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- From: cst@bork.nist.gov (Charles S. Tarrio)
- Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
- Subject: Re: SF Novels that would make Great Films
- Message-ID: <7741@dove.nist.gov>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 19:18:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.013522.29179@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec21.013522.29179@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- jackson@sn.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- > Has anybody mentioned Alfred Bester's THE STARS MY DESTINATION?
- > This has to be the single most SF novel that begs to be made
- > into a film. Very expensive tho.
-
- I agree, and I'd also love to see _The Computer Connection_, which he
- wrote almost 25 years after TSMD. Typical Bester, you spend 3/4 of the
- book trying to figure out what the plot is, and it's resolved in one
- intense scene of 10 pages.
-
- Also, how about Roger Zelazny's Amber books. Non-stop action, war,
- scheming, all the things that make a good SF movie. (It would definitely
- be better than _Damnation Alley_.)
-
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