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I think this book was the basis for the Avatar movie. I read it as a teen and really liked it, but you do a great job of poo-pooing it haha.
by elevaet 3y ago
I think this book was the basis for the Avatar movie.
I read it as a teen and really liked it, but you do a great job of poo-pooing it haha.
- ajmurmann 3y agoI thought Avatar was Pocahontas almost scene by scene.
- lproven 3y agoAvatar is a melange. (Pun intentional.) There is TWFWIF, and there's also Poul Anderson's "Call Me Joe" which has the core idea of teleoperator somehow transferring his consciousness into the remote android, and there's some of Pocahontas for the resource-extraction themes – which is also why some called Avatar "Dances with Smurfs" for its references to "Dances with Wolves". ---- The pun here being that "mélange" is both the French for a "mix" or "blend" and also the life- and consciousness-extending drug in Frank Herbert's Dune, which itself is a melange of a SF novel and also a roman à clef of the Great Powers-backed takeover of Arabia by the House of Ibn Saud, in which melange represents oil. Oil is the magical substance plentiful in desert Arabia which enabled long-distance movement for the Great Powers of the West, as melange enabled inter-stellar travel for the Empire in Dune.