Sci-Fi Novel Challenge
To celebrate the school’s recent STEM Festival, the English department have been reading lots of science-fiction books.
However, disaster struck earlier this week, when a mysterious wormhole somehow opened up in the English Annexe and tragically removed all the titles from the covers of the novels!
Can you help the English department by identifying the novels from their front covers?
Please email your answers to Miss Starkie. The first person to help us correctly identify the books will receive a prize!
(g.starkie@penworthamgirls.lancs.sch.uk)
1. Mrs Snowdon was reading this sand-covered adventure. She can’t remember the name of the book, but she does remember seeing the lovely Timothee Chalamet in the movie recently!
2. Miss Starkie has been enjoying this comedy adventure. She knows it’s also one of Mr Ward’s favourites, and though she can’t remember the name, she does remember the immortal advice given in the book: Don’t Panic!
3. Miss Garlick has been reading a book that is also very well known for its film adaptation. She does find the dinosaurs rather exciting, but can’t help but feel that she’d much rather go on a trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
4. Mrs Woodhouse has been reading the book that is often considered the first science-fiction book ever written! While the experiment in it is rather exciting, she’s quite pleased that the science department at this school doesn’t include reanimation on the curriculum.
5. Mrs Ibrahim was reading this red-planet based novel, which was adapted into a film with Matt Damon. She can’t remember the name, but does remember there being an odd amount of potato content for a book about space!
6. Miss Suleman has been reading this dystopian classic by Aldous Huxley. She can’t remember the name exactly, but knows it’s something like Courageous Modern Planet.
7. Mrs McGibbon has been reading a novel in which a young woman is able to see the different versions of the life she could have lived. It’s not as full of exciting lasers or aliens like some sci-fi novels, but it is set in an English teachers’ favourite location!
8. Finally, Mr Gilgun has been enjoying this dystopian novel which inspired the TV show ‘Big Brother’. He knows it’s named after a year, but he can’t remember which one. He’s fairly sure that Madonna and Prince were topping the charts that year though!
Miss Starkie
English Department
