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Thanks for the input, Woc Cixelsid... can't believe that I'd forget the Three Hundred at Thermopylae. Coffee, need more coffee...
It's a heck of a story, and probably it inspired all the rest, either directly or indirectly through other works. One of these days I'll get around to finding and reading Gates of Fire.
Posted by: Reiginko
I was under the impression that Blade Runner was the film-ification of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, rather than just inspired by it. I haven't seen the movie myself; I've only read the book, but from what people who've seen it have told me, it's basically the same.
Unless you don't mean the kind of "inspired" that people use when referring to I, Robot. :)
When I use "inspired by", I mean more than just "used the same 26 letters of the alphabet." :)
Actually, I gotta confess that I haven't read Electric Sheep. I was going by memory of the press propaganda around the release. I hope it's close... closer than Total Recall was to "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale".
(Hmm... Dick's had a lot of movies made from his work, hasn't he? But that's starting to drift off-topic, unless anybody thinks that Screamers or Minority Report influenced Bungie work...?)
To bring this back to Bungie influences, Jason Jones expressly said that The Mote in God's Eye and Starhammer had influenced the plot of Halo. (Gaah! Can't find the interview... it used to be in Tru7h and Reconciliation before the New Hotness hit.) There's good evidence that the Culture novels by Banks pulled some strings, too... not the least of which is that Halo is an Orbital, and that the ship names are reminiscent.
This could be interesting... what other literary influences can we find?
-- Steve's afraid to see I, Robot... he loved Dr. Asimov's work, and it's always received shabbier treatment in movies than Dick's.