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How did the Novel end?

posted 16 years ago by L8O1S5T
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I've heard the movie follows the novel pretty closely but the ending is different. I was going to buy the novel or go to the library and I might if no one responds. But I wanted to know how the novel ends. And do you think it was a better ending than the movie? I personally didn't like the ending for the movie. I was expecting them to show me something more than just the two main characters almost naked implying that their expecting. Can anyone tell me how the novel ends?

Thanks.

[–] promethius99 16 years ago

Read the book, I have read many of John Varly's novels.....the man ROCKS!!!

[–] ZAROVE 15 years ago

I was confused by ...

1: How she ended up pregnant.

2: Why the Robot couldn't go. I mena, his line of "There is no place for me where you are going" made no sense, as they didn't know what the future world was like, and surly if it was the future things like him would have existed int he past so he'd not have been out of place, even if Antiquated.

3: What, exactly, happened to them?

4: Why they suimply didnt send time excursions to the uture to see what it wa slike, find a decent future time, and sent humanit there, including the time gate (or build a new one) and then resue past humans to ppulate a new future world that wasn't dyng.

[–] khu 15 years ago

1) In-out in-out; the usual.

2) They didn't know what the future was like.

3) They went into the future.

4) They did!

All the questions are answered pretty well in the book, or at least hinted at such that the ending is satisfying and conclusive.

I really recommend people read the novel. There was a LOT in there that they didn't include in the movie. The movie's a 5.4 on IMDB, but the book would be like a 7 or an 8!

[–] mpoconnor7 14 years ago

In the book, Mayer didn't die, but he had a daughter who died in a plane crash some years earlier and he knew she had been snatched by the people from the future. As I remember he made some sort of deal with the time travelers to help them if he could be reunited with his daughter.

[–] DoomMarineid 9 years ago

1.) They had sex at the hotel

[–] eliz7212 14 years ago

What two characters were almost naked. I just watched the movie and WHAT TWO CHARACTERS WERE ALMOST NAKED? At the end, they are teling people to go into the light and Sherman is there and I repleat...

What two charcters were almost naked??

[–] ekpyrosis-1 14 years ago

I don't understand one thing about the ending of the novel - was its heroine actually mentally ill or something, as it was implied by Sherman? I don't get it, was the whole world she lived in, a mere delusion?

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[–] Grismandir 13 years ago

It's been a long time since I read the book, but I remember the clear impression that Baltimore was delusional. The extent of her delusion was not, IIRC, made clear... she herself was apparently just fine physically, but I don't remember any clarification about whether or not the future society was as she perceived it or not. My own personal take on it was that the future society was indeed deeply and truly screwed up, mentally rather than physically, and Louise was a sterling example. I like imagining that each person from the future had their own, different, hellish future-world that they were living in.

[–] jlyon1515 13 years ago

The initial poster must have watched the movie outside the US, where there was a different 'garden of eden' ending. The trivia page mentions this other ending, though I personally haven't seen it.

[–] Simplythebest11962 9 years ago

by jlyon1515 » Sun Aug 21 2011 21:27:06 Flag ▼ | Reply |
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The initial poster must have watched the movie outside the US, where there was a different 'garden of eden' ending. The trivia page mentions this other ending, though I personally haven't seen it.

He's from the future & the scene he saw differed from the 1989 version! LOL