The NBC radio series X Minus One did an adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's Requiem that is well worth listening to, a very good telling of the story. Their version of Murray Leinster's First Contact, on the other hand, misses the point. They make up for it with A Logic Named Joe, based on the 1946 Leinster story that describes massively networked desktop computing devices that have replaced telephones, televisions, encyclopedias and so on -- with, eventually, unexpected social consequences that the story solves but we're still living with.
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I have a brother-in-law who was a fan of early Heinlein's "juveniles", as am I. When the film 'Space Cowboys' came out, I called him and asked if he had seen it. He replied "The end is D. D. Harriman's 'Requiem'!" (I knew he would recognized it). Tommy Lee Jones, sitting against a rock on the Moon, is a directly from 'Requiem'.
And..., same BIL, similar call, except he called me... after 'The Wrath of Khan' Star Trek came out. Spock's manner of death and blindness is directly lifted from the death of The Poet in 'The Green Hills of Earth".
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