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What is your favorite character name in science fiction, books or movies?
Mine is Ms. Wyoming Knott, nick named Why Not, from Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
Discussion started by Steve V , on 04 January 04:35 AM
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Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers, and John Booty and all the other fun character names.
Sunday, 04 March 2012 09:10
Raxacoricofallapatorius. I know it's a planet, but still, who came up with that?
Friday, 24 February 2012 10:24
Take your pick of character names from Spaceballs. Couldn't pick between Barf or Dark Helmet :-D
Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:10
Argh, how could I forget about Zaphod Beeblebrox? That's a great character name if I ever heard one. A great character too, for that matter.
Friday, 03 February 2012 17:32
For fantasy, Bilbo. Simple, but implies there is something more beyond. In Science Fiction Zaphod Beeblebrox. Just because it is awesome!
Monday, 23 January 2012 13:58
Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington if I may inject a bit of fantasy, Hal 3000 if I can't. Hal is such a simple, univalent sort of name- it implies a quietly unassuming sort of character until you politely ask it to please open the pod bay doors.
Monday, 23 January 2012 08:20
No contest: Slartibartfast. from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
However: Dominic Flandry (Poul Anderson's Flandry of Terra series) has a flair to it, and John Carter (ER Burroughs' Mars series) is a good, solid 'everyman' American name. I always enjoyed the names Asimov used in his Foundation series: Hari Seldon, Salvor Hardin, Hober Mallow, Ebling Mis . . . each is simple, and has a ring to it. Also, Senator Bliss Wagoner, from James Blish's Cities in Flight. But the one name that I've admired most, I think, is from Walter M Miller's great 'Canticle for Leibowitz': Thon Taddeo Pfardentrott.
However: Dominic Flandry (Poul Anderson's Flandry of Terra series) has a flair to it, and John Carter (ER Burroughs' Mars series) is a good, solid 'everyman' American name. I always enjoyed the names Asimov used in his Foundation series: Hari Seldon, Salvor Hardin, Hober Mallow, Ebling Mis . . . each is simple, and has a ring to it. Also, Senator Bliss Wagoner, from James Blish's Cities in Flight. But the one name that I've admired most, I think, is from Walter M Miller's great 'Canticle for Leibowitz': Thon Taddeo Pfardentrott.
Thursday, 05 January 2012 04:50