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lucjan said: Ugh, such a blatant rip-off of Arthur Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth and the movie Artificial Intelligence. Haha, but it was still good. Wish there was at least some originality in the story, because every idea I saw implemented was stolen. Edit: Sucks how ignorant everyone here is about this. The guy blatantly stole other peoples' work. Says a lot about his character... Well I have read all ac clarke novels and seen that movie. So, apart form robot sentiency and human extinction plot elements usage, what exactly was "omg stolen"? You can't steal ideas or you would blame 99% of scifi genre for using I.Asimov's Laws of Robotics and so on. The idea of humanity's end, its survival, what happens after that, its a common theme in science fiction. As is sentient robotics(should we go rage on Urasawa' Naoki's Pluto, just because it draws heavily upon Isaac Asimov's works? no) |
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Fai said: lucjan said: Ugh, such a blatant rip-off of Arthur Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth and the movie Artificial Intelligence. Haha, but it was still good. Wish there was at least some originality in the story, because every idea I saw implemented was stolen. Edit: Sucks how ignorant everyone here is about this. The guy blatantly stole other peoples' work. Says a lot about his character... Well I have read all ac clarke novels and seen that movie. So, apart form robot sentiency and human extinction plot elements usage, what exactly was "omg stolen"? You can't steal ideas or you would blame 99% of scifi genre for using I.Asimov's Laws of Robotics and so on. The idea of humanity's end, its survival, what happens after that, its a common theme in science fiction. As is sentient robotics(should we go rage on Urasawa' Naoki's Pluto, just because it draws heavily upon Isaac Asimov's works? no) It wasn't necessarily the idea of humanity's end, but how similarly detailed the two stories were about specific events. For example, the space craft that was leaving Earth and was heading for another solar system was carrying human DNA. Now, the idea of the tower carrying DNA (albeit not human), could be perceived as mixing traditional science fiction ideas with others, while the space craft, along with the actual story carrying a similarity to the book, was just a plain rip-off (not to mention the two crafts being called "ark"). If we also examine the two space crafts, their capacity of human DNA is as well similar - just saying. As for the ending, I suppose I saw it more as being taken from A.I since the beginning of the story led me to believe the author was a shady guy. The ending, with the Aliens coming to Earth, had them lead the tower peacefully to sleep - same thing happened in the movie. |
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| One robots determination to save humankind evolves with age to the stage where it goes beyond human knowledge to preserve DNA for 27 million years. 10/10 from me. Too bad only one human being is left and the rest are animals... |
| Awesome one shot <3.. Totally had me in awe the whole time o__0.. |
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| This manga made me feel enormously insignificant. \m/ |
| Fantastic read. If only this made into a movie or something. |
| this deserves the no.1 spot in one shots, even though i have read a small amount of one shots, this is REALLY impressive, i mean, i never knew when the manga made me attached, but at the end, i knew i got PRETTY emotional... I think its becuase how realistic it is (i'm no scientist, but i knwo the facts are wrong.... hopefully...) |
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| Best one-shot I've read, this is amazing |
| Masterpiece Chapter :D almost 11 month After Last Comment lol |
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| One of the best one shot I have read in a long time. |
| What is the most cowardly and shameful thing in human conduct? It's when people with power and people who flatter them hide in safe places and extol war, force patriotism and self-sacrifice on others, then send them to the battlefield to die. For the sake of peace in the universe, before we continue this fruitless war with the Empire, mustn't we first start by exterminating such evil parasites? - Yang Wenli |
| The previous version was still better, at least that one didn't have Boichi's unfunny chibi faces. Well it's still his best work to date so I can't complain too much. |
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| This was way inconsistent, changing tone from page to page. The neko faces. |
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| And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all... for millions and millions of years...exploring, learning, living, until the earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning and the moment comes that he knows only the positions of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives and he lives until all of the lights go out. |
| This was an excellent sci-fi story. It might be one of the many apocalypse-related what-if scenarios out there but this was a really chilling and emotionally-gripping read! I'm no alarmist but this made me want to clean more for the environment's sake lmao |
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| Holy sh*t....i wasn't expected a history like this you don't know how much this kind of stories i like, stories with millons and millions of years whit the existence of earth changing naturally. |
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