Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Seamless Sequels Settings

"Inconstant Star," Chapter II.

Recurring settings have obvious advantages for screen adaptations. Some Jeeves stories were set in London; others in New York. In a BBC dramatization, they were all in London.

The colonized planet of Wunderland is one consistent setting in the Man-Kzin Wars stories.

In Munchen:

Karl-Jorge Avenue;
St. Joachim's;
the Liberation Memorial;
the Silberplatz;
Harold's Terran Bar (scroll down);
the Weiliche Astroverein.

To the North:

Skogarna, settled by Scandinavians, with its own dialect.

There will be much more than this. These details are extracted from one chapter of a single story.

Although the Liberation from kzinti occupation was barely a generation ago, it has joined Marathon and Yorktown in history. Future history will include both everyday life and worlds-changing events.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Shouldn't that be Karl-GEORG Avenue, not "Jorge"? My impression is that Wunderland was originally colonized by Germans.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Mostly by Germans, with a lot of other Central and Northern Europeans as well.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

That's my recollection as well.

Ad astra! Sean