Posted on 07/27/2006 6:49:43 PM PDT by marc costanzo
A Niven-based series would be so cool!
Time is long and deep.
You could be the producer- start with a "treatment", a storyboard and a business plan- all you need then is backing, and someone else's money, then buy a production option from Niven.
You sell the idea, and get backers, and there will be a Long Arm of Gil Hamilton TV series!
Now that I got you started, I'll play a wirehead in your pilot, don't forget me, baby, I gave you your start!
Why not email Larry and see what he thinks?
Also the sci-fi channel is showing ECW...
>>*Sigh!* In a better universe, there would have been an anthology series "Tales of Known Space", with installments of Gil 'The Arm' Hamilton, Beowulf Shaeffer, and Man/Kizn Wars...<
Yes indeed !
The Kzin were featured in the 1973 animated version of Star Trek !
That episode was based the short story: THE SOFT WEAPON
Maybe not Pournelle, but maybe Gordon Dickson's Dorsai stories.
They could be made into an allegory of today's world, like MASH and 'nam, or COMBAT! and um, combat.
Yes better still, why not open up a 'made in canada channel' ?
Exclusively grade D movies
You've been reading too much cyberpunk!
Try David Brin's Kiln People, or Terry Pratchett, or Elizabeth Moon.
Or David Drake.
Actually, I know of one. In Niven and Pournelle's "The Mote In God's Eye" there is a Muslim character. However, even in the future he is duplicitous and conniving.
Maybe they should make a movie about of his I SHALL FEAR NO EVIL . .
Tycoon's mind is transplanted into his crooner secretary's body - call it 'The L Word' meets The Schizo Man
starring, of course, Second Secretary Jaime Retief- Ambassador to the Stars!
"To place your grasping members above your cephalic nodules instanter!"
Sorry, Keith Laumer is dead. Watch PC puke.
The coffee afficianado. Was he Muslim? I know he was from Levant and his servant feared him terribly.
Let us get this clear:
My primary criticism is of Sci-Fi entertainment,
not the classics literature !
Yes, I like William Gibson - but one of him is enough. ;)
And a huge percentage of otherwise intelligent authors uncritically accept the Al Gore view of global warming, which renders their books unreadable to me.
REAL science fiction affecionados NEVER use the term "sci fi."
That's kzin, monkeyboy. :)
I became a Firefly fan after Serenity came out.
Great characters, great story; just a really fun time. I have to say that I was really dissappointed to find out that they aren't doing a Serentiy 2; or picking up another season of Firefly.
Sometimes I think that studio exec's have no idea how much money a good Sci-Fi fanchise can make. Star Trek, Aliens, Star Wars, Terminator and Stargate have made at least a few bucks over the years. Firefly's 1st season saw Fox change the day/time no fewer than 4 times. The Sci-Fi Channel picked the series up; and managed to not only change time/days no fewer than 3 times, they also managed to show the series out-of-order. It's like the studio execs wanted the show to fail. What is this? An alergic reaction to money, revenue and royalties?
That's the guy. Yes, he was Muslim. He makes reference to his being from the Levant and some Islamic references.
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