We got to go see The Wild Robot at our local SF Film Festival, so we figured it was high time we covered this terrific movie, and we were joined by Colin’s elder son, Peter.
Rankings:
Picking up a short title to keep Seth sane, and a cheery-ish one to keep Colin sane, the Pavement Pounders discuss Lev Grossman’s short story “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” and the 2021 Amazon film of the same name.
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Rankings!
Colin: movie/story
James: tied!
Seth: movie/story
The guys discuss The Midnight Sky, the new film on Netflix, based on Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel Good Morning, Midnight.
Rankings!
This time out, the guys discuss M.R. Carey’s short story “Iphigenia in Aulis,” which was adapted into both the book and movie The Girl With All The Gifts.
Rankings!:
Colin: Short Story, Book, Movie
James: Short Story/Book, Movie
Seth: Book, Movie, Short Story
Notes:
Not XKCD but a good comic nonetheless about “All Lives Matter”:
This time out, the Pounders discuss the new film Arrival and “Story of Your Life,” the Nebula-winning Ted Chiang novella on which it’s based.
Go see this movie! It’s awesome!
Pounder Rankings!:
Colin:
James:
Seth:
(But it’s pretty close on all counts)
Notes:
Zencastr!
https://zencastr.com
Ted Chiang interviews:
http://www.indiebound.org/author-interviews/chiangted
https://electricliterature.com/the-legendary-ted-chiang-on-seeing-his-stories-adapted-for-the-screen-and-the-ever-expanding-916a9530e598#.x3a6212z0
Creating the Heptapod language:
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/arrivals-designers-crafted-mesmerizing-alien-alphabet/
https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/14/dissecting-the-alien-language-in-arrival/
Stephen Wolfram on the science of Arrival:
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/11/quick-how-might-the-alien-spacecraft-work/
