Notices by Francisca Staines (franciscawrites@mastodon.scot)

@gevoel @octothorpe @bookstodon Yes, from Issac Asimov. Sadly, the adaptation goes against everything he stood for.

@adriano @gevoel @octothorpe @bookstodon
The Foundation Series are full-grown novels not short stories. Regardless, I haven't seen the series but have no doubt Hollywood has done its thing again and turning them into the opposite of what the source material was about.

@drawnonglass @HauntedOwlbear @bookstodon
Good motivation to do it, risky move, though. It paid off, probably because he was familiar with writing scripts.

Can you name a film that was adapted not from a novel, but from a short story?
Here's one:

The Illusionist (2006)

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In 1963, in a bid to settle a conflict with his English teacher, a 16yo student from San Diego sent a 4-question survey to 150 well-known authors of commercial, literary and science fiction.

"Did they consciously plant symbols in their work?" he asked.

Here are many of their wonderful answers, very much worth the read

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/12/05/document-the-symbolism-survey/

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In honor of Gary Larson's birthday, repost with a Far Side cartoon that you love.

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