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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon |
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— ClotureClub.com (@ClotureClub) June 15, 2015J. Michael Straczynski To Write ‘Red Mars’ Drama Series Project
J. Michael Straczynski To Write Spike TV’s Red Mars Drama Series Project
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski has been tapped to write Red Mars, Spike TV’s scripted drama series project in development based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s best-selling “hard” science-fiction trilogy about the colonization and terraforming transformation of Mars into a place where humans can live sustainably
The TV series adaptation, named after the first book in the trilogy, has been on fast-track development at Spike since the network took in the project in October with HBO’s Game Of Thrones co-executive producer Vince Gerardis as producer and Robinson as consultant.
The three novels — Red Mars (1993), Green Mars (1994) and Blue Mars (1996), which have won Nebula and Hugo Awards — are regarded as the best books written on the subject and a holy grail for science fiction fans.
See also: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books to be adapted for TV
Audio Edition of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Pacific Edge
Audio edition of Pacific Edge, the most uplifting novel in my library by Cory Doctrow
I’ve written many times about Kim Stanley Robinson’s 1990 novel Pacific Edge, a utopian story about a world where corporate growth has been checked and people have found a way to live together without the need for extreme haves and have-nots, and without the imperative to destroy the world to enrich the few. Now it’s available as a DRM-free audiobook (download, MP3 CD).
By Cory Doctorow…
Pacific Edge is a utopian novel about small-town politics. It deals with a town council fight over a zoning change over a hill in a small Orange County town. But while that provides unlikely and ample drama to pull the novel along, what it really serves to do is give us a tour of Robinson’s wonderfully plausible and human tomorrow, a vividly imagined world where people are an asset, not a liability; where greed is a vice, not a virtue; and where generosity is a policy goal.
Robinson’s book is a story about the confusing American character, everything that makes the country great and terrible. The American promise that every person is deserving of rights and respect, regardless of nobility and birth; the American reality that condemned whole populations at home and abroad to misery and terror in the service of profits for an elite who considered themselves to be nobility, albeit a self-made nobility.
It’s also a story about stories, about how the post-Reagan era has crowded out any kind of plausible narrative about people being fundamentally good and worthy, replacing it with a story about people being the competition — every migrant and every worker a drain on your taxes and a drag on the bottom line. Pacific Edge is a reminder about what a pathological state that is to live in, and takes as its theory of change that once you show people that there might be a way to live without your happiness being someone else’s misery, they will leap to it.
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And Yet Even More Newtonian Swag
HBO Developing Asimov’s Foundation Series As TV Show
Interstellar‘s Jonah Nolan Developing Foundation Series for HBO, WBTV
HBO and Warner Bros. TV are teaming to produce a series based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy that will be written and produced by Interstellar writer Jonathan Nolan, multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.
Nolan, who is already working with HBO on Westworld, has been quietly developing the project for the last several months. He recently tipped his hand to Indiewire, which asked him, ‘what's the one piece of science fiction you truly love that people don't know enough about?’
“Well, I fucking love the Foundation novels by Isaac Asimov. They're certainly not [unknown], but that's a set of books I think everyone would benefit from reading. That's a set of books where the influence they have is just fucking massive. They have many imitators and many have been inspired by them, but go back and read those, and there are some ideas in those that'll set your fucking hair on fire,” Nolan told Indiewire.
Representatives for HBO and WBTV had no comment, while a representative for Nolan didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Foundation follows mathematician Hari Seldon, who has dedicated his life to developing psychohistory, a concept that uses the laws of mass action to predict the future on a large scale. When he foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire and a dark age that will last 30,000 years, he sets out to create a foundation of talented artisans and engineers to preserve and expand on humanity's collective knowledge with the hope of establishing a new empire.
Gregory Benford
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books to be adapted for TV
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books to be adapted for TV – Cory Doctorow
The books, which are among the best science fiction ever written, have been picked up by Game of Thrones co-producer Vince Gerardis, which bodes very well for the adaptation.
C. S. Lewis
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The Horse and His Boy |
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The Magician’s Nephew |
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