Star Trek
Star Wars
Doctor Who
Battlestar Galactica
Alien
etc
We might as well be talking about different genres.
In Poul Anderson's "The Year of the Ransom," Manse Everard's timecycle appears in the receiver bay of a black spacecraft orbiting Earth on 15 April 1610. This reminded me of Kirk etc "transporting" on and off the Enterprise in Star Trek: a very rare occasion for something in sf proper to remind me of something in sf media-related.
I first knew of Star Trek before it came on British TV because I was looking for sf by James Blish and came across his first ST adaptation collection. (See the attached image.) That is one of the few links between the two kinds of "sf."
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I have a vague recollection of Jerry Pournelle doing something similar, writing a Terminator novel or novelizing one of the Terminator movies.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Pournelle novelized ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES.
Niven adapted a Known Space story as an animated STAR TREK episode.
There are a few such examples.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I forgot those examples. Not a fan of the PLANET OF THE APES movies, but anything written by Pournelle is very likely to be worth reading.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Blish was involved in adapting his CITIES IN FLIGHT and WELCOME TO MARS for screen but it never happened.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
That was probably just as well--I have next to zero confidence movie directors and producers would have done a good job.
Horrible "SF/F" movies tempts me to go ape!!!!!
Ad astra! Sean
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