A battle-hardened mecha pilot stands inside a vast orbital hangar, helmet at her side and her towering machine waiting behind her. Beyond the open bay, Jupiter fills the darkness—a reminder of the immense frontier she has sworn to defend.
The scene is inspired by Dream Pod 9’s Jovian Chronicles TTRPG and its distinctive blend of hard science fiction, political tension, and anime-influenced mecha adventure.
My choice is Asimov’s I, Robot.
Yeah, yeah, I get it that the 2004 movie wasn’t really a direct adaptation of Asimov’s stories. And that instead, it borrowed the title, the Three Laws of Robotics and some familiar names, then turned them into a fairly conventional story about robots becoming a threat to humanity. 🤮 Typical of Hollywood studios, I get it.
What bothers me the most is that it’s feels almost like the opposite of what made Asimov’s stories so interesting. He wasn’t writing simple cautionary tales about machines inevitably turning against us. He was exploring the strange situations created when perfectly logical robots, governed by seemingly airtight laws, encountered contradictory, irrational and frequently unpredictable human beings.
I’d love to see another attempt based on Harlan Ellison’s I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay. Ellison brought several of Asimov’s stories together around Susan Calvin while preserving far more of their intellectual and emotional core.
Given another chance, and with the right director — Gareth Edward — it could finally become the movie it should have been, and honour the legacy of Asimov.
Oh, how I’d love to see that film. 🎥
What about you? Which sci-fi book would you give another chance on screen cause the first adaptation was a complete misunderstanding of the story.
P.S.: My second choice would be remaking Alien 3, but using William Gibson screenplay.
Being fairly new here, I was wondering if there’s a subreddit within r/Eve where we can share EVE fiction I’ve written?
Fantasy, science fiction, gaming universe, whatever you want.
I’ve been thinking about this these past few days, and I’m genuinely torn between three.
Mass Effect. EVE Online. And Middle-earth.
There are plenty of others I’d love to experience: Star Wars, Halo, The Expanse, David Brin’s Uplift universe, and probably a dozen more I’m forgetting. But if I actually had to choose somewhere to live out the rest of my life, those three keep rising to the top.
Mass Effect might ultimately win.
There’s something about that universe that fills me with that old-fashioned sense of science-fiction awe. The Citadel, the different species and civilizations, humanity finding its place in a much larger galactic community, the technology, and especially that enormous history stretching back long before humans ever arrived on the scene.
The first thing I’d want to do would be visit the Citadel. Just wander around, look out over the Presidium, watch ships arriving and departing, and try to absorb the fact that all of it was real.
Then there’s EVE Online, which is probably the most dangerous of my choices. New Eden is vast, ancient, beautiful, politically complicated and frequently terrifying. I’m not entirely sure I’d want to be an ordinary human living there. Being a capsuleer, though? That’s a different thing entirely.
And then there’s Middle-earth.
The old favourite. I’ve been coming back to The Lord of the Rings every couple of years for most of my life (usually in the Fall), and there’s something deeply comforting about the thought of actually seeing that world. The Shire. Rivendell. Lothlórien. Standing somewhere and seeing the Misty Mountains on the horizon. Although perhaps I’d specify Fourth Age Middle-earth, after Sauron has been dealt with. I’m not volunteering to live through the War of the Ring! Or maybe 🤔 not…
So I’m not sure I’ve completely made up my mind.
Mass Effect probably wins my head.
Middle-earth might win my heart.
What about you? You wake up there tomorrow, and there’s no coming back.
Which fictional universe do you choose to live in for the rest of your life, and why?
Have you ever started reading a novel thinking you had a pretty good idea where it was going, only to have it turn into something completely different, in the best possible way?
Not necessarily because of some huge plot twist. More that the story kept opening doors you didn’t even realize were there, and by the end you were somewhere very different from where you thought the book was taking you.
For me, one of those was Jeffrey A. Carver’s From a Changeling Star.
I read it decades ago as a teenager, and strangely, I don’t remember many of the details anymore. What I do remember is being genuinely surprised by where Carver took the story, especially toward the end. It went places teenage me absolutely wasn’t expecting, and that feeling has somehow stuck with me all these years.
No spoilers please, but what’s the one novel that did this to you? The book where at some point you realized, “Oh… this isn’t the story I thought I was reading.”
You know that strange feeling when you finish a book, trilogy, or series and realize… **that’s it.**
You’ve spent hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pages with these characters. Watched them grow, fail, make terrible decisions, survive impossible things. Somewhere along the way, they stopped being characters and started feeling like people you knew.
And then you turn the last page, or close the last book.
They’re gone.
I’ve felt it a few times, but one of the most memorable was finishing Octavia E. Butler’s *Xenogenesis* trilogy. I wasn’t quite ready to leave those characters, or that strange, unsettling world, behind. I remember coming downstairs for lunch, and sitting down numb, staring into the void. 🥺
Sometimes I’ll even put off starting another book for a few days because nothing feels quite right yet.
**What’s the ONE book or series that did that to you?**
The one where closing that final page felt a little too much like saying goodbye.
You know that strange feeling when you finish a book, trilogy, or series and realize… that’s it.
You’ve spent hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pages with these characters. Watched them grow, fail, make terrible decisions, survive impossible things. Somewhere along the way, they stopped being characters and started feeling like people you knew.
And then you turn the last page, or close the last book.
They’re gone.
I’ve felt it a few times, but one of the most memorable was finishing Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy. I wasn’t quite ready to leave those characters, or that strange, unsettling world, behind. I remember coming downstairs for lunch, and sitting down numb, staring into the void. 🥺
Sometimes I’ll even put off starting another book for a few days because nothing feels quite right yet.
What’s the ONE book or series that did that to you?
The one where closing that final page felt a little too much like saying goodbye.
Pick a SciFi or a Fantasy novel you’d love to see properly adapted for the big screen, and the director you’d trust with it. I’ll accept TV series if you feel there’s too much material.
I’ll start with these three:
Gerald Brom’s The Child Thief , Guillermo del Toro. This one almost feels too obvious. Dark fairy tale, beautiful monsters, childhood mythology twisted into something disturbing… give it to del Toro and get out of his way.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama, Denis Villeneuve. This one is a bit of a cheat, since Villeneuve has already been attached to a Rama adaptation. Whether it ultimately happens or not, though, I can’t think of a better director for its scale, mystery and sense of encountering something utterly beyond us.
Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos, Alex Garland. This is probably my more debatable choice, but I’d love to see what the director of Ex Machina and Annihilation would do with the pilgrimage, the Time Tombs and especially the Shrike.
Your turn.
One book. One director. Who are you pairing up?
(Bonus points for something that hasn’t already been adapted.)
Mine was Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. I was far too young to catch the philosophy, but the idea that history *patterns* and civilizations rise and fall by predictable rules? That stuck with me.
It pulled me into the rabbit hole of Asimov, and over the next few years I would devour any book of his I could get my hands on.
Then came, Jules Verne, Heinlein, Clarke, and finally Herbert.
What about you?
Mine was Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. I was far too young to catch the philosophy, but the idea that history patterns and civilizations rise and fall by predictable rules? That stuck with me.
It pulled me into the rabbit hole of Asimov, and over the next few years I would devour any book of his I could get my hands on.
Then came, Jules Verne, Heinlein, Clarke, and finally Herbert.
What about you?