Glen -
Regarding the Amber series and Zelazny. They were very influential on
me... really the first/only "Fantasy" I ever cared much for. If
Zelazny's writing could be credited properly it would be to call it
*Hard* Fantasy which seems somewhat a contradiction in terms. When I
moved to the area, I was surprised to discover that Roger Z had moved to
Santa Fe himself not long before. One of his later Amber novels
included Santa Fe and Berkeley locations, so I might have guessed. In
any case, I discovered that he gave (twice-annual?) one-day workshops on
fiction writing in Taos and Los Alamos. I attended a few of them over
the years and really enjoyed his personal style and writing tips.
Regarding a serialization/adaptation of Amber... I would not expect it
to be an easy one to adapt well... just as I've been very disappointed
in the treatment of the Foundation Series on AppleTV... The one
redeeming opportunity *might* be Zelazny's "hard boiled" style which I
do find renders well onto the screen with both dialog and imagery.
My cousin's (Vonda McIntyre) 1997 novel The Moon and the Sun (beat out
Martin's Game of Thrones for the Nebula that year) and went on to be
made into a "Hollywood Blockbuster" starring Pierce Brosnan as Louis
XIV. The project had lots of starts and stops but was finally
*completed* in 2014. It was finally released in theaters last month.
I went to see it as my first visit to a cinema since COVID out of
loyalty. It was a fine Disney-style PG movie for pre/teenage girls, it
didn't begin to do justice to the novel (as often happens).
Vonda died fairly abruptly of Pancreatic Cancer 3 years ago (April 1,
following her quirky nature) but had enough time to polish of her last
and final Novel which may eventually be published. Her literary agent
has been coy. She was never forthcoming about why the movie itself was
so slow in release. I now suspect *she* may have been holding it up
somewhat as it was such a weak adaptation, despite a huge budget and a
star leading man.
- Steve
No word yet!?!? My cynicism says it won't happen.
The World Needs a ‘Chronicles of Amber’ TV Show
https://www.wired.com/2021/05/geeks-guide-roger-zelazny/
Just for kicks, here's some of the art in my 1981 copy of Madwand:
https://slate.host/gepr/misc?cid=bafybeicwqgmnevz7eozntvhigdskcgezmprd55ec6ys2mrj2zlwlmpp4oa
https://slate.host/gepr/misc?cid=bafybeicnyt2xgr2heluzbzpeofzkf7arti5qsk7dpr6dg6mcrapcjuqxp4
On 2/2/22 16:01, Steve Smith wrote:
On 2/2/22 1:36 PM, glen wrote:
No relation at all! I chose that theorem arbitrarily just to
distinguish when I post from my newly configured TBird client versus
other clients. Never ascribe intelligence where stochasticity will
suffice. I could have equally chosen something from Zelazny or
Feyerabend, two other members of the set of my favorite people.
MadWand strikes again!
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