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"The Chronicles of Amber" and "The Forever War" For TV

Posted by Hemos on from the woohoo-more-good-television dept.

DarkRabbit writes "i just noticed at the Futon Critic that the Sci-Fi channel announced April 2nd that amongst other popular pieces of fiction, Zelazney's "The Chronicles of Amber" and Haldeman's "The Forever War" will be getting the mini-series treatment by them sometime in the next year. I'm sure their adaptions will be just as contentious here as was their version of "Dune." Oh, and "Tripping the Rift" arrives as an 'Edgy-South-Park-esque' half-hour cartoon series..."

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  1. Ohh, even better... by laeraun2 · · Score: 1, Informative

    (from the article) NEW YORK (Variety) -- A remake of the TV series "Battlestar Galactica" as a four-hour miniseries, the transformation of the mini "Firestarter: Rekindled" by Stephen King into an hourlong series Maybe I'm not as hard core manga geek type as everyone else but those two excite me more than the article topic. Imagine if they had produced Battlestar with today's computer graphic capabilites and the hype that you can generate by using the net... Oh wait, what am I doing now?

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  2. Re:Tripping the Rift? by benjymous · · Score: 2, Informative

    The original website http://www.trippingtherift.com/ seems to currently be down (I'd guess it's getting a sci-fi channel revamp, or something, since a via-google slashdotting seems unlikely) but it can still be reached thanks to the wayback machine

    or you can visit Google's cached version of the downloads page to download the episode 1 movie

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  3. Amber novels current availibility by Dr.+Smoe · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Amber Chronicles have been reprinted, as
    _The Great Book of Amber : The Complete Amber
    Chronicles_ [Eos (Trade); ISBN: 0380809060], which
    has all 10 books in it.

    Of course, I wish they'd done it as two separate
    books for the Corwin and Merlin series, since I
    think the former is *far* superior.

  4. Re:The game by sammy+baby · · Score: 3, Informative
    There was once an Infocom-like game based on the Chronicles of Amber; does anyone recall it?


    I do. I never had the opportunity to play it, though. It was one of those games which was text input only, a la the Infocom games, but had still images representing wherever you were.

    There was also a tabletop roleplaying game, called Amber Diceless Roleplay, by the now-defunct (I think) Phage Press. Like the rules suggest, you played it without dice. I own the core rules - it was an interesting game, that I still hope to run sometime, after I find someone else who actually enjoyed the Amber books.