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Prophets of Science Fiction
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A remake of a movie based on one of his stories (sorry bout the ad):
Of course it's hard to beat Arnold and Sharon Stone in the original.
Of course it's hard to beat Arnold and Sharon Stone in the original.
I like the twists in his works, for example the abort sequence in the above trailer can be considered to be part of the recall experience not real life, there are clues to this in the original movie.
In Blade runner Decker is himself a replicant with implanted memories, again the clues are there if you watch it from that perspective.
This series is really good, i saw the Heinlein one of free to air sunday night, will post more as i find them.
Commentary by some of my favourite authurs like David Brin, and Kim Stanley Robinson to name just two, ice the cake
In Blade runner Decker is himself a replicant with implanted memories, again the clues are there if you watch it from that perspective.
This series is really good, i saw the Heinlein one of free to air sunday night, will post more as i find them.
Commentary by some of my favourite authurs like David Brin, and Kim Stanley Robinson to name just two, ice the cake
Arthur C Clark is indeed a dude. And for a man such as him, who I respected an awful lot, well his attitude to UFOs was simple: they do indeed exist and he had seem then numerous times. Although I have never knowingly seen a ufo, I can say that I am about 99.9% sure they exist. (obviously by ufo I mean, non-human built flying craft)
Polterwurst
Paranormal Adept
It shouldn't be that hard to beat Arnold's "acting". Just sayin'.
Actually I'm okay with remakes of movies based on books, if they are not so much about rehashing the movie than about re-imagining the story. I quite liked the new "Time Machine" for example, although I had not heard a lot of good things about it.
Maybe the same could even be true for the Conan movie that came out a while ago which I've heard only bad things of. At least, the new actor isn't that obviously artificially pumped up with steroids and stuff.
That Total Recall trailer to me looks better than I think the original movie ever was. I know, looks can be deceiving.
As for Philip K. Dick, he's one of my favourite writers because he combined two of my hobbies, reading SciFi and thinking about the possibility of the paranormal. Parapsychological elements are to be found in a lot of his works.
And he was a prophet indeed. I've recently read some astonishing things about his "exegesis":
Philip K. Dick - Exegesis
I guess you could write most of that off to his overactive imagination, mental problems, drugs, maybe a natural overdose of DMT or something, but he was also a very sharp observer and intellectual.
IMO, he would have quite liked Chris' trickster theory (look for the Zebra) or the holographic universe or even the conscious universe theories for example. Which he obviously "precogged".
Polter - your inclusion of 'natural overdose of DMT' is worthy of much expansion in my opinion. Because of it's power and 'spirit molecule' status and having taken ibogaine over several days (as strong as DMT, if not stronger, and certainly much longer lasting) I know that there is a part of the brain that predisposes humans to spiritual experiences and longings.