All You Need Is Kill
by Hiroshi Sakurazaka · first published 2004
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Which is based on the short novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Worth reading if you liked the movie.
on “How to commit murder inside a locked room” ↗…I've listed these ones specifically because those others have already been recommended elsewhere in the thread whereas these may get missed. - Adam Roberts: New Model Army (2010?) - Hiroshi Sakurazaka: All You Need is Kill (2005?) - Mike Resnick: The Dark Lady (2015?) - KC Alexander: Necrotech (2015?) - Gary Gibson: Stealing Light, Nova War, and Empire of Light (2013?) - Linda Nagata: The Last Good Man (2015?)
on “Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing” ↗All You Need Is Kill is a great read. The movie, Edge Of Tomorrow, was based on this book.
on “Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories” ↗The title is All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka for anyone who don't know.
on “An Open Letter to Warner Bros CEO About Layoffs and Donuts-” ↗Oh, geez, that reminds me of the Mimics from All You Need Is Kill (the basis of Edge of Tomorrow. In the novel, the Mimics are not the alien invaders themselves, but rather nanomachine colonies sent by the actual aliens that infest and control the bodies of starfish,…
on “Starfish bodies are just heads, new research says – CNN” ↗Hiroshi Sakurazaka wrote 'All you need is kill', which became Edge of Tomorrow film. And, while not SciFi, I think Haruki Murakami's books are worth a read and might scratch and itch you didn't realise you had. Start with Norwegian Wood if you want…
on “Ask HN: Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors?” ↗A process a little bit like that is a background detail in the book 'All You Need Is Kill' – which is the basis for the Tom Cruise movie 'Edge of Tomorrow' ("Live, Die, Repeat").
on “Poison-Injecting Robot Submarine Kills Sea Stars to Save Coral Reefs” ↗…reputable site in '11. They're all in pristine condition, all perfectly readable. I have books on my Kindle that are older than that (though not by a lot). My 5 year old copy of "Edge of Tomorrow" (The LN "All You Need Is Kill" movie tie-in release) is yellowed and the binding is coming loose due to re-reading. The ebook manga I got at the same time is also in pristine condition, and will remain so when the book is long gone.
on “Digital books wear out faster than physical books” ↗Fun fact: Edge of Tomorrow is also known as 'Live, Die, Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow' and the original Japanese Novel was called 'All You Need Is Kill'.
on “Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)” ↗Wasn't the source material the light novel? I remember it being called "All you need is Kill".
on “An Open Letter to Warner Bros CEO About Layoffs and Donuts-” ↗All You Need is Kill/Edge of Tomorrow covers the worst case scenario, for the receiving planet. I think they left out the explanatory chapter in the novella out of the movie since that required an omniscient narrator or…
on “Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start” ↗Sort of the impetus (which at least gives us a reason unlike the movie adaptation Edge of Tomorrow but is not as important as the impact) in the novella All You Need is Kill.
on “Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf]” ↗