David McCloskey

And the slightly scantily clad woman, when I went deep,

in my researches on this.

So the big shape, the big kind of people in this Pavilions of Joy picture, those are 10,000 foot statues.

And then beneath that is the cityscape.

Oh, now it makes sense.

Now it makes perfect sense.

This is where, yeah, exactly, fade to black, is that I tried really, really hard to summarize the plot in a coherent way.

I will attempt it and I will try to do this punchily, okay?

So Lord of Light-

is set on a planet colonized by some remnants of Earth.

These people have found themselves on a strange planet surrounded by hostile indigenous races and had to carve out a place for themselves or perish to increase their chances of survival.

The crew has used chemical treatments and electronics to mutate their minds and create enhanced self-images or aspects

that, quote, strengthened their bodies and intensified their wills and extended the power of their desires into attributes, capital A, which fell with a force like magic upon those against whom they were turned.

The crew has also developed a technology to transfer a person's soul electronically to a new body.

Again, very Silicon Valley.

Yeah, yes.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, this is what – I mean, so we're ragging on this screenplay.

I mean, the novel won the Hugo.

I mean, this novel was a big deal in the sci-fi world of the 1960s.