Hollywood Here We Come?
Filed under Reviews • 23-06-2010 •
Mark Watson reviews the Shine anthology on the revamped Best SF website. He writes:
Gareth L. Powell and Aliette de Bodard – The Church Of Accelerated Redemption.
One of the things I’m liking about this anthology is that the stories have a much more international flavour than most SF, and here Powell and de Bodard set their story in France. There’s a background of a wave of labour strikes (a very old French tradition which I heartily endorse), and the protagonist is a woman working for an IT company who has a bugger of a boss who certainly isn’t into liberte, equalite and fraternite. She’s working for a new church, as per the title, who are using IT to offer redemption – and the story works well with the solid setting, exploring issues around AI and sentience, impact on society and on individuals. The cyber-terrorist she meets, and his two hench-emos add a bit of colour. My recommendation to the authors would be to tweak it a bit and to get a script written and get it touted around Hollywood.
Read the full review here.
Tags: Aliette de Bodard • Gareth L Powell • Shine Anthology • Solaris Books
I’ve written a screenplay based on one of my stories. I have no idea if it’s any good, but it was a great exercise to go through. If you happen to find yourself with spare writing time
/ you ought to have a go at turning it into a screenplay yourself.