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If you could adapt any sci-fi book into a show or movie (guaranteed not to have any modern day garbage) what would you pick?
posted 1 year ago by Smith1980 1 year ago by Smith1980 +17 / -0

First ones off the top of my head would be UBIK by Phillip K Dick or either Stranger in a Strange Land or JOB by Heinlein.

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– 8BitArchitect 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

I'm gonna throw a curveball here, just to be a bit contrarian: The Expanse. The show got fucked over by being cancelled twice, and they killed off one of the main characters because his actor got accused of... I don't even think it was sexual assault, I think it was 'grooming' and inviting a fan back to his hotel room.

The series was already pretty woke from the start (Lesbian 'pastor' in an interracial marriage? Pretty damn woke.) But they still managed to write interesting characters and have a decent storyline. TV show cuts off the last third of the series where everything gets tied up, and takes an absolute woke nosedive in the final season. Just give me a version where the main cast from the TV series gets to finish out the story, and if I'm being given magic powers, redo a few of the changes they made to the earlier seasons (changing the black villain in the duo from book one to white, for example), and completely ignore the finale of season five and all of season six.

u/Smith1980, I've not read UBIK, but I think at least the first 'book' of Stranger in a Strange Land would be really cool to see adapted. That part was probably the book I've most enjoyed reading as an adult (the latter two 'books' I did not enjoy nearly as much, but Heinlein and I have very different views on religion, so that is to be expected, I suppose.)

Adapting JOB would be... interesting. Definitely something for HBO or the like.

And since we're on the subject of Heinlein, why not adapt The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?

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– Smith1980 [S] 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Love the Moon is a Hardh Mistress but feel they would mess that up. I also have the Expanse books on my list to buy. You should check out UBIK. Very trippy.

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