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- From: jackson@sn.jsc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Re: SF Novels that would make Great Films
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:21:59 GMT
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- >> 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.
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- >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
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- Not that much taken with THE COMPUTER CONNECTION.....
- but as long as we are taking about SF into film the new future-fiction
- SF show spinoff of Star Trek and other such like makes me think
- of the perfect prose series for film or TV adaptation would be
- Poul Anderson's super sophisticated space opera. Of particular
- merit would be the Flandry of Terra novels and stories. It would
- be like doing doing the next step up from Star Trek. One would have
- all the adventure and action and space opera, but at a higher level
- of thought. This is not the best SF Anderson has written but it seems me
- to be something of a higher popular appeal. If done right of course.
- Almost the end evolution of space opera a la Doc Smith.
- We got Doc Smith finally done right with Star Wars (with a little
- SF from the 40's thrown in), now it would be nice to bring SF past
- Star Trek and Star Wars up Campbell's utlitmate form in Anderson's
- SF. (Alas that filmed DUNE missed that mark!)
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