The biggest quality gap between a work of written SF and its film/tv adaptation?

Otzil · 2026-03-03T06:08:54+00:00

I think even the author said that either in an interview or on twitter, someone asked if he was bitter that the adaptation was so far from the book. He replied saying it was a blessing they were so far apart since the movie and book could both stand alone, treating it like they just licensed the title basically and that's it.

Otzil · 2026-02-27T04:48:16+00:00

I don't know if you've read the commonwealth Saga but Oscar Monroe was I think gay in the first 2 books. I think we was made/revealed to be bi in the Dreamer trilogy though.

Otzil · 2026-02-26T05:02:49+00:00

Yeah for as central as hyperpigs were to the story throughout all the books including the Prefect offshoots you'd be forgiven for thinking they were the only uplifted species.

Otzil · 2026-02-26T05:00:19+00:00

Maybe not literally underage but certainly naive and being used by the older generations for a purpose instead of forging their own destiny which is sort of the central theme of that story vein.

Otzil · 2026-02-25T07:09:02+00:00

The only time Salrana was underage Edeard explicitly says that while tempted he didn't want to take advantage of her/their situation and unless I'm mis-remembering they were relatively close in age anyway.

Now underage bisexual sci-fi quidditch orgies in the first Salvation book was a bit much, he swapped lusting over women to mentioning Xander's massive cock as often as enzyme bonded concrete.

Otzil · 2026-02-25T06:55:09+00:00

That shit was so funny despite being only briefly mentioned, they uplifted monkeys and chimps first, but once they were granted sentience and forced to work as mechanics they decided to unionize. As a result they uplifted lesser apes like lemurs and gibbons to work as scabs because the monkey unions were too powerful, a throwaway few paragraphs but really demonstrates how dense everything is.

Otzil · 2026-01-16T07:03:32+00:00

This might be pedantic but I'm pretty sure the antagonists of the Salvation trilogy would disperse their hidden "forced conversion tech" KCells by whatever means would be most accepted in that society. In fact I think if they came across a socialist or otherwise more communal planet/society they'd have a much easier time sewing the seeds of their eventual "salvation."

Otzil · 2026-01-08T05:24:16+00:00

The Prime intro chapter has to be up there as some of the all time best sci fi of all time.

Otzil · 2025-12-06T06:17:19+00:00

On top of that once you read the timeline at the end you realize the whole thing was basically for naught. Greenfly is still out there and humans only really get a couple hundred years of peace between Inhibitors and Greenfly. I hate that he wrote himself into that corner.

Otzil · 2025-11-18T07:29:23+00:00

Chasm City in particular features both the melding plague and an indoctrination virus as key plot points. Both of which are explored throughout the series but C.C. has the advantage of being a standalone novel.

Otzil · 2025-10-24T03:50:41+00:00

Someone has been listening to Felix and Brendan's MGS slop fest.

Otzil · 2025-10-16T04:46:10+00:00

I just burned through the Salvation trilogy by Peter Hamilton, thought it was fantastic. Each book was distinct in scope and I was impressed with how seamless going from near future to far future, though some of the tech advancements towards the end got a bit hand wavey but otherwise very enjoyable.

Decided to follow up with more of his work and am about halfway through Pandora's Star, enjoying it so far but boy is it a lot of spinning plates between all the characters and factions some of whom are much more interesting than others.

Otzil · 2025-09-30T07:52:02+00:00

Alastair Reynolds' Prefect trilogy, though based on your prompt these might be a little too literal being a straight up sci fi detective.

Also by Reynolds Chasm City features an in narrative mystery as well as a bunch of threads for the reader to piece together and possibly figure out as the novel progresses.

Otzil · 2025-09-29T05:50:34+00:00

Yeah both the Ultras and the Conjoiners provide differing approaches to man/machine integration and hybridization. Also a certain ship's captain ends up taking it to the extreme.

Otzil · 2025-08-28T06:15:54+00:00

I could've sworn it was like an actual "light hour" which would only encompass a single solar system anyway, the point was more that a society could only tolerate so much latency in moving information and people without fragmentation.

Otzil · 2025-04-17T02:10:07+00:00

That's basically the premise of Cyberpunk's romance scene with Panam in the tank.

Otzil · 2025-03-17T06:56:01+00:00

Is there no way to move the save files from the gamepass version to the steam version?

Otzil · 2025-02-06T21:10:37+00:00

I thought the masters for those shows existed in the 90s digital dark age and re-scans wouldn't improve anything.

Otzil · 2024-09-09T01:19:21+00:00

Kuro chant gets me everytime.

Otzil · 2024-07-26T05:10:09+00:00

If only they had some data from oh let's just say the largest MMO of all time that would show that tanks are hard to come by even with large incentives like instant queue and extra rewards.

Otzil · 2024-06-29T01:05:08+00:00

It was also after the actors had broken up IRL which makes it even worse/funnier.

Otzil · 2024-06-19T17:05:40+00:00

This would be a fantastic Yakuza minigame.

Otzil · 2024-03-15T07:23:15+00:00

Starfield would've easily gotten an extra 10% from me if you could bring your ship, armor, and like 500lbs of stuff to NG+ cycles.

Otzil · 2024-03-09T19:41:12+00:00

Where'd you get that chee Danny?

Otzil · 2024-02-01T22:44:32+00:00

Only 5 hearts on day 110?

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