I really loved Newt, Jacob Kowalski, Queenie and Tina in the first movie. I wish the series was more about them, their adventures and the fantastic beasts.
After The Witcher, Wheel of time and LOTR amazon trailer I kind of lost interest and hope. Hollywood seems to be adamant to change masterpiece source materials to generic crap. After seeing Arcane, Castlevania, The legend of Vox Machina and Invincible I am convinced that this would be a way to go. I think that live action fantasy is way too costly and too hard to pull off. Animated Mistborn and Stormlight would be great. Lightbringer too. Animated witcher movie was great visualy. Yea, GoT was a great hit and everyone is trying to mimic that succes but they are doing a bad job so far. Your thoughts on the matter?
So we’ve all probably seen or heard of Brandon getting on mainstream news thanks to his Kickstarter, but I didn’t realize it had spilled over from news articles into just straight up TV cable news. This is pretty awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvFNy4sVXM0
This feels like an evolution of Brandon’s career to an extent that other authors only achieved after getting their adaptations. That’s not to say that he’s at Martin success levels after the first couple seasons of Game of Thrones, but it feels like he has taken that step up before getting a movie/TV show.
Anyway, I am really interested in seeing other people’s thoughts on this, so let me know what y’all think!
I don’t mind people posting about hopes and ideas for adaptations of books, but every single post i’ve seen in the last year or so has been the exact same.
‘I actually think that an animated tv show would be much better adaptation than a live action movie or tv show. After watching TV shows such as Arcane and Castlevania I think that an anime/3d art style would be perfect for a televised version of this book.’
I actually agree with this, however it’s not at all a hot take, I have seen this posted multiple times in each specific book sub I follow, along with the fantasy sub as a whole.
Sorry for the rant but over the last year i’ve gotten very sick of this.
And I don’t mean the standard “Fantasy bad because fantasy.”
My sister has never read The Hobbit. That didn’t stop her from thinking it’s a great book. Why, you may wonder? She had read Twilight, and thinks it’s a great book. That automatically means The Hobbit is also a great book, because both books were written by Stephenie Meyer.
Obviously.
Orson Scott Card is an outspoken homophobe who donates to anti-gay causes, so its a pretty natural response to not want to support him financially. Here are a couple quotes from him on the issue:
“Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.”
“The dark secret of homosexual society — the one that dares not speak its name — is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally.”
So, gross is a bit of an understatement. That said, Ender’s Game has an incredibly important message that it would truly be a shame to lose. Thank goodness we’re fans of a medium which has options for consuming the art without financially supporting the artist.
If you haven’t read the book, …
And, although I am enjoying it, I have to ask, how much of this am I supposed to be understanding so far?! Is it normal that I feel very deep in the weeds? I feel like I’m understanding maybe 50% of what’s going on. I’m intrigued by this rivalry between the Harkonnens’ and the Atreides’, but they’ve mentioned the Emperor and based on context clues I’m assuming they’re…bad? But I have no idea. What the hell does CHOAM do? What is spice used for? It’s insanely valuable, but its a drug? Do the Bene Gesserit have super powers? What are all these words?!
I feel like I’m missing a lot and it making me anxious. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: you’re all remarkably encouraging. Also, this post seems to be helping out others who felt in over their heads while reading. Keep your perspectives coming! Wish I was this thought provoking on all social media lol.
There’s a lot of unnerving books out there, curious to know what stuff absolutely frightened and horrified you guys. I’ve personally always been terrified by achingly real novels like Insomnia, Misery, The Last Stone and If You Tell. Was curious to know from you guys what sort of stuff you find scary.
(I posted earlier but used the word mysogeny. That was incorrect and reposted with the word sexism for accuracy.)
These geniuses could see the future and create amazing worlds, but still couldn’t see equality of the sexs. Telling of the times:
Asimov’s Foundation had only one woman character and it was a Queen shopping…
Bradbury has many short stories. Including the “The Other Foot” which couldn’t be published at the time for it’s criticism of segregation, very progressive for the time. Yet his women characters are housewives and note takers.
Orwell’s Animal Farm had only one female animal. A horse that liked her mane brushed and her bows who ran away to the human farm. In 1984 Julia rebelled in a specifically surfacy way and was highly sexualized. Got some big neckbeard vibes when the protagonist first meets her.
Ringworld by Larry Niven again only had one woman character who again was young and sexualized. Her special ability was …
I’ve been reading some depressing books lately, so this book was like a breath of fresh air to me. I like the premise of the book and the characters, except for Stratt.
I love Rocky. What an adorable little guy. Whenever his dialogue comes up, I imagine he sounds like an animal crossing character.
I’m almost done reading it, but I’m stalling because I don’t want it to end.
In today’s edition of “Yes, I considered a degree in classics and am currently hyperfixating on the Odyssey.
I’m honestly fascinated with the way that the Odyssey is, among all the other things that it is, a story deeply worried about women’s sexuality and power. And not in a wow Circe is a girl boss kind of way, but in a wow this story is deeply revealing about the way that women with power and autonomy were considered a threat to the established social order kind of way.
The most obvious way this plays out is of course with Penelope and the immense importance of her chastity and loyalty as it affects Odysseus’ safety. Penelope is repeatedly and directly paralleled to Clytemnestra [took a lover while Agamenmon was at war, murdered him upon his return.] If Penelope has accepted a suitor in the last 20 yeats, Odysseus could be facing the same threat. There is also a tacit comparison to Helen who caused the war initially with her own infidelity …
Science-Fiction legend Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Xenogenesis’ trilogy is also known as the ‘Lilith’s Brood’ trilogy, named after the protagonist of the first book. The trilogy, which was released in the late 1980s, consists of the three rather slim novels ‘Dawn’ (1987), ‘Adulthood Rites’ (1988) and ‘Imago’ (1989). After having had very good experiences with reading Ursula K. Le Guin in both Sci-Fi and Fantasy my rationale was to try out another award-winning American women writer of the 20th Century and I was equally satisfied. Lenghty post ahead - I’ll try to keep spoilers minimal nonetheless. So what is it about?
In ‘Dawn’ Lilith Iyapo awakes alone in a cell and only slowly recovers her memory. Occasionally a strange man appears in her cell, just silently staring at her, not interacting. She feels terrified by him but can’t put the finger on exactly why that is. She learns only later, daring to look at him, that he is not a human being at all and his body is covered by snake like …
Which books do you think have the most intellectual and unpredictable plots?
I’ve gone through The Expanse and The Commonwealth Saga. I dropped the Void Trilogy because I don’t like fantasy in my sci-fi. I’m now looking for something with quite a few books (more than 3, preferably, but I’ll budge for a trilogy if there’s truly nothing out there) that has a lot of space tech.
Has anyone else struggled immensely with the Dune franchise? I loved the first three Frank Herbert books but God Emperor (my problems with which have nothing to do with the pacing or lack of action unlike a lot of people) through to Chapterhouse were a serious chore to get through. I still haven’t brought myself to read any of those latter three in their entirety, I just resorted to skimming through them and reading online summaries. I then tried the first book of the prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and it was just fifty shades of awful, be it in terms of prose, characterization, messing up the mythology, etc.
Last night I was trying to see if anyone had more Nebulas and Hugos than Ursula K. Le Guin, when I found out that the most-awarded SF author is ever is someone I had never heard of before. I want to fix that. Where should I start?
I’m a big sci-fi fan but been reading more weird and postmodern fiction the last few years.
What are the best Sci-Fi releases from the last few years? I’m particularly into stuff that is high concept and philosophical like Ted Chiang and Greg Egan.