Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this article on digg. Short summary: Ridley Scott is making his first sci-fi movie since Blade Runner and Alien, based on the Joe Haldeman Book, The Forever War. This was the movie he was gonna make after Blade Runner, but something happened with the rights to the book and the project was shelved.
Alien and Blade Runner are, for my money, the two best sci fi movies ever made, so I looked at the plot summary for the novel on wikipedia and decided I wanted to read it soonish.
Funny thing happened when the book showed up(S got it from the Library for me) and I started reading. Halfway thru the first paragrpah, I realized that I had already begun reading it…almost 25 years ago.
The first part of this book was published in Analog Science Fiction mag. And then republished in a compilation of short stories that my father bought for me at Encore Books when I was 10.
It was a very weird feeling, realizing after the first 30 pages, I was picking up on a story I had started over 2 decades ago. Weirder still to realize that my parents had let me (unwittingly) read a book about a military unit whose discipline was based partially on weed smoking and fornicating.
Anyway, seems like it will make for a good movie. Its probably as thoughtful about war as alien was about Corporatism.
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I thought you were going to say Ridley Scott was making a movie based on a book, which you then realized “halfway through the first paragraph” was based on a movie.
by Ridley Scott.
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