Contact by Carl Sagan

This one?

Someone already mentioned it. Plus I thought it’d be funny if Aragorn had to protect hobbit muppets from nazgul muppets.

• The Revenant, keep Leonardo DiCaprio
• The Martian, keep Matt Damon
• Lord of the Rings, keep Viggo Mortensen

My first picks have already been mentioned, but I think these women have also been influential

Flannery O’ Connor, Shirley Jackson, Emily Dickinson

That there is an as of yet undiscovered loophole to either the no cloning theorem or the more general no broadcast theorem. I can understand the problems that are generated by either being true, but FTL communication and dataships are just so darn cool.

Any of the following:

• Materials needed to make an open source 3D printer, co2 laser, and pick-&-place machine
• Materials needed to make a hydroponics garden system and precision fermentation system
• Materials for a LiFePO4 battery and solar energy system
• Putting a dent in both my personal debt and that of my family and friends
• Donating that 20k to my local makerspace to improve their operations
• Starting a nonprofit

Wartime powers to lock things down domestically more than he already has been? That’s my BS guess.

Redneck General Grievous?

Currently, Hollow Knight, since Silksong finally comes out next week. Before that, a split between Kerbal Space Program and Nine Sols.

Potable water is good, perhaps wheat berries or ibuprofen would be good too.

As for an unorthodox answer, I’m going to say survival guides. Most people have some idea of how they might survive, but it couldn’t hurt to have a resource to fill any knowledge gaps.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (because it was read to me)

Pirate’s Promise (first full book I read on my own)

Most recently, it was probably Rebel Moon. I didn’t have high expectations and thought it was going to be schlocky, but it was not the fun kind of shlock in the end.

“You want desert power? I can get you desert power. There are ways, Dude.”

Bumfuck Buchenwald works and has the alliteration factor. Whatever the moniker, it never should’ve been established in the first place.

One that works reliably and is fully paid for

“Dipper, you’re a cool dude, but using me for this meme isn’t cool dude.”

Leto II. Deadpool was already taken, so I went with a more controversial example.

The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks

The Golem & The Jinni by Helene Wecker

Perfect synopsis for the game Nine Sols?