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Title    Heinlein's ‘All You Zombies’ Now a Sci-Fi Movie Head Trip
Date    Friday January 09 2015, @12:47PM
Author    LaminatorX
Topic   
from the all-tomorrow's-zombies dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/01/09/1224238

Hugh Pickens writes:

Sara Stewart reports at the NY Post that the new sci-fi movie "Predestination," opening January 9, is "loopier than Speilberg's [Minority Report]; its plot twists and turns “like a snake eating its tail,” one character remarks, until you’re not sure whether its developments are even plausible in a fictional universe."

Based on Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction classic "All You Zombies," and first published in 1959 - the story involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel further developing themes explored by Heinlein in a previous work, "By His Bootstraps", published some 18 years earlier. The plot concerns the intersection of Ethan Hawke’s time-traveling assassin and an androgynous young writer who becomes a key player in the quest by Hawke (he’s only billed as The Barkeep) to catch a New York-based serial bomber.

The story is the movie's long set-up, a tale of a bullied childhood told by one who was bullied, a romantic rendezvous that may or may not happen, a single mother exploited by science and the debris, scattered through time, of every wound, ordeal and heartbreak that a single life has to endure writes Roger Moore. "Will "The Bartender" find his prey and prevent a tragedy? Will he be able to pull the trigger, one last time? Will "The Unmarried Mother" improve her lot or change her destiny?"

Links

  1. "Hugh Pickens" - http://tingmodel.com/
  2. "new sci-fi movie "Predestination,"" - http://nypost.com/2015/01/07/predestination-is-a-sci-fi-head-trip/
  3. "Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction classic "All You Zombies,"" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies
  4. "involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel" - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13030110-all-you-zombies
  5. "Will "The Unmarried Mother" improve her lot or change her destiny?" - http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/01/05/5426327/predestination-engrossing-time.html#.VK4YBCvF928

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