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I hope Hollywood doesn't touch these, and some independent or little-known director actually makes them into good sci-fi. Hollywood has a way of making sci-fi laughably stupid.

Actually, I'd like to do this. Maybe I'll start by making trailers.



Apologies - by "Hollywood" I really meant "the movie industry".

Speaking of trailers - every time I hear Coldplay's "Paradise" a trailer to Consider Phlebas plays in my head!


Holy crap, me too! Actually for me it's Surface Detail but only because I was reading it around the time that song came out.


I tend to think about the "nice" parts of Consider Phlebas (i.e. the Culture refererer Fal 'Ngeestra) during the verses (When she was just a girl/She expected the world/But it flew away from her reach so/She ran away in her sleep) and then the extremely violent parts (Orbital's been blasted, escapes from the GSV) during the chorus (Para-para-paradise....). :-)




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