Oh hell to the yeah! There isnât a single Ted Chiang story I wouldnât ante up to see on the silver screen.
Not sure what you mean by one of science fictionâs genuine good guys, unless you were simply being understandably effusive. Heâs certainly a good guy.
I just read that one in the last week. I enjoyed it, but I have to admit, I have trouble seeing it as a movie.
But good on them for trying, rather than, say, just remaking the movie Ice Pirates.
The formulas on the book cover are an odd mix of the meaningful (I see some standard axioms from Peano Arithmetic and ZFC there) and the meaningless (such as âxây(âx=âyâx=y) ). I wonder what the story is there.
Tragically, we will probably never see an adaptation of the superb âUnderstandâ, because âLimitlessâ (2011) already used mostly the same premise and fucked it up horribly. Read it here! Itâs legal and a fine use of a reasonably small fraction of your time.
âSeventy-Two Lettersâ would still probably kickass, though.
Itâs too bad we donât have âThe Outer Limitsâ around anymore for things like this.
Ted Chiang is wonderful - heâs written so many excellent things and every new story is an event. Oddly enough though, Iâve never really warmed to this, his most famouse story. But still, good news.
Jophoâs mention of Outer Limits, above, makes me dream of a world in which a revived Outer Limits (or Twilight Zone) does versions of stories by Ted Chiang and Greg Egan. That could be something special.
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