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[Arin Komins]

For that matter, Dune would make an excellent TV show (assuming they find an answer to all the internal monologue ☺.)

Hard to get the right build up and detail in any of the filmed or miniseries versions.

Do folks think that Hawkwind could do a space-opera-esque concept album?  I just don’t quite see them there……I tend to see hawkwind doing more of a decaying empire, than a outwardly expanding one.

Arin

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On 10/05/2016 09:28, Bernhard Pospiech wrote:
Hi

So, what other SF novels would be good for a Hawkwind concept album?

Arthur C. Clarkes RAMA books
Isaac Asimov FOUNDATION books

Best SF stuff on this planet IMHO


I've long thought that the *original* Foundation concept (Asimov reverse-engineered a bolted-on Robots narrative underpinning it much later) would make
a great TV SF series or even film franchise.

The basic concept of Hari Seldon's "Psychohistory" is key here. Set it up as a kinda Star Wars space opera with Seldon's hologram playing the Obi Wan Kenobi role as he prophesises the social shifts over the generations.
Kung-Fu style flashbacks o Seldon's actual work would fill out the picture and the background whereas the grand space battles and political plotting would trace out the history and its match to Seldon's prophecies.

A big advantage for a film franchise is that as the generations move on, the old stars have to give way to new ones, keeping down costs of paying superstar actors - who'd be relegated to cameos in the later series.
Wrinkles would come in with Mule-like anomalies in the way history pans out.

It'd be Space Opera in the most classic sense, and it could so easily be done well in a way which would draw the crowds.

FoFP
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