{"id":1716,"date":"2014-10-01T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T05:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2014-09-30T21:54:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T02:54:42","slug":"kim-stanley-robinsons-mars-trilogy-is-becoming-a-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy Is Becoming a TV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I must admit, I have mixed feelings about this<\/a>.\u00a0 On one hand, the trilogy was EXCELLENT.\u00a0 Exciting, thought-provoking, outstanding science-fiction.\u00a0 On the other hand, the destruction to the Planet Mars following the sabotage of the Martian Space Elevator was gloriously, elaborately, excruciatingly described.<\/p>\n

Current thinking dictates that a “real” space elevator would not be built like the one that Robinson described in Red Mars<\/a> but I fear that is going to get lost in the shuffle.\u00a0 I can already imagine the reaction once this production goes live; “See, we must never build a space elevator because it’s too dangerous – look what could happen!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

On the other hand, there is the old saw about “There is no such thing as bad publicit<\/em>y”.\u00a0 Yeah, right.\u00a0 Maybe we can seize it as a “teaching moment”? \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Still, I’m looking forward to it – I hope they do justice to the book and it doesn’t turn out to be one of these “loosely based upon…” productions.<\/p>\n

And, if you haven’t read the Red\/Green\/Blue Mars trilogy<\/a>, you’re missing a treat.\u00a0 It really is wonderful reading, well deserving the many awards it received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must admit, I have mixed feelings about this.\u00a0 On one hand, the trilogy was EXCELLENT.\u00a0 Exciting, thought-provoking, outstanding science-fiction.\u00a0 On the other hand, the destruction to the Planet Mars following the sabotage of the Martian Space Elevator was gloriously, elaborately, excruciatingly described. Current thinking dictates that a “real” space elevator would not be built […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}