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Stalker, based on Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky (with guest Ben DeBono)

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Ben DeBono from The Sci-Fi Christian joins us once again to discuss a slow science fiction movie and the book that inspired it. It’s Roadside Picnic, by the Strugatsky Brothers, adapted by Andrei Tarkovsky into Stalker.

SFC episode about Ben catching up with the Criteron Collection:

http://thescifichristian.com/2023/08/episode-1107-criterion-completion/

SF 101 episode about the OMSI Science Fiction Film Festival:

https://101sf.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-festival-of-sci-fi-bonus-episode-of.html

Rankings!:

  • Ben: Film/Book
  • Colin: Book/Film
  • James: Book/Film
  • Seth: Film/Book

TMTYR Episode #96: There is No Chronology (Slaughterhouse-Five)

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James and Seth are joined by Emmanuel Dubois to discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five and the 1972 film adapted from it. Colin sat this one out as he didn’t have anything nice to say about either.

Rankings

Emmanuel/James/Seth: Book/Movie

Notes:

Seth’s blog about his first time reading the book: http://seth.heasley.net/blog/2010/04/28/wordful-wednesday-slaughterhouse-five/