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Yeah. A very subtle, quiet, claustrophobic, and terrifyingly plausible story.

I can think of no way to render it to the silver screen that would do it justice.

[NicknamedBob]

Those who write exclusively for the silver screen do not realize the extent to which they hobble themselves. Cambell grew up in a time when literary description was the only way to display colossal imagery.

Stan Freeburg made a similar point when he used sound effects to drain Lake Superior and fill it with a giant scoop of ice cream.

We now live in a time when computers have permitted us to bring to reality incredibly detailed images of the formerly unimaginable, but all the rich tapestry that has been woven by our Golden Age Science Fiction writers goes undisturbed -- while the most god-awful dreck gets turned into hideous computer generated movies for our short-attention-span youth.