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Robin Hamilton wrote: > > > It brings to mind one of my all time favourite sci fi short > > stories. Azimov's "Nightfall" There was a re-write to > > novella length, but it was nowhere near as good as the > > original. > > > > josephine > > What can they know of darkness, who never darkness knew? > > I have problems with Azimov, Josephine -- his robots are too human and his > humans are too robotic. No robots in this one, check it out. Recently re-read the robot stories though. Was appalled at the racism. Interesting how a re-read often reveals the mind set of the time, isnt it? The whole culture described was one where robots were effectively a slave culture, even down to calling them 'boy', lots of emancipation issues. Enjoying the sci fi thread, big fan, been reading it for thirty odd years. Just finished 'Door number three' by Patrick O'Leary. A truly postmodern text and a good read. I've also been enjoying David Brin's works, one book per sci fi sub-genre, it seems to me. Earth was good, if that was the title? The Postman borrowed heavily from Lucifer's Hammer, (Niven and Pournelle) too horrified at the shorts to even contemplate seeing the Kevin Costner interpretation. And look at what Travolta did to Battlefied Earth! His Terl wasnt too bad, but forget about the rest of the book, they did! And why do Klingons always look like bad seventies rock stars? Watched the new Mars film this weekend "red planet?' If you ignore the stupid robot, the silly plot, the inconsistencies and the huge stretches of scientific credability, it wasnt too bad for a hollywood scifi, compared to what is usually served up. I did like the way they reproduced the mars landing site, but jump starting a fifty year old russian probe and riding it unprotected through the atmosphere in a space suit with no oxygen and actually matching orbit with the mother ship ... I mean really!!!!! Josephine