia Butler's novel Kindred, Dana rescues a boy from drowning after doing this action for the first time, and loses an arm after performing it to return home. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this action that allows Dana to meet her ancestors, including the slave owner Rufus. An H. G. Wells character meets the Morlocks and Eloi by performing this action.
ANSWER: time travel [accept word forms such as time traveling; accept answers indicating the ability to go back in time or go to the future or go to the past or to manipulate space-time; prompt on The Time Machine by asking "what is the action performed?"]
[10h] Shock collars control slaves in the second of two Butler novels titled as works of this type. In those novels whose titles begin with this word, Lauren brings the Earthseed religion while traveling through a dystopian California.
ANSWER: parables [accept Parable of the Sower or Parable of the Talents or Parable duology]
[10m] Butler was mentored by an author with this surname who penned "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream." Another author with this surname created the dying Adam Sunraider in his novel Juneteenth.
ANSWER: Ellison [accept Harlan Jay Ellison or Ralph Waldo Ellison]
<Literature - American Literature - Long Fiction>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 36 | 19.17 | 94% | 58% | 39% |