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Andy Weir, Author of 'The Martian,' Is Writing a Novel Set On the Moon (huffingtonpost.com)
MarkWhittington writes: Readers wondering where Andy Weir, whose book The Martian featured a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars, will take us next need wonder no longer. According to a story in the Huffington Post, Weir's next novel will feature a woman living in a city on the moon. The novel is due to be out in late 2016 or early 2017.
Weir, naturally, is cagey about plot details. But it's likely he will pay as strict attention to the science in his new story as he did in The Martian. There's no word yet about possible movie deal, but considering the success of The Martian, it's a safe bet someone will want to bring Weir's lunar adventure to the big screen.
Weir, naturally, is cagey about plot details. But it's likely he will pay as strict attention to the science in his new story as he did in The Martian. There's no word yet about possible movie deal, but considering the success of The Martian, it's a safe bet someone will want to bring Weir's lunar adventure to the big screen.
The Lunatic?
with lots of cats.
We already got our fill of stronk women mary sues from star wars. This hack doesn't need any more attention.
Well, if they wanted a movie about a city on the moon they would have done the excellent "The Moon is a harsh mistress" instead of waiting for a new book that might or might not be good.
The crazy thing is that while it seems that after all these years they will finally adapt the aforementioned Heinlein book to the big screen (Bryan Singer to direct), they are apparently changing what is probably the best sci-fi title ever, to "Uprising"...
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Well, if they wanted a movie about a city on the moon they would have done the excellent "The Moon is a harsh mistress" ...
Too late. 20th Century Fox is already working on a film adaption. It is tentatively called "Uprising". Besides, there is no reason to have only one film about moon colonization. I will see both, as will many others. The scifi film market is huge. If you look at the biggest movies off all time, the list is dominated by scifi and fantasy.
If they're going to keep it accurate, they're going to have women whose breasts are larger in the lower gravity (fluid doesn't accumulate so much in the lower body) and don't have to deal with Cooper's Droop. So for once they can have big-breasted women in a sci-fi. Sub-plot: Man meets woman on the moon, they get it on, get married, then come to earth and not only do her breasts shrink and sag, but with normal G sex is too much work to be worth it, so they re-up for another tour of duty at Luna City (yes, it's a bit of a rip-off of a sci-fi story about a Lunar couple who can't wait to get back to earth, then find out it isn't what they remembered it like)..
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
*snicker*
Will he promise to at least learn the difference between a mole and a liter this time?
That was either the start of something bad or the end of something stupid.
Yes, but I'd like to see a modern take on what technology might actually be applicable in the near future - rather than future tech envisioned in 1966. This will likely be a movie for people like me who are just as interested in the science as the science-fiction. Even good science fiction doesn't always age as well as fans sometimes pretend it does. For instance, Childhood's End, while still an interesting story, certainly has to be read with a caveat about its age in mind, not to mention the paranormal focus, of which Clarke later seemed somewhat embarrassed about.
Besides, the first Heinlein I read involved four unbelievably irritating protagonists, a flying car, and visiting the land of Oz (wtf?). Starship Troopers was decent, but nothing spectacular. I still can't figure out why everyone gushes over Heinlein. I've heard his earlier works were better, but at this point, I don't care enough to find out.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
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Where's the trilogy? Second book is a rescue mission and third is a 'Murder in space' (1985) story.
Everyone please mention their favourite book about living on the moon. I haven't read many stories with a lunar backdrop so it will be interesting. My choice is 'Moonlight' by AC Clarke, also a spy story.
Good for him. What's the Martian? Is he on Star Wars The Never-Ending Saga? I used to watch My Favorite Martian starting Bill Bixby in TV as a kid. And of course, there's Marvin the Martian on Loony Tunes.
And why is he doing it on the moon?
US Primaries, all the ISIS shit, sabre rattling over the Spratly Islands and JIMMY HILL died.
Bugger that. Some dude wrote a book set somewhere other than Earth, and now he's writing ANOTHER ONE? OMGeleventyhundredandone!!!!!!
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Didn't he write most of The Martian as a web-collaboration, where he'd write a chapter or two, let people savage it on the web for a while, then rewrite based on their criticisms?
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The crazy thing is that while it seems that after all these years they will finally adapt the aforementioned Heinlein book to the big screen (Bryan Singer to direct), they are apparently changing what is probably the best sci-fi title ever, to "Uprising"...
20th Century Fox is already working on a film adaption. It is tentatively called "Uprising".
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It's sensible, it's much cheaper to get the filming equipment to the Moon instead of Mars.
Besides, the first Heinlein I read involved four unbelievably irritating protagonists, a flying car, and visiting the land of Oz (wtf?). Starship Troopers was decent, but nothing spectacular. I still can't figure out why everyone gushes over Heinlein. I've heard his earlier works were better, but at this point, I don't care enough to find out.
I never understood the love of Heinlein either. All of the above plus his inner fascist keeps bleeding through in annoying ways.
