“Tesla really rushed these trucks out, what a nightmare.”

The neighbor is dead, one son is a felon, one son doesn’t want to be involved, one son wants a bigger role.

Anathem would a great miniseries but might have to be a longer one (or 2 seasons, I guess).

I’ve been rereading the Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars trilogy these last couple of weeks and kept thinking, “damn, these would make for a great tv series.” All the criticism of transnational/metanational corporations probably wouldn’t endear it to most media conglomerates, unfortunately.

I don’t get the issue on Old Man’s War. That is the exact opposite of unfilmable. Same with its sequels.

The Uplift War would be far easier to do than Startide rising...and of course Andy Serkis would have to be Fiben Bolger!

I’ve never understood the weird thing people seem to have against Consider Phlebas; I loved that book, snatching it off the shelves when it first came out, totally excited that this cool new author everyone was talking about had revealed himself as being into science fiction. For years, I thought it would be a great…

I’ve started “Old Man’s War” but haven’t finished it. Great choice!

I’d just start with Consider Phlebas. It’s basically a series of gigantic action set-pieces strung together.

After seeing Dune I wanted Hyperion to be adapted more than anything else.

This was going to be my suggestion. Though I think a Zones of Thought adaptation would probably have to start with A Deepness in the Sky. A Fire Upon the Deep really throws you in the deep end with the concepts right from the beginning.

This book was 30 years ahead of its time.

Of all the Culture books, I think Use of Weapons is maybe the most impossible to film.

To be honest, after The Naked Sun, the robot books don’t do much for me. Most of Asimov’s later works in both robots and Foundation just don’t appeal to me, and linking the two did not help. (Nor did the incredibly obvious authorial insert in the later Foundation books, where he gets to repeatedly fuck an incredibly…

Player of Games isn’t unfilmable, but it would be dull on screen. Use of Weapons, on the other hand....You could do try that in a TV Series, but even that would lose a lot of people before they realized what was going on.

You’re blaming the design of Tesla Cybertruck?!? What about blaming the poor design of fingers that allows them to be chopped off as easily as carrots?

The truck does have a censor for the front of the frunk’s door

Elon Musk spent all of 2023 insulting his most important customer base, and promoting causes they find repugnant. Is this a surprise to anyone?

I teach a class in information literacy and research skills at the college level. I have to do a whole series of readings and discussions that emphasize over and over again that your belief does not trump actual facts. Just because you believe in something does not make it real. I’ve had students get very hostile, and…

I should’ve thought anyone dressed like that would love sitting next to a masked passenger.