Tuesday September 14, 2004

Books

PKD... good to see that Colm is also another PKD fan. I originally started reading PKD books about ten years ago. I have recently started again with the collected stories, volume 4, Minority Report. I prefer the earlier volumes to this but it is still good PKD. Of course I was not surprised to find that the Hollywood version of Minority Report was nothing like the story.

As far as I remember these are the films based on PKD stories. Screamers is the closest but as I haven't read DADOES and not seen SD yet I cannot truly comment.

Minority Report
Total Recall (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale)
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep)
Screamers (Second Variety)
A Scanner Darkly

Have I missed any?

I have, there is Paycheck. Think I'll be going to Blockbuster this weekend...

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Thursday August 12, 2004

Books

Babel-17... the good thing about having a holiday is that I normally get time to read an entire book within a couple of days. Normally I only get to snatch a fifteen minutes here and there which is very unsatisfying.

Last week I had the chance to read Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany. Readable with a few interesting points that demand a second look. Style totally different to Peter F. Hamilton who has been my main read for last few years. Delany glosses over many terms he introduces, such as hyperstasis, and leaves the reader to conjure up their own concepts. Whereas Hamilton does the opposite. Hamilton goes the full mile in describing in great detail what every thing is and mostly how it works (within the realm of sci-fi of course).

Oh well, until May next year when Pandora's Star finally arrives in paperback I will have to search for something else to read...

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