Watch the Russian version by Tarkovsky - slower but better - though I was pleasantly surprised by the version Clooney was in.Coopers Green wrote:Ah, Solaris. Only seen the Clooney movie which I liked a helluva lot. Love me some quality Sci-fi.
Yeah I've tended to get most enjoyment from trad scifi short story collections - you get the condensed cool idea without the cruft, the "what if?" with less of the clunk; most scifi authors short of Banks struggle with decent character. Egan's shorts are fantastic, mixed bag when he tries to spin them into full novels. Melville could do with trimming down to novella as he drags a bit.mistercrayon wrote:Quite like what ever I read by Vonnegut which leads me to an interesting comment that he made. He said the best you can do with Sci fi is the blurb and everthinh else is kind of obviously extrapolated. I think this doesn't mean that Sci fi is pointless but the best bits of Sci fi are often not the Sci fi per se and often the intriguing idea is more than enough.
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