Posted on 07/27/2006 6:49:43 PM PDT by marc costanzo
Thank you for that info, I saw that show, blow blow,
every single episode !
Darn! Beat me to it! Those would make great short features, the names were great too; Ambassador Throttlebottom, etc., and the nemesis of Terra, the evil Groaci, lisping in prepositional phrases, "To drop the blaster now soft one", hissed Broodmaster Slith!
Louis Wu? Wallace Shawn.
Teela? Either Gabrielle Anwar, Angela Lindvall, or Natalia Vodianova (both were in CQ).
Beowulf? Jude Law.
A Puppeteer's voice, I think, woud be three or four human voices run through a processor. They did not have very human-sounding voices, unless a human spoke as a pipe organ mixed with a bagpipe.
I've been watching all the first season eps of Battlestar Gallactica on DVD (Sci Fi channel series). Will hopefully get the second season as a Christmas present this year.
BTW, I would also recommend David Brin's The Uplift War, along with Greg Bear, Ben Bova, or Allen Steele's work for anyone interested in latter-day hard SF.
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"Time Enough for Love" would make a heck of a movie.
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" would too.
But the Stainless Steel Rat would work as either a movie or a series.; Gary Oldman as Slippery Jim would just rock.
I liked StarGate SG-! in for a while, it was fairly psoitive, but that series went on way too long and became too repititious !
That is part of the problem with Sci-Fi
*blink, blink* - I'll have to check it out...
Anyone have any suggestions of the best of the best of science fiction published within the last few years?
As a kid (20 years ago), I read the usual, Asimov, Heinlein, etc. I recently meandered through the bookstore's scifi section, and did not have a clue as to which books were worth reading.
Again, any best of lists published post 2000?
Thanks!
Harry Harrison wrote PROTECTOR, I believe, and while it had adult themes, its' material was juvenile . .
>>I think a well done Burroughs series would be awesome. Preferably Barsoom.<<
Yes, but today they would butcher it with PC, like they do to Tom Clancy adaptions !
I think Protector was the Niven story about a Pak (named Pthsspok) who came to Earth. We are a lost Pak colony and the homeworld had heard nothing of us for hundreds of thousands of years. He came to check on us.
Already been done.
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Building Harlequin's Moon, Niven and Cooper.
Alan Steele's books, though I have problems with his physics.
Oh Dear God in Heaven, no! Louis Wu is basically Asian and, more importantly he is both competent and cool. No, I'd start with Chow Yun Fat and work out from there.
Teela? Either Gabrielle Anwar, Angela Lindvall, or Natalia Vodianova (both were in CQ).
All good choices. but are they "airhead" enough?
Beowulf? Jude Law.
Great performer and he would bring the right mannerisms and tone to the character, but a 7 foot albino? I don't think so.
A Puppeteer's voice, I think, would be three or four human voices run through a processor. They did not have very human-sounding voices, unless a human spoke as a pipe organ mixed with a bagpipe.
From the descriptions in Ringworld I've always pictured someone with a voice that could be used to dub Pamela Anderson or Anna Nicole (not their voices, but someone whose voice you could believe coming out of them).
Now, here's a life long mind bender I've played with for over 30 years: who to cast in the parts in Stranger in a Strange Land. I've cast it numerous times, but they keep growing out of the roles (or dying, how inconvenient).
See Phsstpok's lists on this thread. He's right on target.
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