Sci-Fi Fans?

[smaughazard]

Another excellent translation from print to screen: A Boy and his Dog -from the Harlan Ellison short story

Another Turkey: Dune -the awful version with Sting

[Rob Wright]

Another excellent translation from print to screen: A Boy and his Dog -from the Harlan Ellison short story

Another Turkey: Dune -the awful version with Sting

The Director's Cut is a much better version though the tv mini-series is the best of them all as adaptions, but, DUNE did have some great visuals, the first appearance of hte Navigator was just awesome.

As an adaption Blade Runner isn't that great,(note I sad adaption, I like the movie a lot) it's mainly based on one chapter of thte book. Minority Report is the same way and a good movie by the way. A Scanner Darkly looks to be the closest adaption of Dick's work to the original to date.

The Lensman Anime movie is a decent adaption of the Lensman books, a fave series of mine.

I would like to see Jack Williamsons book Humanoids adapted into a movie.

Starship Troopers the ovie was a satire and a grwat homage to the 50's bug movies.

CJ Cherryh is an excellent writer her Merchanter Universe rocks, DOWNBELOW STATION, CYTEEN,etc as well as the Chanur novels.

Also William Gibson and Bruce Sterling are two great writers, part of the original cyberpunk movement they continue to create consistantly good works.

Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad would be excellent as a series on HBO.

Comics writer Warren Ellis has a respect and love for old pulp writers and he does excellent homages to them, TRANSMETROPOLITAN and ORBITER Aare just two examples.

Rob

[Caradoc]

of my fave writers now, Orson Scott Card puts a lot of Mormon themes in some of his work, no big deal. Since you don't seem to care for L.Ron, I won't recomend his "Mission Earth" dekology, one story spread out over 10 4-500 page volumes!

I've got a pretty solid collection of Orson Scott Card, including a number of autographed 1st editions.

I think I like "Ender's Shadow" and "Shadow of the Hegemon" better than "Ender's Game."

[smaughazard]

Jack Chalker is another author whose works might transfer well to film, with modern CGI.

[Caradoc]

Jack Chalker is another author whose works might transfer well to film, with modern CGI.

I've thought that "And the Devil Will Drag You Under" would make a decent movie.

[Piper]

Relying on my feeble memory, it seems to me there was a movie made back in the 70's called "The Man who fell to Earth". I think the part was played by David Bowie. I remember hearing that it was based on Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land"

[Panache]

Relying on my feeble memory, it seems to me there was a movie made back in the 70's called "The Man who fell to Earth". I think the part was played by David Bowie. I remember hearing that it was based on Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Walter Tevis wrote "The Man who Fell to Earth" in 1963 while Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange land" was 1962. It's been a while since I've read either (I've never seen the movie of T.M.W.F.T.E. which is odd because I was a pretty big David Bowie fan at one time). Both protagonists are aliens trying to understand and deal with our cuture. T.M.W.F.T.E. is a far more sad tale.

Cheers

[An t-Ileach]

...I gotta say though, I found Battlefield Earth to be very entertaining, it's a SF satire in many ways. Yeah its got a lot of Scientology concepts in it, and although I agree about the psychiatrists, it didn't make me want to get my engrams cleared or anything! I found it overall very entertaining and funny...

Me too. I wonder if anyone knows whether there's been any comparisons done of L Ron's and RAH's works, seeing as they were friends?