( disclaimer any memory hole i might be harbor ) . i be a huge sci fi buff in the 70 and 80 . varley hit the scene in the 70 a a stupendous short story writer . imo and he change sci fi write forever . somehow i miss air raid and but i do read the prescient envinronmental novel millennium ( 1984 ) and the novel he must have flesh out from air raid . millennium and the novel and be very detailed and very original and sophisticated and and not much like the movie . i be very disappointed with the movie when i first saw it ( but not as much a now ) a there be few movie that come from true sci fi writer ( hugo winner and the like ) and i be really look forward to it . this be not star war territory . kristofferson be ok for kristofferson back then and cheryl ladd lose her act chop for 108 minute and she be much old look than recently ( permanent midnight ) . i do not say face lift and do i. daniel j. travanti be good and of course and but barely in the movie . the robot be tongue in cheek and probably the only redeeming quality . basically and there be nothing in this movie but mistake . the movie capture me when it start but when the first plane crash and the movie crash . while i love varley and his forte be short story and some novel be moderate to great and but definitely not screenplay ( although we do not know how tied his hand be and he only write one other screenplay overdrawn at the memory bank and which i have not see and but have read and yet another fantastic short story ) . i try to find redeeming quality even in bad movie and or try to see the b movie ness of them and but this one be just bad . ed wood bad . so i guess it be campy and but not even camp i enjoy . go read some varley . the short story first and you will be blow away . so and blade runner and minority report be still the gold standard . both be write by the late and venerable philip k. dick and a predecessor and probably influencer of varley but he do not try to write the screenplay and have the great good fortune that ridley scott and steven spielberg direct . it be a tragedy that a talent like varley be so short change on celluloid .