The movie was better than the book. This guy is like the second-coming of Michael Crichton -- on steroids. The level of detailed minutia he creates is entertaining at first but quickly becomes tiresome. The only reason "The Martian" is remotely decent as a book is because the story he thought up was actually good. The microscope level of detail was absolutely unnecessary.
I think the guy actually has a decent ability to create and tell a story. But he doesn't need to prove the feasibility of his stories to the audience. It's fine to suspend belief sometimes. Especially in science fiction, right?
I just hope the story he tells in this new book is as good as it was in his last one. Otherwise, the book is going to be horrible.
Hey now... I don't always agree with his conclusions or opinions but I don't think that's a fair charge to level at him. He's generally fairly fluent in a bunch of different areas. That implies an ability to read and comprehend messages with a greater length than 140 characters. It's a strange accusation to make and, quite likely, false.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Interesting. I have read over 15 Heinlein novels, and yet I did not know what you were talking about! I had to look it up and, indeed, "The Number of the Beast" is one of the few I have not read (and one of the lowest rated apparently). Starship Troopers is also not one of my favorites, still good, but I enjoy others more. So, perhaps you should give "The Moon is a harsh mistress" a try, it is the Heinlein book most people prefer (unless you are specifically into time travel / paradoxes etc in which case you could also try "The Door Into Summer").
As for Childhood's End, that is one book that greatly disappointed me compared to what I had heard about it. The politico-religious aspects of the story were very simplistic, the characters were not really developed, overall it seemed to me like some interesting ideas made into a relatively flawed book.
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If you go back and find some of the earlier Sci-Fi works then they sometimes had an extra section at the end where they explained the theories and had the maths to demonstrate the theories. I kind of like to split the genre mentally into two teams - hard and soft science fiction. If it's based on real science and actually takes the time to make note of it then it mostly falls into the hard category. Else, it's soft science fiction and that has its place but the two are not the same to me.
Fantasy does, of course, have its place but that shouldn't be mixed in with science fiction. I dislike libraries and book stores that do that. I'm sorry but the Xanth series is not science fiction and doesn't belong there. However, his earlier works are science fiction and they do belong mixed in there. (Piers Anthony wrote some good science fiction before the Xanth series became his bread and butter and it's not a series that I've enjoyed.)
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
It's not a strange accusation at all, it's perfectly justified if you follow the thread. Have you started drinking again?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The next novel should be about person of the third gender in a continent on Earth, filled with the science related to survival on this planet. Logic requires it.
Yes, but I'd like to see a modern take on what technology might actually be applicable in the near future - rather than future tech envisioned in 1966
Not that I disagree, but I just find it interesting to note that 1966 is a lot closer to when we as a species were last on the moon compared to now with all our new-fangled modern technology.
Andy must have had a shower epiphany.
From his Reddit AMA 2 months ago. /u/rosweldrmr asks:
Andy Weir's response:
http://www.galactanet.com/comi...
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
Interestingly enough, the same thought also crossed my mind after I wrote that.
Of course, we could certainly re-visit the moon if we had the political will to do so... meaning if we wanted to spend the money and accept the risks. It's not a question of capabilities, really. Here's hoping NASA puts their budget to good use in the next few years and gets the SLS ready for deployment.
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If it's like the Martian story, it has to begin with a bullshit wind storm that can't happen, yet must happen for the entire rest of the story to happen.
So there will be some massive WIND STORM on the moon and the entire thing will get blown out of Earth's orbit and go careening across space encountering shaded of beige, gray, and brown, and lots of hostile aliens. Oh wait. That's been done.
Um
Well fuck it all Andy, I guess you are out of luck. How about a book about dryer lint? I bet you can MacGuyver the shit out if it.
I don't hate The Martian. But the whole storm sequence was utter crap and ONLY happened because it had to or else there was no story. And that's just bullshit, It's as dump as BOOM dinosaurs in Central Park, chaos ensues! WILL THEY MAKE IT TO THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN TIME!? And plot twist, the dinos swim and fly so it's all bullshit. But since this cannot happen, the whole story is bullshit. If you have to base your story on that, fix it. Andy apparently had the brains to science the shit out of his story, why didn't he FIX the damn beginning to make sense? Come on.
Sig for hire.
Frankly The Martian wasn't much as a book. It was a useful foundation for a great movie and had sort of preliminary sketches of characters who could be interesting if fleshed out.
But boy is it excruciating to read. It's full of detail that would be great to have as foot notes of listed as references, but way more than necessary to sustain verisimilitude. The dialogue, writing, character development etc is all pretty amateurish.
No drinking, not even weed (I'm in Florida where they *really* frown on weed). I must have missed something. I mean, I don't normally agree with the guy but he's not generally so wrong that I'd accuse him of not reading more than 140 characters. I'm guessing I missed something. ;-) It won't have been the first (or last) time.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Fantasy does, of course, have its place but that shouldn't be mixed in with science fiction.
