Oh, the things you discover by doing vanity Google searches. Advanced apologies to the five I tag.
The Crotchety Old Fan has tagged me with a meme started by SFSignal.
I’m going to cut and paste the instructions for the benefit of the next players.
# Copy the list below.
# Mark in bold the movie titles for which you read the book.
# Italicize the movie titles for which you started the book but didn’t finish it.
# Tag 5 people to perpetuate the meme.
Here is where I show how much cinema I don’t watch, or how much cinema I read, for that matter. Still, I’ll give it a go.
1 Jurassic Park
2 War of the Worlds
3 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
4 I, Robot
5 Contact
6 Congo
7 Cocoon
8 The Stepford Wives
9 The Time Machine
10 Starship Troopers
11 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
12 K-PAX
13 2010
14 The Running Man
15 Sphere
16 The Mothman Prophecies
17 Dreamcatcher
18 Blade Runner(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
19 Dune
20 The Island of Dr. Moreau
21 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
22 The Iron Giant(The Iron Man)
23 Battlefield Earth
24 The Incredible Shrinking Woman
25 Fire in the Sky
26 Altered States
27 Timeline
28 The Postman
29 Freejack(Immortality, Inc.)
30 Solaris
31 Memoirs of an Invisible Man
32 The Thing(Who Goes There?)
33 The Thirteenth Floor
34 Lifeforce(Space Vampires)
35 Deadly Friend
36 The Puppet Masters
37 1984
38 A Scanner Darkly
39 Creator
40 Monkey Shines
41 Solo(Weapon)
42 The Handmaid’s Tale
43 Communion
44 Carnosaur
45 From Beyond
46 Nightflyers
47 Watchers
48 Body Snatchers
As I feared, not many.
My tag list:
1) 2008 Campbell Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal
2) Eric James Stone
3) Jack Mangan
4) James Maxey
5) Matt Rotundo