{"id":15157,"date":"2015-12-10T07:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T12:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15157"},"modified":"2015-12-10T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T12:13:00","slug":"15157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15157","title":{"rendered":"The Flutter of Space Bat Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Flutter of Space Bat Wings<\/a><\/h3>\n

You don\u2019t actually know a time or a culture until you discover the thoughts that its people can\u2019t allow themselves to think. I had a reminder of that the other day, by way of my novel\u00a0Star\u2019s Reach<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pleased to say that for a novel that violates pretty much every imaginable pop-culture clich\u00e9\u00a0about the future, Star\u2019s Reach has been selling quite well\u2014enough so that the publisher has brought out two more SF novels set in deindustrial futures, and is looking for other manuscripts along the same lines. What\u2019s more, Star\u2019s Reach has also started to inspire spinoffs and adaptations: a graphic novel is in the works, so is a roleplaying game, and so is\u00a0an anthology of short stories by other authors<\/a>\u00a0set in the world sketched out in my novel. All of this came as a welcome surprise to me; far more surprising, though ultimately rather less welcome, was an ebullient email I received asking whether\u00a0Star\u2019s Reach<\/em>\u00a0was available to be optioned for a television miniseries.<\/p>\n

For a variety of reasons, some of which will become clear as we proceed, I\u2019ll call the person who got in touch with me Buck Rogers. He praised\u00a0Star\u2019s Reach<\/em>\u00a0to the skies, and went on at length about wanting to do something that was utterly faithful to the book. As I think most of my readers know by now, I haven\u2019t owned a television in my adult life and have zero interest in changing that, even to see one of my own stories on the screen. I could readily see that people who like television might find a video adaptation entertaining, though, and no doubt it would make a welcome change from the endless rehash of overfamiliar tropes about the future that fills so much of science fiction these days.<\/p>\n

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The Flutter of Space Bat Wings You don\u2019t actually know a time or a culture until you discover the thoughts that its people can\u2019t allow themselves to think. I had a reminder of that the other day, by way of my novel\u00a0Star\u2019s Reach. I\u2019m pleased to say that for a novel that violates pretty much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3463,311,341,1758,10980,4281,10978,10979],"class_list":["post-15157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-archdruid-report","tag-fiction","tag-future","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-pop-culture","tag-science-fiction","tag-space-bat-wings","tag-stars-reach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15159,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions\/15159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}