Which Science Fiction novel would you like to see in film?
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I read the book a while back and was oddly fascinated by ideas surrounding the Nanotechnology and it's application. Additionally, for such a thick and hardy book. Mike certainly knows how to keep the pacing up.
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The main characters of the book, Mr. Bedford and Dr. Cavor, work together to produce a new material, cavorite, which shields off gravity. Against all odds, they are actually able to create that material, and to some unexpected side-effects. One of the first implementations is a spaceship, which they use to travel to the moon. There, the real adventure starts...
I am currently reading this ebook on my Amazon Kindle, and really love it so far! (thanks Amazon, to provide that book for free!)
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Mith, there was a 1964 movie of it...
And a BBC TV version is going to air very soon...
http://www.denofgeek.com/television/634034/the_first_men_in_the_moon_review.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/11/mark-gatiss-first-men-moon
I've read this one, it's due for a new polish for sure...
Can you suggest one that hasn't already been made?
The Darkness Series is a series of six books that reflect World War II. The turn in the book is that the events take place on another planet where magic and monsters are possible. If you are a World War II buff, or at least know the basic concepts of the war, you quickly become enthralled with the series.
Each kingdom in the book relates exactly to one of the major countries that was involved in WWII. Teh kings of each country hold the same passions, faults, maneurisms, and styles as the major players from our history. The magic and monsters relate directly to weapons and war machines that were used during World War II.
Unlike many fantasy books, you do not have to have a history of reading fantasy to get involved in the series. You also do not have to have a great understanding of World War II to get the books, either (but it doesn't hurt). A friend of mine that I loaned the books to was able to understand the who's who and what's what of the books by simply reading the overview of World War Two off of Wikipedia.
Turtledove was able to create a large and living world in this series that many of his fans hope that he will revisit in the future. There are so many small nuiances of World War II and the leadeers of the time that he put in the book, that a fan like me who has read the series a few times, and studied World War II still finds things that were missed (by me not him).
I was watching a documentary a few weeks ago on TV that had some home videos of Hitler, Stalin, and FDR. There were certain quirks and motions of these leaders that I noticed from the Darkness Series that I had never picked up on. There were also references made in the documentary that I had never known that were covered in teh series as well.
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A cover for Childhood's End:
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Great book! Loved it!
And, it could easily be made into a film now we have the CG to go with the story.
I've always been a bit scared of nanotechnology, and this book bites very close to the bone :)
Prey is a masterpiece in my opinion....
it portrays the threat of nanites not being too smart in their method, but what if they were incapable of computing organic live 'does not work that way'. It's a fear of an entity having all the intellect the world could offer, but none of the wisdom...