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Mar 2, 2006 - 6:10 AM
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dogplant
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Where are the new sci-fi writers that movies could be based on?
A few ideas (not all new writers):
I'd love to see someone tackle Lucius Shepard, "Life During Wartime," or his novella "The Jaguar Hunter" -- very passionate and trippy stuff, would be great for Ridley Scott: http://www.lucius-shepard.com/
No one has dared tried to film Iain Banks yet -- maybe Cronenberg? http://www.iainbanks.net/
Not a new writer, he died in 1987, but no one has so far been able to tackle the wacky but brilliant Alfred Bester. I remember Oliver Stone once supposedly adapted "The Demolished Man" as a screenplay, which Brian de Palma was attached to. And I believe John Carpenter was once circling "The Stars My Destination" / "Tiger Tiger" (depending on which side of the Atlantic you reside on). Both would still be fun and very off-the-wall, if done properly.
I also always thought Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan" would make a fun movie, made by by someone with a brain and a sense of irony.
How about Harry Harrison's rollicking "The Stainless Steel Rat"? That would be a romp.
And Stanislaw Lem is still an untapped vein, a brilliant mind and very witty, despite what you might have gathered from the films of "Solaris."
I'm quite looking forward to the animated "A Scanner Darkly" and I was hoping David Fincher would follow through his promise of "Rendezvous With Rama," albeit animated again.
Lots of good stuff out there.
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A lot of the sillier stuff gets old really quickly, and there's not a lot of patience for it, now at age 40... no matter how fond my memories of LOST IN SPACE, say, I think I'd find watching the second and third seasons really painful. Glen Larson 'sci-fi' was painful when it was first broadcast, and probably would cause a stroke if one sat through a non-stop marathon of GALACTICA/BUCK ROGERS.
That said, there's quite a bit out there that's still engaging.
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There is a diff between pulp/genre and literature.
Bradbury and Matheson (not really sf writers), Dick are great writers. Period.
But like other genres- romance, western, mystery-alot of sci-fi is just product.
Bruce Marshall
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Has anyone read this book? Is it hard to locate? Is it any good?
It's a sci fi classic, I have it in hardcover- as to outgrowing science fiction, nope, I'm just not as ardent about it as I was in my youth- branched into other generes- (love Noir- movie and written).
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"The Stars My Destination" really is one of the best SF novels you'll ever read.
As to "outgrowing" SF...well, sometimes tastes change. And sometimes, they change back. For years, I'd never even think about watching a cartoon, but "Batman: The Animated Series" and "Justice League" put the kibosh on that.
I've never thought of science fiction as a discrete genre, but as a theme. Think about it for a few minutes. You can have SF love stories, SF espionage, SF westerns, SF detective stories, SF drama, SF comedy, alternate history, space opera...science fiction/fantasy is easily the most flexible form of storytelling I can think of.
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I've never thought of science fiction as a discrete genre, but as a theme. Think about it for a few minutes. You can have SF love stories, SF espionage, SF westerns, SF detective stories, SF drama, SF comedy, alternate history, space opera...science fiction/fantasy is easily the most flexible form of storytelling I can think of.
That's an interesting perspective- I never thought of it quite that way. You're right, though. Most people hear science fiction and immediately think, "space opera"
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FYI, Stanislaw Lem died just a week or so past.
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