There’s so many great book series out there. Ian Banks’ Culture Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin series, could re-do Altered Carbon properly and base it on the second book more faithfully; which was actually quite interesting. Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space series. Terry Pratchett’s last contribution in The Long Earth series. What happened to the supposed adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars series? Neal Asher’s Polity series. Dan Simmon’s Hyperion, anyone? And that’s just a small fraction of more modern SciFi.
None of these series really get a look in because we’re still busy repeating the same formula ad nauseam until the fan base literally can’t take ingesting another two hours of recycled dross.
I’d commit grave sins to be able to inhabit and play in Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe. The bizarre post-human factions alone, so alien and horrifying in the best way. Could legit make for a really dark MMO. I’d have to go Ultra, though, no question.
The extreme timescales, the highly personal, self-driven body modification, culminating in a truly unique, grotesque sort of personality to one’s own body…one which can’t help but physically, visibly project the creeping, gibbering paranoia nurtured by millennia spent slowly becoming so estranged from every other lifeform once called kin, making one’s journey through time and space utterly, irreversibly alone, even when traveling with others…
For sheer thrill and a tight looter-shooter game, on the other hand, I’d be SO stoked for one using his Revenger universe. Ohhhh to crack those baubles, each a potential Pandora’s box of hilariously dangerous relics involving hideous and long-forgotten exotic physics…not to mention, who knows who or what has been lurking just beyond perception, waiting for you to do the risky dirty work of extracting some particularly nasty doodad…
100% agree with this. So many cool sci fi concepts that would make great movies. The only thing I want to add is that I think short stories make for better adaptations into movies. They’re much more similarly paced.
I enjoyed Altered Carbon’s first season but was out immediately after s2e1. Wasnt aware of it being an interpretation of a book. Is the first season more accurate, or is season 2 shit for some other reason?
The first season does the detective noir thing pretty well, and doesn’t deviate too far from the novel. They tried rolling the second book (Broken Angels) and the third book (Woken Furies) into one season, it didn’t work out at all.
Now I want to make an ai slop Altered Carson poster.
The aesthetics, acting, and writing seemed to take an immense dive; I was half convinced I wasn’t even watching the same show. By the time I started s2e2 I had already googled and found out that it wasn’t just me and that it doesnt get better (I tend not to search ahead of time to avoid spoilers). What a disappointment. I really liked the detective noir thing.
There’s so many great book series out there. Ian Banks’ Culture Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin series, could re-do Altered Carbon properly and base it on the second book more faithfully; which was actually quite interesting. Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space series. Terry Pratchett’s last contribution in The Long Earth series. What happened to the supposed adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars series? Neal Asher’s Polity series. Dan Simmon’s Hyperion, anyone? And that’s just a small fraction of more modern SciFi.
None of these series really get a look in because we’re still busy repeating the same formula ad nauseam until the fan base literally can’t take ingesting another two hours of recycled dross.
Let’s try something new.
I’d commit grave sins to be able to inhabit and play in Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe. The bizarre post-human factions alone, so alien and horrifying in the best way. Could legit make for a really dark MMO. I’d have to go Ultra, though, no question.
The extreme timescales, the highly personal, self-driven body modification, culminating in a truly unique, grotesque sort of personality to one’s own body…one which can’t help but physically, visibly project the creeping, gibbering paranoia nurtured by millennia spent slowly becoming so estranged from every other lifeform once called kin, making one’s journey through time and space utterly, irreversibly alone, even when traveling with others…
For sheer thrill and a tight looter-shooter game, on the other hand, I’d be SO stoked for one using his Revenger universe. Ohhhh to crack those baubles, each a potential Pandora’s box of hilariously dangerous relics involving hideous and long-forgotten exotic physics…not to mention, who knows who or what has been lurking just beyond perception, waiting for you to do the risky dirty work of extracting some particularly nasty doodad…
One can dream.
100% agree with this. So many cool sci fi concepts that would make great movies. The only thing I want to add is that I think short stories make for better adaptations into movies. They’re much more similarly paced.
I enjoyed Altered Carbon’s first season but was out immediately after s2e1. Wasnt aware of it being an interpretation of a book. Is the first season more accurate, or is season 2 shit for some other reason?
The first season does the detective noir thing pretty well, and doesn’t deviate too far from the novel. They tried rolling the second book (Broken Angels) and the third book (Woken Furies) into one season, it didn’t work out at all.
Now I want to make an ai slop Altered Carson poster.
Thanks for the info!
The aesthetics, acting, and writing seemed to take an immense dive; I was half convinced I wasn’t even watching the same show. By the time I started s2e2 I had already googled and found out that it wasn’t just me and that it doesnt get better (I tend not to search ahead of time to avoid spoilers). What a disappointment. I really liked the detective noir thing.
I might have to check out the novels.
The same author did another similar novel called Thin Air, which you might like - it maintains that tech noir theming.