The problem with something like the Foundation series is the story isn't really about a character. The 4 book series covers millenia about the evolving story, with character development at a minimum.
Movies are completely character based. It'd be very difficult to port Foundation to a movie because individual characters come and go fairly quickly in the books. The Mule is a major character in the book, but even he's relatively short-lived and really only a plot-movement device to show the problems in the prediction-based science/cult.
Robert L. Forward (sadly, died this week) wrote a book called Saturn Ruhk with a similar basic concept. Life evolved and exists in the upper atmosphere of Saturn.
All of Forward's books have great plausible lifeforms and fascinating technology. He was a long time researcher with a PHD in physics.
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The problem with something like the Foundation series is the story isn't really about a character. The 4 book series covers millenia about the evolving story, with character development at a minimum.
Movies are completely character based. It'd be very difficult to port Foundation to a movie because individual characters come and go fairly quickly in the books. The Mule is a major character in the book, but even he's relatively short-lived and really only a plot-movement device to show the problems in the prediction-based science/cult.
Robert L. Forward (sadly, died this week) wrote a book called Saturn Ruhk with a similar basic concept. Life evolved and exists in the upper atmosphere of Saturn. All of Forward's books have great plausible lifeforms and fascinating technology. He was a long time researcher with a PHD in physics.
Now, if this would remove the nose prints my cat leaves on the inside of my windows they'd really have something...