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It's sort of amazing that it hasn't been tried already. Hollywood is pushing forward with a version of Joseph Conrad's seminal "descent into madness" novel, set in outer space. Heart of Darkness already gave us Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. More »
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Heart of Darkness author Joseph Conrad co-wrote a science fiction novel with modernist godfather Ford Madox Ford: The Inheritors, in which people from the Fourth Dimension scheme to occupy the Earth. And it's available via Project Gutenberg! [Guardian] More »
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Classic science fiction novels have many annoying writing tics that make it hard to enjoy them, but the word "grimly" has always seemed the worst. People are always speaking grimly, or staring grimly, or even smiling grimly. Of all the adverbs that attach themselves, like alien facehuggers, to science fiction prose, "grimly" is the worst — and the most unnecessary. And it's still cropping up all the time. More »
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