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     Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.185 |
See this trailer for Iron Sky... sometimes I don't need more complexity than a movie featuring nazis in a secret moonbase plotting their return... Yes I am shallow! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAfoiN5SDw Now that I think of it, it could be a good basis for a novel in Charles Stross' superb Laundry series. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Hmm, I find Stross a bit too hard SF for me. In the middle of one of the laundry novels - I think it's The Atrocity Exhibit - there is literally an equation bang in the middle of the story. The issue I have with hard SF is that I don't mind if it's explaining mind-boggling SF concepts to the laity, I just don't want to have to have a basic degree in physics to understand a novel. I had a similar problem with Robinson's Mars series. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.237.164 |
Look at the list of names in the end credits of that trailer. It's a buncha stinkin' Commies. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Hmmm, just watched the trailer... What do they mean by send us your money? Is this a fan project? | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.185 |
Hmm, I find Stross a bit too hard SF for me. In the middle of one of the laundry novels Stross writes indeed very hard SF (and Peter Watts goes even harder in his excellent Blindsight), while old sf books had one or 2 big ideas per novel, Stross has one or two per page. It's not the kind of book to read every day. For the Atrocity Archives, it definitely helps if you're a computer geek who knows what Linux is and who Donald Knuth is. Next to recognising Lovecraftian fare. I thought it was a lot of fun, and I see why some may find it unpalatable. FYI Stross' best Lovecraftian effort is still (in my opinion) the short story "A colder war" which you can read online (google for it); I think it's one of the very best lovecraftian stories ever, and it inspired him to start the Laundry series. Look at the list of names in the end credits of that trailer. It's a buncha stinkin' Commies. What do they mean by send us your money? Is this a fan project Yes it's quite a manical fan project, it's the second effort of this group (never saw the first one) and it will eventually be a short movie. I find it fascinating how ubiquitous and affordable computers and graphics/movie software bring reasonably decent results within the reach of manical grass-roots efforts. Oh, and whatever their political orientation is (Craig: communism is sooooo 20th century), the trailer looks übercool. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
communism is sooooo 20th century ...and increasingly so is democracy. What will be next? Wellsian technocracy or Heinlein's meritocracy or the start of a new Dark Age? Technological advance is limited by finite resources and the amount of people who remain cut off from it and who covet our remaining resources for their own survival. It's what did for the Roman Empire and the process appears to be repeating itself... |