Posted on 07/27/2006 6:49:43 PM PDT by marc costanzo
The essay below was originally written in the early Spring of 2001:
With the passing away of LEXX ends an intriguing albeit tawdry experiment in Sci-fantasy. One that breaks with conventions, or should I say cliches of TV sci-fi of the 90's . The politically correct pabulum, the multicultural indoctrination, the BladeRunner motifs, and not the least; the steroid mutated superbabes that can punch the lights out of men, but never get punched back in return !?
How about creating a new sci-fi anthology with none of the puerile baggage of Rod Serling, Rockne Obannon, Michael J. Stracinsky, etc .. It is time to end their reign of un-American cynicism and fatalism !
I always associated the Kzin with Islam.
Both Armegeddon and the much better Deep Impact have passing references to "you mean like Lucifer's Hammer?" in the dialog. I may not make it into the "edited for TV version but it was there in both movies in the original versions. They knew who they were ripping off (and who had done it better).
That's gonna be a whole lotta nekkid people.
As I recall, no one on Barsoom felt any great urge for apparel, beyond swords and scabbards and such.
hmmm...
Who'd play Dejah Thoris, I wonder... (with visions of Salma Hayek dancing in my head)
heh heh heh...
That is, "His Imperial Majesty, Jaime Jarl, Freelord of the Reteif, Hereditary Battle Commander of the Dragon Corps, Emperor of the Lily, to you, Minister Sternwheeler!"
Or, there is always that old rascal, may Saint Dismas preserve us, Nicolas von Rejn of the Polesotechnic League.
Please forgive any spelling errors; I'm not going to start digging through the shelves, searching for such trivia.
>>Much as I enjoyed (and still enjoy) his juvies, just about everything he wrote in his last thirty or so years boils down to people flying around the universe arguing endlessly about sex and who's in charge.<<
That kind of mentality domenate science fiction like cancer dominates the lungs of a 30 year long chain smoker !
That is all we get from faggoty Canada; War of the Sexes !
(PS, Heinlein reportedly invented the Water Bed)
"no one on Barsoom felt any great urge for apparel"
Series to be called "Bazooms of Barsoom"?
When I was in my early teens I found a hoard of first edition Burroughs books "John Cabot Goes to Mars." I devoured them.
Lately everything seems to be fantasmagoric with emphasis in the toe gore. Not intellectually challenging.
Thanks to all. I've a bunch of reading to do.
Didn't know there were so many scifi fans on FR. Cool.
I stopped reading scifi at Clarke and Heinlien.
One more thing - what are the titles of good science fiction movies made in the past five years? I've seen all the classics and I'm looking for DVDs to watch on Satuday nights.
>>Marc, how about a one hour TV movie based on The Cold Equations? That would get things hopping.
Very un-PC and shows just how cold the world can be.<<
THE SCI-FI CHANNEL allready did that story over ten years ago !
It starred Poppy Montgomery and that Cambell guy from ROCKETEER !
It was also done in a half hour episode of the 1986 verison of TWILIGHT ZONE
Marc, how about a one hour TV movie based on The Cold Equations? That would get things hopping.
It's been done. Was pretty damn good too.
Hammer's Slammers
" Niven and Pournelle are the protege's of RAH."
Actually, Pournelle was a protege of H.Beam Piper, who was every bit as good as RAH. Pournelle even has the rights to Piper's universes, and has written a few sequels to them. (Athough he never wrote the promised sequel to Space Viking.)
Another SF writer who is almost as good a a slug of Jim Baen is Harry Turtledove. He is doing a crosstime juvie series that brings back memories of RAH and H. Beam Piper.
Although you are right. It is hard to beat Weber, Flint, Ringo and Drake, et al.
Both Armegeddon and the much better Deep Impact have passing references to "you mean like Lucifer's Hammer?" in the dialog. I may not make it into the "edited for TV version but it was there in both movies in the original versions. They knew who they were ripping off (and who had done it better).
Yes, they did not give credit, did they !
That is liberla Hollywood, plagiarizing someone else's ideas !
Hollywood is full of Canadians and they are always copycatting our stuff !
He did, while a tuberculosis patient, and then used the idea in Stranger In A Strange Land.
Actually, I know of one. In Niven and Pournelle's "The Mote In God's Eye" there is a Muslim character. However, even in the future he is duplicitous and conniving.
I believe his name was Horace Bury (sp). Also, Heinlein included a muslim-settled planet in the Lazarus Long chronicle "Time Enough For Love". True to their teachings, slavery was a major part of their culture.
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