When will we get the adaptation of the greatest sci-fi story ever told?

>NOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST PAY HOMAGE TO YOUR FAVOURITE POET AND HIS TRAGIC FATE BY IMMORTALIZING HIM IN POP CULTURE AS ONE OF THE CHARACTERS IN YOUR STORY THAT'S ILLEGAL

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>tfw no Wheel of Time media

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Simmons does that shit with most of his books. The MC in Flashback is named after a character in a Shakespeare play. There is also le ebin cyberspace haxor "Cowboy Gibson" in Hyperion. Cringe af.

They are doing a tv show on it but the cast has been BLACKED to hell

That pope/anti-pope thing was cool.

Also, I want to say the... AI? evil guys were spooky. There's that one chapter where one of them manages to appear our of nowhere on some guy's top secret asteroid base or something.

>at the end of the second book where the cunt publisher gets stranded thousands of feet up in her skyscraper when the farcaster network goes down
Based Simmons, FUCK publishers

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kassad is the genetic basis of the shrike
he did some serious retconning in the endymion books which are generally terrible.

Flashbacks protagonist is named after Shakespeare character because his father was a literature professor, as for Gibson boy how unusual it is for people into IT spheres to take names after various popculture references. This never happens today or anything, just ask Than0s_99

>tfw no comfy creepy Blindsight tv show with high budget
I want my vampires

>no carrion comfort horror kino
feels bad mein bauer

>not enjoying loli wife camping adventures while Catholics deus vult the entire galaxy

That wouldn't work as a tv series, maybe a movie like a darker version of Solaris.

it wasn't all bad. I liked the underground ice planet bit.

Aenea is the biggest and most boring Mary Sue of all time

I dont care I just want to see it on screen. Book is pure kino.

>tfw no Flashback adaptation
Imagine the SEETHE

hopefully never

I couldn't get into this one. Really enjoyed Ilium/Olympos though.
I might be retarded.

lourdusamy did nothing wrong

fucking thank you my absolute nigga.

Every Hyperion / Simmons thread i pop and try to elighten the masses on the incredible novel that is Carrion Comfort and how i'm baffled that hollywood hasn't put it's hands on it, and every single time my post gets completely ignored.

tl.dr: Carrion Comfort is Simmon's best novel and would make incredible kino in the right hands

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Sounds comfy. Gonna download

>DUDE VAMPIRE NAZI
Simmons' horror phrase was generally terrible. He is way better writing scifi or cryptohistory. Drood is the true magnum opus

Endemyon is pure shit

We haven't even gotten Neuromancer or Foundation

>Hebron is a planet that is part of the WorldWeb of the Hegemony of Man. Its name is derived from a city in Earth's Holy Land, and it is occupied primarily by Jews. It is a harsh desert world with two moons. It was once home to a sentient extraterrestrial species, the Seneschai Aluit, but they are believed to be (((extinct))) as of the time of the planet's colonization.

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Gimme a quick rundown with no spoilers

Can someone explain to me what Drood is about? I can't find a good description.

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war between god and AI.

Charles Dickens: Serial Killer

>you will never see a live action tree ship fighting Ousters in the night sky

I don't think they would do kassad's story justice. Bressia was a hellish landscape of nukes and lasers with even small arms capable of great destruction.

A bunch of people go on a pilgrimage to meet a robot demon while a galactic war between space USA and space furries is brewing. On a way here they share stories in attempt to understand what the fuck is going on.
Spoiler: they never understand what the fuck is going on, but furries are actually robots, who also war with real furries, and make a robot God who wants to kill time-travelling Jesus who is actually a little girl

book one is just all the stories. Book two is actual shrike shenanigans but more than that you have a lot of AI shenanigans taking place; also the whole book is written as John Keats x Dan Simmons fanfiction. Book 3 is a timeskip to a time where the holy Catholic Church rules the galaxy and there’s a character called Father Captain de Soya who is the most based character in fiction. This is primarily catholic shenanigans and planet hopping. Book four is Dan Simmons jerking off the Ousters and hinduism. Every book is extremely enjoyable and worth a read

now THIS is hard scifi

Don’t listen to this retard because keatswank is amazing.

I hate convoluted sci fi like that shit.

>he didn’t like the Pax
Plebian

No, however Paul Endymion is the worst character in all four books

Peter Watts is absolutely and without a doubt based as fuck. You can even get all his books for free on his website.

I’ll check it out

>Consul's tale is my favourite, how could you tell?

