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

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..."

Comments

Re:Tripping the Rift?

[benjymous]

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

Amber novels current availibility

[Dr. Smoe]

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.

Re:The game

[sammy baby]

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.