Knygatin Wrote:
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> Sawfish Wrote:
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> > Good exchange.
> >
> > WRT to the other story that I said was similar
> in
> > thematic flavor to van Vogt's "The Monster", I
> > found it in an anthology that I got when I was
> > about 12. It is "Pandora's Planet" by
> Christopher
> > Anvil.
> >
> > It's got that same sort of smug "human
> > exceptionalism" as "The Monster" (very
> appealing
> > and ironically humorous to my 12-year old
> self),
> > where humanity is superior to the invaders.
> >
>
> It seems interesting. And its written at just the
> right time of the golden age of science fiction,
> 1956. Many sci-fi movies from this time also have
> that preposterous self-confidence and optimism.
> But I wonder if not the stuff written in the
> 1930s-1940s actually offered even more feverishly
> prophetic and ecstatic ideas.
There's a streaming channel called Kanopy. It offers free film of a more recondite variety--foreign films such as Battle of Algiers, independent films, some older but good Hollywood stuff. Jean-Pierre Melville stuff, etc.
They have Solaris (1972), for example, and they have an odd film, "Things to Come" (1936) that offers an odd "what if" look from before the advent of WWII.
I believe it postulates something like WWII but set sometime around 1975. I haven't seen it in a long time.
Anyway, all it takes is a library card to gain access to it.
[
www.kanopy.com]
We watch it all the time.
--Sawfish
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