Posted on 12/14/2015 11:33:24 AM PST by EveningStar
ping
Wow!
Didn’t know about this. I’ve been listening the the audiobook on YouTube, and really liked it.
Good luck to them. It’s quite the story.
I’ve read that Kubrick originally wanted to make Childhood’s End, but someone else already owned the movie rights. Therefore, he got together with Clarke and started on a different movie which would become 2001.
Considering that it took until now to make a movie of Childhood’s End should be an indication of the difficulty.
Made a great impression on me as a young teen.
“has been reimagined” ... groan...
I read that book decades ago. To this day I use it as an example of how Satan could try to convince people that Christianity is false.
I re-read this, recently, having read it originally when I was in junior high.
I was astounded at the political naivety - the inherent presumption that the U.N.could grow to eliminate all human discord and conflict.
And then there’s the ESP stuff.
It doesn’t age well.
Hey ES! Thanks for the heads up on this! One of my favorite Clarke books. Thanks again!
Will there be a cookbook?
I read it as a teen, and unfortunately remember the ending.
Not that the ending’s bad, but the element of surprise might be gone. Nonetheless, my eyeballs will be on it.
“V”, and what was it my kid watched....they had communicators that opened up and unscrolled the screen... i can’t remember the title...
anyway, sounds like one inspired the other.
it’s a cookbook!
That's a lot better than me.
30 years ago I kept a list of the books I read.
I look at the list now, and most of the books, I haven't the slightest idea what they were about.
“I read that book decades ago. To this day I use it as an example of how Satan could try to convince people that Christianity is false.”
True.
Clarke was hard science but his core stories and narrative in his most famous works, Childhood’s End and 2001 were occultic-like human transformation.
LOL
Some books I read at the time ...
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
I, Robot
The Lens series
What did I have for lunch yesterday? No idea...
It looks depressing.
“To Serve Man” was a Twilight Zone episode.
Honestly, I am not expecting much out of this, so I hope I wont be too dissapointed!
It is a wonderful book. I think it could be translated into a compelling TV series, which doesn’t mean it will be. Anyone remember the made for TV version of “Brave New World?” Awful.
I do remember the broad outline of the Foundation books.
But I’ve forgotten enough to make re-reading them now seem like new.
I’ve got this and The Expanse set up. Hopefully SciFi (I have their stupid SyFy name) will continue to do original programming and drop all the reality crap.
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