> > > OMG, a film version of I,Robot? I must have completely missed the > news. If the Solaris analogy applies, I would dislike it, because I am > a lover of Tarkovskij version. And of Stanislaw Lem. BTW, how many US > PDMLers know St. Lem? Or brothers Strugackijs? These are one of the > world's best SF writers, from Poland and SSSR. I am interested how > well are they known outside.
Lem will be found on the shelves of just about any bookshop with a Science Fiction section. If the others you mention are the same as the Boris & Arcady Strugatski I first encountered some 25 years ago their works are far less common. > More on the film versions, poor great PK Dick must be rotating in grave > because of all the bad adaptations of his work into movies. Except > Blade Runner, all of the other movies "hoovered" big time. It's > strange that of all writers, his were adapted often, but very badly. Be afraid. Be very afraid. There are at least three more films in production or release right now based on Philip K. Dick storylines. Apart from Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), there was also Total Recall (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale). Then, more recently, there was Minority Report. There's also a film being made based on "A Scanner, Darkly", and I've seen teasers for a new version of "Second Variety"
