Rendezvous with Rama...

[Pace]

Has anyone read 'Imperial Earth'? It is one of the few books I got bored of, although I have since read various works of Clarke - all in either 2001 series or Rama. Rama is excellent of course - wonder how the ship will look though

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Every Sci Fi author is a deviant.. especially that overbearing pompous ass Isaac Asimov. He was under the delusion that his was the most superior mind in all the world, and felt it was his mission to write ceaselessly on every topic, graciously explaining all great concepts to us mere mortals in terms we could understand. His great horror about death was that his brain would be worm food.

Where did you get all of this??

[cjolley]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Every Sci Fi author is a deviant.. especially that overbearing pompous ass Isaac Asimov. He was under the delusion that his was the most superior mind in all the world, and felt it was his mission to write ceaselessly on every topic, graciously explaining all great concepts to us mere mortals in terms we could understand. His great horror about death was that his brain would be worm food.

And he was RIGHT!
chuck

PS Yes, that's correct. I am a fan.

[cjolley]

As for Clark:
He took a perfectly wonderful short story of his own called "The Sentinel" and added self administered drugs and an expanding ego to come up with the mess called "2001"
chuck

[KRSESQ]

2001 wasn't a mess. 2010 was. In 2001, the premise was that at the end of the movie Bowman was transformed into a new species of being, in much the same way that the ape men at the beginning of the film were transformed by their introduction to tools.

In 2010, however (if you read the book) Bowman was transformed into something more analogous to a computer-program copy of his old self, to be studied by the monolith's unseen "overseers" leisure, or at best a dog on a leash to occasionally do the "overseer's" bidding.

What a freaking waste of trees/celuloid.

(Clarke wrote 2001 on request from Stanley Kubrick, who was inspired/driven to create the ultimate "smart" sci-fi movie. Whether he succeeded is largely a matter of opinion.)

Kevin

[cjolley]

Compared to The Sentinel, 2001 is a mess.
for example:http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cf...7/Sentinel.htm
chuck

PS http://www.csun.edu/~pjs44945/364clarke.html

[RedRed]

I liked much of A C and Asimov.... AC was accused of being a paedophile - but the charges never stuck.....

Asimov was a bit of a preacher - but if you read any of his factual books - the relativity of wrong and 'asimov's new guide to science' they are really well written novice science texts......

In fact the first book I remember buying on science was the 'guide' - I was about 12 - is still on my bookshelf! - its old, but good....


RedRed

[Wombat]

And then for kicks, go read 2061.

A LOT of society's greatest contributors are "deviants." It's part of the variety of the world. Wagner was an anti-Semite, Dali abused his wife, Hemingway was, well Hemingway.

Somehow, I'm afraid that if we "cure" all this, we'll be culturally poor.

[Gurm]

Oh, I think we could ALL do without Hemingway. *shrug*

- Gurm

[Marshmallowman]

I have read all the RAMA series and enjoyed them. But I some things seem different once you find out he is a paedaphile.

[3dfx]

I'am also a RAMA ! fan anyone see a pattern here ..lol , ohhh a paedaphile

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by Marshmallowman
I have read all the RAMA series and enjoyed them. But I some things seem different once you find out he is a paedaphile.

Oh sure! Spoil the entire series for those of us who will never read them!

Jammrock