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- Christopher Priest's 1996 novel, The Prestige, is being made into a movie starring Batman, Wolverine and David Bowie.
- "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know," the Hugo Awards winning novella by Connie Willis was made into a TV movie called Snow Wonder, which aired last night on CBS.
- Bernie at Pop Politics sees sees Battlestar Galactica and Serenity as present-day political documents.
- Amy Wolford thinks Science fiction deserves respect in literary world.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday November 21, 2005 at 10:47 AM
© 2008 SF Signal
SPOILER ALERT.
DISCUSSING THE SURPRIZE ENDING OF SERENITY.
DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT.
If Bernie at Pop Politics sees the Reevers in SERENITY as a metaphor for assigning blame for terrorist regimes on US policy, I would have to respectfully and severely disagree with his politics.
The Reevers are the embodiment of what Libertarians and Conservatives are always on about: the law of Unintended Consequence and the horrors of trusting Big Brother to create a perfect and tranquil society. You cannot change human nature, and when you try, people die.
Posted by John C. Wright on Monday November 21, 2005 at 6:06 PM at 6:06 PM
If it's a liberal/progressive thing to trust the government to "create a perfect and tranquil society," someone should tell the Bush administration that and then maybe they'd consider pulling out of Iraq, where their nation-building project seems pretty heavy-handed to me.
The allegory I see in Serenity is not really a warning to any political party -- or from any specific political viewpoint. It's a warning of the dangers of Western arrogance in a divided world -- a world whose chaos has been created by a combination of hasty government intervention and multinational corporate greed.
Posted by Bernie on Friday November 25, 2005 at 5:03 PM at 5:03 PM