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According to Ellison, the short story is a warning about "the misuse of technology" (especially military technology), [12] and its ending is intended to represent how there is "a spark of humanity in us, that in the last, final, most excruciating moment, will do the unspeakable in the name of kindness", even sacrificing oneself for others' sake ...
"The Machine That Won the War" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the October 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , [ 1 ] and was reprinted in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) [ 2 ] and Robot Dreams (1986).
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 47% based on 97 reviews, and an average rating of 5.64/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "War Machine ' s uneven execution keeps its fact-based story from cleanly hitting its targets, but those flaws are frequently offset by sharp wit and solid acting."
Surprise cameos and a sweet coda: Director Taika Waititi and the film's stars explain what exactly is going on in the end credits of the latest Marvel blockbuster — and what it means for the ...
In the author's notes for this story, David Brin records that he was invited by Gregory Benford to write a piece for an alternate history collection, entitled Hitler Victorious, but voiced the opinion that he could not think of a single event which, if altered, would have let the Nazis win the war, and, contrariwise, that they had required a number of lucky breaks to get as far as they did ...
[This story contains spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder.] For screenwriter Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, landing Thor: Love and Thunder was the good news in a good news/bad news conversation.
In the preface to his Collected Short Stories (1947), Forster wrote that "'The Machine Stops' is a reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H. G. Wells."In The Time Machine, Wells had pictured the childlike Eloi living the life of leisure of Greek gods while the working Morlocks lived underground and kept their whole idyllic existence going.
Team Thor is a series of direct-to-video mockumentary short films that were released from 2016 to 2018, consisting of Team Thor, Team Thor: Part 2, and Team Darryl, all written and directed by Taika Waititi. The three short films are included as special features in the MCU films' Blu-ray and digital distribution releases.