You wouldn’t even have to obsess over the history, alchemy, etc., just don’t fuck it up. People get too wrapped around an axle thinking every single infodump has to be there. Stephenson’s got issues (coughendingscough), but the stories are informed by the same research as the infodumps, and they’ll hold up well.
Yeah, it certainly doesn’t hold up as well as the “origin” story, but silly though it was I liked the last part of Seveneves. It could definitely work as an animation.
FALL could as well, or at least kind of a Tron-like thing.
Almost anything from Neal Stephenson.
Oh shit. The Baroque Cycle getting the Game of Thrones treatment… minus the executive meddling.
You wouldn’t even have to obsess over the history, alchemy, etc., just don’t fuck it up. People get too wrapped around an axle thinking every single infodump has to be there. Stephenson’s got issues (coughendingscough), but the stories are informed by the same research as the infodumps, and they’ll hold up well.
Seconded.
Seveneves would be the bomb (eta : they could even do the last part as a separate animated short)
Yeah, it certainly doesn’t hold up as well as the “origin” story, but silly though it was I liked the last part of Seveneves. It could definitely work as an animation.
FALL could as well, or at least kind of a Tron-like thing.
Seveneves is functionally two separate books jammed together. I hope they do the serious TV show on just the first book.
First part as a movie, second part as a tabletop roleplaying setting