Silly, yes…but even more ingenious, flamboyant and offensive. Honestly, anyone could have invented an outrageously exaggerated premise like this but the fact that it was actually Roger Corman who dealt with it just proves how eminently he ruled the B-movie circuit back then.ĭeath Race 2000 is one of the most entertaining films ever made and I, for one, can’t imagine someone not loving the severely ridiculous story of a coast-to-coast car race where the contesters score points by wiping pedestrians off the road. Paul Bartel – Frankenstein’s doctor (uncredited)ĭeath Race 2000 is the finest example to show how easy it actually was back in the seventies to come up with a timeless cult film. Leslie McRae – Cleopatra (as Leslie McRay) Griffith (as Charles Griffith)ĭon Steele – Junior Bruce (as The Real Don Steele) “Possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read.” - Robert A.In The Year 2000 Hit And Run Driving Is No Longer A Felony. Or it might indicate the position of their home planet… By the award-winning writing team behind Footfall and Lucifer’s Hammer. It just might turn out to be Motie laser light. Next, the book jumps back to 2540, where most of the crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity are frozen for the journey to Yellowstone (in the Epsilon Eridani system) in order to find Sylveste.Īliens known as Moties are first contacted in 3017 AD in the region of space known as the Coalsack, much to the distress of pious Himmists. As a violent dust storm threatens to temporarily shut down the excavation, Sylveste discovers new evidence that the entire Amarantin race achieved a much higher level of technological sophistication than was previously known, before they were wiped out in a single mysterious cataclysm. Dan Sylveste, an archaeologist, leader of the colony, and wealthy scion of a prominent scientific family, leads a team excavating the remains of the Amarantin, a long-dead, 900,000-year-old civilization that once existed on Resurgam.
The book opens in the year 2551 on Resurgam, a planet considered a backwater on the edge of colonized human space. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets. Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. The Foundation, a colony of psychologists, battles for supreme power in the galaxy, while also struggling to preserve all the accumulated knowledge of humankind in The Foundation, a sanctuary created by Hari Seldon. The story behind this fear of venturing outside the city tells of a race of ruthless invaders which beat humanity back from the stars to Earth, and then made a deal that humanity could live - if they never left the planet. Nobody has come in or left the city for as long as anybody can remember, and everybody in Diaspar has an instinctive insular conservatism. The city of Diaspar is completely enclosed. As far as the people of Diaspar know, they are the only city left on the planet. By this time, the Earth is so old that the oceans have gone and humanity has all but left. The City and the Stars takes place a billion years in the future, in the city of Diaspar. Top Five Scifi books that have not been made into movies (yet) Harvey Keitel, Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett
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