Statistics for Classic Science Fiction Novels by Plot

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Hint	Author	Answer	% Correct
Residents of Airstrip One are under constant surveillance by an unseen leader known as Big Brother	George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-Four	97%
A young Swiss student constructs a human-like creature from parts of corpses, then brings it to life	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus	85%
In the 19th century, Martians invade Earth in huge metal tripods	H.G. Wells	The War of the Worlds	84%
An amusement park featuring genetically recreated dinosaurs goes horribly wrong before it even opens	Michael Crichton	Jurassic Park	83%
Factions of an interstellar empire fight over control of the planet Arrakis, the only source of the valuable spice melange	Frank Herbert	Dune	75%
A marine biologist is captured by an advanced submarine named the Nautilus, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo	Jules Verne	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	75%
After Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, the last surviving man goes on intergalactic adventures in his dressing gown	Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	73%
In the future, humans are mass-produced in laboratories and assigned a social class before they are even born	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	72%
Two astronauts en route to Saturn are terrorised by their spaceship's disobedient computer	Arthur C. Clarke	2001: A Space Odyssey	71%
A Victorian explorer travels to the far future and finds that humans have evolved into two different species, named the Eloi and the Morlocks	H.G. Wells	The Time Machine	70%
In post-apocalyptic San Francisco, a bounty hunter is tasked with killing six escaped human-like androids	Philip K. Dick	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	66%
A scientist named Griffin modifies his own body so he neither reflects nor absorbs light	H.G. Wells	The Invisible Man	63%
A soldier progresses through the ranks of the army during a war between humans and aliens known as 'Bugs'	Robert A. Heinlein	Starship Troopers	43%
A scientist on a remote Pacific island creates monstrous animal hybrids called 'Beast Folk'	H.G. Wells	The Island of Doctor Moreau	38%
After most of the population is blinded by a meteor shower, an aggressive species of carnivorous plant begins to take over the world	John Wyndham	The Day of the Triffids	29%
Society breaks down when a highly virulent, genetically modified strain of influenza is accidentally released	Stephen King	The Stand	28%
A young janitor with a low IQ is transformed into a genius, thanks to an experimental brain surgery	Daniel Keyes	Flowers for Algernon	27%
In order to avoid overconsumption of resources, people are killed once they reach their 'Lastday' at the age of 21	William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson	Logan's Run	26%
A hacker is hired by a mysterious employer named Armitage to steal a security code from the most impregnable databank in the solar system	William Gibson	Neuromancer	22%
A human man is sent to study the inhabitants of the planet Gethen, and finds they have an incredibly different understanding of gender and sexuality	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness	15%