It’s when things are too similarillian to someone else’s intellectual property.copyright infringement? I don't know what you're tolkien about.
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It’s when things are too similarillian to someone else’s intellectual property.copyright infringement? I don't know what you're tolkien about.
Where do you think it dips? I read loads of them as a teenager, just randomly picking from the library really, but started from the start a few years back and have been slowly going through them in order.Discworld is class. They had a bit of a dip at one point, and then came back more serious but even better.
Where do you think it dips? I read loads of them as a teenager, just randomly picking from the library really, but started from the start a few years back and have been slowly going through them in order.
Interesting, I read a fair few of them and I do remember Jingo and the Fifth Elephant being a bit of a slog but Thief of Time blew my mind at the time. I'll get to them again.I think from Jingo up to The Last Hero there is a bit of a dip, but then Night Watch was fucking class and he was back on form.
It's not good (Lovecraft Country). Badly written, tonally all over the place, rubbish cgi, messy execution and handling of the themes. The book wasn't great but it was a bit more fun than this clumsy adaptation. I preferred the second half of the book so I hope the show improves as it goes along.Funny you should mention that last one, as it was featured in the latest episode of Lovecraft Country (which I’m not sure if I like or not yet).
Yeah, the Twilight Zone reboot had the same tonal issuesThe tonal thing seems to be a thing when Jordan Peele is involved with TV, at least going by this and the godawful Hunters (the bones of a brilliant show when it takes itself seriously, but absolutely ruined by incongruous fantasy sequences, dance numbers, etc).
One of my favourite books!The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. Cosmic horror story about a fucked up old house which sits on an inter-dimensional plane.
And we’re done. It was very good sf with abysmal dialogue.
For the record the audiobooks were 13 hours & 26 minutes, 22 hours & 37 minutes, and 28 hours, 52 minutes, proving the expansion of the universe.
Meanwhile...
The Three-Body Problem: I (2017) - IMDb
Amazon is reportedly pursuing a deal for a three-season TV series based on Liu Cixin’s Hugo-winning sci-fi novel trilogy “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”. The price tag? Up to $1 billion.
The Financial Times broke the report, saying international investors are telling them Amazon is negotiating for the rights to produce three seasons based on the book series that began with (and is better known by) the title “The Three-Body Problem”.
Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, in the first book a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. One civilization, on the brink of destruction, captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile different camps start forming amongst humanity with plans to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
In a statement reported by Chinese news outlets, including Caixin, YooZoo Pictures stated that it remains the sole owners for the film and TV rights for the series and didn’t comment on whether Amazon had approached the company.
Cixin was also asked by Chinese news outlets and he revealed he knew nothing about the project and doesn’t know if he’d be invited to work on it. A $30 million film adaptation of the first book was shot in 2015 but has yet to be released.
Amazon previously made a deal for two seasons of a “Lord of the Rings” series, a deal rumored to cost $500 million for two seasons. “The Three-Body Problem” deal, if the report is accurate, is notably bigger than that.
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh. Creepy noirish tale about an odd woman working at a boy's prison in 1964 who becomes obsessed with a new colleague. Very good.
We had big discussions about this earlier in this thread. I'll have to pick up the new one.Reading her second book My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I like it but I'm not as immediately drawn to it as I was to Eileen.
I missed that. Will have a dig...We had big discussions about this earlier in this thread. I'll have to pick up the new one.
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