Answer: Connie Willis
b) The Folded Sky - not the first book in its series.
Answer: John Scalzi
Answer: a) Scotty - He's not a starship captain
Answer: John Crowley
Answer: b) Thranx are not aliens from Larry Niven stories.
Answer: Ted Chiang
Answer: d) "Coming of Age in Karhide" was not written by Pat Murphy
Answer: Bruce Sterling
Answer: James Patrick Kelly
Answer: a) Scarlett Johansson
She has not starred in an Aliens franchise movie.
Answer: Kim Stanley Robinson
Answer: d) Humphrey Bogart
Bogart never starred in a Frankenstein movie
Answer: John Kessel
Answer: b) Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's is primarily a print magazine.
The others are primarily online magazines.
Answer: George R. R. Martin
Answer: a) Dune
Dune is a space opera.
The others are cyberpunk.
Answer: Allen M. Steele
Answer: Stephen Baxter
b) "Last Contact"; this story is not part of the author's Xeelee sequence.
Answer: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Answer: d) Lord of Light; this novel is not part of the author's Amber series.
Answer: Robert Silverberg