James Blish Jack of eagles
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Edinburghemma
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James Blish Jack of eagles
Has anyone else noticed that the Matrix seems to be a rip-off of (amongst other things) Blish's Jack of Eagles, which I think was written in the the 60s or 70s (maybe earlier-have lost my copy).
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Roland of Gilead
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I'm no expert on this sub-genre, and I haven't read the Blish novel you mention, but my guess is that The Matrix is a rip-off of just about every cyber-punk novel ever written. But it's the FIRST to do the concept in movie form with any degree of success, and for this it deserves kudos.
"I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything." - Dark Tower II, The Drawing of the Three
It's similar, but only in the sense that there's a hero who has powers but is unaware of them. In the book, as he develops, he uses abilities that everyone has the potential for.
James Blish has written some good stuff - the Cities In Flight series, Midsummer Century, The Warriors Of Day, ok, maybe the last one wasn't so good...
Tom
James Blish has written some good stuff - the Cities In Flight series, Midsummer Century, The Warriors Of Day, ok, maybe the last one wasn't so good...
Tom
"so marvelously had it been constructed, that from a hundred feet away the tiny crack between wood and stone was completely invisible."
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True.LOL
Blish actually calls his 'worlds' the Matrix in the book, which is a dead giveaway, non?
I am glad that I am not the only one who even remembers this book. Hurrah! Pints all round!
Blish actually calls his 'worlds' the Matrix in the book, which is a dead giveaway, non?
I am glad that I am not the only one who even remembers this book. Hurrah! Pints all round!
The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.