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Because you’re a brainlet, of course a paragraph description of a book sounds convoluted

it was sort of adapted (by which I mean shamelessly ripped off) with THE STRAIN.

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>priest>consul>poet>detective>soldier>father

song of kali is better

neuromancer is too dated now. it'd be silly if adapated faithfully and what's the point of an adaptation that changes and updates everything? as for foundation, that's happening with appletv or whatever it's called

theverge.com/2018/4/11/17223728/apple-foundation-trilogy-isaac-asimov-tv-show-david-goyer-josh-friedman

It’s good, but the one he wrote where the Greek gods, humans and robots firefight the Trojan war on mars would make better source for kino.

Drood is good but terror is better.

It’s one of the most epic horror novels ever written, that’s for sure.

Fictional accounts of the final hears of Charles Dickens' life told from the perspective of his friend and fellow novelist Wilkie Collins (their dynamic is very Mozart/Salieri). The novel pretends that Dickens' unfinished book, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was based around actual person, spooky disfigured arab drug trader Drood who rules the London underbelly from the shadows. Shit is very trippy, I only remember the book vaguely, but it's mostly about drugs and going insane with jealousy.

first 2 are good, 3rd is ok, 4th is one of the biggest pieces of shit i've ever read

pretty much stop after 1 and you're good

they aren't even remotely related

Brainlet

The Terror seems to be the most normal work by Simmons

Stop ducking lying, 4th kept nearly the same level of quality, you’re just seething reddit atheists who can’t comprehend the idea that peace is achievable in a sci-fi setting

ok here's your (you)

Fuck AI and fuck farcasters.

Kassad was an absolute Chad

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perhaps you'd like edward elmer smith's "lensman" books more. the good guys are good, the bad guys are bad, and never shall they change places. it's even said now and then that j.m.Stracynski is making a film of one of them.

i used to think that. then i reviewed:

book 1: go to space, meet alien that isn't intelligent

book 2: go to space. meet bits of aliens from book 1

that is all

Book 2 is worse than 1 for sure. But I enjoyed his rifter series too. I still like the universe he created with blindsight.

>But I enjoyed his rifter series too

thanks, sufficiently bored to check this out

why is dan simmons obsessed with jews? still can't believe Illium ended up being about a space monster sucking up the horror juice created by the holocaust, what a fucking hack

hyperion sucks but the whole space inquisition that gets liquified every time they travel in the super fast spaceship is pure kino

Because in real life outside of your internet bubble, the holocaust is considered the largest scale mass murder of all time. It’s also quite a modern event and is still on people’s minds. Also Dan is BLATANTLY obsessed with the Catholic Church. Runner up is Hinduism, and then yes he talks a bit about Jews
>this book sucks but 75% of the events that happen in it are kino

>That isn't Snow Crash.

You ever notice that the majority of book readers are women? what are some books that mostly only men read, comic books don't count

Nightflyers stole a bunch of ideas from Blindsight and it was utter shit (but Watts stole from the Volcryn in the first place)

I'd want any adaptation to keep the hyper-militaristic future Catholic Church/PAX completely intact no matter what groups it offends. And don't water down the fucked up pope/anti-pope cruciform storyline

Other way around if at all. Nightflyers came out in 1980. Unless you mean the tv show which was okay at best but had potential. I dont mind using material from other sources to use in your own fiction.

The majority of book readers are the trash romance/mystery/suspense novels that women read which are not fit kindling for a good fire let alone novels.

Men read GOOD books that women seldom read. Name a woman who has read Meditations or Dune and understood half of it. I'm reading Moby Dick right now and 13 chapters in I can't think of a single thing that would interest a woman or lead her to some greater understanding of herself or humanity.

They want emotion, Darcy, Heathcliff, etc. Not that those aren't good characters and novels. They just have little value to society. The higher ideals that men often read about don't pique the majority of women's interest in the slightest.

Women read more because they work less, and because their jobs tend to be less intellectually demanding. Men read more when slavery was around and people didn't have to wagekek for Schlomo 70 hours a week

>De Soya
Patrician taste, user.

I just want to see hellwhips carving apart ouster fucking shits, man.

>take plot points from a book
>make a bingo card from them
Whats the point of this

Agreed.

>you will never crucify yourself on an electric fire tree to die forever, just to spite a bunch of undying, genderless mongoloids
Feels pretty good, famalamabam.

de Soya was good, I'd say Daeman from the Ilium duo had the best character growth of anyone from his books though.