[extropy-chat] Fictional Singularity Movie

[Damien Broderick]

At 07:29 PM 10/17/2006 -0400, S wrote:

> >> I think
> >> Ray Kurzweil would be a good candidate for writing the screenplay

Or wait--maybe Arnie Schwarzenegger?

>It would have to be someone who is, first and foremost, skilled in the art of
>storytelling while also being an expert on the Singularity. Perhaps 
>a better and
>faster approach to this would be to do a screenplay adaptation of 
>the best and
>currently available novel about the Singularity.

Novels are rarely useful as the basis for a movie; they are too long 
and complicated. A novella is what you need, or an informed original 
screenplay. Wil McCarthy is currently writing some scripts for the 
SciFi Channel, and would be a fine candidate. His BLOOM is a 
remarkable nanocalypse novel, and some of his more recent novels have 
remarkable visualization of near-Singularity technology and cultural 
adaptations (THE COLLAPSIUM, from 2000, and its sequels).

John Barnes' MOTHER OF STORMS (1994) was an impressive 
self-bootstrapping Singularity novel. Poul Anderson's GENESIS (2000).

Obviously Charlie Stross's linked stories in ACCELERANDO (2005) and 
GLASSHOUSE (2006) might serve. Or even, you know, SINGULARITY SKY 
(2003), although that's not quite right despite the title.

Since hardly anyone here seems to have heard of my own Singularity 
fiction, I'll simply mention

THE JUDAS MANDALA (1982)

TRANSCENSION (2002)

perhaps the most accessible for a mass audience: THE HUNGER OF TIME 
(with Rory Barnes, 2003)

GODPLAYERS/K-MACHINES (2005/6).

Damien Broderick