Flubber Colonoscopy! (The Absent-Minded Professor/Flubber, based on "A Situation of Gravity," by Samuel W. Taylor
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This time we picked up a very hard to find story, “A Situation of Gravity,” by Samuel W. Taylor, which was adapted into the 1961 movie The Absent-Minded Professor and the 1996 remake Flubber.
The story was originally published in the May 22, 1943 issue of Liberty magazine. We couldn’t find that. It was also anthologized in Taylor’s book Take My Advice, Mr. President. We also couldn’t find that. But one of our local librarians traced us down a scan of the story from the anthology. Let us know if you have an easier time finding it. If not, enjoy the episode without the reading!
Rankings!
James: Story/1996 movie/1961 movie
Colin: 1961 movie/1996 movie/Story
Seth: 1961 movie/Story/1996 movie
Let us know if you were able to find the story. It’s truly difficult to find.
This time we hit Robert Mason’s 1989 military/AI novel Weapon, adapted to a pretty terrible 1996 movie named after the main character, Solo.
Colin reached out to the author and got him to do some Q&A, which we sprinkle in through this episode.
It’s a tricky eBook to find. I guess I found it from Barnes & Noble a while back, but right now I don’t see it in the store. The book is excellent and worth tracking down.
Colin references the afterword from the book that’s available on the author’s page:
This time the guys discuss Tom Godwin’s 1954 classic short story “The Cold Equations” and tackle three of its adaptations: the 1980s Twilight Zone episode, the 1996 Sci-Fi Channel movie, both sharing the story’s title, and the 2014 short film titled The Stowaway.
