David Suarez Interview

[StrangeLife]

For those who are interested (and if you aren't, subtract ten geek-creds), Leo Laporte has interviewed Daniel Suarez and the dude who's narrating the audio-version of Influx.




http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fAsUnvXyoA8/0.jpg

 

[patientlee]

For those who are interested (and if you aren't, subtract ten geek-creds), Leo Laporte has interviewed Daniel Suarez and the dude who's narrating the audio-version of Influx.




http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fAsUnvXyoA8/0.jpg

The audio version of what?

 

[StrangeLife]

The audio version of what?

The audio version of this...

http://www.sfsite.com/grb/1400/iflg.jpg



I haven't started it yet, but it's in my phone...

 

[Blind_Justice]

I loved "Daemon" and "DarkNet". Are his other books tied to that universe? If so, I need to grab 'em.

 

[StrangeLife]

I loved "Daemon" and "DarkNet". Are his other books tied to that universe? If so, I need to grab 'em.

I don't know about "Darknet" - is that an alternative title for "Freedom?" Or did I miss one? Daniel Suarez is one of the writers on my must-read-everything list...


But no - his other novels are not in the same universe as Daemon and Freedom. His number 3 book "Kill Decision" is a more politically loaded action thriller about unmanned droned getting hijacked, and Influx apparently (I've only read the blurb) deals with conspiracies involving suppression of futuristic technology.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I'll wait for the movies. I might have a long wait though as Hollywood doesn't seem to want to make anything new.

And do not mention Gravity as being new. It's just a rehash of Apollo 13 without going to the moon and with the lead male dying. Please.

And 12 years a slave...rehash of the color purple.

Hollywood...nothing new there.

 

[StrangeLife]

I'll wait for the movies. I might have a long wait though as Hollywood doesn't seem to want to make anything new.

And do not mention Gravity as being new. It's just a rehash of Apollo 13 without going to the moon and with the lead male dying. Please.

And 12 years a slave...rehash of the color purple.

Hollywood...nothing new there.

I disagree as far as Gravity goes - it breaks new grounds in several areas and is very different from Apollo 13. I'm not saying it's better than Apollo 13, but certainly different. In some areas it provides the most realistic depiction of space since Space Odyssey 2001, but in other areas it takes liberties with physics and distances that borders on the preposterous.

I mean, you can dissect pretty much any movie and find ties to existing stories. But that doesn't mean that they're nothing new. Building on previous innovation is how we evolve - it's like the cronut. Something new based on something old...

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/51b0b8ff6bb3f7d226000007/the-inventor-of-the-cronut-shows-us-how-to-make-his-insanely-popular-pastry.jpg

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I disagree as far as Gravity goes - it breaks new grounds in several areas and is very different from Apollo 13. I'm not saying it's better than Apollo 13, but certainly different. In some areas it provides the most realistic depiction of space since Space Odyssey 2001, but in other areas it takes liberties with physics and distances that borders on the preposterous.

I mean, you can dissect pretty much any movie and find ties to existing stories. But that doesn't mean that they're nothing new. Building on previous innovation is how we evolve - it's like the cronut. Something new based on something old...

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/51b0b8ff6bb3f7d226000007/the-inventor-of-the-cronut-shows-us-how-to-make-his-insanely-popular-pastry.jpg

See, that's still a donut. It's round, it has hole in the center. Just because you make it from croissant dough doesn't make it not a donut.

Adding up to date special effects does not make a remake new! Man of Steel was exactly the same story line as the original, two remakes ago, and it still sucked.

Although Sandra is a favorite of mine and she was great in the movie, it still smacked of of done beforeitis.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Lets not forget "Dances with Wolves, Blue Edition", also known as Avatar. One of the few movies I couldn't watch to the end (the other one being Uwe Boll's abysmal Alone in the Dark). I don't know what was worse - the female Na'vi with her magic wsrdrobe or the super-lame McGuffin. A multi-million mega movie and "Unobtanium" is the best they can come up with? Symptomstic of the whole script. No amount of CGI action could salvage that.

Regarding DarkNet: It's the follow-up to Daemon. I suppose the translator changed the title, for whatever reason. Got them both off a sales table in a German bookstore. One of the few occasions I bought books in my native tongue, usually I do all my reading in English nowadays

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The Academy award would hate me if I sat on the panel that nominated and picked the winners. 'cuz the movie that won would probably be "Bob's Your Uncle" or some such nonsense. Critically acclaimed. Puleze.