Space Adventure Surpasses One Million Downloads

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• This is one of the most impressed web productions i have ever seen and MUCH BETTER than most Scifi you see on TV. I highly encourage everyone to go download the film. If you like PLEASE send in a donation. I think we all want to see more.

  • , and whether you want to read nojsiidted chapters from early drafts. As glimpses into an alternative '2001 , one that Kubrick might have filmed, it's priceless; as entertainment, it's less interesting. Like the other hard sci-fi' writers, Clarke is best at the science bits, and a short segment from an alternative finale, one in which the four surviving Discovery crewmembers explore a deep hole in the side of Iapetus (although, oddly, it's only referred to as Jupiter V' perhaps they hadn't named it yet), is fascinating. The talky bits were never his strong point, though, and the pre-flight glimpses at Earth in the year 2001 are full of people not so much conversing, as delivering little scientific monologues at each other. As with everything else Clarke has written, none of the characters have any actual character although it's possible that this is hyper-realism as, let's face it, most people in the real world are bland, dull and interchangeable, especially when they're at work, and Clarke's characters are always at work. Disappointingly, HAL doesn't appear at all. The other main strand personifies the monolith in the form of Clindar, a tall, noble alien who comes across as an insufferably self-righteous riff on Klaatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still'. One shudders to think how camp the film would have been if this had been filmed. And there are a couple of descriptions of alien landscapes and societies which are quite evocative but have a habit of repeating themselves.There's a reprint of The Sentinel' as well, but if you're going to the trouble of ordering this from Amazon (it took about a month for them to find and post it to sodden, freezing, miserable London, which wasn't much slower than a normal order) you've probably read that already. In summary, then, if you're reading this you're either buzzing with curiosity or you're me, and if you're a fan of the film, the book, or Clarke it's essential. You'll probably buy it, read it once, and never read it again, though.

• This is an amazing show, and I can't wait to see the next episode!

• Hey Look! Me in a spacesuit! I am so glad people are liking what we did with L5. I hope we get to continue it...but at this point that is up to you folks and whether you feel we are worthy of a donation. Feel free to ask us anything (L5 related.) on the Facebook group.