Trouble is the line is blurry. Some people consider space opera to be scifi, others consider it to be fantasy. No matter where you draw the line, people will say you got it wrong. Or, you group the whole lot under speculative fiction.
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I agree entirely and think that we can just go by what the authors seem to prefer. For instance, using Piers Anthony, he calls his Xanth works Fantasy and his earlier works are Science Fiction. It won't be perfect but it *might* be better. There are going to be blurred lines and whatnot but unicorns, elves, and magic are not, generally, science.
Maybe we need a genre called "Science Fantasy" for the space opera type stuff. Where the "science" isn't science at all but is made up stuff that has no science behind it at all we can put that in its own category and then have the three genres for better classification? Still, some will blur the lines. "But it doesn't violate the laws of physics." True but catching my fart and painting it green is probably do-able within the laws of physics but probably still quite impossible.
Alright, that's not my best analogy...
I mentioned Retief in this thread. I'm not surprised that nobody picked up on it. It's overlooked binge reading material. I've a few well-thumbed anthologies kicking around at the house unless someone's wandered off with them. (They're reasonably good about returning them.) I wasn't able to find a whole lot online for you (because I think you, in particular, might be interested if time allows you such) but I did find this:
http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1...
I'm attempting a grab with HTTrack but I won't have the rights to distribute that work. Should the grab be successful then you can ping me by email (if wanted) and I might let slip an open port and let you grab it from the network or, you know, just mail the results to you in zipped format. Obviously you should then fall in love with the works and buy the rest of them. They're great rainy day works where you can just dive in and forget the rain and be amused for a while with something that's not very serious and yet, strangely, not pretentious and actually good about being what it is and knowing what it is. I am, obviously, a fan. ;-)
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Starship Troopers was the closest Heinlein came to a Randian manifesto. "The cat who walks through walls" was my first Heinlein novel, and thoroughly light hearted. It could happen in 1960 with minor changes, if you ignore the expanded universe in which it takes place.
The short stories are hit and miss, but the hits are worth the misses.
"The moon" is more grounded and serious, and more typical of Heinlein.
Just don't accidentally read the diary of the redhead, or "Time Enough for Love", without having 4 or 5 other novels under your belt.
Anyway, I can't imagine a moon story breaking new ground, since Heinlein placed about a third of his writing around the entire colonization process, start to finish. More science would be distracting and redundant, unless it has some twist unique to the moon.
Covered ground.
The story has already been done by the best.
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2nd person: [quotes the X bit] Wrong. Y.
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Dude, the OP specifically mentioned that the Hollywood project was going to be titled "uprising." ShanghaiBill's comment started out:
"Too late. 20th Century Fox is already working on a film adaption [wikipedia.org]. It is tentatively called "Uprising.""
Yeah, heh... I did have to finish my weed before leaving D.C. the other day. I don't dare take weed into Florida. So, yeah, I'm a little slow on the uptake still perhaps. ;-)
AC 'cause I've been awake since like 3:00 this morning. I'm just on the other side of the time zone so it'll be a minute adjusting.
Yup. I completely missed it. ;-) He's usually a little more on the ball than that. I don't typically agree with him in many areas but, well, he's usually a bit more alert than that.
Not only that, but apparently an adaptation of TMIAHM is already in the works, but with the title "Uprising."
There's no such thing as speculative fiction.
There's no such thing as fiction, in fact.
There's only non-fiction histories of alternate universes!
I am the guy who thinks Science Fiction should have science with it, not just flimsy background for a big bada-boom. You must be the other guy.
The Martian has been described as "a love letter to science", and I loved how it paid attention to details, because getting the details wrong is dangerous when your margin of survival is thin. I loved how Watney paid a big price when he got the details wrong.
I liked Star Wars and Star Trek as much as the next guy (the earlier ones more than the later ones), but I LOVED the Martian. Crichton was scientific on the outside, but internally never let the facts get in the way of the story he wanted to tell. In "The Martian", Weir let the details write the story, and just made sure it was an interesting story.
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Not only that, but apparently an adaptation of TMIAHM is already in the works, but with the title "Uprising."
I thought they were going to call the adaptation of TMIAHM "Uprising".
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
his inner fascist
I don't believe you've every read a single word that Heinlein wrote.
Yep, it'll never get better than "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."
Although I shudder to think of all the very bad Russianesque accents :-)
Heinlein? Get away from the teenage novels, skip the later incestuous ones, and scratch your eyes out before watching the Starship Troopers movie. But definitely, MOST definitely, read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."
Well, I guess I might be willing to give it one more shot, given that people keep recommending that particular story. It might be fun to compare and contrast it against Weir's new story.
I'll try to avoid disliking Heinlein even more out of spite, having just received a "Troll" rating from someone who apparently can't stand the fact that not everyone loves him. Gosh, how dare I have an opinion about what I like to read! Unbelievable.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.