(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 51, Issue 18

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Nov 6 16:06:07 PST 2008


Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> writes:
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Stephen Case wrote:

>>  I'm not sure how much of this was kept in the movie . . .

> The movie was an excellent adaptation of a cover of a book by Robert
> A. Heinlein!

I dunno, I found the movie an excellent parody of the book.  The events of
the movie weren't the events of the book, but the society portrayed by the
movie is the society that I think the ideas in the book would have created
in practice.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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