Parker is Irish, or at least his mom was.
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I know this will make the "serious" nuts & bolts SF type's brains bleed, but I think some sort of film from McCaffery's Pern series would be huge success if it was done as seriously as LoTR movies were.
The tech is there to do the dragons as CGI. The plots have action, adventure, and romance so would apeal to both men and women, and I think it would market well to the younger audience that Hollywood seems to want. They are going to run out of Harry Potter movies soon anyway.
It might not be cutting edge mind bending SF but I think it has more potential to be a money making proposition than any of the more serious SF titles people have been bringing up.
I've always thought Cherryh's Merchanter's Luck would make a good movie.
@Alanna Sweeney:
Yes I think Sparrow would do much better on stage than as movie. Can the SPFX so there is no distactions, focus on the plot and do the whole thing black box. With the right actors and it would bring down the house
The Cylons have figured out how to ressurrect humans and that's what happened to Starbuck.
I hadn't read any Star Wars EU books, and wasn't really into media tie-in books at all, but I loved City of Pearl and it's sequels so one day I took a chance and picked up Hard Contact, and I was hooked. I still would say I'm not really a Star Wars Fan, but I think the story Traviss tells in the RC books holds up to any SF series being written these days.
I don't do video games. I'm an avid SF reader, but don't usually go for heavy military stuff. I'm middle aged, Midwestern woman, not the demographic you would think would go for this series but I keep wanting to press the books into people's hands in bookstores and tell them "If it bothers you, ignore the SW logo - this will be the best book you read this month."
I often wonder if people who think the world would be better if women were in charge actualy know any women.
@Daveinva: Oh, come on the "Oops the bad guy is my father" think has been around since classical greek plays. At least Luke didn't go on to marry his mother.
I was working at at movie theater then. I remeber wanting to get my hair cut like Ringwald's after seeing promo stills of the movie, but nothing else about the flick, an I know we ran it in our theater.
It's just WRONG they are re-making the movie anyway it's nearly perfect the way it is. Sure it's got corny helicopter parent aliens but it's alos got some nice subtle ahead of it's time details. A single working mom hero, who may be lonely but is doing just find supporting herself and her child. African Americans in crowd scenes, as man on the street, not because the script called for servants or rough-necks.
They will not get nice details like that in re-do and end up making a complete hash of it.
To go back to the original comment that started this thread "science fiction could replace vampires as the next "paranormal" romance genre"
All I can say is it's about time. I like a good "paranormal" from time to time but I'm a little bored to death with the whole vampire thing. Tall, Dark, mysterious, avoids sunlight - yawn, yawn, yawn.
Writers like Nancy Kress, Connie Willis, C.J. Cherryh, Catherine Asaro, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Julie E. Czerneda often have interpersonal relationships dive their plots or at least have romantic sub-plots in their work.
On the Romance side there are a few writers like Susan Grant and Linnea Sinclair who really understand SF and write wonderful HEA centered Romance stories in SF wrappings that work well in both genres
Unfortunately many other people writing SF romance don't get the SF half of the equation and seem to think giving the hero a laser instead of a broadsword, is all they have to do to write SF/Romance, their books have bad science and stupid world-building mistakes that are almost an insult to the SF genre. Those sort of books may be great Romance reads, but are really painful to get through for SF fans
