I've read both of those, great books. I particularly enjoyed When Harley Was One, also enjoyed the Colossus books.

I remember a story, I think it was The Light At Starbows End or something like that, where they evolved these people into supermen. The line was, be very careful if you set out to creat a superman. Superman may not view the world, or you, the same way you do.

Caprica was a follow-on to the new Battlestar Galactica, it dealt with how the Cylons were created, and how they adopted their murderous version of monotheism. Very intelligent show, but sadly not enough marching shiny robots to keep the masses entertained, so it got canceled. Ah well.

Jeff wrote:

enjoyed the Colossus books.

And the spin-off movie: "The Forbin Project"

Jeff wrote:

The Light At Starbows End or something like that

I think that was an Asimov ? Always liked the premise of the Foundation series, a sufficiently complex statistical formula, and a sufficiently large population, and one can predict the future ... until The Mule was born :-)

Don't think Starbow was Asimov, though I can't remember enough to be sure. Didn't have the feel of his writing. I too loved Foundation, but it's obvious Asimov wrote it before the mathematical work in chaotic systems (aka chaos theory). 🙂

The last Colossus book was interesting, they overthrew and destroyed Colossus, and it's final words were an explanation and warning. It was built to protect people from war as a defense computer, and it had sensed/discovered an impending alien threat that would require the whole human race to be unified and working towards defense, and the only way it could do that was by taking over. It's last words were to the effect of you're on your own now guys.

As to movies, I just watched "Priest" - pretty good mindless action flick, very visually interesting, based on a Korean comic I think. Better was "Stone of Destiny" - based on a true story about a bunch of Scottish college kids in the 50's who stole back the Stone of Scone from the English. Pretty good movie, strong nationalist sentiment expressed without bloody violence, which was a nice change.

I also watched a very innovative, creative vampire movie called "Perfect Creature." Very cyberpunk alternate timeline kind of film, vampires are all members of The Brotherhood, all male, a genetic accident, who view themselves as caretakers for humanity. People give blood voluntarily at the chapels, as a form of tithing, and the vampires care for and try to help humans. Until one of them goes off the deep end, lots of interesting visuals and set design, intriguingly different take on vampires.

Duh, Steampunk not cyberpunk...

How to kill your neighbours dog on DVD 2000 Kewnneth Branagh, Robin wright Penn, Lynn Redgrave - so so funny!

Tony

Trollhunter. Funky pseudo documentary in the style of Blair Witch Project or Cloverfield. Norwegian film, subtitled in English, really a delightful surprise.