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Heinlein's 'All You Zombies' Now a Sci-Fi Movie Head Trip
HughPickens.com writes: Sara Stewart reports at the NY Post that the new sci-fi movie Predestination, opening January 9, is "loopier than Spielberg's [Minority Report]; its plot twists and turns 'like a snake eating its tail,' one character remarks, until you're not sure whether its developments are even plausible in a fictional universe." It's based on Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction classic All You Zombies, first published in 1959. The story involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel, further developing themes explored by Heinlein in a previous work, By His Bootstraps, published some 18 years earlier. Predestination's plot concerns the intersection of a time-traveling assassin and an androgynous young writer
Agreed. Starship Troopers was awful. I LOVED it.
Most of the story is a distraction tactic to keep you from figuring out the first punchline (nobody remembers the second), and the rest is a bunch of jokey acronyms like "Women's Hospitality Order Refortifying & Encouraging Spacemen" (the only one not spelled out in the story).