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Angry Robot BooksMichael Crichton, R.I.P.
Michael Crichton passed away on November 4th from cancer. I’ll let the wiki article give the details of his long and incredibly successful career. I’ll just hit my high points. The original The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, The 13th Warrior (based on the book Eaters of Dead) and good old Westworld.
He falls into the grey area between had a long successful life and died before his time. 66 is an age where it is tough to really say either, so I’ll just let his passing go without saying either. He left his mark and the entertainment industry owes him much.
Stanley Kubric revisited
This is an old Article on the Guardian’s website. I’m pretty sure I’ve read this article before, but have no real sense for how it struck me the first time around. The author has a pretty good handle on capturing the feelings he gets while fumbling around in Mr. Kubrics archive of a house. However it seems somehow obvious to me that he just does not “get it” either. The strange thing about that is the article is the better for it, becasue if it had been written by someone worshiping everything Kubric the reader would miss out on quite a bit.