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shadowkat1. Arthur C. Clark's "Childhood's End" (which I've never read and probably should at some point...considering I wrote a sci-fi novel in my head with a similar idea...)
Childhood's End Trailer and Blurb
2.And the long-awaited "The Expanse" based on the J.A. Corey Space Opera novels. This one has gotten rave reviews, in particular from GRR Martin, who compares it to BSG and possibly Game of Thrones in creativity, quality and innovation. I read the first novel in the series - if you like speculative science fiction, space opera, noir, horror, and diverse casts - you'll love this. Actually if you were either a fan of LOST or Battlestar Galatica v.2 - You'll love this.
See trailer and explanation below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydKmedH336Q
And for those who like to watch television series on their computers...apparently the first episode is already available on You Tube:
Go here
I'm waiting for it on TV, because I want to watch it on a 25-30 inch HDV screen with no glare, not a 15 inch one.
3. Coming 2016 to Syfy...Lev Grossman's The Magicians, which is sitting on my Kindle, but I haven't read yet, due to mood and the horrible review my mother gave it. (Apparently it's more interested in traveling to and from this fantasy world that the kids read about in a book than actual magic, which disappointed her. But the series looks wickedly cool - like an adult Harry Potter.)
4. And other interesting tv shows coming next year...which look, ahem, different...
And this is interesting, they've actually tried to make another film out of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury - which I'm not sure is possible. (I wrote my undergrad English Lit thesis on The Sound and the Fury and Joyce's Ulysses...because I was obsessed with stream of consciousness and structural narrative styles in my twenties. I blame my brother - he was also obsessed with this style of narrative and introduced me to it - by lending me Gabriel Garcia Marquez's A Hundred Years of Solitutde, which I devoured and fell in love with the summer between my Sophmore and Junior years. I wanted to do my thesis on it and Ulysess, but they wouldn't let me - because I didn't know Spainish, and had to use the translation, so they told me to substitute Faulkner's work for the comparison instead. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now, I think I bit off more than I could chew - but I always do that - I pick really complicated things to write about or analyze.) The first go around was horrific. This one looks like it follows the book a bit more closely. What's odd is that James Franco cast himself as Benjy, I'd have cast him as Jason - he fits that role better. I'd have cast someone like Mark Ruffalo or Ed Redmayne as Benjy.
Childhood's End Trailer and Blurb
2.And the long-awaited "The Expanse" based on the J.A. Corey Space Opera novels. This one has gotten rave reviews, in particular from GRR Martin, who compares it to BSG and possibly Game of Thrones in creativity, quality and innovation. I read the first novel in the series - if you like speculative science fiction, space opera, noir, horror, and diverse casts - you'll love this. Actually if you were either a fan of LOST or Battlestar Galatica v.2 - You'll love this.
See trailer and explanation below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydKmedH336Q
And for those who like to watch television series on their computers...apparently the first episode is already available on You Tube:
Go here
I'm waiting for it on TV, because I want to watch it on a 25-30 inch HDV screen with no glare, not a 15 inch one.
3. Coming 2016 to Syfy...Lev Grossman's The Magicians, which is sitting on my Kindle, but I haven't read yet, due to mood and the horrible review my mother gave it. (Apparently it's more interested in traveling to and from this fantasy world that the kids read about in a book than actual magic, which disappointed her. But the series looks wickedly cool - like an adult Harry Potter.)
4. And other interesting tv shows coming next year...which look, ahem, different...
And this is interesting, they've actually tried to make another film out of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury - which I'm not sure is possible. (I wrote my undergrad English Lit thesis on The Sound and the Fury and Joyce's Ulysses...because I was obsessed with stream of consciousness and structural narrative styles in my twenties. I blame my brother - he was also obsessed with this style of narrative and introduced me to it - by lending me Gabriel Garcia Marquez's A Hundred Years of Solitutde, which I devoured and fell in love with the summer between my Sophmore and Junior years. I wanted to do my thesis on it and Ulysess, but they wouldn't let me - because I didn't know Spainish, and had to use the translation, so they told me to substitute Faulkner's work for the comparison instead. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now, I think I bit off more than I could chew - but I always do that - I pick really complicated things to write about or analyze.) The first go around was horrific. This one looks like it follows the book a bit more closely. What's odd is that James Franco cast himself as Benjy, I'd have cast him as Jason - he fits that role better. I'd have cast someone like Mark Ruffalo or Ed Redmayne as Benjy.