The book it pretended to be from is the short story “Story of your life” by Ted Chiang which seems to be a bit different from “Try to remember”:
Aliens arrive
Woman learns their language and it completely changes her perception of time which makes her tell her daughter her(the daughter’s) whole life’s story on the day of her birth
(Hence the title)
what make me think that "Try to remember " was used, is the “bomb attack”… it make no sense in the movie, and it also sound a bit dumb in Herbert novel. And of course, beside the time travel twist, every thing play the same
And I dont get why Avatar from Cameron was not sued.
in 1979 Herbert and Ranson wrote "The Jesus Incident ":
A planet named Pandora habited by violent various beasts
The human survive in a Colony and cant barrely go out, because of the wild life.
The whole planet is covered by an entity protecting the planet it is named: AVATA. who comunicate with blinking light.
There is a scene, where one of the main human run around the human camp folded by many monster.
To survive on the planet, the human created special Clone with better reflex.
The Clone were badly treated and rebelled against the Colony
And Arrival by Villeneuve (or the book it pretend to be from) Is bit for bit from the novella :“Try to remember” From Herbert.
Aliens try to communicate to humanity.
Some woman manage to do understand their language.
But some military try to smugle a bomb in the alien ship.
The book it pretended to be from is the short story “Story of your life” by Ted Chiang which seems to be a bit different from “Try to remember”:
Aliens arrive
Woman learns their language and it completely changes her perception of time which makes her tell her daughter her(the daughter’s) whole life’s story on the day of her birth (Hence the title)
Aliens leave at some point and nobody knows why
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life
what make me think that "Try to remember " was used, is the “bomb attack”… it make no sense in the movie, and it also sound a bit dumb in Herbert novel. And of course, beside the time travel twist, every thing play the same
Deathworld by Harry Harrison pre-dates all that:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathworld
very interresting. This might be why Avatar was so fast forgotten, it is just a mix of more interresting stories