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tillman

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 11:18 am
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http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html

A pretty cool site, discovered while googling to update SF Site's author
listings. But, my god, blue on black lettering? Oh weel, at least no
starry background amidst the DOS nostalgia...

Q. How would you like to see your science fiction books filmed, if at
all?

A. With a very, very, very big budget indeed. The one I'd most like to
see done is Consider Phlebas; if they kept in the sequence where the
megaship hits the giant tabular iceberg, the fist-fight under the giant
hovercraft, the bit where the Clear Air Turbulence escapes from the GSV,
and the final train wreck, I wouldn't even mind if they changed it to a
happy ending!

Yeah! AOL! Me too!
[unfortunately, the link to this interview has expired.]

Cheers -- Pete Tillman
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 4:14 am
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"Peter D. Tillman" wrote in message

<font color=purple> > <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html</font" target="_blank">http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html</font</a>>
 >
 > A pretty cool site, discovered while googling to update SF Site's author
 > listings. But, my god, blue on black lettering? Oh weel, at least no
 > starry background amidst the DOS nostalgia...
 >
 > Q. How would you like to see your science fiction books filmed, if at
 > all?
 >
 > A. With a very, very, very big budget indeed. The one I'd most like to
 > see done is Consider Phlebas; if they kept in the sequence where the
 > megaship hits the giant tabular iceberg, the fist-fight under the giant
 > hovercraft, the bit where the Clear Air Turbulence escapes from the GSV,
 > and the final train wreck, I wouldn't even mind if they changed it to a
 > happy ending!
 >
 > Yeah! AOL! Me too!
 > [unfortunately, the link to this interview has expired.]
 >
 > Cheers -- Pete Tillman
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We would love to see that!!!!!!!!!

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 5:43 am
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Peter D. Tillman wrote:

<font color=purple> > <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html</font" target="_blank">http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html</font</a>>
 >
 > A pretty cool site, discovered while googling to update SF Site's author
 > listings. But, my god, blue on black lettering? Oh weel, at least no
 > starry background amidst the DOS nostalgia...
 >

Halo is another take on Bungie's Marathon universe. Halo certainly has
been influenced by IMB's Culture universe.

If the Marathon universe takes your fancy after reading Hamish's Story
page (< <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://marathon.bungie.org/story" target="_blank">http://marathon.bungie.org/story</a>>) you can d/l a demo of M2
here:
<http://www.bungie.com/products/marathon2/marathon2.htm>

.... there's a link towards the bottom of the page for either Mac or PC
demo's.


In the same way that the Culture universe has been woven together from
IMB's books - we're given glimpses and clues of the whole rather than
the specifics - Bungie put together a basic shoot-'em-up game if you
wanted it, but provided a _huge_ backstory to explore if you were at all
inquisitive.

--
Andrew.
(Contact to 'fromusenet' at blueyonder etc. etc.)
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 2:19 am
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Tillman writes
 >But, my god, blue on black lettering?

Try this:

<http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html#zap_colors>

to fix such abominations.
--
Andy Mabbett
USA imprisons children without trial, at Guantanamo Bay:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2970279.stm>
<http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR510582003?open&of=ENG-USA>
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