[Cialug] SciFi Movie Night!

[Aaron Staker]

Ready Player One is "ok", his new work Armada is pretty terrible an homage to the Last Star Fighter and I'd avoid it like the plague (as much as I love the 80's). Maybe I just couldn't accept it was supposed to be clichéd for a reason...

If you really want to get into something this year a couple recommendations:

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson, Seveneves by Neal Stephenson and of course The Martian by Andy Weir, if you haven't touched any of these I'd recommend all of them without a second thought.  The Martian being the easiest to tackle and perhaps the best love letter to Mars I've ever read.  Aurora and Seveneves are much deeper and worth the effort.  The reviews on all of these out there should be more than motivating...

Cheers...

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Todd Walton
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 10:01 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] SciFi Movie Night!

Wow. I am totally now interested in this book, based on what you guys have said.

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Todd


On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:59:56AM -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>
> > By the way, on the topic of SciFi: If you remember the 80's you
> > should check out the book or audio book "Ready Player One" by Ernest
> > Cline. I picked up the audio book which is read by Wil Wheaton who
> > really does a fabulous job (and who also has a cameo in the book,
> > along with Cory Doctorow).
>
> Ready Player One is a GREAT book.  Love the characters, love the
> story, love the sci-fi.  It's a fast read that's hard to put down.
> Cline has another book out now too.
>
> > I just Googled it and it appears Steven Spielburg will be making the
> movie
> > version of it soon. While the main storyline of this book I think
> > lends well to a movie, it will be impossible to capture it all, if
> > for no other reason than too many licensing hurdles. So read it
> > before the movie comes out. It is packed full of retro geek humor and nostalgia.
>
> Yeah, I think Ready Player One (the movie) needs a bit more than
> Steven Speilberg.  Terry Gilliam would be up to it, or Zack Snyder.
> Or even Richard Linklater, who has proven himself with "double life"
> stories like A Scanner Darkly.  It's a bit like Snow Crash -- hard to
> make into a movie that faithfully tells the story while being
> understandable to people who haven't read the book.  (I wonder if the
> film will reference Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
> Skull).
>
> Nicolai
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