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S'està carregant… The Day the Earth Stood Still and Other Classic SF Novellas (edició 2005)de Harry Bates
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Saw the trailer for the new movie and got curious. I love the short story, Farewell to the Master, which is what the movies were based on - VERY loosely, I must say. Like so many short stories that get turned into movies, a simple, elegant tale is turned into an action flick full of political strife and explosions. (Well, there was at least one explosion in the story too.) But the message of the short story is so entirely different from either movie. The moral figures in the movies are us, as the human race. The aliens say "clean up your act or you'll be destroyed." The moral figures in the story are the aliens themselves - earth's destruction is never in the picture at all. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Balrog Award Winner's Science Fantasy Classic Were the alien and his robot here to help or hinder humankind? Find out the surprising answer in the original story that inspired the classic 1951 science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Here is a must-read for any science fiction lover, for, as the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says, the film lost the story's ironic ending. Discover for yourself what Hollywood left out in this first-ever collection of the best work of the legendary 1930s idea man, Harry Bates (1900-1981). Rounding out this collection of sophisticated plays-on-ideas that stood traditional science fiction on its head are A Matter of Size and Alas, All Thinking (1935). These three short novels, which the Encyclopedia calls his most notable stories, have never before been gathered in one book. Bates' The Day the Earth Stood Still (1940 under the title, Farewell to the Master), with its poignant, haunting last line, would posthumously bring him the coveted Balrog Award (1983). When you have read it, you will understand why long-time science fiction fans rank it and its creator, Harry Bates, among the greats No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I DID have a bit of fun with it tho. That's about all I can say about that. B-movie nonsense.
Oh, and the master is gonna come and slap you silly if you don't behave. :) ( )