ClassicCmp Survivor Series!

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Tue Jul 10 16:11:21 2001

It was thus said that the Great John Allain once stated:
>
> > We're just part of a simulation, being run in another universe. :)
>
> <rave>
> There was a movie called "The Thirteenth Floor" made in 1999
> that had this as the basis, Computer simulations as all encompassing
> alternate universes. In case you thought the movie sucked or,
> further that is doesn't apply to the 10 year rule... It is based on
> a story "Counterfeit World / Simulachron-3", published in, get this,
> 1964... and serialized for German TV in 1974 by Fassbinder.
> Just in case you thought VR was a unique idea.

  And there was a Doctor Who story in the mid-70s (with Tom Baker) about him
being stuck in a VR world while the Master tried to kill him (``The Deadly
Assasin'' I think is the name of the story). Quite well done actually.

  -spc (And there was Brainstorm in 1983 ... )
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