The Top 10 Sci-Fi Answers to
“What I Did Over Summer Vacation”

10> I demolished a planet to make space for an interstellar bypass. You?

9> Same as every year: listened to the kids argue and complain in the back seat of the minispacevan, until we got to a cheesy resort on some moon where my husband ogled the three-breasted women in their trikinis and I tried to ignore the whines from the kids when they didn’t have enough twenties for the arcade. Not that I’m bitter or anything. Why do you ask?

8> I took a long trip with some humorless dwarfs to see a mountain and helped fight goblins and a dragon, and all I got out of it was this lousy ring.

7> I’m not sure, but there are six weeks missing from my memory, my anus hurts, and the neighbors are complaining about constant “Probe Parties” in my yard.

6> Ventured outside my mom’s basement, saw my shadow, returned for three months.

5> All I remember was a man in a black suit and sunglasses, and a really bright flash of light.

4> Cleaned off all the muck on the X-Wing after visiting Dagobah.

3> Monday: White girl. Wednesday: Black girl. Fri/Sat: White and Black girl (unfortunately, just one girl).

2> Mommy says we’re on the kind of summer vacation that lasts forever! I kind of miss Caprica City Elementary, though. I think something bad happened…

and the Number 1 Sci-Fi Answer to “What I Did Over Summer Vacation”…

1> Inadvertently created a temporal anomaly. Inadvertently created a temporal anomaly. Inadvertently created a temporal anomaly. Inadvertently created a temporal anomaly. Inadvertently created a temporal anomaly. Inadvertently created a temporal anomaly. Inadvertently

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Credits:

Selected from 34 submissions from 9 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Doug Crews, Oceanside, CA — 1
Barry Wallace, Knoxville, TN — 2
Guy Reeves, Houston, TX — 3
Bruce Kane, Charlotte, NC — 4
Tracy Lunquist, DeLand, FL — 5, 10
James Knowles, Bellingham, WA — 6, 7
Donald Johnson, Cincinnati, OH — 8
Heather Mina, Virginia Beach, VA — 9
Dave Oberhart, Durham, NC — SF List Moderator