I gave Ray a copy of this book yesterday.

http://www.amazon.com/Bradbury...id=1273426933&sr=8-1

Reading the blurb, it seems this book could come under the heading of "inspired by Ray".

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Originally posted by philnic:
Reading the blurb, it seems this book could come under the heading of "inspired by Ray".

Or opportunist?

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Originally posted by jkt:
I gave Ray a copy of this book yesterday.

http://www.amazon.com/Bradbury...id=1273426933&sr=8-1

The subject was explored in a 1979 film, The Clonus Horror, memorable plot well-acted. The major flaw was the guy playing the clone looked nothing like the guy playing the original from which the clone was made. I've often thought, being as they're so into remaking films which don't need to be remade, why not remake this one with lookalike family members, or two actors who seem to have come out of the same mold? For instance, Matt Damon and Sam Worthington are just one of many examples of actors who seem to have been cloned. If the same guy was playing both parts, they'd have to give the clone a tattoo or something to distinguish him.

dandelion, your method of making such a film is too easy. What they would ACTUALLY do is blow forty billion dollars on CGI characters (a la Gollum)...

I've never really gone along with cloning stories like this. The reason? We already have human clones. They're called identical twins. And never in human history has anyone ever suggested that we treat someone's identical twin as subhuman or nonhuman. Why would we sudddenly make an exception for a clone produced by a partly artificial method?

Now, if we're talking about WHOLLY artificial replicas (Marionettes Inc, Blade Runner), that's a different matter. I can go along with that!

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Originally posted by philnic:

I've never really gone along with cloning stories like this. The reason? We already have human clones. They're called identical twins. And never in human history has anyone ever suggested that we treat someone's identical twin as subhuman or nonhuman. Why would we sudddenly make an exception for a clone produced by a partly artificial method?

Ditto. Both my cousins and my sisters are identical twins.

One of Ray's oldest and dearest friends is mentioned in today's Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/enterta...0519,0,6836605.story

Article by Neil Gaiman about Ray from the Times Online UK


http://entertainment.timesonli...s/article7131847.ece

My local NPR station, KPCC, ran a piece about it being a must to read Dandelion Wine EVERY Summer.

http://www.scpr.org/programs/o...delion-wine-rewound/

On this day in 1961 President Kennedy gave his "the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" speech.

If only we had made that landing on August 22, 1969 instead of July 10th, as Ray had predicted.

I've officially gone over the top. Attached is the vanity plate for my new car. It may not be that clear due to the glare from the flash but the Volvo logo incorporates the symbol for Mars.

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Under History look at the second paragraph. You will notice the name of a paper company that became a well known fictional character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeadWestvaco

Paper ~ Our favorite fireman! "Montag"

Pencil ~ Guy's tutor-in-hiding, "Faber"
Here: http://blogs.dixcdn.com/woolga...10/01/faber-box6.jpg

(Also, Peter Faber was the tutor behind St. Ignatius Loyola)

Beatty was named after the lion tamer.

And here is an ad for the paper.

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Originally posted by jkt:
Under History look at the second paragraph. You will notice the name of a paper company that became a well known fictional character...

What I find interesting is that Montag was brand name of MEAD. Wasn't Leonard Mead the protagonist of "The Pedestrian"? (He might also have been the name of the protagonist in "The Fireman" before Bradbury revised it as F451 - I will need to check my copy of MATCH TO FLAME to confirm this).