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(The Arrival movie was based on) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Book Pile

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What if the Gingerbread Man Was Real?

David Bianculli: What if the world is a simulation to keep us happy batteries for feeding robots? Some of mine are, and these come from movies too. I'm trying to think what other great sci-fi can be described in a premise. He says Star Wars could have been, what if a dune was made into a movie in 1977? Yeah.

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