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   From: mvp@shell.calweb.com   
      
   In article <5huhje9d6tsemn2sp9agfi7tqgvf2gn6pf@4ax.com>,   
   J. Clarke   wrote:   
   >>>The _Puppet Masters_ film was fairly close to the novel, sans nudity.   
   >   
   >The thing that bothered me about it was that it totally lacked the   
   >ambiance.  Heinlein placed it in a spacefaring culture with nuclear   
   >energy commonplace (remember the General Atomics house core?) and   
   >heavy aircar traffic.   
      
   The decision to place it in present-day, rather than a spacefaring   
   culture ... I guess I missed that aspect of the book, but I think   
   for a movie, it was probably the right decision.   
      
   Heinlein's background for this culture assumed things about the   
   other planets in the Solar System that we now know are just wrong.   
   The plague that wiped out the slugs was a virus picked up by   
   the colonists on Venus, IIRC.   
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