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08/15/09
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So, pretty much like the current day, then?
-Kle.
08/14/09
That's not to say it couldn't make a good TV series in the right hands.
08/14/09
I don't see how it could be an ongoing series, though. Seems more suited to a limited series with a finite number of episodes.
08/15/09
If you know any people old enough to have been actual hippies, that's pretty much the way it worked then, too. Plus, the women tended to do all the work, while the men laid around all day getting high.
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I've always found it kind of hilarious the way most hippie communes quickly began to resemble fringe Mormon extremist compounds, only w/o any firepower.
-Kle.
08/14/09
[cache.gawker.com]" rel="lytebox" class="commentImageDamn I was hoping that the Silverberg novel gettng the HBO treatment was DYING INSIDE. I've always thought that it would be a great movie
Nice picture from the era
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The complete physical impossibility of having a vastely larger human population is too much of a suspension of disbelieve imho.
(unless its, like, Trentor, has half a dozen other fertal worlds supplying its resources...even Asimovs world though was just a logical extrapolation of our society though...not one where sex and reproduction is continiously actively encouraged)
That and, well, the whole rest of the description sounds horribly cliche.
"with no privacy or individuality, and deviation from the social norms can be punished by death"
Should be banned from all scifi, its just getting so boring -_-
How about a radical story...where privacy is lost yet the world actualy improves? Where people become more accepting of differences because everyone can see everyone is unique and with flaws anyway.
Lets try some different angles to look at!
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where doctors are able to manipulate genes and create viruses = quantum flux
08/14/09
The sets should be cheap to produce at least
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And whether you like something or not isn't a justification for it simply NOT to be created.
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I probably didn't express myself well enough if you found some kind of levelling of a justification charge. I guess I simply meant that as a direct adaptation and THEN continuation, I would be suspicious of the level of quality being maintained, as the stories worked so well in that wonderfully sparse 70's style, as already mentioned. If a continual tale of this kind of world can be maintained - YES I'LL SAY IT - ala BSG, I'd be thrilled.
08/14/09
With groundbreaking television such as The Shield, It's Always Sunny, etc. it seems like the one place they really haven't gone has been scifi.
08/14/09
I agree though, it seems like Virtuality/Defying Gravity with their very sexual premise would do much better on FX where it would be racier and better written.
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no wait, I got that wrong...
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04/21/09
It's everywhere these days. I don't hear about, "the perfect romance novel for people who don't like romance" or "the perfect historical fiction novel for people who don't like historical fiction."
No, it's just sci-fi which is a taboo: too insular, too strange, too 'not normal'.
Well good. It's better that way, right?
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It's not BORING. Silverberg is a better writer IMO.
I picked it up at a grocery store in the 70's and it was mind-boggling. The "literary" stuff is a snooze.
His SF and his fantasy are both excellent.
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