The TUF VOYAGING reissue should be available now at your favorite local bookstore or online retailer.
(And for those who absolutely must have a hardcover, check out the Signed Books page of my website. I still have some copies of the old Meisha Merlin hardback, as well as a fast-dwindling stock of their numbered and lettered limited versions, and would be glad to inscribe them on request. First come, first served, for as long as the supply lasts).
PS I am often asked if I will ever write any more Tuf stories. The answer is yes, I would love to, and I have plenty of ideas for the further adventures of Tuf and Dax and the ARK. It's just a question of finding the time. Right now, as some of you know, I am kind of busy with the SONG OF ICE AND FIRE novels and GAME OF THRONES tv show, not to mention Wild Cards and my other anthologies. So Tuf will need to wait. But he's a patient guy, and I do hope to get back to him one of these days.
PPS It has also been suggested that I make TUF into a TV series. Hey, love to. But it's not up to me. I need to find a studio and network willing to back a new space show to the tune of many millions of dollars, and that's not easy. I have pitched Tuf before, and hope to pitch him again, Real Soon Now, but honestly, he's a tough sell. Television likes its starship captains sexy, like Kirk and Captain Tightpants and Rocky Jones. Tuf is a towering, hairless, fat, pompouse fellow who talks like Alfred Hitchcock and loves pussycats. Not an easy part to cast either... but hey, every time I see Conleth Hill playing Varys, I go "Hmmmmmmmm."
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Conleth Hill would be excellent, but in my mind, Glen Shadix, who played Otho in Beetlejuice, is always Haviland Tuf in my mind.
With the report saying you'll help produce other projects many fans hope for adaptations of Robert's Rebellion, D&E, Tuf, Sandkings...
I doubt any of those mentioned will be produced anytime soon. My money is on you lending a hand on the new I, Claudius mini series.
I, CLAVDIVS? Heh, not likely. And talk about a suicide mission. I mean, I'll watch, but how do you match one of the greatest TV series ever made? That's the television equivilent of remaking GONE WITH THE WIND or CITIZEN KANE. No, thanks.
And can we fans still dream of Ron Donachie as Captain Marsh in a HBO version of FEVRE DREAM?
But I have said too much. One should never talk about these things until contracts are signed. Preferably in blood.
The WILD CARDS contracts have been signed, however. That one predates my HBO deal. Melinda Snodgrass has just delivered the first draft of her screenplay to SyFy Films, which is a partnership between Universal Pictures and the SyFy Channel. It is a feature film script, not a television pilot. So cross your fingers, kiddies.
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To tell the truth, I have never understood why there is so much interest in this particular prequel. By the time I finish A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, you will know everything there is to know about Robert's Rebellion. If I then went on to write a novel, a trilogy, or a screenplay about same, it would be a novel, trilogy, or screenplay utterly without surprise, so the reader would know everything that was going to happen. I'd just be connecting the dots. I don't see the point.
It would be interesting to actually be inside the head of these legends. But I could see why it would be a difficult story to write since there would be no suprises.
Admittedly, the best of them tend to find some interesting and unique lens through which to show these stories (as ROME did, through the eyes of two common soldiers). Maybe seeing the rebellion from inside Ned's head or Robert's isn't really going to be that interesting. But, I don't know, the rebellion as seen through the eyes of the Mad King and Howland Reed might be an interesting reading experience. Whether it'd be an interesting enough writing experience is, of course, something else entirely.
(That said, I'm not especially interested in the idea of a Robert's Rebellion prequel. A short film about the tourney at Harrenhal, OTOH...)
I think the fascination comes from the fact that it's a story that in ASOIAF is in the midst of passing from recent history into legend. We just have the warmed over, romanticized highlights to go by so everything is larger than life. Of course it's our nature to not just leave it like that but to want to pin it down and suck the marrow out of the story's bones.
You may solve all the mysteries for us but you won't have us get to know Rhaegar, Lyanna, and so on the way we know the characters in ASOIAF. We want to see the Tower of Joy acted out in the same way we want to see our other favorite scenes from the books acted out.
I think it's better left to the imagination, but if you build it they will come.
Particularly for Dunk and Egg, Jaehaerys was his son, and removing him would make Egg the father of the Mad King. And Aerys was insane due to his incestuous parentage, while Aegon V apparently married for love outside of the family (though of course, it was compound generations of 300 years of inbreeding).
Moreover, this affects how the TV-continuity will establish the relationship between the Targaryens and Baratheons. In the books, Jaehaerys' sister Rhaelle was the mother of Steffon Baratheon, father of the three Baratheon brothers (Robert, Stannis, Renly). Robert's claim to the throne (and by extension, Stannis and Renly's) was based on this "bit of dragon-blood". Is this now moved around so that Rhaelle is a sister of Aegon V? (in place of Rhae and Daella? Or perhaps alongside them?)
....OR, can the TV series later retcon this and just say that Aegon meant to say "grandson" and as a 100 year old man angrily recounting the fall of his House, it was just a slip of the tongue?
Glad it's not just me.
I say film the whole thing in Dothraki.
Edited at 2013-02-10 06:05 pm (UTC)
Have you ever considered an anime adaptation (whether TV or movie) of some of your works? I think that Tuf or Sandkings or some of your other sci-fi would be amazing to see in that visual form. With the growing popularity of your works in Japan and internationally in general, it is my hope that the top studios will make proposals for adapting your earlier works or even one day ASOIAF.
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