Do You Know These Space Books That Were Adapted Into Hit Movies?
Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions, video games and more. This week’s challenge is focused on fiction and nonfiction works about space exploration that were adapted into popular films.
Just tap or click your answers to the five questions below. And scroll down after you finish the last question for links to the books and their movie versions.
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Which scientist wrote the 1985 novel that was the basis for the 1997 film “Contact,” starring Jodie Foster as a SETI astronomer who hears an alien broadcast and seeks its source?
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What is the title of James R. Hansen’s 2005 biography of the astronaut Neil Armstrong, a book that was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name?
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“Hidden Figures,” Margot Lee Shetterly’s 2016 book about Black women mathematicians working at NASA in the early 1960s, was adapted into a film. In real life, one of the women portrayed in the movie was also the author of two autobiographies, “Reaching for the Moon” for middle-grade readers and “My Remarkable Journey.” Who was it?
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Which award-winning science fiction author wrote a 1998 novella, “Story of Your Life,” that was the basis for “Arrival,” a 2016 film about communicating with alien life-forms?
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What is the title of Andy Weir’s originally self-published novel — about a man stranded on another planet — that went on to become a major motion picture starring Matt Damon in 2015?
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