Joya Mannan ([info]joyamannan) wrote,
@ 2008-08-17 22:19:00
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Current mood:sleepy
Current music:Night of the Vampire - 13th Floor Elevators

A quick entry before bed!
Howdy, folks! Hope life is well for yall. :)

[info]jenniferapril and I spent the better part of the last two weeks (rere...rerere)revising the BLOOD MOON manuscript. I'm so happy with the changes we made. Hopefully, an agent will like the changes, too! ;) We also planned out quite a large portion of book 2, which was exciting. Things are going to get much darker, so that's fun!

I have one more week of bliss. Come August 25th, classes are back in session for me. One cool thing I'd forgotten about until I took a look at my schedule this morning is I'm taking a really cool required music class (to cover a 'fine arts' credit): GUITAR HEROES. I hope the class ends up being as awesome as it sounds. *_*

Anyway, [info]michaeljasper/Michael Jasper (that's a link to his new site!) tagged me: Top 48 SF Movies Based on a Novel

Rules:

  • Copy the list below.
  • Mark in bold the movie titles for which you read the book.
  • Italicize the ones that you’ve watched.
  • Tag 5 people to perpetuate the meme.
1. Jurassic Park

2. War of the Worlds

3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park

4. I, Robot

5. Contact

6. Congo

7. Cocoon

8. The Stepford Wives

9. The Time Machine (1960 version)

10. Starship Troopers

11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

12. K-PAX

13. 2010

14. The Running Man

15. Sphere

16. The Mothman Prophecies

17. Dreamcatcher

18. Blade Runner(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

19. Dune

20. The Island of Dr. Moreau

21. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

22. The Iron Giant(The Iron Man)

23. Battlefield Earth (tried watching the movie — ugh!)

24. The Incredible Shrinking Woman

25. Fire in the Sky

26. Altered States

27. Timeline

28. The Postman

29. Freejack(Immortality, Inc.)

30. Solaris

31. Memoirs of an Invisible Man

32. The Thing(Who Goes There?)

33. The Thirteenth Floor

34. Lifeforce(Space Vampires)

35. Deadly Friend

36. The Puppet Masters

37. 1984

38. A Scanner Darkly

39. Creator

40. Monkey Shines

41. Solo(Weapon)

42. The Handmaid’s Tale

43. Communion

44. Carnosaur

45. From Beyond

46. Watchers

47. Nightflyers

48. Body Snatchers

Conclusion: I need more sci-fi in my life! The last sci-fi novel I read was Starship Troopers during my senior year in high school. =/

I tag the following: [info]jenniferapril, [info]gracelessheart, [info]enablelove, [info]cattys, and [info]hermionesparkle. :)

Anyway, I suppose that's it. I'm off to make my last week of summer count! :)



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[info]enablelove
2008-08-18 04:41 am UTC (link)
haha i think ONE will be bolded? LOL

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[info]joyamannan
2008-08-20 09:06 pm UTC (link)
I know how you feel, lol. SF/Sci-fi is the one category I really need to explore a bit more. Er, obviously, as we can see from the list above!

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[info]gracelessheart
2008-08-18 06:23 am UTC (link)
Anything that deals with Guitar Heroes has GOT to be awesome.

And haa..thanks for tagging me :D

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[info]joyamannan
2008-08-20 09:06 pm UTC (link)
Anything that deals with Guitar Heroes has GOT to be awesome.
I feel like this, too. Hopefully it turns out to be true!

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[info]michaeljasper
2008-08-18 02:16 pm UTC (link)
Now that I look over that list, there are a LOT of bad SF movies out there based on pretty good SF books. A guess there's a lesson there... No wonder "regular" people scoff at "sci-fi" (oh, I hate that term!).

THanks for playing!

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[info]joyamannan
2008-08-20 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Two things:

(a) Do you have any sci-fi novel recommendations for me?

(b) I didn't know "sci-fi" was a cringe-worthy term! =/ Should I go about calling it "SF" instead?

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[info]michaeljasper
2008-08-21 12:13 am UTC (link)
Hmmmm... I've been reading lots of fantasy and urban fantasy (and friends' novels) lately, so this is a tough one.

I really liked Forever Way by Joe Haldeman, pretty much everything by William Gibson -- try his Pattern Recognition for a start, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (The Scar is even better), China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh, or The Watchmen by Alan Moore (I'm reading that graphic novel right now).

That's off the top of my head... I'll have to check my shelves for more books.

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[info]michaeljasper
2008-08-21 12:13 am UTC (link)
Oh, and yeah "sci-fi" is an ouch. I like SF, or just "speculative ficton" even though it sounds snooty... :)

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[info]karmicunderpath
2008-08-20 03:22 am UTC (link)
http://www.napkinbooks.com/

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[info]joyamannan
2008-08-20 09:04 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the link, Karla! But the site says they're only looking for manuscripts from Canadian citizens (which I'm not). Plus, I'd really like to get an agent and THEN approach publishers and whatnot.

Thanks all the same, though! :)

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