I would love to get a copy of this book. Right now, I have other, more pressing expenses. but in couple or three months, I might just buy that one on Amazon. I had never really understood the movie until listening to the recent discussion. I had not even thought of it as religious, but Lovecraftian. Myself , I am hoping to write in the incensepunk genre, from the Orthodox Christian perspective.
What I like about the genre, or more specifically, the magazine, is that it wants 'light at the end of the tunnel', not 'everything ends' apocalypses with no hope.
The one thing that concerns me about this film is when we come to the hubris part of the gravity drive, and its purpose. If we look at it in terms of the effect of tearing a hole between our dimensions and the divine, then it is definitely a 'Thou shalt not'. But if we think of it as a simple attempt at FTL travel, with unintended consequences, then we run into a problem. Because God cannot have created an entire cosmos and forbidden us to explore it. Either we find a different mode of FTL space travel, or we use slower-than-light methods of travel, like an ion drive, etc., with cryosleep or something of that nature. I'm not good with anything that doesn't allow us to explore, or honestly, where no matter how dark, humanity eventually wins. Hear that, you Necrons and Tyrannids! Because from my chosen faith's world or universe-view, if humanity acts correctly (and maybe even if we don't), we will ultimately prevail; there is not someone who will be chosen over us.
Also, in the area of script novelizations, I have always thought - having read these about four and a half decades ago - that Alan Dean Foster's adaptations (and considerable expansions) of the scripts for the animated Star Trek series, the last few being book-length, were something not to miss out on.
Good luck finding a reasonably priced copy! It's an interesting point about the gravity drive - we get the impression of hubris in the film but that's *after* it's already killed an entire crew. Surely there would be warnings of its evil before the maiden voyage as well!
The evil might not be in the gravity drive itself, but in its creator. Here we run into Sam Neill's character and his motivations. I would have to watch the movie again, but I think we need more of his backstory, which the book might provide. Is he, in a way, like Jack Nicholson's character in 'The Shining'? I mean, the way Stephen King originally wrote the character, or the way he was played in the movie? It seems to me that it may be a case of originally innocent intentions, which, as their potential consequences became slowly revealed as Neill worked on the gravity drive, drew him further and further in with temptation, using his weakness against him, promising to fill the hole that grief had dug.
I would love to get a copy of this book. Right now, I have other, more pressing expenses. but in couple or three months, I might just buy that one on Amazon. I had never really understood the movie until listening to the recent discussion. I had not even thought of it as religious, but Lovecraftian. Myself , I am hoping to write in the incensepunk genre, from the Orthodox Christian perspective.
What I like about the genre, or more specifically, the magazine, is that it wants 'light at the end of the tunnel', not 'everything ends' apocalypses with no hope.
The one thing that concerns me about this film is when we come to the hubris part of the gravity drive, and its purpose. If we look at it in terms of the effect of tearing a hole between our dimensions and the divine, then it is definitely a 'Thou shalt not'. But if we think of it as a simple attempt at FTL travel, with unintended consequences, then we run into a problem. Because God cannot have created an entire cosmos and forbidden us to explore it. Either we find a different mode of FTL space travel, or we use slower-than-light methods of travel, like an ion drive, etc., with cryosleep or something of that nature. I'm not good with anything that doesn't allow us to explore, or honestly, where no matter how dark, humanity eventually wins. Hear that, you Necrons and Tyrannids! Because from my chosen faith's world or universe-view, if humanity acts correctly (and maybe even if we don't), we will ultimately prevail; there is not someone who will be chosen over us.
Also, in the area of script novelizations, I have always thought - having read these about four and a half decades ago - that Alan Dean Foster's adaptations (and considerable expansions) of the scripts for the animated Star Trek series, the last few being book-length, were something not to miss out on.
Good luck finding a reasonably priced copy! It's an interesting point about the gravity drive - we get the impression of hubris in the film but that's *after* it's already killed an entire crew. Surely there would be warnings of its evil before the maiden voyage as well!
The evil might not be in the gravity drive itself, but in its creator. Here we run into Sam Neill's character and his motivations. I would have to watch the movie again, but I think we need more of his backstory, which the book might provide. Is he, in a way, like Jack Nicholson's character in 'The Shining'? I mean, the way Stephen King originally wrote the character, or the way he was played in the movie? It seems to me that it may be a case of originally innocent intentions, which, as their potential consequences became slowly revealed as Neill worked on the gravity drive, drew him further and further in with temptation, using his weakness against him, promising to fill the hole that grief had dug.
I like that interpretation! And it does sound like the book goes more into Neill's background, which makes me want to read it even more!
And I just found a scan of it on Internet Archive so perhaps I will!
Cool! I might be able to read it there then too.