Question

These things title a 1981 novella about “Mr. Slippery” and his coven of warlocks, later republished in an anthology subtitled “And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier.” Places like Lustig Corners and Driscoll Forest appear in an entry of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles titled for these things. A black-bearded man says the word “​​Yevaud” to defeat a disguised dragon living under a hill in an Ursula K. Le Guin story titled for the (*) “rule of” these things, which draws on the fantasy trope of “true” types of them. The engineers George and Chuck oversee the Mark V (“five”), which creates these things, (10[1])in a story that ends with the line “Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going (10[1])out.” In that story, a computer helps lamas at a Tibetan monastery enumerate these things. For 10 points, a story by Arthur C. Clarke is titled for “Nine Billion” of what things belonging to God? ■END■

ANSWER: names [accept the names of God; accept True Names or “The Rule of Names” or “The Naming of Names” or “The Nine Billion Names of God”] (The novella True Names is by Vernor Vinge.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Adam SilvermanLabour's Lost LoversTriple Round Robin Lovers10010
Richard NiuThe Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola1.g4 Test Mixture11610

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2024 ESPN @ Columbia03/23/2024Y1100%0%0%116.00
2024 ESPN @ Brown04/06/2024Y1100%0%0%100.00