Talk:The Caves of Steel

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Last sentence: anyone have a better, i.e. less idiomatic or colloquial, phrase than "screen time"? (This is after all a novel, not a film). Ed Cormany 04:18 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thank you, Evan, for fixing this up. Nice work. Ed Cormany 23:34 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

below break is older talk


moving comment from article:

(I assume the allusion to the biblical Moses is intentional)



"The book's central crime is a murder. Citing his own squeamishness (and John Campbell's advice of beginning as late in the story as possible), the victim dies before the novel opens."

His, I assume, refers to Asimov. Could this be made clearer?

Acegikmo1 06:10, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Spoiler.

Should the "Spoiler" tag be further down. No plot is revealed by the "setting" portion.

In general, I don't read past a "spoiler" tag because I don't want to be told plots; that's why I read the book. But it would be nice to have as much background information as possible before the spoiler. The worlds created by sf writers are really a separate point from the plots. I hate to see an entry which has the spoiler box near the top; it implies the entry is nothing more than a book report, rather than a work of scholarship. Also: should anything else follow the plot - because I don't go there?

Does anyone agree?

I generally consider the spoiler tag to apply to the section (usually "Plot" or "Summary") in which it is placed. This way, I know it's safe to read sections like "Publication details". To that end, I'm moving the spoiler tag. (The Setting section, I think, doesn't give out much more than dust jacket material or Asimov's own autobiographical anecdotes—and he certainly wasn't worried about those hurting sales. . . .)
Anville 18:35, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Film?

A few days ago, if I remember correctly it was said that there was a film to be made of the book. Was I just seeing what I wanted, or did I miss it, or is it incorrect? The Modern Prometheus 01:59, 15 November 2006 (UTC)