The boy’s mother looked up to this star and told him to make a wish. As Hollis is falling to Earth, a boy looked up to him and thought of him as a shooting star. He knew that he would burn like a meteor when he hit the atmosphere, but did not know if he would be seen. Hollis – not wanting to die nor wanting to live – knew his fate was Earth. The friends said goodbye.Įach man left knew their time was limited they said goodbye. Hollis looks to the stars and saw nothing but a whirlpool of gems and colors. God, it’s beautiful, all that metal.” Stone’s character turns from being scared, to accepting his death and joins the stars. You get all kinds of colors and shapes and sizes. “I think I’m in the Myrmidone cluster that goes out past Mars and in toward Earth once every five years. He tells the men of the stars about a group of meteors. Out from the depths of the cosmos, a voice rings out: Stone’s. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?” After silence and contemplation on Hollis’s part, he spoke: “It’s all over Lespere!”
“From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. All the men from the ship would die in one way or another out in space. But now, falling in space, Hollis knew that none of those things Lespere had done in the past truly mattered. He came from drinking, gambling, and had a wife on Mars and one of Venus. Lespere was a man of strong words and a colourful world. Hollis was the one to make it stop: he killed Stimson. Hollis attempts to talk sense into his frightened head Stimson held to his fear and began to scream. “Oh, it’s a long way down… I don’t want to die, it’s a long way down,” said a voice through the walkies. The men were scared, and for the most part, Hollis was the one to put them at ease. The Captain is destined to hit the moon, Hollis for earth, but each of them falling in space. It is revealed to us, early on, that each man in this story is destined for something different. Stone is a man filled with fear at the start of the story, and Hollis is the only one who can bring a sense of peace to his mind. Kaleidoscope was a serious story - below is a brief outline for it I found out on the net. Hollis is first brought into play after a man named Stone calls out to him. Bradbury book The Illustrated Man - the story Kaleidoscope. One of the first characters introduced is a man named Hollis. Many men are thrown from this ship in various different directions at thousands of miles per hour: each with their own different fate. In the opening line, Bradbury says that a spaceship has been ripped up “with a giant can opener”.
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In both the movie and the Bradbury story members of the crew are talking to each other about their situation, with one of the men finding himself being pulled along out into space along some special well known asteroids (wish I could remember which).In Ray Bradbury’s short story entitled “Kaleidoscope”, are a variety of different characters. Now if that description above was all I would not have given it another thought, but there were the following additional similarities (that I recall.):
But each knows he is going to die and each handles it in a different way. For a time they are able to talk to each other over their spacesuit radios. No printed price or stated date of publication. Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club for Fall 1969. Notes: 'Book Club Edition' printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket indicates a printing by Doubleday for its various book clubs. In “Kaleidoscope” a rocket blows up and all of the men aboard it find themselves hurtling through space in different directions, unable to stop. Cover: The Illustrated Man (1967) by Dean Ellis. Kaleidoscope was a serious story - below is a brief outline for it I found out on the net:
Something crossed my mind as I recently re-watched it that makes me curious if Carpenter and the other makers of this film had gotten a seed of an idea for the end of the movie from one of the stories in the Ray Bradbury book "The Illustrated Man" - the story "Kaleidoscope". Ray Bradburys 'Kaleidoscope' and 'Dark Star'
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