Well, I'm not sure what Martin is on to next. But his participation in the upcoming Elden Ring lore seemed to exhibit he had some ambitions left. Since he names Zelazny as inspiration, maybe there's a sliver of possibility there. If we could only get Peter Jackson, that'd push it through. 8^D
I'll check out The Moon and the Sun. I don't remember you mentioning it before. On 2/3/22 10:57, Steve Smith wrote:
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.
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