Timewaster's Guide Archive
Departments => Books => Topic started by: Skar on January 17, 2007, 05:59:17 PM
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So, It looks like Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" will be produced and adapted for the small screen. The Neal himself will be doing the writing for the TV apparently. A good sign.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39447
Being a rabid Neal Stephenson fan I'm too excited for words. I can only hope that since he will be adapting it himself it won't go the way of that horrific "Dune" Mini-series. http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=40
I am worried that the blurb says "creativity" was being stifled in the story. In the book it was "subversiveness" or "independent thought" that was being stifled. Very different from creativity.
Hopefully it won't turn into a thinly veiled McCarthy diatribe.