Brin: Singularities, Nightmares, and Japanese Sci-Fi

[Wayne Eddy]

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" <dbrin at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion" <brin-l at 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