There is nearly a century of Nebula Award winning science fiction that is in the public domain. Hollywood can't say, "they're out of ideas" All they need are screenwriters who aren't idiots.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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Or maybe pay the screenwriters to do more than a first draft?
I also used to wonder why writing in TV shows and movies got so bad in the last decade. A lot of things feel like it's just a first draft level of quality. Some information came out last year that indicated that they were indeed filming things off of a first draft. Because the studios didn't want to pay writers beyond making a first draft.
Hopefully that issue has been resolved. Hooray for unions!
Gantz last arc did this so well, people just don't give a crap about the truth, misinformation is widespread, and people will listen to whatever propaganda they want.
One of the iffey feelings I have reading three-body series, even though it's a pretty dark series that also highlight the dark side of humanity, is that the world superpowers were somewhat effecticely cooperative. May be if Liu Cixin wrote the book around Covid, it might be quite different.
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American perspective.
Not to worry, we had our fair share of COVID nutjobs in the Netherlands as well. Including a whole political party.
Expeditionary forces is a comedy science fiction in which the nations of the world reluctantly worked together, but only some of the nations, and they're far from friends.
You would really like the Three Body Problem.
Obama said the book had "immense" scope, and that it was "fun to read, partly because my day-to-day problems with Congress seem fairly petty".
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