Posted on 12/14/2015 11:33:24 AM PST by EveningStar
Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction classic "Childhood's End" has been reimagined for the 21st century, and brought to the small screen, in a new TV miniseries debuting tonight (Dec. 14).
When a fleet of spaceships appears in the sky above Earth's largest cities, the alien beings onboard insist that they have arrived to help the human race. The visitors slowly begin to eliminate war, disease and poverty -- but what will be the cost of building heaven on Earth?
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
And the fact that it’s being produced at this time in history is, um, interesting.
Same here. Shoot, I’ve read Neptune’s Inferno, a history of warfare in WWII Pacific, several times in the last few years.
Either there’s too much stuff to remember or ... Anyway, they say the nice thing about Alzheimer’s is you’re always meeting new people.
because the sci-fi sticks with ya. Those Asimov series were/are amazing. "Lens" , do you mean "Lensmen" by Doc Smith?
Everything, simply everything.
More and more I’m realizing that what a person gets out of a book depends on what the person himself brings to it.
For example, if in-between reading Neptune’s Inferno, you learn more about the Pacific war or about war and life in general, then when you re-read it, you get a different and deeper experience from it. Things you might have slid over earlier take on a whole new meaning.
So re-reading a book like that can be like reading a new book if you yourself have changed in the meantime.
One of my favorite books that I will never read again...
Yes, that’s it, plus the sequel Children of the Lens.
I`m still waiting for the Foundation Series, by Asimov.
Now that would be a story to tell! Only with some awesome CGI effects could you even consider attempting it, Asimov was one hell of a writer.
Was that the one in the 90s or so, with Leonard Nimoy? I did not like that one at all.
I think Star Wars already took a lot of ideas from Foundation.
True, without Asimov, most modern scifi would be a sad thing, brilliant man, wonderful writer.
But I`d still pay box office prices to see the story brought to life. It was an early read that kindled my love for scifi.
Sorry, it was so bad, I couldn’t watch more than a few minutes, so I don’t remember the main actors. They tried to make it a glossy action film, more like Logan’s Run than the story and atmosphere written by Huxley.
Thanks for the heads-up, I didn’t know about this. Football will force me to DVR this but I will be watching this miniseries.
According to wikipedia,
“In November 2014, TheWrap reported that Jonathan Nolan was writing and producing a TV series based on the Foundation Trilogy for HBO. Nolan confirmed his involvement at a Paley Center event on April 13, 2015.”
great books!, the “Ringworld” series I found enjoyable as well. I like the old school sci-fi; you can feel that those were written in a different time/place....
Larry Niven’s 1970s “Known Space” books and stories have the same presumption.
Asimov was also unusual in the amount of non-fiction he wrote, from a guide to Shakespeare to science writing.
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