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Rendezvous with Rama
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Did it change color? Might have been cocooning.
Man, I remember (like 10+ years ago, now) when Morgan Freeman's production company was working on a Rendezvous with Rama film adaptation, with Freeman planning on playing Commander Bill Norton. Sad that never got any traction.
The problem is that it doesn't have a bangup ending like the asteroid movies. It ends with the mysterious object mysteriously leaving the solar system. So you either have a question-mark ending of the type unfulfilling to movie audiences, or you destroy the original story and give it a big action filled ending.After seeing the wounded quizzical looks on the main Overlord in the SciFi Channel adaptation of Childhood's End, I think I'm fine with Rama's ending not being tampered with.
I think that Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Arrival have pointed the way to satisfying sci-fi that doesn't necessarily have to resolve in an Earth-shattering kaboom.It's been 40 years since I read the book so I don't recall the ending, but I'm sure one could add a personal revelation or two to give at least some resolution.
I remember enjoying it a long time ago. It's a slow build, and a big section of it takes place in the dark, so that won't work on screen for very long. Everything happens in threes, so it's a good candidate for a trilogy.
Oh man, we already had it bad enough when they turned The Hobbit into a trilogy, let's not turn an even shorter book into a trilogy, especially when even less happens.
Could be a miniseries, but after what Scifi Channel did to Childhood's End...*hurl*
The really sad thing is that for the budget of a movie about RWR we could have sent a probe to this visitor from outside the solar system to see if it's made of the same stuff as the planets in our system.The sadder thing is that the US spends 250 million dollars a day on war on terror. If we paused that for a single weekend we could have a half-dozen probes ready to go for just such an occurrence. Instead, the best we can do is to snap a few blurry photos of the thing as it zooms past us while it boomerangs out of our solar system.
A once-in-a-civilization's-lifetime event and we're caught flat-footed because we're more interested in dropping bombs and building walls.
David wrote: "Oh man, we already had it bad enough when they turned The Hobbit into a trilogy, let's not turn an even shorter book into a trilogy, especially when even less happens."I was alluding to the fact that there are at least two more books worth of material to draw from since (view spoiler)
Trike wrote: "I think that Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Arrival have pointed the way to satisfying sci-fi that doesn't necessarily have to resolve in an Earth-shattering kaboom."Carl Sagan's Contact really made that point for me, when I first saw it. A year after Independence Day came out.
Tom wrote: "I was alluding to the fact that there are at least two more books worth of material to draw from since (view spoiler) "(view spoiler)
David - No worries! And, I agree with you, especially with regard to The Hobbit!
I adored RwR and feel absolutely zero desire to read any of the sequels. It ends perfectly.
Brendan wrote: "I adored RwR and feel absolutely zero desire to read any of the sequels. It ends perfectly."What Brendan said.
John (Taloni) wrote: "Could be a miniseries, but after what Scifi Channel did to Childhood's End...*hurl*"I actually like the miniseries far better than the book though that is probably influenced by the fact I'd never read the book prior to seeing the miniseries. I liked that the miniseries actually gave depth to the characters whereas in the book they were just kinda meh and utterly unmemorable. Earlier this year audible had the book on sale so I picked it up since I'd liked the miniseries. While by no means the the worst book I've ever read / listened its up there with the more disappointing given the expectations I had for it given all its critical praise and my enjoying the miniseries.
Brendan wrote: "I adored RwR and feel absolutely zero desire to read any of the sequels. It ends perfectly."The sequels are utterly utterly different and your not missing much. Basically a second ship shows up and astronauts board it. They ended up trapped and living there and have children. They then contemplate the least likely couplings between adults and children to limit mutant incest babies. Eventually it drifts off into actual aliens and stuff. But the all the incest discussions are what really stick out in my mind. As I recall, its been a while, the sequels follow the adventures of the astronauts on the other ship which turns out to be populated.
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Rendezvous with Rama
"Rendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1973. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a 50-kilometre (31 mi) cylindrical alien starship that enters Earth's solar system."
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