I'm recovering from a little yard work I did yesterday and this morning I am watching a slice of cheese from the 50's titled "It came from Outer Space"! Gives ya chills. Right? Anyway, I tivoed it last night after I had watched a good sci fi movie from 1985. Ron Howard's "Cocoon". I loved the scene where all the aging stars are sneaking out of the retirement home and Don Ameche's character peeks in an empty room as they go by and the tv set is showing him in one of his b&w films from the 1930s. Nice! It got me to thinking that 1985 was a pretty good year for sci fi. Besides "Cocoon", there was "Back to the Future", "Brazil", "Enemy Mine", "The Quiet Earth", and on the cheese front, "Real Genius" and "Weird Science". Of these, "The Quiet Earth", I think, is an underappreciated classic. Well worth the watch!
On the book front, I yesterday finished "The Mammoth Book of Kaiju: 27 Tales of Monster Mayhem". Good Read, and available on Bookmooch.com. I have started Stephen Baxter's NASA Trilogy. The first of which, "Voyage" was published in 1996 and tells of mankind's conquest of Mars. In this alternate timeline universe, Kennedy was wounded, but not killed in 1963, and due to his influence on following presidents, NASA flourished and the first flight to Mars took off in 1985 (wow-'85 again). I'm about 80 pages in, but it is well presented and definitely holds my attention.
Long Live and Prosper!
