[Cialug] SciFi Movie Night!

[jim kraai]

Well, there's really only one proper thing to be done with this kind of
talk:  Foster it

I would like a scifi night--focus leaning towards the written and less of
the film'd--with beer & edibles available

Any objections?  ...  good, no objections.

I propose such a meeting, location TBD, to be held one week prior to the
next regularly scheduled LUG meeting


On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Aaron Staker <Aaron.Staker at meredith.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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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