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aeon-spanning sagas

What Novels Span The Most Aeons?

Forget about story, or character development. When it comes to selecting your science fiction reading material, you want a story that spans millions of years, if not billions. Or why not trillions, while you're at it? A truly grand space saga needs a lot of elbow room across history to unveil its cosmic events. So which novel, or series of novels, spans the longest time period? We rank them below. More »

11:04 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
6,066 views, 73 comments

ask the readers

Should Movies Update Classic Scifi, Or Go Retro?

There are two ways of taking a science fiction classic and bringing it to the screen: You can bring it up to date, setting it in the present day and revamping the characters accordingly, like Steven Spielberg's War Of The Worlds. Or you can set it in the era when it was written, and painstakingly recreate the time and place that gave birth to it, like Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie. Which route do you think works better for movies of classic novels? More »

4:30 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,624 views, 43 comments

Latest by salamander42: Alright, this is a bit of a deviation from the movie focus of this discussion, but I just finished reading Variable Star by Robert A Heinlein and Spider Robinson. Apparently Heinlein wrote an outline and a bunch of notes more »

lensmen

New Movie Celebrates Galactic In-Breeding

The quest for classic scifi texts to bring to the big screen may finally have gone too far. Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures are negotiating for the rights to film E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen novels, which are so dated that any adaptation will be either unrecognizable or unwatchable. And yet the series helped launch the whole genre of space opera, so it's easy to understand the temptation. Click through for the awful details. More »

8:20 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By charliejane
1,742 views, 32 comments

Latest by oldandintheway: SO, if LENSMEN gets made, does that mean we mightget to see a production of Fafrid and the Grey MOuser?? more »