I'm pretty sure that even this movie won't get me to abandon my Kristen Stewart boycott, especially if this casting call is accurate. Ken Watanabe as The Colonel, I can accept, but the rest? Are they actively trying to alienate the fan base now?
Please let this be wrong... Please, please, please. If not, I'm joining you on the barricades with a freaking laser rifle.
It's a giant bug. That's all you really need to know.
Which part of the Xeelee Sequence are we talking? All of those books started coming out in the early-to-mid 90s, while Doc EE Smith was coming up with these concepts in the 50s. The idea of using the Great Attractor as a dimensional gate is brilliant, but the ideas from Lensman came out of a time when most of these astrophysical concepts didn't exist. He just made them up and ran off with them!
The Lensman books are a tragically overlooked part of sci-fi history. So many ideas that would appear years later first emerged there (hyperspace, The Force).
That's true; I love the way he teased that out over two books before we finally got to see it. Had me thinking something entirely different the entire time, too!
What about the Alchemist from Peter F. Hamilton's 'Night's Dawn Trilogy'? That thing could detonate OR 'merely' snuff out a gas giant or a star. You didn't see any 'stun' options on the Death Star or Nova Bombs!
Oh yeah, and I forgot John Crichton's wormhole weapon v.2, the one that could swallow an entire galaxy. The Displacement Engine was pretty sweet, but something that can destroy the Milky Way? Total win.
Oh yeah, and I forgot John Crichton's wormhole weapon v.2, the one that could swallow an entire galaxy. The Displacement Engine was pretty sweet, but something that can destroy the Milky Way? Total win.
Reason was a hand-held rail gun. Very cool, no doubt, but not something that could shatter a planet.
What about the Alchemist from Peter F. Hamilton's 'Night's Dawn Trilogy'? That thing could detonate OR 'merely' snuff out a gas giant or a star. You didn't see any 'stun' options on the Death Star or Nova Bombs!
Oh yeah, and I forgot John Crichton's wormhole weapon v.2, the one that could swallow an entire galaxy. The Displacement Engine was pretty sweet, but something that can destroy the Milky Way? Total win.
Oh yeah, and I forgot John Crichton's wormhole weapon v.2, the one that could swallow an entire galaxy. The Displacement Engine was pretty sweet, but something that can destroy the Milky Way? Total win.
The design of the NASA vessel made me think of Planetes as well. In fact, I'd go so far as to say they could be related. A good, utiltatian and functional design is still a good, utilitarian and functional design regardless of the source!
I'm sorry, but have you never heard the name Robert Jordan?
@collex: Then the house would be have to be listed in the Adult Services section.
What about all of the auto emissions from the cars in the traffic jams caused by tourists driving to the tower? These people still have to get there somehow, and New York has too many tourists as it is!
Ah, but is it 4300 US or Canadian? Because those extra few cents per month add up to an extra bottle of Molsons.
I think there's a strong argument to be made for Alastair Reynolds' 'Chasm City.' Few things are as mysterious and entertaining as a man trying to rediscover his identity after traveling through light-years of empty space.
You know, I read to the part mentioning Firefly in the lead and I SWEAR my mind completely blanked on the part where it might have been sarcasm. Maybe I need a sign like Sheldon does... .< #starwars
Ana Khouri wasn't actually a pilot; She was a former soldier from Sky's Edge accidentally transferred to Yellowstone and also the Nostalgia For Infinity's newest gunnery officer.
After being hired to kill Dan Sylveste, a resident of the planet Resurgam, her employer saw that the Nostalgia was on it's way there to snatch Dan so he could fix their real captain. Khouri was kind of shanghai'd along the way and became the gunnery officer.
Solid list overall, though. I still wish it had included Miriya from Macross and Ivanova for all us B5 geeks!
After being hired to kill Dan Sylveste, a resident of the planet Resurgam, her employer saw that the Nostalgia was on it's way there to snatch Dan so he could fix their real captain. Khouri was kind of shanghai'd along the way and became the gunnery officer.
Solid list overall, though. I still wish it had included Miriya from Macross and Ivanova for all us B5 geeks!
Demarchists were pure Democrats living in independent, self-governing enclaves but subconsciously voting subconsciously (eventually) as a whole body, while many currently live in a Democratic Republic all abiding by identical laws.
It stands to reason that the Demarchist government around Yellowstone might have represented the peak of human "freedom" as it were, because you had the OPTION of how you wanted to live your life and under what rules. The only other civilization that comes close to that optimization is the Culture, although if it weren't for the Minds it would all come crumbling down.
If you think about it logically, the Conjoiners were actually a side step in a progressive governmental evolution. All the citizens joined together in a loose hive mind is just the next stage of Demarchy, similar to the connection via Affinity shared by Peter F. Hamilton's Edenists.
@OsDavis: It was John Lumic's Cybus Industries that was responsible for the most recent wave of Cybermen. Good call, too!
What about Dan Simmons? Both the "Hyperion" and "Illum" series both had loads of sex, and sometimes it was even woven into the plot as a key point!
