I also recommend the short story "Tonight the sky will fall" by Daniel F Galouye (in the collection "Space Opera" edited by Brian Aldiss)
On 9 February 2014 13:47, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure if that's a recommendation or just a chance to "let off steam" > but anyway - thanks, I will try to get hold of that. > > > On 9 February 2014 13:34, freqflyer07281972 <thismindisbud...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I've been following this thread with some interest, waiting for one movie >> to be invariably mentioned among this crowd, and surprised that it hasn't >> been yet: "Waking Life" by Richard Linklater. >> >> Not only would members of this list like this movie, they would also be >> reminded of the different kinds of conversations that go on here. It could >> even be interpreted as a kind of visualization of the QIT. The only person >> on this list who might not like it is John Clarke, since it is filled with >> references to so many useless, deadbeat, unproductive and non-contributing >> philosophers and one of the many pre-occupations of the film is that >> utterly meaningless ASCII sequence/noise "free will" (blech, I threw up a >> bit in my mouth just typing those nine characters, that's how abhorrent and >> senseless the notion is). Also, it is a cartoon, and I'm pretty sure he >> would have stopped watching anything so stupid since Grade 6, or when he >> was 12, or something. And most importantly, it didn't win any awards and >> was not on anyone's top ten list, at least, not anyone who counts as having >> valuable opinions about quality movies. But for the rest of you, I strongly >> recommend you check it out! >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
