Jan 172007
Not one, but two! Variety reports that George R. R. Martin’s books in the Song of ice and Fire series will become an HBO series, with A Game of Thrones being the entire first season. And SciFi.com has the news that Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer will be a miniseries. Very cool. As if I didn’t have enough to record already… (Gawd, I wrote “tape” there, dating myself…)
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Thanks for passing on the news Raph. That makes my week. You even scooped GRRM’s own web site. 🙂
–Jeff
Hey, sweet. I’m just in the middle of A Game of Thrones now and am quite enjoying it.
–matt
Awesome. Song of Ice & Fire would make a great series and I think HBO might just do it justice after watching Rome (actually I imagine it being very similar in tone).
I do find it somewhat hard to imagine Diamond Age as a miniseries. Stephenson is a great writer but I think he often fails to nail the endings of his books and Diamond Age is particularly guilty of this. It’s more an idea book held together by Stephenson’s great dialogue. I hope to be surprised though.
Don’t leave out the slightly lesser-known, but highly excellent Dresedn Files series, also coming to the Sci Fi Channel on Jan 21!
That’s wonderful news. I recently picked up A Feast For Crows and have been going through the first three books again to get back into the story. Since Peter Jackson brought LotR to the screen, I’ve been wondering if the Martin books would make it and in what form. A series is perfect!
Now I just have to cross my fingers that the show makes it to Korea in some form. Rome has been on cable and DVD here, but the Sopranos and Deadwood have shown up DVD only.
Not interested in George, but Neal is way cool.
Yehuda
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This is so incredibly exciting. Best tv news I have heard in a looong time. =)
I am pretty stoked about NS’s Diamond Age. The whole time I was reading that book I thought it would make a good movie/mini-series. I don’t agree with StGabe on his repeated party-line about your boy’s endings. I have never had a problem with his endings… Sometimes in life things don’t really end the way you think they should, or feel that they should…and I find Stephenson’s work to feel natural that way.
I should probably read Martin’s stuff and catch up. Not that I have HBO…but if it’s good, I just might pony up for it to watch it.
cl
Having traveled to the currently ice-locked mid-section of the country and finding net access (and electricity) somewhat scarce at times, I’m now finally reading “Diamond Age” (having long ago read “Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon”), so I might be interested in the mini-series as it will be relatively fresh in my mind. I do, however, hope the ending isn’t as bad as mentioned above. I’ve enjoyed his other work, but agree that endings aren’t his strong suit.