Sci-fi

[zebo-the-fat]

I like watching it more than reading it.

Interesting. Why is it that you like watching sci-fi more than reading it? What is missing in sci-fi novels that would make them as good as sci-fi movies?

What do you think is a good adaptation of a scifi novel/short story to the screen? No wrong answers.

This is very good question because having written the first chapter well over 30 pages for my sci-fi novels, I still wonder if reading it would be as interesting as watching Star Wars and because many friends tell me that being so cool and 'epic', it could turn out into a movie and video game.

Star Wars irritates me, space craft banking and turning like aircraft, super high tech weapons that behave like light up broadswords! Just the first things that come to mind, probably lots more but I never managed to sit through the full thing!

[fromdownunder]

I can't say I love SF as a broad church, but I do enjoy certain authors who wrote predominately SF. Past tense. They are all dead.

So, my very short list. Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, John Wyndham and Douglas Adams. And once upon a time Edgar Rice Burroughs and E. E. Doc. Smith. Some others to a degree, but just selected novels and short stories, not their entire output.

Fantasy not at all, with two exceptions. The first six Thomas Covenant books, and some Julian May stuff. I have owned Lord of the Rings for probably 40 years, have tried to start it a few times but cannot get psast about page 50.

Norm