Time Travel discussion

Adaptations!

Other groups talk about movie adaptations, but instead I want to know which stories, especially SF or TT, you'd like to see adapted to a video game, graphic novel, or multi-media project.

For example, I didn't appreciate The Last Unicorn until I read it as a graphic novel, and I still prefer that version over the original.

And I remember finding, in a college library, Ursula K. Le Guin's project for Always Coming Home that included not only the novel but cassettes of The Music and the Poetry of the Kesh. And I believe other supplementary materials, too, perhaps a fold out map... it was a pretty big box of stuff. Some more information is here: https://www.ursulakleguin.com/kesh-music.

That is an excellent question and there are so many. I would say one would be Recursion by Blake Crouch. It was the first one that came to mind but I am sure I will think of many more throughout the day.

I also didn't like the movie adaptation of The Last Unicorn. Just re-read the book and it is a classic.

What would you do with Recursion? Graphic novel, video game, something else?

Graphic novel would be cool or a movie.

I was thinking about it more and a video game of trying to find and having copies escape and avoid being caught would be interesting. The entire concept of teleportation was put on its head after reading that book. Kind of like the one I think we read where they had the concept of time travel would be a mess because you could end up impaled by furniture due to the earth movement.

I am thinking that a couple of the Time Travel books I've read in the past might be better as a video game. Last Year or The Paradox Hotel are two that I didn't like very much I might like better as a video game.

I've not read Last Year yet but Paradox Hotel would certainly be a very rich game, lots going on, lots of mystery(s). Good catch.

Cheryl wrote: "Adaptations!

Other groups talk about movie adaptations, but instead I want to know which stories, especially SF or TT, you'd like to see adapted to a video game, graphic novel, or multi-media proj..."

I don't do video games or graphic novels, but I always wanted a The Mote In God's Eye movie. What is a multi-media project?

The example that I gave above by LeGuin is one. Anything that literally fits the words 'multi' and 'media.'

Another example would be the classic book & cassette sold together to help young children learn to read. Or a coffee table book that comes with a CD that has even more pictures in it.

Maybe The Mote in God's Eye could be the novel plus a screenplay that shows drawings of the characters, etc.

Cheryl wrote: "The example that I gave above by LeGuin is one. Anything that literally fits the words 'multi' and 'media.'

Another example would be the classic book & cassette sold together to help young childr..."

Cheers!

In my opinion, any expansion (invasion?) of The Mote in God's Eye novel into any other media is a good thing. A market for it just needs to be established. It's my fav sci-fi novel ever! The sequel isn't bad, either.

Who do I need to piss off to make power people aware that there is a HUGE Market for a Motie movie that will kick these new Dune thingies into the dustbin? {or, yeah, alt-media, sorry to stray outside this thread} Yeah, I would play (or try to play) that video game.

Curiously, the original Star Trek series with Captain Kirk, lost its budget early and died prematurely because TV advertising at that time was not sophisticated enough to realize that ST-Gen1 was reaching and influencing the super-geeks, the geek-trend-setters that standard geeks emulated and worshiped as geek-gods. "If He is drinking WTF-Soda, I'm stocking up on WTF-Soda!"

Heh! Good points!

....adds The Mote in God's Eye to the TBR pile. Thanks for the recommendation.