[6ppc]

There is so much good written science fiction out there that I keep wondering how they can keep coming up with such crap. Niven and Pournelle wrote three books ( The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer, and Footfall) that would make GREAT blockbuster movies. Lot's of stuff by other authors. Why do idiot producers keep writing their own (bad) stuff when so much good stuff is available?

BTW...purists abhore the term sci-fi...it's called Science Fiction or SF for short.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Here’s a fun website to peruse:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/archive.html

[allmendream]

“The Mote in God’s Eye” and the sequel “The Gripping Hand” would be EXCELLENT Science Fiction movies. The first one especially.

They meet the aliens, everyone thinks they are cute, although a little weird looking; then realize that they only really know the NEGOTIATOR Moties, who are designed to make you like them by acting like YOU. Then they discover the shadows against the sun of the first “crazy Eddie probe” and see that they jettisoned the crew to hide the evidence of what the space ship was, and among the jettisoned crew were Warrior Moties, who the Moties tried to pass off as fictional “demon spirits”.

Very good Science Fiction, as well as an excellent story with good characters and some GREAT dialog.

The scene when the Arab trader sees the spacesuit that is following him on the evacuation from the infested ship (MacArthur)is being operated by Watchmaker Moties would be INTENSE. On the other hand, the moties might look too strange to get the same feel from the Negotiator Moties mimicking the human they imprinted upon. But on the gripping hand, it would make a very good movie.