Kent archie
Interesting. I would expect Holmes to be more flustered by dealing with magic as he depends on logic and magic is often not logical or consistent. The book slowed down a lot when it was time to have a lecture on the Lovecraft universe. So it was worth reading but I'm not very interested in the others
Ive seen the movie several times and generally enjoyed it. But it has some very annoying anti-science rants in it. Now I see where they come from. There is a several page screed about hot stupid engineers are and another even long one about the failure of science. These are both from the mathematician character, who should know better. If you want an example of how running something like Jurassic Park isn't that difficult, just go to Disney's Animal Kingdom and count how many people are eaten by tigers everyday.
As a software engineer, I find the Nedry character offensive, But using the stereotype makes the writing a little easier, I guess. There is an important bit of information that is kept from the heroes by a mistake in the computer software, but it is a mistake that not even a beginning programmer would make. But when you start with the assumption that science and engineering are bad then you need to have characters do dumb things to prove your point.
I will probably read the next book but not for a while.
I hadn't read this but I have seen the movie several times.
Often while reading, I could see the actors saying the lines.
The movie is very like the book.
If you wanted to update this to modern technologies, it wouldn't be hard
as the tech is similar but with better resolution, faster computers and better graphics.
An interesting story. I didn't like that there was another radiation band that could block communication where the Van Allen belts don't.
I seem to recall another story where people found that Mars had an old civilization but I can't recall the details.
I'm hoping some later book has an alien life form that isn't hostile.
I liked it but it wasn't that interesting.
There are 3 main stories in this.
The romance one was pleasant and had a good ending.
The Holmseian mystery was well done and the Holmes and Watson analogs were believable
and clever
The SF part of the book was less satisfying.
It took too long for the structure of the world and how it came to be to be explained.
And the events at the end seemed to be very important and bad for the characters but I couldn't see what the problem was.
So while I liked it and people should take a look at it, I don't think I'll be reading any others if they come along.
The cold war stuff is a little exaggerated, but only a little.
This book was published in 1959, long before Apollo 11 but the author figures out that
the best way to get around on the Moon is to do a kind of kangaroo hop.
This is what the astronauts would do on the Moon about 10 years later
I am enjoying these more than I expected and so far, these would be pretty easy to update for modern times.
Even though I am a retired male software developer, I thought this book was very inspirational.
Now I am off to read about the Apollo abort guidance system, which I didn't know about before reading about Judith Cohen
Also points to North American Aviation and Douglas Aircraft for hiring and training these women at a time when that would have seemed risky
