Movie adaptations

[Dr_Zinj]

Yes it is a good read.

Pretty much anything written by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is good. They wrote some very good books together. Pournelle was an EARLY adopter of micro computers aka PCs and for years had a column that was awesome in BYTE magazine. BYTE was a mixture of very technical software and hardware articles and Pournelle wrote some very technical stories. This was way back in the 80's! Pournelle is still alive but I do not know what he has done lately since I mostly read history and boat related stuff now a days. Though I have started to reread some of Heinlein's work as well as Ender's Game.

I need to see if H. Beam Pipers stuff is available on Kindle. Looks like many of his books are out there for free or a few dollars on Amazon. Just looking at the list of books is a WOW moment. I forgot about all of those books I enjoyed. I have a bunch of Pipers books but they are 30 year old paper backs and falling apart...

Later,
Dan

Dr Jerry Pournelle is still alive and kicking, although he's still recovering from a stroke he had about a month or so ago. His latest works have been collaborative ones with Steve Barnes and Larry Niven about a slower than light colonization and the consequences of interacting with an unknown existing planetary ecology. He runs a web site at Chaos Manor - Jerry Pournelle | the original blog of Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor. H.Beam Piper's stuff is all in public domain since he never reassigned any of his copyrights (MAJOR problems with his ex-wife which contributed to his committing suicide.) Loved Little Fuzzy.

David Weber's Honor Harrington series is good if you like serial space opera in the Horatio Hornblower vein. It would be fantastic to make into a series of movies, or even a television series. The problem with that is the invention of a life prolongation treatment means that characters live several of our lifespans without aging (unless killed), which means to bring all the stories to the screen would require either trading off with new actors several times for each character, CGI over the top of the actors playing those characters, or totally CGI the characters the way they did with the Final Fantasy movie. By the way, the main character of the "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" movie was voiced by Ming-na Wen who plays Agent Melinda May on the Marvel Agents of Shield series.

 

[DFB]

If you want to count a novel adapted to the big screen for the first time, I would offer "Where the Red Fern Grows". It was a fabulous movie, one of my favorites. I haven't seen the latest version, and don't care to.

Found that classic (1974) in DVD format on the very bottom shelf down at the library today!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Found that classic (1974) in DVD format on the very bottom shelf down at the library today!

You can't beat a boy and a dog to create a tear-jerker. Hope you took it home and watched it. It brought back a lot of memories for me; growing up pooooor in rural Oklahoma.

 

[sld]

You can't beat a boy and a dog to create a tear-jerker. Hope you took it home and watched it. It brought back a lot of memories for me; growing up pooooor in rural Oklahoma.

What part of OK? My family is from Cushing and Hominy. Great grandparents were in the land rush.

 

[buickanddeere]

We are filming Red Spring next month. I have a bit part as a Vampire.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

What part of OK? My family is from Cushing and Hominy. Great grandparents were in the land rush.

Grew up in Major County; Ames OK. Now live between Guthrie and OKC.

 

[sld]

Grew up in Major County; Ames OK. Now live between Guthrie and OKC.

I have a good friend that lives on the north end of Edmund. Every time I go down there I miss that type of country. Ate lunch at Stables Cafe in Guthrie a couple of weeks ago.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I have a good friend that lives on the north end of Edmund. Every time I go down there I miss that type of country. Ate lunch at Stables Cafe in Guthrie a couple of weeks ago.

Check your PM.