It's interesting how the most anticipated sci-fi releases of 2020/2021 are adaptations of Dune (from 1965) and Foundation (from the 1950s)
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Our time is as far away from these books as 2080 is to us (a full 30 years after the Singularity, according to true believers). Is sci-fi dead?
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maybe it's just harder for sci-fi stories to bloom into the cultural consciousness in the modern media environment then it was back then so more people just know more about old stories than new ones.
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Well, the Expanse was pretty good. But, yeah.
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no, script writers are not current on a lot of the v good contemporary stuff and producers want well known material to pul in audiences not more recent stuff
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Example of these contemporary stuff?
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I liked the arrival aside that yes sci-fi is dead
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Blindsight, Altered Carbon, Three Body Problem. I hear where you're coming from but I can't agree. Side note: every Vernor Vinge book needs to be a movie yesterday. Same for Niven and Pohl. These mines are totally untapped.
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I'd love to see HBO or similar take on Hyperion, Stranger in a Strange Land, or Transmetropolitan.
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We're not bored enough to write or read it.
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Although Nolan’s stuff people aren’t as warm to for whatever reason. I thought Interstellar was fantastic.
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