[boc-l] Foundation and SF concepts

[Mary Ann Sullivan]

I admit, I do enjoy GOT, read it years ago, but foundation would be a far better series.  Still reading about my telepathy, most of the stuff is light, but that Silverberg is disturbing, I felt bad for David.  

 

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And Azimov introduced the needle gun of course - although as a hunting device! Unsurprisingly the beast concerned never features again - undoubtedly driven to extinction!  Yeah I think Foundation might make a good tv series not least because the characters are all renewed at regular intervals so there is no need for actor continuity and quite a lot of it is political intrigue rather than action - Wolf Hall-ish rather than Game of Thrones. I would be inclined not to include the encyclopedia entries tho' simply because the narrative tension is whether the Seldon Plan is still working or has failed and the entries rather remove that uncertainty.

Jill

 

 

 

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On 5/10/2016 10:21 AM, Alex S. Garcia wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Definitely. I'm actually quite surprised that it hasn't been done yet.
>
> And I really should reread the books. I used to reread those (along with "The Lord of
> the Rings") regularly when I was young. But it's been a while now, though, since I last
> did.

  I should dig my copy out and read it again (Foundation). Another series
I liked was Andre Nortons' Witch World - read all of them in one 
multi-day session in the early 80's (the ones that were out). Also
started getting into Piers Anthony after reading Ox, Orn, Omnivore -
I'd recommend those 3 for a long time.



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