Once again I’m inspired by the book I just finished, The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, which is a take on the Time Traveler’s return trip into futurity and why he never returned to the poor Writer. It’s a nice read but a rather rambling 500-page monster. Maybe a risky first choice for an author as storied as Baxter, but I liked it.

There are no zombies in his version. There are, however, giant crocodiles.

Grand! I’m familiar with the Time Machine (That’s the classic here for anyone that doesn’t know what a Morlock is.) I might check out Baxter. Fun read bro’!

I got a H.G.Wells feel as well. This is not a far stretch though as the 2002 remake has a zombie like creature in it.

Ahh, you mean the ‘grand Morlock mind controller’ or whatever. I actually saw the movie before I ever read the book – sad to say as a science fiction buff. I received a copy of the Cinefex special effects industry magazine about the making of that, and I did a film visual design class project on the movie, and listened to the commentary tracks on the DVD, Hearing all the talk about how far the story diverged from the original just made me want to read the book, and finally I did.

Turning the Eloi into ‘top model’ contestants is probably the saddest thing Hollywood has ever done to a science fiction story. Okay, maybe right after taking the shoulder-launched nukes out of Starship Troopers.

Oh, Lord. I could write volumes on the horrible things done with the Starship Troopers book adaptation.

I enjoyed the “strange illuminated typewriter”

Incredible. Amazingly written.

Oh, did Wells a nice turn!

Seriously, what about the nuclear hand grenades? You can’t turn Heinlein into a movie.

I love Baxter’s SF, he writes some very heady, deep SF stuff, but yeah, he tends to go pretty far afield fairly often. I gotta say though that what was done to Isaac Asimov’s “Bicentennial Man” might be worse than what was done to the Eloi. What was done to IA’s “I, Robot” isn’t nearly as bad as what they hired Robin Williams to do.

The Time Ships is a Baxter novel I haven’t read yet, s’pose I should go pick it up.

Am I rambling? Yes I am. I am also intrigued by the possibility that the zombies somehow over time morphed into the morlocks.

I never saw Bicentennial man. Nor read the book; I’m pretty light on Asimov as well.

I thought about the role of zombies in the continuing evolution, and I considered the alternate: zombies take over the surface, some humans hide out underground in hardened shelters. Perhaps other survived by being on isolated islands or whatnot.