tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post5558811175380138842..comments2024-03-28T04:15:00.814-07:00Comments on Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHESJerry Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-90058112821259415672016-11-25T17:00:52.097-08:002016-11-25T17:00:52.097-08:00Harlan Ellison is always worth reading. I read th...Harlan Ellison is always worth reading. I read the 1975 paperback by Ellison and Ed Bryant. I'll have to track down a copy of PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-10487606781570754002016-11-25T10:23:30.051-08:002016-11-25T10:23:30.051-08:00The argument Ellison described wherein he was told...The argument Ellison described wherein he was told that the horizons within the pods couldn't be (let us say, since I don't have it to hand) twenty miles away but only two miles, since if set up "realistically" for 20m they'd be muddy and unappealing...and it takes Ellison some time to get past the general goofiness to simply suggest, OK, you put 'em in as if two miles away, and we still continue to act as if that's how it would look at 20m...and the producers decided to change the script for no reason other than to match up with the 1973 computer-assisted design...or to spite Ellison. And maybe Bova as well, by that time. And the series was, to be sure, no visual feast, anyway. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-84495292861690943962016-11-25T10:21:09.443-08:002016-11-25T10:21:09.443-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com