the week of anticipatory geek bliss
Holy crap. That was a week. Three news items — BANG! BANG! BANG! — that set my geek heart a-flutter:
- FIRST! The Sci-Fi Channel announces that they will be creating a 6-hour miniseries (producers include George Freaking Clooney) of Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. (If I haven’t mentioned it before. Neal Stephenson is my FAVOURITE author and if you haven’t you should read his Cryptonomicon right now. Go. We’ll be here when you get back.)
- SECOND! HBO has announced they are going to be making George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire into a motherfrakking TELEVISION SERIES! Gah! One of the best (not to mention bloody, brutal, and morally ambiguous) fantasy series out there, coming to us from the network that gave us The Sopranos, Deadwood, and Rome. My geek-o-meter is CLIMBING INTO THE RED HERE, PEOPLE.
- THIRD! G-FORCE! THE MOVIE!
I can’t take it any more. My geek organ… it is burst.
All this AND a new episode of Battlestar Galactica this weekend?
I will say it.
IT’S BETTER THAN COOKIES.
January 19th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Re GrrMartin’s books=series: OMG Really? Seriously????? OMG I have to get cable !!! OMG!!!!!!!!!
With a caveat: The long awaited installment that came out in 2006 sucked ass hard. All before was golden…
We were poor and got all the previous books from the library and literally fought over who got to read first/wasn’t reading fast enough etc that comes with having to share singular copies from the library. It was so good.
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:30 am
Funny thing about the last book — from what I heard. it was actually only HALF of what was supposed to be the next book. Seems GRRM was writing it and it got too long, so he decided to split it in two. But in a weird way — half of the ongoing character perspectives in one book, the other half in the next book to come. It was weird.
Of course, you probably know that.