Don't really know. Never considered looking for them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all sound like good
stories, good old school scifi. I'll need to look them up. wonder if they're
available online?
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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Fondly Fahrenheit" is about a labor robot that begins killing people when the
temperature is too high. Its owner, who makes his living on the sweat of the
'bot's brow, tries to cover up the crimes and fix the thing on his own. His
repair work keeps the bot from killing in warm temps, but when the owner takes
it to a cold planet...
"Beep" is one of my all-time faves. It's about a future where a new comm
technology, based on Dirac theory, allows people across the Galaxy to
communicate with each other instantly. The system works like a charm, save for
this annoying, loud BEEP at the beginning of each transmission. A scientist
sets out to try to remove the beep from the transmission, only to learn that
the beep is, in actuality, the aggregation of *every signal the system has or
will ever send*. The perfect spy tool-slash-time machine...
Anderson's "TIme Patrol" stories are just that, a group of people who keep
Time safe from all sorts of miscreants. Piper's "Paratime" does that for all
known worldlines. "Nightfall" is the tale of a civilization that lives in
perpetual paradise, save for the one night every ten thousand years when the
sun goes down. Talk about folk being afraid of the dark...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are those about, i haven't read any of them.
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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I guess that they were trying to introduce the old classics to a newer
generation. I've read most of the stories the eps were based on, but I can't
really say that I liked any of them. Some great ones I would've liked to have
seen, which I think could've translated over well, are "Fondly Fahrenheit" by
Alfred Bester, "Beep" by James Blish, any one of Poul Anderson's "Time Patrol"
stories or H Beam Piper's "Paratime" stories and the classic "Nightfall" by
Isaac Asimov.
my_current_identity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I saw two of them: "Jerry Was a
Man" and "The Discarded". I think that I will agree with one
of the reviews I read that said that the concept was great, but it is a shame
that they picked
such old stories. The themes of the stories that I watched have been subsumed
by SF and
there was no real revelation at the conclusion. Even for filmed SF, the
stories had no sense-
of-wonder or shock-of-the-new. They were watchable, unlike a lot of the scifi
channel
monster movies, but I don't think that you missed much.
If they continue, I hope that they pick newer stories. It would be good to see
a good
anthology show again.
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>
> Given everything that went on in my life recently, completely forgot about
> this. Did anyone
catch it? Was it any good? Even though scifi ebbs and flows on Tv, with some
series hanging
on ("Herores", "Battlestar"), I've long felt the lost of the scifi anthology
shows. I miss the days
of "Outer Limits", "Twilight Zone", even "Night Gallgery", where you had lots
of different
stories and guest stars. How was it?
>
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