From: chris@x-track.demon.wastebitco.uk 
  
 In article , 
 cool@forcats.com writes 
 >In article , chris@x- 
 >track.demon.wastebitco.uk says... 
 >> In article <9LO+QYKB7TtCFwNJ@jhall.demon.co.uk>, John Hall 
 >>  writes 
 >> > 
 >> >>> 
 >> >>>You cnanargue the prompt could have been better, but only if you can 
 find 
 >> >>>the start of that particular moebius strip! 
 >> >> 
 >> >>I found the end of one of those once, but I think I left it on a subway 
 >> >>somewhere. 
 >> > 
 >> >Glad to see that you're well up on the classic SF short stories. :) 
 >> 
 >> But you got the reference too, as was hoped for. 
 >> There are a few well-read survivors, then. 
 >> -- 
 >> Chris Brown 
  
  
 >perhaps more than first appears ... but 
 >depends what you mean by "well read" - now if youre talking Simak I could 
 >understand the "well" part... 
  
 Saberhagen to Simak to E E Doc Smith in the "Esses" 
  
 >To be fair most of heinleins juvenalia is pretty dire stuff that deserves 
 >to sink into oblivion but some is well worth the effort - 
  
 Hang on, can't I invoke Sturgeon's law here? 
 "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything 
 is crud." 
  
 > I'd love to see 
 >A Michael Valentine Smith movie ..... if anyone had the guts to make it 
 >And how they can fail to make the Time Enough For Love movie (in the 
 >style of Barbarella I'd suggest) beats me. 
  
 The length? 
  
 >But them so many of the older books seem like natural movie blockbusters 
 >to me that maybe I'm going a bit too nostalgic. 
  
 No, there are some potential gems there,  from space opera to twisted 
 time tales, but the track record of Hollywood turned loose on 
 science-fiction does need to be taken into account.   And here comes 
 "War of the Worlds"  (why does the phrase Independence Day echo in my 
 mind?  Has it been planted there by some super-being?) 
  
 > 
 >john 
  
 -- 
 Chris Brown 
  
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