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Post by BDCD on Nov 22, 2003 20:27:13 GMT -5
Six years ago I raced through the 2001: A Space Odyssey series of novels. They focused on the exploration of a strange black monolith discovered on Earth's Moon. The main plot for the first two novels takes place on a voyage to Jupiter and it's moons. In 2001 the computer program on the spaceship, HAL, malfunctioned and coined the moderately popular line "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" and sang a song before shutting down.
Films were made for 2001 and 2010. 2001 isn't particularly exciting by today's standards, featuring lots of dialogue-less scenes. 2010 was made about 20 years ago and is much better, but might be difficult to follow without knowing the background provided in 2001.
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Post by DeepSPace9 on Nov 23, 2003 12:20:51 GMT -5
I always liked 2001. 2010 to me was alot more boring then 2001 was on film.
Sure 2001 had its moments where they could have edited out alot of the effects, but those effects also made the movie more enjoyable as well.
2010 to me seemed like it was a half hearted attempt to make(way shorter then 2001 was) and it was decent, but nothing spectacular like 2001 was.
I wish they would make 2061 into a ovie. I believe if they followed the book, that movie would be a huge hit and would easily lead to them making the 3001 movie as a followup.
To be honest though, since Hollywood is bent on remaking older movies, I think they should remake 2010 and add alot that was left out of the original and wit todays special effects, it could easily outdo 2001.
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Post by xkamelx on Nov 24, 2003 15:52:43 GMT -5
I have seen the 2001 movie, but it's been so long ago that I don't remember much about it.
BDCD, a long time ago when we used to talk about alternate realities and such, like if Hitler would have won the war how our present would be now, you told me about an author that you enjoyed that wrote about such realities. Do you remember? If so could you please tell me the authors name again, and which titles you reccomend.
For the past several years, well since I gained access to the web in about 1996, I kind of stopped reading real books, and read mostly online, including novels and such. However, eventhough the web is almost endless, I cant really find any new material to read, and I'd like to check out these books you spoke of.
~Myke
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Post by SciFi on Nov 25, 2003 2:50:20 GMT -5
Myke,
I have read many books like that. For thought provoking material, James P. Hogan is a good author. He has numerous books on alternate realities and the intersection of these realities. One of his books had a reality where Germany won WWII and conquered all of the world by 1972, except for the US. In desperation, they try to make contact with other realities to get some much needed help before they too fall.
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Post by SciFi on Nov 25, 2003 3:14:59 GMT -5
Here are some Hogan books you might want to read: The Proteus Operation Utopia was achieved in the 21st century. But even in a world of prosperity and freedom, there were malcontents. They called themselves Overlord, and their possession of time travel gave them the ability to change the past and shape the future according to their twisted desires. They built a time gate, then picked a crucial turning point in the previous century and traveled back to transmute an obscure figure on the lunatic fringe of German politics into an invinsible conqueror. His name: Adolf Hitler. By the 1970s, only North America and Australia remained free, but time was running out and both would soon be faced with a choice of surrender or nuclear annihilation.
Then a ray of hope arose. American agents learned of the time gate, and smuggled technical information and defecting experts out of Europe. By 1975, the crash project, code name "Proteus" ordered by President John F. Kennedy had successfully built a second time gate. Threatened with annihilation at any time, the Americans take the desperate measure of sending a team back to 1939. Their mission, stop Overlord before its agent can give Hitler the weapons that will hand him the world on a silver platter!Paths To Otherwhere In the early 21st century, the nations of the world hurtle toward war, and this time it looks like there is no escape from mutually genocidal cataclysm. But in this nightmare world without a future a handful of dedicated scientists may have found a way out.
A top-secret US government program has discovered a universe staggeringly vaster than anything previously imagined, made up of worlds where history takes every course conceivable, where the wars of the 20th century were fought with curiously different outcomes. And even a world where they never happened at all!The following novel is a very good book too: Realtime Interrupt When Joe Corrigan awakens in a Pittsburg hospital, he discovers that his life no longer exists. As director of the supersecret Oz Project, he volunteered himself as one of the first human inhabitants of a computerized virtual world indistinguishable from reality. But the Oz Project failed, and Joe has lost everything: his wife, his friends, his colleagues, his past. Now he finds himself in an unfamiliar world where nothing is quite as it should be. Only Lily, a fellow Oz volunteer, is different from the others, somehow more real. Together, they learn the terrifying truth about the world they inhabit. But can they discover a way to get out alive?
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Post by xkamelx on Nov 27, 2003 14:35:06 GMT -5
I trust your judgment SF, next time I'm out I may pick one or two of them up, then give my review here!
Thanks, ~Myke
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Post by Jewells on Apr 9, 2004 21:36:02 GMT -5
dean Koontz also wrote a book with time travel in it, though the altered realities were on a more basic personal level. its called Ride the Lightning or Chain lightning, or something along those lines, I have the book packed up..its amazing what you have to put in storage when you go from a 4 BR townhouse into a small 2 BR place..lol all but my most fav books are packed up in a storage building ..lol sheesh now I wanna go out there and rumage through the books and stuff and trade them out ..lol
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Post by Speed on Apr 15, 2004 1:09:19 GMT -5
Jesus Jewells.....why the Claudia Black/Aeryn Sun Pic. Are you trying to drive us all mad? !!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't think clearly with Aeryn Staring me down........
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Post by Jewells on Apr 15, 2004 2:16:53 GMT -5
lol hey..what can I say..she is my kinda chick ! Sexy, tough, smart and kicks A$$..lol ;D lol..I can't help it if it causes some of you fellas to become hormonaly challenged in the 'brain' department ..lol lol
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Post by xkamelx on Apr 15, 2004 3:42:46 GMT -5
Hehe, I have to admit, I know exactly where Speed is comming from! That pic is at time mesmorising ~Myke
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Post by Jewells on Apr 15, 2004 13:57:34 GMT -5
lol well if it has that effect on ya I will just have to keep it and messmerize you guys..lol
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Post by Speed on Apr 15, 2004 14:07:58 GMT -5
Can't.....think..............Must Surrender myself........to the.....hot....Peacekeeper Chick........UHG!!!! *Speed passes out*
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Post by Speed on Jun 3, 2004 0:00:07 GMT -5
*After a month and a half of being "surrendered" to Aeryn Sun, Speed returns to Earth with a HUGE smile on his face*
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Post by Nightcrawler on Jun 9, 2004 0:26:28 GMT -5
It's only a pic... As a fan of all four books, it's tough to say which one I like the best, though 3001 is so far in first. As for the movies, probably the original. As for making a movie from 2061, or 3001, as much as I might like seeing them, there's still the risk of them becoming stinkers. Look what happened to Batman... *sees "In case of..." locker. Opens it and brings out a blast shield and pistol* You ain't taking me alive... *thinks he used too much sarcasm*
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Post by Jewells on Jul 2, 2004 10:31:09 GMT -5
* laughs at all the stuff over her pic * its all cool.... but on another hand I never knew that there more books to 2001 series....I am gonna have to read them all now ..lol... I love to read... I am just big ole book dork underneath it all ..lol. * hides behind NIghtcrawler's shield with him... just incase ..lmao*
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