I’m currently reading “The Number of the Beast” by Robert Heinlein. Book is from the 1980s, and there’s a completely doubled up paragraph in the book! It spans two pages but the image shows enough I think.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    It makes zero sense to me that the same people who gave us nineteen versions of ‘The Hunger Games’ wouldn’t make a movie of ‘Tunnel In The Sky.’

    It got almost no publicity when it came out, so let me know if you’ve seen this one.

    https://youtu.be/-FcK_UiVV40

    Predestination. Based on “…All You Zombies.”

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      20 hours ago

      I have not seen that, I will have to check it out.

      I thought stranger in a strange land would make a great miniseries. I loved that book as a teen. I read it as an adult some years ago and it didn’t hit the same way. Still, it could be adapted to an impactful story today. People would learn where grok came from and disassociate it with Musk’s racist piece of trash (pisses me off).

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        17 hours ago

        The anecdote that I heard about “Stranger…” is the Heinlein made more money from film options than he ever made from book sales. Apparently, David Bowie and dozens of other folks wanted to make the movie, but it never came together.

        Enjoy.