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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yeah, but who cares about anything before the year I was born. 
Steve, could be they considered Martian Chronicles as stories ...maybe same with I Robot...2001 was a novelization based on a short story - The Sentential .. |
Sure... but there are other short story compilations in there, like (
shudder) Ellison's Deathbird stories. Nuff said.
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I agree with your objections regarding the Martian Chronicles and I, Robot, but I don't think 2001 is more significant for the movie that accompanied it than as a book in its own right.
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I personally got more out of the book than the movie... in fact, had read the book before I saw the movie, and the book was much more rich and descriptive. But these things are always subjective...