Perhaps something to do with Tom Cruises's interest in Scientology...
Anyway - yes, the book is definately superior to the film... although there was a 1880's based low-budget film version of the story which was released around the same time.
I'm interested in seeing the forthcoming Jeff Wayne version - based on the musical version
(Are we off topic enough yet?)
I also think he's refering to Cruise being a scientologist..... and with his acting sometimes I can see why people may think that he's been possessed by and alien soul living in volcanic craters ;-0
If it ain't broke, fetch a bigger hammer
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'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' is a bit more sci-fi related, made me cry big manly tears at the end as well.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...073195-4459101
Anything by Arthur C Clarke. My personal favorite Alistair Reynolds (Chasm City, Revelation Space are good starters) I would highly recommend, his concepts are truly staggering. Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Adam Roberts I found to be quite good (Stone, Salt).
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
1984?
Try Michael Marshell Smiths "Spares" and see how that holds up against "The Island"(the studio pinched one of many ideas in this book without paying...) "Only Forward" and "One of Us" are also very good - and close to the William Gibson vien.
For epics try the uplift saga from David Brin - or of course the good old Foundation series from Isaac Asimov.
Now go away before I taunt you a second time.
I'd recommed the Foundation saga (Asimov), pretty compelling, although the first books are a tad short. Nothing beats HHGTTH (hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) that IS teh pwnage.
Read foundation, and most of the robot stuff, H2G2, 1984, got 3 hours on the train tommorow to get started on american gods, Hell was even reduced to reading bloody ursula le guinn the other day (only thing on my shelf i havent read) and put it down after 10 pages for the second time running, dodgy feminist sci fi for teh lose.
Umm.. how about Robert Jordan.. thats sure to keep you busy for at least a week.
(Wheel of Time)
Robert Asprin - for a quick laugh
Yes forgot Asimov. Reminds me of a true story. A work colleague bought a book (don't think it was a sci-fi one) at a second hand bookstore. When he got it home he found that someone had left a postcard in the pages, obviously using it as a book mark. Who was the postcard from? Non other than a certain Isaac Asimov, full authentic signature and everything. Seen with my own eyes.
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
Wow!
His none-fiction work is as interesting as his fiction as well.
Some of Piers Anthony's stuff is ok as well... although some is a bit naff (Mercycle definately top of that list...)
All these Sci Fi readers and not one mention of Philip K. Dick
Basically try these books by him:
The man in the high castle
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich
Ubik
They are all classics of his and there are plenty more. If you really want your head mashed in read Stigmata first
Didn't want to scare him off sci-fi with the tripped out pieces that Philip K Dick always puts about 2/3rds of the way through his books
Now go away before I taunt you a second time.
PKD certainly has some moments of "enhanced experiences"...
Hitman Diaries and The Burglar diaries by Danny King.
Best books I have ever read........ EVER!, they make you litterally laugh out loud so it's best to read them in private...
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