Werthead Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I can get behind this idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Hard to imagine how they'll do this without being anthology style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disputatious Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Hm... I wonder if this series will lead to a broader readership for the books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 WTF?! Best news of the year! I've been a total fangirl at a lot of cons while meeting authors, but never moreso than when I met KSR. It brought out my inner teenage self. Squee!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerenthaClone Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Red Mars is one of my favorite books ever. This could be fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Interesting. I'm not sure how faithful it'll be though. Didn't JMS write the screenplay for "World War Z"? I enjoyed the film but it didn't really represent the book at all. So we may get an interesting show about Mars but it may have little to do with the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazydog7 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Spike TV? That could be either very good or very very bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Spike TV? That could be either very good or very very bad. The network is my biggest reservation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Interesting. I'm not sure how faithful it'll be though. Didn't JMS write the screenplay for "World War Z"? I enjoyed the film but it didn't really represent the book at all. So we may get an interesting show about Mars but it may have little to do with the book. He did the first draft at least. I don't think what we got was much like his draft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davos Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 He did the first draft at least. I don't think what we got was much like his draft.This is my understanding. At one point the screenplay was an actual attempt to translate the book to film, and retained the other essential framing strucure of an individual traveling the world after the zombie war recording people's recollection of their experiences in the conflict. Then it got run through the Hollywood rewrite mill and became the action abomination we ended up with (truly an awful, awful film with nothing in common with the book but the name. Such a waste of good source material).I love the Mars trilogy, particularly Red Mars. I'm also a big B5 fanboy. JMS has an uneven history. His writing can be brilliant and it can be shaky. I think he could be a good fit for this material but I would want to know more about the project. What makes me really skeptical is the network. If it was being developed by HBO or AMC, I would be thrilled about its prospects. Spike is a whole other matter. If they can't do it right, I hope it doesn't get made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I think having KSR on board as an advisor is pretty important too. Not just a name-check producer which I'd hope means he wants it to bear some resemblance to his books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 These books really ignited my love for Mars, and directed my education to become both engineer and geologist in hopes I'd go to Mars some day myself. Though now I'm regretting not going into astrobiology and the origins of life research. Hiroko, Coyote, Sax, Maya, Nadia, Frank, Arkady... I can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Spike give straight-to-series order for Red Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 These books really ignited my love for Mars, and directed my education to become both engineer and geologist in hopes I'd go to Mars some day myself. Though now I'm regretting not going into astrobiology and the origins of life research. Hiroko, Coyote, Sax, Maya, Nadia, Frank, Arkady... I can't wait.That's cool. I love when fiction inspires those to help make it reality.Spike give straight-to-series order for Red Mars.I have a feeling it'll be a show that'll require a bit more than a pilot to win viewers over.With this and the expanse I wonder if "plauisble" space exploration is becoming popular again? Hopefully it's a sign humanity is getting the itch for space travel again. We can only hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 January 2017, so at the same time as American Gods.Looking forward to this, should be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Bass Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Holy shit. This is good news, although I think I'd be more comfortable if it was being adapted by HBO or SyFy (speaking of which, when is HBO going to get a major SF series? It's the missing jewel in their crown of top-notch drama shows).Amusingly enough, Kim Stanley Robinson is more pessimistic about Mars terraforming than he used to be. Those pesky perchlorates in the soil, plus the possibility of life below the surface (something which didn't even register in the early 1990s after the Viking Landers found nothing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Perchlorates just have to be washed with water. The reaction produces oxygen. Not enough to appreciably thicken the atmosphere if we washed all of Mars, but the main thing is to make the regolith non-toxic for growing food.I'd think any airlock procedure at the end of a trip outside would include a quick rinse off. Got to make the spacesuit waterproof. Or use spacesuits with suitports so you never actually bring the suit inside, and climb in/out from the port on the back of it. A rinse off still seems like a good precaution though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 Looks good, and with JMS on board they're not going to put tons of sex/violence/lasers into it for no good reason.They'll need to change the timeline. I wouldn't be surprised to see all the dates shifted by maybe 30 years just to make it work a bit better, and maybe have some Chinese characters. It was already daft the original books didn't have any, but at this stage it'd be really stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Looks good, and with JMS on board they're not going to put tons of sex/violence/lasers into it for no good reason.They'll need to change the timeline. I wouldn't be surprised to see all the dates shifted by maybe 30 years just to make it work a bit better, and maybe have some Chinese characters. It was already daft the original books didn't have any, but at this stage it'd be really stupid.I guess we can debate whether there was a good reason for the sex/violence in Sense8 (I don't recall any scenes that weren't useful for highlighting character or powers) but JMS is not avert to such things - he just sensibly writes things within the limits required. It's the same with his comics he can happily no "all ages" or "adult" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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