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more about #genewolfe Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: *adds to library reservations* more » Franklin Harris: Anthologies like Eclipse and Fast Forward seem to be filing part of the void left by the decline of fiction magazines. more » Grey_Area: The first two volumes of Eclipse were truly great. What I really dig is that these are general Speculative Fiction, no themes. You ain't going to cott... more » MosesMonster: And where might one find such gems? I'm going to blow a paycheck. more » drdoombot: I think when you're having a discussion about unfilmable books, you need to consider the films that worked. "The Godfather," for example, is consider... more » ShashibalaCapaneus: I usually read books as if they were movies. One book I'd like to see re-made into a movie is Naked Lunch, only do it low budget, independent, and... more » SimonMay: I agree pretty much with everything you say -- and yeah, Adaptation is an excellent example of how to do it. Film and print are very different media, ... more » IreneBison: @tetracycloide, @ wOOKIE1972, @ BOOKLING I am a fan of Enders game, and I just finished listening to the new Audio book and card does a great 40 minut... more » Brian Dennis: Feels like the core of the argument devolves to degree of difficulty. Hollywood will try to throw any title on the screen if the anticipated receipts ... more » Sean Bryant: You know one book that's unfilmable but has been filmed multiple times? Dune. How do you film a book that jump around so leisurely. Half the book take... more » Bill-Lee: Sure some novels are unfilmable, some shouldn't be filmed but at least the people who want to film them are ambitious. Say what you will about Watchme... more » matiu(france): i know it's not the ideea of discussing things but it's really what i feel: every book is unfilmable. That's all. And every movie adaptation is a insu... more » buddhathing: For the most part, a good filmed adaptation of a book does not project the book onscreen, but uses it for a subject, as a painter might a landscape, o... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: I always figured Neuromancer was unfilmable because of the very first line: The sky over the Chiabatsu was the colour of television tuned to a dead ... more » the_deliverator: while I am a big movie fan, and part of me is dying to see Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon on the big screen, I don't know of anyone, even Peter Jackson, ... more » laxmanjrb: Ender's Game is unfilmable. Also, Stranger in a Strange Land. more » PostMarque: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel the only way to keep this story honourable to the past, is to have a sprawling 3 part epic movie. This epic movie woul... more » Tdawwgg: Rucker's books belong in next week's "Horrible Unreadable Books" column: somebody screwed up! Dhalgren would be my serious choice. more » FelixFeard: Mieville (sp). Apologies. Don't know how to edit w/ comments yet. jf more » Pegritz: Nothing is unfilmable--the question always devolves into a debate over the amount of detail that will be lost in adapting a certain work to a convenie... more » -
#magazines
Hear The Voices Behind 60 Years Of Fantastic Stories
A new anthology, out now, covers the highlights of 60 years of The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction. To celebrate The Very Best Of F&SF from Tachyon Press, Rick Kleffel interviewed some classic authors that both companies have published. More » -
#anthologieswecrave
3 New Anthologies Bring Werewolves, ADD-Afflicted Drinking Birds, And Awesomeness
This may be the best era for original anthologies since the days of Dangerous Visions. Jonathan Strahan announced the final list of contributors for Eclipse 3, and it's made of want. Other anthologies promise down-and-dirty werewolves, and stellar flash fiction. More » -
#unfilmablebooks
Is There Such A Thing As A Gloriously Unfilmable Book?
Hollywood has taken everything, from your childhood toys to the novels that haunted your dreams, and turned them into splashy vehicles for young Scientologists to gallop through. Are there any books that Hollywood absolutely can't turn into movies? Or shouldn't? More » -
#books
Science Fiction Authors That Lit Geeks Think It's Cool To Read
For every lit author like Cormac McCarthy, who borrows science fiction themes, there are ten authors who start out writing science fiction, and then become beloved of literary hipsters. Here's a partial list.
