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==Plot summary== |
==Plot summary== |
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| ⚫ | 8,000 years in the future, two crewmembers, Rand and Shapiro, survive the crash-landing of their spacecraft on an uncharted planet made up entirely of sand. Rand becomes hypnotized by the endless dunes and refuses to either move from the very spot he's standing on or drink water. Shapiro also feels drawn to the dunes but, unlike Rand, finds this hypnosis frightening and is relieved to go inside their shipwreck, where the dunes are out of sight. At one point he sees, or imagines, how the unnamed world once hosted civilized intelligent life, but over time the cities, bodies of water, and ultimately everything on the planet was overtaken and buried by the sand. |
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When another spacecraft arrives in response to Shapiro's distress beacon, the crew initially treat his account with skepticism. Rand fights them off, drawing strength from his eroded sanity. The captain sends out an android to force Rand to leave, but it quickly breaks down as sand gets into it. The sand also rises up to stop a tranquilizer dart a crewman fires at Rand. As the black glass burned into the sand by the ship's thrusters on landing steadily crumbles, the captain finally heeds Shapiro's demands to leave. The ship lifts off, narrowly managing to reach [[escape velocity]] as a giant hand-shaped wave of sand tries to bring it down. Rand stares up at the ship as it disappears and begins to pile handfuls of sand into his mouth. |
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''Beachworld'' is set at an unspecified time in the distant future. Among the few clues to the date is the passing reference that the last of the [[Beach Boys]] had died eight thousand years previously. |
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Rand resists leaving the planet, and the sand reveals itself to be sentient. It prevents Rand's rescue by damaging a sampler android sent from the ship and sending a hand of sand up to stop a tranquilizer dart. The rescue ship escapes just in time, with Shapiro and the trader's captain both narrowly avoiding a giant hand of sand. Rand, left alone, stares up at the ship as it disappears, and then begins to pile handfuls of sand into his mouth. |
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==Adaptations== |
==Adaptations== |
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Short animated film by [[Maria Ivanova]]. It was screened on several film festivals. Only the trailer is available on the internet (due to the [[Dollar Baby]] contract) {{YouTube|-X3DWUdbFHo|Beachworld teaser trailer}}. It is the first official Russian Dollar Baby. It was made by one person: Maria directed it and animated. |
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In February 2012, filmmaker Christian Skibinski acquired the rights to adapt "''''Beachworld''''" into an animated short film, which was scheduled to be released later that year. |
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A live action version of [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3982228/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1%5D Beachworld] was released in 2015. |
A live action version of [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3982228/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1%5D Beachworld] was released in 2015. |
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A Dollar Baby version of ''Beachworld'' from OneNinth & Pointed Pictures premiered online in 2021 as part of the Stephen King Rules Dollar Baby Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Haysom|first=Sam|title=25 Stephen King short films are being shown at this virtual festival. Some have never been released.|url=https://mashable.com/article/stephen-king-dollar-baby-short-film-festival/|access-date=2021-04-27|website=Mashable|language=en}}</ref> |
A Dollar Baby version of ''Beachworld'' from OneNinth & Pointed Pictures premiered online in 2021 as part of the Stephen King Rules Dollar Baby Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Haysom|first=Sam|title=25 Stephen King short films are being shown at this virtual festival. Some have never been released.|url=https://mashable.com/article/stephen-king-dollar-baby-short-film-festival/|access-date=2021-04-27|website=Mashable|date=8 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Latest revision as of 05:29, 14 July 2023
| "Beachworld" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Stephen King | |
| Land | Vereinigte Staaten |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Genre(s) | Horror, Science fiction, Short story |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Weird Tales (1st release), Skeleton Crew |
| Publication type | Magazine |
| Media type | Print (Periodical) |
| Publication date | 1984 |
Beachworld is a short science fiction story by Stephen King, first published in Weird Tales in 1984, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.[1]
Plot summary
[edit]8,000 years in the future, two crewmembers, Rand and Shapiro, survive the crash-landing of their spacecraft on an uncharted planet made up entirely of sand. Rand becomes hypnotized by the endless dunes and refuses to either move from the very spot he's standing on or drink water. Shapiro also feels drawn to the dunes but, unlike Rand, finds this hypnosis frightening and is relieved to go inside their shipwreck, where the dunes are out of sight. At one point he sees, or imagines, how the unnamed world once hosted civilized intelligent life, but over time the cities, bodies of water, and ultimately everything on the planet was overtaken and buried by the sand.
When another spacecraft arrives in response to Shapiro's distress beacon, the crew initially treat his account with skepticism. Rand fights them off, drawing strength from his eroded sanity. The captain sends out an android to force Rand to leave, but it quickly breaks down as sand gets into it. The sand also rises up to stop a tranquilizer dart a crewman fires at Rand. As the black glass burned into the sand by the ship's thrusters on landing steadily crumbles, the captain finally heeds Shapiro's demands to leave. The ship lifts off, narrowly managing to reach escape velocity as a giant hand-shaped wave of sand tries to bring it down. Rand stares up at the ship as it disappears and begins to pile handfuls of sand into his mouth.
Adaptations
[edit]A live action version of Beachworld was released in 2015.
A Dollar Baby version of Beachworld from OneNinth & Pointed Pictures premiered online in 2021 as part of the Stephen King Rules Dollar Baby Film Festival.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wiater, etc; Stanley Wiater; Christopher Golden; Hank Wagner (2006). The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King. Macmillan. p. 479. ISBN 0-312-32490-1.
- ^ Haysom, Sam (8 April 2021). "25 Stephen King short films are being shown at this virtual festival. Some have never been released". Mashable. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
External links
[edit]- Beachworld title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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