Which came first: the book Enders Game, written originally in 1977 or the movie The Last Starfighter, which was released in 1980 something but I don't know its true origins. Thanks!
"The Last Starfighter" was released in '84, and wasn't based directly on any other source material. So "Ender's Game" came first.
So to generalized then, *spoilers on to those who don't know* what was the first, "Its just a game, Oh My GOD its real" type Sci-Fi movie/story?
Not sure it was the first use of the idea, but it beats both of the above. Phillip K. Dick's "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale."
As soon as I read the first paragraph of that article I was like, "Total Recall". Then I read the second paragraph.
Yeah, he's had a bunch of stuff adopted...some of it's good (Total Recall, Minority Report) and some of it's...er, not so good (Paycheck, Next). And "A Scanner Darkly" was just weird. I think his books are really dated, unfortunately. They don't hold up as well today as Asimov, Clarke, or Heinlein's stuff.
QFT. Consider this (people who reject the theory of evolution can stop reading now): Whatever species preceded the chicken would have laid an egg that hatched into the first chicken, just as the first human (Homo sapiens) would have been born from a woman of the previous species. So the egg comes first.
