I'd caution that this only means that they might do this.
and reminds me of Auther C. Clark's "Rendezvous with Rama"
Quote from: Blackstar on 10/01/2017 01:21 pmI'd caution that this only means that they might do this.We might hope they don't -- movie/TV adaptations of classic SF have so far been pretty disappointing IMHO.
I dunno. I thought that Childhood's End was excellent. And it got much less attention and praise than it deserved. And The Expanse has been a great adaptation.
Can't wait to see a Pierson's puppeteer.
Quote from: catdlr on 10/01/2017 03:54 pmand reminds me of Auther C. Clark's "Rendezvous with Rama"I think there was discussion of doing that as a TV movie. Cannot remember specifics, but obviously it has not happened.
That image makes the ringworld look really small! The surface area in the book is around 3 million times that of the Earth. I really hope they have someone with a big enough imagination to do this justice.
Quote from: nacnud on 10/01/2017 05:30 pmThat image makes the ringworld look really small! The surface area in the book is around 3 million times that of the Earth. I really hope they have someone with a big enough imagination to do this justice.Their imagination will have to include a way to make the ringworld fundamentally stable. Which is ain't...
Quote from: synchrotron on 10/02/2017 03:15 pmQuote from: nacnud on 10/01/2017 05:30 pmThat image makes the ringworld look really small! The surface area in the book is around 3 million times that of the Earth. I really hope they have someone with a big enough imagination to do this justice.Their imagination will have to include a way to make the ringworld fundamentally stable. Which is ain't...Yes, that was brought up at the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention, and Niven dealt with it in The Ringworld Engineers (1980).
It's perhaps good that Amazon has picked up this property. If Syfy was going to do it, all of those nice scenes featuring rishathra would have been censored out...
Quote from: Sam Ho on 10/02/2017 03:47 pmQuote from: synchrotron on 10/02/2017 03:15 pmQuote from: nacnud on 10/01/2017 05:30 pmThat image makes the ringworld look really small! The surface area in the book is around 3 million times that of the Earth. I really hope they have someone with a big enough imagination to do this justice.Their imagination will have to include a way to make the ringworld fundamentally stable. Which is ain't...Yes, that was brought up at the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention, and Niven dealt with it in The Ringworld Engineers (1980).Yep -- Bussard ramjets mounted along the ring walls, collecting and burning the solar wind-generated gasses, served as "attitude control jets" for Niven's Ringworld.
Like Rama, Ringworld is heavy on world-building but not much on narrative. The first part is largely talking and Exposé, during the second part, the protagonists just go from one place to another, encounter weird people and phenomena, they have little say on the events unfolding, just tag along, then more talking and revelations until the end.A naive and helpless female protagonist. Breed for luck. Tasp. I think many concepts are very hard to adopt for TV audience. Removing all those hard, unpopular, tedious stuff, there is not much left. A few actions, but not enough. Unless they can pull a Total Recall or Blade Runner on it.Nobody can possibly do justice to a world that huge, not even Larry Niven himself. Imagine the geography, history, culture, fauna and flora, possibility is endless, but the actual story is such a let down.