Posted on 04/07/2021 7:13:11 PM PDT by tbw2
I think of that almost every time I drive on the interstate!
Personally, after all of the bad Hollywood adaptions of classic science fiction; I would like to the Japanese animation companies try their hand at adapting these properties.
I kinda doubt that it could be made into a movie, at least in any way which would be true to the book (Post-nuclear war, Africa was untouched and the Africans have come over and conquered and enslaved the white survivors in former America)
If she had been, guys would still be watching it.
That would’ve been good for another $50 million in box office receipts. Alas, we got Dina Meyer instead with her runny eggs chest. Bleh.
As long as Hollywood stays away from it I’ll give it a chance. Japan could hardly do worse.
I’d rather hope for some Telzey, but hey, at least they re-released the books a while back.
“I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy … censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything — you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” — Robert Heinlein, If This Goes On
The movement to silence discussion as “hate speech”, or even earlier, as “uncivil”, ties into this.
My book club read that recently. We’re alternating classic science fiction like “Moon is a harsh mistress”, “1984” and “Brave new world” with “The Righteous Mind”, “12 Rules for Life” and “Cynical theories”.
Cool. Your club sounds very interesting. Do you meet with people?
LOL!!!
In person? Rarely.
Online, we meet monthly.
Robert Heinlein was interesting, he was in the Navy, Annapolis Grad, till a medical issue forced him out. He was also a very Leftist person supporting Upton Sinclair for governor in California back in the 1930’s.
He ended up marrying a women that was very Conservative and changed his political ideology. He was way ahead of his time in predicting how society would turn out.
Another person was Philip Wylie, he wrote “Nest of Vipers” in 1942 and that book could have be written today with his commentaries on society.
I reread “Friday” recently. He was spot-on for predicting some of the sexual insanity in California like open gender-benders and gender-neutral bathrooms.
I loved Robert Heinlein. We grew up in Butler. MO. My cousin lived in the house he was raised in.
His books introduced me to SciFi. Bradbury and Heinlein were my childhood heroes.
Book Review: ‘Friday’ by Robert Heinlein
https://hubpages.com/literature/Book-Review-Friday-by-Robert-Heinlein
There are actually Starship Trooper sequels, and they are worse.
The SyFy Dune movies were actually pretty good.
Another Dune Remake?
https://libertyislandmag.com/2019/03/08/another-dune-remake/
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