Hi David, everyone. The footnote on the ieti.org article about Startide Rising being in pre-production in 1999 left me feeling a bit sad. Is there any chance at all of the Startide movie being resurrected before aliens make contact or we are caught up in the Singularity?
If Paramount aren't going to make it, perhaps the Japanese or the Koreans will take up the challenge. I have only ever seen one Korean film (Musa - The Warrior). It wasn't Science Fiction, but it was interesting and featured very good Cinematography. A Korean Startide might be very interesting. I have enjoyed all the Uplift novels, but ever since I first read Startide, I have been waiting for a sequel that shed some light on the fate of the crew of the skiff. I suppose the scale of the events in the second Triology, make their story trivial, but all the same if you revisited that particular sub plot, I could guarantee you at least one enthusiastic reader. As for the possibility of lurkers, I am of the opinion that they don't exist. I suspect that intelligent life is rare and that interstellar travel very difficult, and that's the simple if sad answer to the Fermi Paradox. Regards, Wayne Eddy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion" <brin-l@mccmedia.com> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:35 AM Subject: Re: Brin: Singularities, Nightmares, and Japanese Sci-Fi >I exclude positive intervention in order to let them - > or God - off the hook. There is (1) no evidence for > such events and (b) had others the power to intervent, > there have been mega tragedies they could have helped > us to avoid. Just the availablity of glass lenses, > would have let us skip past a thousand hellish years. > > See http://ieti.org/articles/brin.htm _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
