Isaac Asimov...
...must be turning over in his grave.
I just saw the movie "I Robot". It bears no resemblance to the book.
Doug
I just saw the movie "I Robot". It bears no resemblance to the book.
Doug
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true, but it was a good movie none the less.
i liked his book Nemesis. it was one of his last books before he died.0 -
If you think Asimov is turning over in his grave, the very loud humming noise is Heinlein spinning at high rpm for what they did to Starship Troopers. Have learned NOT to see movies based on any book I really liked. Patriot Games changed the entire plot 1 minute into the movie. This is based on assumption that some hack screen writer can do a better job than the author that sold more than a million books. 0 -
film writers go for the lowest common denominator,if it has t1ts, explosions and fast cars it will sell.
I robot [book] was cool, logical puzzels in every story.
I like starship troopers government though.0 -
Heinlein and Asimov are the bookends in the library of Science Fiction.
"... I like starship troopers government though."
- longsantafe
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quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
If you think Asimov is turning over in his grave, the very loud humming noise is Heinlein spinning at high rpm for what they did to Starship Troopers.
The spinning of Heinlin's body has actually been conected to a turbine and is currently powering the city of Toronto. Little known fact.
I love Starship Troopers (book) as well as "Door Into Summer" and "Double Star".0 -
I don't care for the stuff he wrote, after he went nuts.
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L. Ron's Battlefield Earth sucked as a movie. Really bad. Nothing like the book. When I read the book and it had a teaser page about it becoming a movie, I was psyched. But 20 years later when it actually happened, the movie sucked ass.
I Robot was pretty good, I think I'll watch it again this weekend.0 -
Often very good books, are ruined by a "directors" ability to interpret the visual image one gets by reading.
We kind of become our own directors in that sense,........leads to disappointment on film.0 -
"I am a ten second bomb...nine...eight..."
Doug0 -
the dreaded artistic license.[:(] 0 -
Books are to screen writers as filet mignon is to garbage disposals. Books are to screen writers as filet mignon is to garbage disposals.
Remember, most reinterpret to the lowest common denominator - probably to the majority of the gate take - those under 21.
Too bad, we never bothered to teach our young what was worthwhile - just threw them cartoons 15 hours a day![:D]0 -
I'm seeing double!
One Zipper is enough!![:D]
Read your last reply,..........unless you had a hidden "intent" for that,.........probably just a failing cerebral cortex.0 -
Uh, uh ... I stutter sometimes, I stutter sometimes, when I get excited, when I get excited ... sorry, sorry.
[:D][:D]0 -
... come to think of it ... I just missed my nap!
Night, night![:o)]0 -
You are forgiven,.......You are forgiven. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by slipgate
L. Ron's Battlefield Earth sucked as a movie. Really bad. Nothing like the book. When I read the book and it had a teaser page about it becoming a movie, I was psyched. But 20 years later when it actually happened, the movie sucked ass.
I Robot was pretty good, I think I'll watch it again this weekend.
AMEN!!
waited for the screen version for almost 15 yrs after the wife got the book for me when i was massively laid up
it must have been lack of budget/promise to deliver or something cause following the book even remotely would have been the blockbuster of all blockbusters!
did you also read the 10 volume "Mission Earth"?
we anxiously waited for months between volumes, then nearly freaked when he died and no one was sure if the final instazllment was complete...0 -
Hubbard was the Master of Masters of con men.
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I still pull out The Foundation Trilogy and read it over every once in a while. 0 -
So do I.
What great reading.
How did we get through those books, with them having no exploding cars or sex ??
Doug0 -
i'm a Dean Koontz fan myself. his style has changed lately, but still damn good writing and stories. 0 -
I've been a sci-fi fanatic for about 40 years. I remember the first paperback I bought from a rack at a drugstore, still have it around somewhere - called Great Science Fiction Adventures. It was an anthology by various authors. I was hooked.
Since then I've gotten all that Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke, Wells, and Verne had to offer.Some other favorites are Frederick Pohl, Philip K Dick, Philip Jose Farmer (he wrote the Riverworld series - one of my all-time favs), and Frank Herbert, and a guy named EE "Doc" Smith, who wrote some really neat stellar-swashbuckler style stories. I remember one he wrote about a race of folks on Neptune's moon Triton, who used frozen water as a constuction material like we use concrete.
Remember Doc Savage? He was originally a pulp-fiction hero created by a guy named Lester Dent in the 1930's. Had five sidekicks named Monk, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, and Ham, all specialists in different fields. Never killed anybody in any of the adventures. They used hand-to-hand and stuff like knock-out gas on the BG's. Even their guns used "mercy bullets" that were capsules of knock-out drug that broke open and KO'd the BG's. Dent and another guy named Murray wrote a bunch of of novels in the 1960's under the name of Kenneth Robeson. I have just about every one of them. Read them over and over as a kid.
Sorry, got carried away0 -
[8D]--Yo Rocklobster,Remember the special agent "Gilbert Gossyn" Who specialized in a mind phrase to foil the telepathy readers (circa 1955 books )---
--The books were "The pawns of ____ _" and ???
--JIMBO0 -
quote:Originally posted by oldemagics
quote:Originally posted by slipgate
L. Ron's Battlefield Earth sucked as a movie. Really bad. Nothing like the book. When I read the book and it had a teaser page about it becoming a movie, I was psyched. But 20 years later when it actually happened, the movie sucked ass.
I Robot was pretty good, I think I'll watch it again this weekend.
AMEN!!
waited for the screen version for almost 15 yrs after the wife got the book for me when i was massively laid up
it must have been lack of budget/promise to deliver or something cause following the book even remotely would have been the blockbuster of all blockbusters!
did you also read the 10 volume "Mission Earth"?
we anxiously waited for months between volumes, then nearly freaked when he died and no one was sure if the final instazllment was complete...
I did read the entire dekology, "Mission Earth" - I still have it all in paperback. I remember waiting for each new one to come out too. He left it kind of hanging in book 10 and didn't quite close up all the loose ends but still an excellent series.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Rocklobster
Remember Doc Savage? He was originally a pulp-fiction hero created by a guy named Lester Dent in the 1930's. Had five sidekicks named Monk, Renny, Johnny, Long Tom, and Ham, all specialists in different fields. Never killed anybody in any of the adventures. They used hand-to-hand and stuff like knock-out gas on the BG's. Even their guns used "mercy bullets" that were capsules of knock-out drug that broke open and KO'd the BG's. Dent and another guy named Murray wrote a bunch of of novels in the 1960's under the name of Kenneth Robeson. I have just about every one of them. Read them over and over as a kid.
Now I am jealous. A couple of years ago they brought out some new books.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
Heinlein and Asimov are the bookends in the library of Science Fiction.
"... I like starship troopers government though."
- longsantafe
H.G. Wells _ Jules Verne _ Edgar Rice Burroughs _ are surely holding up at least part onf the Genre in the bookcase somewhere.0 -
Yeah... well, they kind of invented it !
Doug0 -
I did read the entire dekology, "Mission Earth" - I still have it all in paperback. I remember waiting for each new one to come out too. He left it kind of hanging in book 10 and didn't quite close up all the loose ends but still an excellent series.
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i got lucky, because of being anxious for each installment, i ended up with the whole thing in first ed hardcover. wife keps telling me by the time i retire (if ever) it should be a collector set and pay for a vacation. lol0 -
Awesome movie.. PERIOD 0
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