On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2 April 1968: the influential science-fiction film "2001: A Space > Odyssey," produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, had its world > premiere in Washington
Two things occur to me upon reading this. First, Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke are often called the big 3 of the "Golden Age" of written science fiction. With Clarke gone, we are now truly at the end of an era. Secondly, like probably most people, I came out of the movie the first time (okay, the first several times) going, "What the heck did THAT mean," even though I knew I liked it. After later reading the novel, of course, I learned that Dave was going through a wormhole to a distant part of the galaxy and evolving into the StarChild. Or to put it another way, he was Uplifted past the Singularity. I guess everything really *has* been done already in written science fiction. -- Mauro Diotallevi Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Don't drink and derive. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
