Ends up as high ranking officer and usual SOL content
I have vague memories about a story in which a guy repelled a Japanese attack virtually single-handed, getting wounded in the process. He got promoted and ended up with two wives. I'm not sure it was Pearl Harbor, the guy may have averted that completely. Unfortunately I can't remember the author (aubie56?) or title.
AJ
Carl did the same thing in Book 14 of Second Chance by Number 7.
That was the first I thought of, but I must have fat-fingered something when I searched so I came up with nothing.
Thanks, that was driving me nuts. I knew I had seen the OP's story somewhere!
I really enjoyed Book 14. I gave up on the story fairly early after the third or fourth repetition of the same gunfight but with a different mob or three letter agency.
Well shoot.... I gave up on it too over a year ago and now I have to read Book 14 because it sounds interesting. I guess you do learn lots of good stories to resume here in the forums. Any reason to restart Arlene and Jeff or is it still just going on without any real direction?
There was also the 1980 book and movie The Final Countdown.
The USN carrier USS Nimitz sailing out of Pearl Harbor on December 7 1980 is pulled through a temporal wormhole to the same location on December 6 1941
The same author (Martin Caidin) had several of his works show up on screen and or TV. Most notably the cyborg series which the 'six million dollar man" was based upon.
The final countdown was a good book, but the movie sucked. I'd like to see a modern remake with good actors and graphics rather than the cheese factory they applied to that movie.
I'd like to see a modern remake with good actors and graphics rather than the cheese factory they applied to that movie.
Keep in mind that at the time that movie was made, the cheese factory they applied was about the best they could do back then. Remember what Star Wars looked like in 1977, or Star Trek in 1979? Or the Poseidon Adventure? All those Godzilla movies?
You can add Logans Run, Battlestar Galactica, and many others to that list.
The Final Countdown was in my opinion, particularly bad even for its day. Graphics had little to do with the ability to write the screen play or the actors ability.
I wish you well with Caidin's books but I can no longer read them. To many laws of biology/physics broken with a very superficial understanding of what is going on. This is outside of the core "fiction" (i. e. Bionics, manfac suit etc)
I really enjoyed them years ago, too
limab
Does the book end the way the movie does? Because that was perhaps the most misleading setup and disappointing ending of all time.
Short answer is no. Too much was cut out for the screen play for the movie not to disappoint. Long answer is a third of the progression was dropped from what was in the book leaving the viewer asking WTF?
Too much was cut out for the screen play for the movie not to disappoint. Long answer is a third of the progression was dropped from what was in the book leaving the viewer asking WTF?
They cut so much out so they could show all those carrier take-offs and landings. It was like product placement in other movies, advertising for the Navy.
The Navy gave them a lot of help and access to make the movie, it had to cost the movie makers some way.
That brings back memories... It was the second movie I ever saw in a movie theater... The first was Star Wars.