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01-04-2022, 11:53 PM | #62 |
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What is the best Asimov adaptation, movie or TV?
Off the top of my head, I think it is Bicentennial Man. I know critical opinion runs from 'meh' to negative. But I enjoyed the movie and it felt like Asimov. |
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It's a pretty small field to start with and then "best" adaptation whittles the choice to very few indeed by the time you exclude the stuff that was only "suggested by" or whatever. For example I thought "I, Robot", with Will Smith, was an entertaining enough action movie, but it didn't feel like Asimov despite how much it borrowed. |
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02-02-2024, 11:59 PM | #64 |
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The author Jeffrey Brown has released The End of Foundation which is the final installment of the "Final Foundation" Trilogy...
https://ibmjob.dk/?page_id=72 I haven't started it yet, but it's in my queue. I'll have to go back and read the first two first as a refresher. |
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02-03-2024, 04:10 AM | #66 | |
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I found the story 'Bicentennial Man' a bit weak compared to older Asimov works (I don't know which version I read). I thought the film was more Asimov than the poor "I Robot" film, but also weak. I've not read the novel expanded from Bicentennial Man, 'The Positronic Man', co-written with Robert Silverberg. But OTOH, I'm only a fan of older Asimov. I don't much like any of the stuff he did when he took up writing SF again in the 1970s. 'Bicentennial Man' is echoed a bit by one of the ST-TNG stories about Data.* Edit: IMO, Fantastic Voyage is "magic by another name". *Neither of those is really like Pinocchio as that is a sort of parable. If you pay attention, the fairy that makes Pinocchio into a 'real' boy is the one that enchanted the wood in the first place. Data and the Positronic robot are both made by humans. Pinocchio was carved by a human, but was really created by a transcendental magical creature, even before the carving started. Last edited by Quoth; 02-03-2024 at 04:33 AM. |
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02-03-2024, 03:08 PM | #67 |
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Is anybody else having trouble downloading from Mr. Brown's site? I just tried to get the book but malwarebytes browser guard keeps blocking it as a suspicious/dangerous file. First time that's happened in a long time. No problem with zip files elsewhere, only there. :-(
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02-03-2024, 03:37 PM | #68 |
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No problems here. I just downloaded it again and it downloaded a zip file which contains a mobi and epub file.
I don't really want to repost the zip file because I don't want to ruin the authors download count. |
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I haven't read foundation past Second Foundation. However, I was under the impression that Foundation and Earth would close all open story points. Is that not so?
With that regard, is this unofficial trilogy sort of companion piece, a replacement piece, or does it close the story which wasn't finished by Asimov? |
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None of Asimov's Foundation books really finalise the story, it's just an end to the current dilemma. But while many of the books were mini-arcs in the Robot/Foundation universe, like Mirage, Chimera, Aurora and Caliban, Inferno, Utopia, plus all the Foundation books by Asimov and other authors, this final trilogy brings them all together in a story arc to finalise the events. |
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02-05-2024, 05:17 AM | #72 |
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Thank you so much!
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The runner-up would be Foundation. It does depart more from the original story, but I enjoyed it more than I did the novels. As I recall, the novels did not have any prominent female characters, and they weren't unified by main characters who stayed alive for multiple generations. I appreciate how Gale Dornick, Salvor Hardin, and the cloned emperors have helped give more narrative continuity to the TV series. When I have time, I plan to reread the trilogy so that I can better compare it with the TV series. Will Smith's I, Robot was fine as an action movie, but it mainly just used the name without trying to adapt any of Asimov's stories. The worst would be the 1988 version Nightfall, which I described as "somewhat inept." I hope the 2000 version is better. While its 3.4 IMDB rating is slightly higher than this movie's 2.7 IMDB rating, it's still very low. |
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With the recent release of the final installment of the Final Trilogy of Foundation, I have started re-reading select novels from Asimov. I was originally going to reread the final installment on its own, then decided I should reread the trilogy. Then I remembered some stunning revelations in the first two installments, so then decided I should re-familiarise myself with the Universe again so I could completely immerse myself in the stories. I've started off with I, Robot: To Protect, I, Robot: To Obey and I, Robot: To Preserve by Mickey Zucker Reichert. There is no connection between these three books and the Final Installment, but they were a great read and I still enjoyed them immensely on my second read. Then onto Nemesis, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and currently reading The Robots of Dawn. Then I'll be following on with Mirage, Chimera Aurora Robots and Empire Caliban Inferno Utopia Prelude to Foundation Forward the Foundation Foundation and Chaos Foundation's Triumph Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundation's Edge The onto the Final Trilogy. There's also some fan fiction that I came across a little while ago, so I'll be inserting those into the reading list at the appropriate time... https://archiveofourown.org/users/wo...ndom_id=116519 Last edited by Karellen; 02-25-2024 at 03:50 AM. Reason: add fan fiction bit |
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