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Last Wednesday, P. D. James made a whistlestop appearance at the Harvard Book-store to promote her latest novel, The Children of Men. The audience of elderly ladies indulged the Baroness in her readings from the book, but clearly considered her apocalyptic sci-fi vision as an eccentric deviation from James' standard country-house butler and-candlestick whodunnit. When question and time rolled around, the crowd voiced their concerns about the suspension of the Commander Adam Dalgliesh detective series: would James please revert to her comfortable, tried and tested subject and style...
...canceled most civil liberties. But the middle class still prospers, and Oxford shelters scholars like Theo Faron. Because he is the strongman's cousin, he is approached by a pretty member of a dissident group. Her fellows turn out to be cliches, and, of course, she gets pregnant. Sci-fi is a cottage industry, but it is not the terrain of James, who presides over mysteries. Usually a novelist of daunting confidence, she cannot here even find a moral grounding for her characters...
VIDEO On laser disk, a skull-busting animated sci-fi film...
...BOTTOM LINE: Berserk graphic imagery and a tempering idealism make for a real sci-fi skull buster...
With the very first scene, all the huggy-warmy feelings usually associated with animated features take a nose dive. This futuristic movie on laser disc is a virtuoso piece of speculative fiction, a violent adventure tale, a head- bending sci-fi morality play and a venture into the higher realms of animation art that kicks all the squishier conventions of the genre right in their well-upholstered butt...