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Urbane Guerrilla · 01-15-2007, 06:18 AM

Fobble, oh, yeah. Funny, I used to know that... thanks.

About the Galactic Milieu, I wouldn't know. I'm talking about early as in when written, not its setting.

I used to really love F&SF novels and would read that genre almost exclusively, enjoying the imagination of it all.

I'd like to see movies of Keith Laumer's works, still -- though I think Retief would have to be more deeply written than he usually was to make an intelligent SF movie, and likewise his Groaci opposition reworked into at least a little more than a straight-up parody of Soviet Russian foreign service and foreign aid. One gets the impression (a big impression) Laumer found a lot to dislike during his time with the State Department's foreign service in the early Sixties, and took his creative revenge on it all in his Retief stories.

We'll probably see an Elric movie first, though. Like many 20th-century writers, Michael Moorcock's writing is quite cinematic -- it should translate well.

Mercedes Lackey would, too. Even the novels full of unicorns.

01-15-2007, 06:18 AM	#676
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Fobble, oh, yeah. Funny, I used to know that... thanks. About the Galactic Milieu, I wouldn't know. I'm talking about early as in when written, not its setting. I used to really love F&SF novels and would read that genre almost exclusively, enjoying the imagination of it all. I'd like to see movies of Keith Laumer's works, still -- though I think Retief would have to be more deeply written than he usually was to make an intelligent SF movie, and likewise his Groaci opposition reworked into at least a little more than a straight-up parody of Soviet Russian foreign service and foreign aid. One gets the impression (a big impression) Laumer found a lot to dislike during his time with the State Department's foreign service in the early Sixties, and took his creative revenge on it all in his Retief stories. We'll probably see an Elric movie first, though. Like many 20th-century writers, Michael Moorcock's writing is quite cinematic -- it should translate well. Mercedes Lackey would, too. Even the novels full of unicorns. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 01-15-2007 at 06:30 AM.