quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Hmmm... I think I actually understand the order of events in Zombies from the Wiki entry. I may just have to see if I can find that, though... sounds pretty good.
Yeah, me too. Sounds almost like something Phillip K Dick would write.
I'm on a bit of a Heinlein roll at the moment. I just re-read Starship Troopers, Citizen of the Galaxy (my favourite of his so far) and am about half way through Puppet Masters.
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Why bother reading Heinlein when his movies are so accurate to the novels?
..er....as "accurate" as Stephen King's anyhow.
(snicker!)
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Has anyone read Timeline by Michael Crichton? The book, like all of MC's work is pure gold. However the movie adaptaion kind of left me feeling dissapointed.
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The only thing I don't like about Back to the Future 3 is why didn't they simply go to the cave where Doc Brown hid his DeLorean and grab what they needed to patch up the DeLorean Marty used? Then in 1955 when Marty and Doc found the cave DeLorean they could easily replace those parts which would still Marty to use it to go back to 1885.
In BttF 2 they establish that when a person encounters their past/future counterpart something bad can happen. Only doesn't when 2015 and 1955 Biff meet. Might be due to the fact the DeLorean exists in four different places at the same time. First when Marty uses it, then again when future Biff uses it, again when Marty and Doc try to undo future Biff's actions, and the one in cave.
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Well, what they needed was gasoline, and you don't want to leave gasoline in a car for seventy years. Ruins the engine, I think. Doc had to have drained it before burying the car. Probably used the gasoline somewhere else by then.
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quote:Has anyone read Timeline by Michael Crichton? The book, like all of MC's work is pure gold.
I had problems with the "shrinking" aspect of the time travel process, especially the descriptions of what the heroes saw during the procedure. You simply won't see anything if your eyes are smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Additionally, just like in Prey, Crichton gave away the "surprise" villain less than halfway through the book. The author must not think too highly of our deductive skills when he gives so many clues throughout the story.
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quote:Da_bang80 made me chortle insanely by actually beliveing that: The book, like all of MC's work is pure gold.
AHA!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHA!! Ha...heeheeheeheeheehee...heehee...uh..hee....*cough* Mm. Yeah. Sorry.
Michael Crichton has not produced anything worthwhile in about 20 years. I dropped him after reading Disclosure & hurling the book across the room in a fit of lackluster disgusted rage. One of my fondest, proudest memories is the fact that I was able to tell him off in person while at work 5� years ago using a "premature ejaculation' metaphor. Or maybe it was a simile. Perhaps a simile.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Is anyone familiar with Robert Heinlein's "�All You Zombies�"? I read it for my "Time Travel and Metaphysics" class a couple of years ago. Very bizarre, but highly recommended.
(This class was the same one where we watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure as course material. Now there's another great time travel story.)
Edit: Damn UBB can't handle character entities in a URL! Take the first article on the disambiguation page linked above.
Hmm interesting story but why wouldn't a person recognize their younger self even if they were of a different sex. Oh well guess I'll have to read the story. By the way does anyone know of a current magazine that publishes sci-fi like magazines in the 50's and 60's.
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Speaking of Back to the Future... it's 9 years till 2015... where is my hover-board!?! Where is my self-drying jacket!?! Where are my flying cars? and Is anyone going to open a Cafe Eighties. Oh and dust-jackets for books have to fall by the wayside!
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It's times like this it occurs to me that we were lied to by The Jetsons. According to that show we were suppose to be tooling around in flying cars by now. You see any flying cars lately? That's the problem with TV, it always lies to us.
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