Favorite Question and Answers from Third Quarter 2021

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Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2021 through September 30th 2021.

Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous quarterly posts.

I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.

• Questions with most Votes created within 3 month range
• Questions with most View created within 3 month range
• Questions with best answer created within 3 month range

I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the most controversial question of the quarter. Also a sum of all the bounties that were awarded.

Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.

Answer 1

Topic challenges

The third quarter of 2021 saw a bit of a low point (in its second half) in SFF.SE's topic challenge program, with only two topic challenges completed during this quarter: Rivers of London and The Elder Scrolls (the latter run jointly with Arqade SE).

• The July challenge produced five questions from three distinct users (Jontia, Rand al'Thor, Spencer). My favourite question was Is there a particular building on the real Russell Square that we can identify as the Folly? (I love a good real-location question), but it remains unanswered, so instead I'm promoting How do all the short stories and graphic novels fit into the Rivers of London Timeline, where I'll award a bounty to Jontia's answer.
• The August challenge was our first experiment at a joint topic challenge with a sister site, in this case Arqade aka Gaming SE. This event produced only one SFF question (asked by nick012000) and two Arqade questions from two distinct users (Tyll'a, prince). The SFF question remains unanswered, so I didn't award any bounty in that topic challenge.
• There was no September challenge, because I was busy IRL and forgot to post one, and nobody else picked up the slack. Topic challenges will continue in the last quarter of 2021.

Answer 2

These are my favorites that I've found today (a couple of months ago I might have had other favorites, which I've forgotten about since :-) ).

A planet called Shayol/Treason

This brilliant answer compiling and counting Asimov books, etc.

I particularly like the two recent answers to this older question (what can I do if one of those two answers is mine :-) ). I hope the OP will look and respond...

Another great late answer - the accepted answer to this question was a great find.

I think this was one of the most fun. The really correct answer would be a combination of the accepted answer and Pete's, but I guess neither of us wanted to poach.