Looks like another classic sci-fi film is going to get a makeover. When Worlds Collide was first done on the silver screen in 1951; a telling of the 1932 novel of the same name. I first discovered this tome in my high school library. It instantly became one of my favorites. The genre of science fiction had already seized my interest, but this novel propelled me onwards toward Bradbury and Asimov. Another of my high school book obsessions was Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka’s Warday. You can’t even find that book anywhere these days.
So it makes me happy to see some of my favorite stories getting a modern spin on the big screen. (The Martian Chronicles, please…)
By the way, if any of you enjoy sci-fi, my latest discovery is Allen Steele. I first read Coyote back when it came out at the end of 2003. Coyote Rising almost missed my radar because of the move to San Diego, but it sits on my nightstand on its way to a second read-through. I haven’t had a chance to read any of his other work, but the two Coyote books are written with a leftward tilt. Read the reviews and you’ll see what I mean.