Andy_L
April 8, 2017, 2:23pm
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P.S. Also thought that the movie “Core” was a dumbed-down version of the novel “Core” Core (novel) - Wikipedia but apparently not.
(and I’m not alone in this CONTRARY BRIN: Watch my “other” (awful) movie adaptation )
E-DUB
April 8, 2017, 4:11pm
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When I saw the ads for “Passengers”, I too was reminded of another story. Not the Steele, which I recognized from the OP, but one in which the guy did reanimate one of the females. An older story, clearly not the basis for the film, more similar in tone to the comic presentation, but I was never able to run it down.
Elendil_s_Heir:
I remember another 1950s-era story in which a guy is awakened by the ship itself because the computer needs him to make a decision (to avoid a collision, maybe?). I remember he barfs when he wakes up, is fed a thin broth and has oils massaged into his very dry skin by the manipulator arms of his cryogenic bed. There was time travel later in the story, too. Anyone remember that story?
Right you (both) are, and here it is: http://lulz.xerq.net/TXT/far-centaurus.txt
E-DUB
September 2, 2017, 11:12pm
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Bumping this to ask if anybody knows the name of the story I reference in post 23?
billfish678:
That actually happened to me. Except it was in the back of station wagon with “wood panel” siding rather than a spacecraft and our family vacation destination was the grand canyon rather than nearby star system.
Other than that? Exact. Same. Thing.
OMG yes. We were passengers once, and young.
E-DUB:
When I saw the ads for “Passengers”, I too was reminded of another story. Not the Steele, which I recognized from the OP, but one in which the guy did reanimate one of the females. An older story, clearly not the basis for the film, more similar in tone to the comic presentation, but I was never able to run it down.
The description is vague. By chance was it The Dream Millennium by James White? In that novel the male protagonist wakes up one woman who was caught in a malfunction and comforts her as she dies, and then there’s a second unscheduled awakening of a woman by the ship’s computer to check up on him when he fails to report for re-freezing on time.
There are some people who claim that Passengers was inspired by a comic book story called “50 Girls 50”:
Passengers is a 2016 American science-fiction romance film directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Jon Spaihts and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. The supporting cast features Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne and Andy García. The film follows two passengers on an immense interstellar spacecraft carrying thousands of people to a colony 60 light years from Earth, when the two are awakened 90 years early from their induced hibernation.
The script was written in 2007 by Spaihts, but la...