It seems my favourite book series that I am reading right now is getting adapted for TV by Babylon 5's J. Michael Straczynski, with GoT's Vince Gerardis producing.
I want to be excited but I'm scared of getting hurt. Those are two fantastic names to have attached though.
If you haven't read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, you should really give it a go. It's the very hardest of hard science fiction, concerning near-future humanity's colonisation and terraformation of Mars over a timescale of centuries, but it's as much a political and philosophical exploration of how living on an alien world changes us as human beings - or fails to do so. Most of the focus is on the first hundred colonists and their relationships and activities, and they're all really three-dimensional, interesting, flawed people. That includes the female characters, who get just as much page-time as the guys, and if anything are even better-written.
Details about the TV show are thin on the ground at the moment but we can use this thread to talk about the books too. Don't forget spoiler tags!
I want to be excited but I'm scared of getting hurt. Those are two fantastic names to have attached though.
If you haven't read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, you should really give it a go. It's the very hardest of hard science fiction, concerning near-future humanity's colonisation and terraformation of Mars over a timescale of centuries, but it's as much a political and philosophical exploration of how living on an alien world changes us as human beings - or fails to do so. Most of the focus is on the first hundred colonists and their relationships and activities, and they're all really three-dimensional, interesting, flawed people. That includes the female characters, who get just as much page-time as the guys, and if anything are even better-written.
Details about the TV show are thin on the ground at the moment but we can use this thread to talk about the books too. Don't forget spoiler tags!