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If you are a fan of Arthur C Clarke...
You will love this. Great spoof on Arthur C Clarke about 1/2 to 3/4ths in
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I just love love this short film. i watched it a million times at least. 2001 movie I di dnot understand till i read the books. Just simply blew my mind. Great books
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They changed the ending of the movie because Kubrick had just made Dr. Strangelove and he didn't want to end two movies in a row with a nuclear explosion.
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One book of his that I'd like to see become a movie is "The Sands of Mars."
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"Sands of Mars" is a very early novel, his second I think. And the first of his that I read. It seemed to me grown-up sf than than a bems-and-blasters space opera, about a struggling dome colony on Mars and its attempts to become self-sufficient, specially in atmosphere. It dates from about '53 so the Mars of the book is not quite the real Mars; atmosphere in the book is thin, but no thinner than the top of Everest, so pressure suits are not needed. However, oxygen masks are needed.
The plot involves a middle aged journalist joining a Mars supply mission to report on the colony back to Earth, and personal discoveries and realisations he makes when he gets there. Not bad, but because the length of sf novels of the time was not great, the publishers preferring about 80,000 words, the details of the Martian ecology are not worked out in enough detail to work out where it's odd animal life came from. It was good enough, though, to make me a Clarke fan and finish up reading a lot more. |
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Am I the only one that Hated, Hated, Hated the sequels to the Rama series by that idiot who couldn't write his way out of a paper bag? Jezzze what a waste of a great story line. That guy should have been tarred and feathered.
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