Screen Adaptation

Today, we, editorially speaking, are recuperating from that minor illness of yesterday. I sit at home while Sheila walks through the rain to meet our daughter, Aileen, for a coffee in town.

This is neither to everyone else's taste nor currently a commercial proposition but what I would really like to see is a detailed screen adaptation, leaving nothing out, of Poul Anderson's Technic History beginning with Minamoto's introduction to "The Saturn Game" and ending with Daven Laure's concluding remark and laughter at the end of "Starfog." Even the shorter works should be serialized. The many characters who appear in only a single story would be seen in a few episodes but then would be gone forever. Hloch's narration of The Earth Book Of Stormgate would be a major feature, beginning with the second story, "Wings of Victory." Ythrians, Merseians and other extraterrestrials would be CGI. There would have to be two actors for Dominic Flandry, before and after his biosculpt. Maybe when Nicholas van Rijn reminisces briefly about his younger days as a spaceman, we could see a cameo of another, younger, slimmer actor in the role? The Merseian, Tachwyr, would have to be shown as aged in his later appearances. I would like to hear some Eriau, Planha etc with subtitles. For English to be replaced by Anglic, then by later languages, would be asking too much! Olaf Magnusson is said to be fluent not only in Eriau but also in two other Merseian languages so maybe we could hear some snatches of them also. We would not understand what was said but would notice different sounds like between French and German.

There is an entire universe to explore.