h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Maybe sambas/bassam?

'Rumbas' leads to this odd thing: http://vimeo.com/90679570

No, it's 3. Congas/Gascon

7. Mantas/Tasman

9. Ranter/terran? Not a word I've met.

That leaves

2. craft; individuals
and
10. tray; ornate letter

All correct so far. 'Terran' is commonly used in science fiction.

Hm. The only science fiction I've read since teenage has been Vonnegut, and of course DNA. Somehow 'science fiction' doesn't seem to cover them.

I prefer Earthican.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090624004620/en.futurama/images/f/f2/ZoidbergWithFlag.jpg

Robert Silverberg? James Tiptree, Jr? Fredrick Pohl? Harlan Ellison? Pierre Boulle? Philip K Dick? How could we live without them?

Now, stuffing all that fantasy and space opera in the same part of the bookstore is a crime against humanity...

Ranter Not a word I've met.

An english Civil War era political group a similar political group was known as the Levelers.
Karl Marx published the copious writings of both groups and used and modified what he found as the basis of his work "The Communist Manifesto".

Bob, at the same time as the Levelers you speak of, along with the Diggers, there was George Fox, founder of the Quakers.

In his memoirs, Fox often refers to 'Ranters'. He had a lot of run-ins with Ranters.

So far they all have 6 letters. Going by previous quizzes, I think we can assume that this pattern will continue for the remaining two clues.

I looked into 8-letter words that do the same thing - there are very few apart from compound words (like bookcase/casebook).

I overlooked them

Do we have an entryGeorge Fox, and the Quakers

There's this one: A5320702
One by me on Benjamin Lay, a Quaker: A68240973
One on the Quaker Peace Testament: A662942

I guess I should get around to writing one on Fox one of these days, unless someone else would oblige us. Here's the song about him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIv95dM7FwY

"who let the dogs out" doesn't contain any six-letter words, though.

Thanks Dmitri

The musical clue to Q1 was the Baha Men, from the Bahamas. The capital city I was looking for was Nassau.

If a carpenter goes to the Bahamas on vacation, does he bring a hammer and Nassau?