EdwardTivrusky
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I'm off to sleep in a minute but had to post before i go. I'll catch up with the links tomorrow but i'm cautiously over-the-moon at the moment.
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Altered Carbon coming to Netflix?
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Ape Gone Insane
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Yeah don't have high hopes for that. A novel like Hyperion is far too ambitious for SyFy. People seemed really happy with the Leviathan Wakes adaptation but I thought it was really cheap and cringey. Though that says more about the budget issues with adapting a space opera that revolves around special effects. GoT barely gets away with it because it's generally low fantasy and the dragons are used sparingly so most of the budget is directed towards practical effects, sets, costumes etc.
RatskyWatsky
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Not really a series, only the first one is out. That book started off pretty strong but I felt it ended pretty weak. Not sure I am anticipating the next in the series all that much. Also I will be amazed if some exec pitch didn't contain the line "it is like Game of Thrones ... on the moon".
It even has a Red Wedding equivilent at the end
Morgan Blackhand
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Nice, I liked the book.
Pilgrimzero
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Just started reading his. Like it so far.
So what are the sleeves? Brain dead people? Criminals who brain has been uploaded and no their bodies up for grabs? People rent themselves out for $?
And how scary to think you are no longer really dead since everyone is put in a database.
So what are the sleeves? Brain dead people? Criminals who brain has been uploaded and no their bodies up for grabs? People rent themselves out for $?
And how scary to think you are no longer really dead since everyone is put in a database.
kavanf1
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Sleeves are the bodies that your mind gets "downloaded" into. The stuff that makes you you is on a SD card that pops into the back of the sleeve. More or less.
Pilgrimzero
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Yea I get that, but where do they get these bodies?
Pilgrimzero
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Except in the first book the main is IN someone's body. He notices the guy/body has had cybernetic work and craves cigarettes. It also says he's 'renting' the body/sleeve.
It also mentions that they have 'sleeved' people into bodies that are in unfixable comas.
Plus if you are a criminal your are uploaded out of your body for some amount of time and left in storage. Which means a free body for someone else.
All that makes me think there is quiet a trade in bodies. Comas. Criminals. Rentals. And of course clones.
Mook1e
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Yes, all of that happens to. Read the books. They go into all of those things. Including, as I said, growing and building them.
Rap2thaMoon
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The book was great. Reading Broken Angels currently and it's good but it just hasn't grabbed me so far, I'm about the half way point. I couldn't be happier that it's Netflix who are going to make it or supposedly are. Hopefully we see it relatively soon.
Mook1e
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I really enjoyed how Broken Angels opened up the expanse of the books' universe. It just got "crazy".
Rap2thaMoon
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That may be true, however at the point that I'm on, the story hasn't really gotten interesting just yet. Hopping that further on it will.
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