Destination Void (1965)>In the future, mankind has tried to develop artificial intelligence, succeeding only once, and then disastrously. A transmission from the project site on an island in the Puget Sound, "Rogue consciousness!", was followed by slaughter and destruction, culminating in the island vanishing from the face of the earth. This would have been a far better choice for a Herbert adaptation. Does Dune have anything interesting to say to us now?
I have that very paperback. It isn't his best work, but I enjoyed it. You might try the scifi thread on /lit/ if you actually want to discuss the book.
>better choiceThe goal is making money, making a media franchise/universe, and letting people experience something they knew about but were too lazy to read.Sounds cool though as a Puget Sounder
Just be happy a "weird" $200 million sci fi movie is successful right now. Hopefully there is more to come.
Denis is also making Rendezvous with Rama into a movie. Should be interesting.
>>198579170>You might try the scifi thread on /lit/ if you actually want to discuss the book.thanks!>>198579182true, that's the way of everything now. Also that's the extent of Puget Sound in the novel, nothing else takes place there. >>198579283>New Sunthe eternal candidate. Hope to see it made some day
>>198579283Children of Time, por favor.
>>198579283One day
>>198579106>Does Dune have anything interesting to say to us now?Dune is social-fiction. It is always relevant. Feudalism is the default mode of governance for humans. We may dress it up as democracy and elections or as a commune of equals but in the end, the rich and powerful will always rule over the weak.
>>198579106How does Tunnel in the Sky not have an adaptation? I get that it itself leans too hard into a people forming a government and the stages that moves through but the movie would 100% just cut that out and make it a Hunger Games like.But keep the self insert older mentor, teacher/writer/journalist hooking up with a barely legal redhead that Heinlein fell into.
>>198579283>>198579350Get your fucking stinky ass pajeet hands out of itYou fuckers will ruin any classics
>>198579737Heinlein fell way too hard into that shit. I wanted to like The cat Who Walks Through Walls, but it was too much slapping your bottom red and not enough saving my guy MIKE!
I would like to see the short novel Dad's Nuke made into a movie.
>>198579283>just be happywhy do you want them to rape things you love
>A bunch of different aliens and an Asian man fucking nonstopHollywood should love it.
>>198580868I thought Amazon was working on an adaption
>>198579283I dread the day that someone attempts to adapt "We Can't Rewind" to film
>>198579463You'll get a adaptation of The Dosadi Experiment before anyone touches Baxter's stuff.
>>198579106LOST
>>198580868The only woman is designated ship whore. Wouldn't work in current climate.
>>198579106So it's Lost but AI instead of God and Satan?
>>198579106I only read the second and third book where they land on the hellish water planet. the detailed and lush descriptions of the planet is the frank herbert parts i imagine, while the rest was probably bill ransomthe second book has some trippy stuff about a time-displaced Jesus, then a ton of coomer shit like a fat ugly bastard villain drugging and banging some hot amazon nudist chick in book 2, and a weirdly detailed account of an underaged brown mermaid girl in book 3. i imagine the last bits would make it rather unfilmable
>>198579331>Denis is also making Rendezvous with Rama into a moviesource? I liked that book. The whole series is decent, although I don't remember the sequels.
>>198579106When are they going to adapt the other 2 books set after 2001? 2001 was made in the 60's and then 2010 in the 80's. At the rate where going it'll actually be 2061 before we get a film adaptation of it.
Robert Silverberg's scifi pulp will always be superior to Herbert's slop
>>198583462I got his third Majipoor book in a lot, can it be read as a standalone?
