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[Michael Holmes]

On 10/05/2016 09:28, Bernhard Pospiech wrote:
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> Hi
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> So, what other SF novels would be good for a Hawkwind concept album?
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> Arthur C. Clarkes RAMA books
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> Isaac Asimov FOUNDATION books
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> Best SF stuff on this planet IMHO
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I've long thought that the *original* Foundation concept (Asimov 
reverse-engineered a bolted-on Robots narrative underpinning it much 
later) would make
a great TV SF series or even film franchise.

The basic concept of Hari Seldon's "Psychohistory" is key here. Set it 
up as a kinda Star Wars space opera with Seldon's hologram playing the 
Obi Wan Kenobi role as he prophesises the social shifts over the 
generations.
Kung-Fu style flashbacks o Seldon's actual work would fill out the 
picture and the background whereas the grand space battles and political 
plotting would trace out the history and its match to Seldon's prophecies.

A big advantage for a film franchise is that as the generations move on, 
the old stars have to give way to new ones, keeping down costs of paying 
superstar actors - who'd be relegated to cameos in the later series.
Wrinkles would come in with Mule-like anomalies in the way history pans out.

It'd be Space Opera in the most classic sense, and it could so easily be 
done well in a way which would draw the crowds.

FoFP
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