the original novel
a series of five feature films followed by a body of continuation prose fiction
a live action TV series
an animated TV series
an atrocious Marvel comic
a one-off feature film
a second feature film series
I would not want any fictional scenario originated by Poul Anderson to go through that many metamorphoses. However, there is scope for different continuities. Some Technic History instalments were revised and therefore exist in two versions. Anderson's Kith future history has two versions:
three short stories that could be collected as Kith;
the long novel, Starfarers, which incorporates altered versions of two of the three stories but has a very different ending.
Thus, there could be two screen adaptations.
I find it easier to imagine additional instalments of the Polesotechnic League series than to envisage a different continuity but that can be done. There has been combox discussion on this blog suggesting that the League should not have declined so rapidly during van Rijn's active lifetime.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I liked THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI better than I did the absurd PLANET OF THE APES.
Yes, Stirling made a good point, the decline of the League was a bit too rushed. But I think that was because Anderson wanted to give Nicholas van Rijn one last big hurrah.
Ad astra! Sean
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