WELCOME to the Messageboard for the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival and Marathon!!
FULL LINEUP! Note Order: THE MATRIX in 35mm! ONE MILLION YEARS BC in 35mm! LAPSIS, READY PLAYER ONE in 70mm! DREDD, MAD MAX, PREDESTINATION, TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN (aka INVASION), UPGRADE, ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, DEEP BLUE SEA in 35mm! and BLAST FROM THE PAST. Plus! A bonus surprise! And, of course, Duck Dodgers! More to come
SF MARATHON INFO LINKS
SF/49 Official Information Page Click here
Reactions to 2024's SF/49 lineup? POST here
>List of ALL Films that have played the Marathon. Click below
Click here for The History Of The Marathon/Festival

The Next Marathon will be held Presidents' Day Weekend 2024 at the Somerville Theater.
It will be preceded by the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival. For ticket info: www.Bostonsci-fi.com


  Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register
   
  HomeHelpSearchLoginRegister  
 
 
Ursula K LaGuin (Read 5735 times)
Jan 23rd, 2018 at 8:49pm

Lile   Offline
Full Member
SF Rocks

Posts: 196
***
 
Ursula K LaGuin passed away today. Her novel, The Lathe of Heaven, was made into a PBS movie. One of the greats has passed and will be sorely missed.
 
IP Logged
 
Reply #1 - Jan 25th, 2018 at 12:00am

David the Projectionist   Offline
Senior Member
The Living Dinosaur at
the Somerville Theatre

Gender: male
Posts: 328
****
 
Lile wrote on Jan 23rd, 2018 at 8:49pm:
Ursula K LaGuin passed away today. Her novel, The Lathe of Heaven, was made into a PBS movie. One of the greats has passed and will be sorely missed.


     Ursula K Le Guin.
     *SIGH*
 

I have seen the future, and it is sucky digital....
IP Logged
 
Reply #2 - Feb 3rd, 2018 at 5:54pm

pogo   Offline
God Member
SF Rocks
Beautiful Cleveland, Ohio

Posts: 689
*****
 
The first science fiction author that my spouse ever liked.
I offered her The Left Hand of Darkness with some trepidations. She found things in it that I had not.
One of the few novels ever to win both the Hugo (fan based) and Nebula (voted by writers) as best novel of it's year. Far too complex for the simplicities of film.
Met her once, for a total of about 20 seconds, while she signed a book. As has always been the case when I have met authors who I loved, I burbled some boring inanities of appreciation.
I feel old. All but three of the couple of dozen SF authors who I most esteemed are dead. Probably means that I am not keeping up.
 

Thars only two possibilities:Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are,or we're the most intelligent life in the universe.Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought-WaltKelly
IP Logged
 
Reply #3 - Feb 3rd, 2018 at 10:22pm

i am kirok   Offline
YaBB Newbies
SF Rocks

Posts: 23
*
 
i once called Ursula K LeGuin a blabbering old biddy.
 
IP Logged
 
Reply #4 - Feb 4th, 2018 at 11:38am

i am kirok   Offline
YaBB Newbies
SF Rocks

Posts: 23
*
 
i once called Ursula K LeGuin a blabbering old biddy.
 
IP Logged
 
Reply #5 - Feb 5th, 2018 at 12:00pm

pogo   Offline
God Member
SF Rocks
Beautiful Cleveland, Ohio

Posts: 689
*****
 
I once opined that Sturgeon's Law was a thoughtful underestimate of comments such as the above.
Your point?
 

Thars only two possibilities:Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are,or we're the most intelligent life in the universe.Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought-WaltKelly
IP Logged
 
Reply #6 - May 18th, 2020 at 5:01pm

kirok1   Offline
Full Member
anybody order fried sauerkraut?

Gender: male
Posts: 193
***
 
David the Projectionist wrote on Jan 25th, 2018 at 12:00am:
Lile wrote on Jan 23rd, 2018 at 8:49pm:
Ursula K LaGuin passed away today. Her novel, The Lathe of Heaven, was made into a PBS movie. One of the greats has passed and will be sorely missed.


     Ursula K Le Guin.
     *SIGH*

do you love her or hate her?
 
IP Logged