[extropy-chat] Future friendly movies

[Brian Lee]

Egan's Diaspora would be a really tough movie since over half the book has 
no real visible space.

Egan's Permutation City might be easier to film. The plot is a little weaker 
than Diaspora, but it has the makings of a good sci-fi original or 
something.

Someone mentioned Cory Doctorow's books. I think DaOitMK is already optioned 
but not in development yet. I think these are extremely approachable books 
with transhumanist themes.

BAL

>From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com>
>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Future friendly movies
>Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:16:09 +0200
>
>Egan's Diaspora and Schild's ladder are good examples. Humanity has
>developed immortality and uploading, and spreads to the stars. Of
>course there are problems but, overall, I would like to live in this
>universe.
>Difficult to make movies of these two great novels though.
>Richard Morgan's Alteded Carbon and Broken Angels also have
>immortality, uploading and galactic civilizations, and are probably
>much easier to make movies from (actually I believe the author has
>already sold movie rights). But Morgan very "noir" plots and scenes,
>great as they are, do not really qualify as non-threatening.
>
>On 8/7/05, Robert Lindauer <robgobblin at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 7, 2005, at 4:45 AM, spike wrote:
> > >
> > > Are there *any* examples of future fiction in which things
> > > worked out well all around?
> >
> > Heinlein is generally an optimist.  He doesn't think things are
> > necessarily going to work out well for everyone in every way, but his
> > vision of the techno-future is generally "bright".
> >
> >
> > Robbie
> >
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