![]() The stories Reason, Catch That Rabbit, and almost everything after Little Lost Robot are omitted, which sucks from a completion standpoint but are understandable from a filmability perspective (even I wouldn't really be too interested in a movie version of stuff like Escape!) The points of deviation are minor and excusable, for the most part: He turned a somewhat loose collection of short stories into a coherent story, keeping an impressive amount of the material and characterization from the original works and even managing to emphasize Asimov's points about prejudice and morality. Ellison may be a notorious jerk in the sci-fi world (see the decades of controversies over the infamously unpublished anthology The Last Dangerous Visions, or even the somewhat self-aggrandizing introduction to this volume), but his screenplay for Isaac Asimov's classic ended up being really good. ![]()
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