Short story, or novel adaptation? I read the latter and thought it might work better as a short, but haven't gotten around to reading the original yet...
There's a novel? The short story was quite good for its time (Asimov's writing style now reads a bit hokey to me, but it was enough of an influence that I actually use the word "hokey".)
Anyway, Clarke makes a Nightfall sort of mistake at the end of 2010, if you want to go hunt up something to help you forget how bored you are.
Well, the story is 65 years old at this point, so some dating is expected. The novel was done in 1990 with Robert Silverberg. It's not hokey, but it's also not as tight as I would expect the short story is.
2010? Maybe. The series never really interested me that much, and in truth I have a lot of things to read, I just didn't feel much like reading last night. Commentary on the ill-read state of the youth may be inferred, but I have to be in the right frame of mind to get into a novel, and most things I deem worth reading I don't want to read without delving into them.
I don't know that I'd recommend it on it own, so I'll tell you the mistake.
Jupiter has been turned into a star the old-fashioned way - mass got added until fusion started taking place. Someone is at the UN building after all this has happened, and noticed that it will never be night again. This is wrong for the parts of the year the Jupiter is not in our night sky.
Short story last night, although I have read both. The novel does provide more 'story' and characters, but I like it more as a short. I've heard the movie version is truly terrifying.
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Date: 2006-01-19 05:58 pm (UTC)Anyway, Clarke makes a Nightfall sort of mistake at the end of 2010, if you want to go hunt up something to help you forget how bored you are.
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Date: 2006-01-19 06:12 pm (UTC)2010? Maybe. The series never really interested me that much, and in truth I have a lot of things to read, I just didn't feel much like reading last night. Commentary on the ill-read state of the youth may be inferred, but I have to be in the right frame of mind to get into a novel, and most things I deem worth reading I don't want to read without delving into them.
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Date: 2006-01-19 08:40 pm (UTC)Jupiter has been turned into a star the old-fashioned way - mass got added until fusion started taking place. Someone is at the UN building after all this has happened, and noticed that it will never be night again. This is wrong for the parts of the year the Jupiter is not in our night sky.
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Date: 2006-01-19 09:22 pm (UTC)