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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/24/08

    In reply to Before Westworld, Another Robot Gunslinger Walked the Cyber Streets of Laredo
    The photo is dated as June 1960. Too late to be from an episode of Tightrope since the series ended in May of 1960 and did not have a second season. Mike began filming a western movie, The Dalton That Got Away shortly thereafter. This might have just been a candid photo on the film set.
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    11/23/08

    In reply to Before Westworld, Another Robot Gunslinger Walked the Cyber Streets of Laredo
    And let's not forget Gene Autry's 1935 sf cowboy serial set at the Radio Ranch, The Phantom Empire. There are at least 2 episodes available at Youtube.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/23/08

    @4ndreVV: I own this on DVD! It is mind-bogglingly wonderful.
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    11/23/08

    In reply to Before Westworld, Another Robot Gunslinger Walked the Cyber Streets of Laredo
    Holding your sports coat wide open with your non-shooting hand? Now that's a technique I've never seen before.
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    11/23/08

    @Ron Hogan: Standard android-confusing technique. Your average robotic gunslinger is easily offset by asymmetry in one's wardrobe, try it.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/23/08

    @Ron Hogan: That's why Mike was so cool.
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    11/23/08

    In reply to Before Westworld, Another Robot Gunslinger Walked the Cyber Streets of Laredo
    Hmmm. Looks like a Twilight Zone episode to me.
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    Image of IDesigner loves himself some car IDesigner loves himself some car
    11/23/08

    @SSJ: I second that notion.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/23/08

    @idesigner: It should have been a Twilight Zone or an Outer Limits.
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    Image of PrestonHector PrestonHector
    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    Pretending cancer doesn't exist isn't as easy as pretending global warming doesn't exist.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/06/08

    @PrestonHector: At least he was right about one of them. Your sensitivity is remarkable. I've got a sick puppy, wanna make fun of it? Maybe you should wait until it dies, then it won't be a threat of any kind.
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    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    Maybe it's me, but I also find it ironic that ER will be ending this season too. Anyways, I was also surprised at the sudden news of his passing today. I heard his more recent works wasn't that good, but his earlier novels were all refreshing for its time.
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    11/05/08

    @W10002: jurassic park was the first big-people book i ever read, and back in the day i took every opportunity with new teachers/new grades to do a book report on it. plus i just fucking love dinosaurs. he may not be important to the (a?) genre, but he was important to me, so this is kinda sad.
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    11/05/08

    @jajbowler: sorry, didn't mean to @ that one... but oh well.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    11/05/08

    @jajbowler: aw "big-people book" I read it after my mom threw stopped because it gave her dino nightmares. I wanted dino dreams too.
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    I shall see you in Valhalla with the rest of the thirteen. Good night, and enjoy the mead.
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    That truly is sad. He's one of the few authors out there that made sci-fi digestable for mainstream airport paperback readers. He will be missed.
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    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    Michael "Global Warming is a conspiracy!" Crichton's dead? Meh. I'm not moved to tears, sorry. I enjoyed Jurassic Park when it came out (I was in my early teens) but has he written anything since that was really any good? I've read a couple of his post-JP books and really can't say anything like "the genre has lots one of it's brightest stars" or anything.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/05/08

    @sandchigger: Finally some honesty. Kudos. Crichton was just a notch above Sarah Palin and Orson Scott Card on this site, and now he's a saint.
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    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    I'm never (rarely) happy to hear of anyone's death and this is certainly no exception.

    I have to admit though I found much of his science fiction to be reactionary and anti-science in tone and or subtext.

    I'm not happy that he's gone, but there's already a strong enough anti-intellectual and anti-science bent in popular culture.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/05/08

    @cunning001: Are you kidding me? If you thing there's an anti-science bent in popular culture you seriously have not been looking at American popular culture.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    11/05/08

    @cunning001:


    I get what you're saying, but I don't think it's that bad. Films and television have been reflecting a lot of good stuff lately.

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    Image of cunning001 cunning001
    11/05/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: not to argue on the internet or anything, but you are aware of how many people think the Earth is 5000 years old and the sun goes around it right ?
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    11/05/08

    @cunning001:


    A scary amount.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/05/08

    @cunning001: That's not popular culture. That's just geographic culture. Popular culture is what you see produced in media. Television, radio, books. And in those areas, science is absolutely CRUSHING everything else. Down to even the symbolic and metaphoric levels. On the plain old ordinary level, every frigging thing is about how great science is. Even television and books about dangerous science usually simply counter with good science proving that science is the only direction in which we can science. Science science science basically.


    And even on a symbolic, or metaphoric level EVERYTHING is about specificity and precision. Everything is about science. When's the last time you've even READ a work of experimental philosophic fiction, or god forbid, theology? A writer like Herman Hesse or Knut Hamsun, or even Burroughs and Kerouac couldn't even get traction these days because every single work of art now produced is about mechanical perfection. That's the effect of the medium of science itself. The dominant discourse of logic and realism.


    Science is the dominant ethos in these times. Despite what you might want to believe, religion is far and away the underdog, except for certain places in the United States.

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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    11/05/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: turtles all the way down ftw.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/05/08

    @cunning001: Next to nobody.
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    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    I thought we didn't like Crichton.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/05/08

    @RAHfanboy: Dying multiplies talent. It makes a good writer into a saintly one, and in this case, a mediocre writer into a good one.
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    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    Sad news. I've read most of his novels, and always enjoyed his hard SF approach to popular fiction.


    Also note that Michael Crichton directed a number of movies, none of them exactly blockbusters, but always entertaining. See: Westworld, Looker, Runaway and (uncredited) 13th Warrior

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    11/07/08

    @amygdala: He also did the screenplay for Twister, right?
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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    Sigh...I remember being in high school and staying up until 4am trying to finish those books before falling asleep. Loved Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Congo, Sphere, and his book Travels...go read Travels, he led a fascinating life.


    Oo, just remembered how much I liked the movie Looker too. Not the song, though. Yuck.

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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    Congo is one of the best movies in the history of the world mainly because of "Amy good, good, good Gorilla" and because it brought us Tim Curry as Herkermer Homolka. Thank you for evil white gorillas and many, many, many quotes to yell out in a silly accent while drinking.
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    11/05/08

    In reply to Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly
    I admit, I've never been a big fan, but I consider him a standard in the genre. It's sad and unexpected.
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