Adaptations?

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 29 Apr 2015, 15:34 · from 2015-April.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:34:38 -0700
Subject: (urth) Adaptations?
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The only adaptation I know of which actually was completed was the "radio
play" of "The Tree Is My Hat," which featured Neil Gaiman as the Reverend,
which was performed at some con, recorded, and is probably available on the
Web somewhere.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Norwood, Frederick Hudson <
NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> wrote:

>  Entry point to Lafferty.  ?Continued on Next Rock?
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> Rick
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> *From:* Urth [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] *On Behalf Of *Andreas
> Johansson
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:25 AM
> *To:* urth at lists.urth.net
> *Subject:* (urth) Adaptations?
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> Hi,
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> First of all, a great thanks to all of you out there debating and
> analyzing the big and the small of all things Wolfean. It's severely
> enlightening, both for understanding Wolfe in many more layers, and
> literature in general. Now then, a question that arose recently as I began
> the BOTNS for I think a fourth time, while at the same time delving deep
> into Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - how wonderful wouldn't a "sand box" type of
> videogame, set in Severian's Urth? - so my question was, has there been any
> kind of adaptations of any of Gene Wolfe's works? Graphic novels, theatre
> productions, short movies, anything? Given his massive output (more than
> fifty short stories, hehe), you'd think that somewhere, someone would've
> picked up the challenge.
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> Of course, much of what makes Wolfe special is an inherent trait of the
> medium that would be lost in a visual adaptation that loses the 1st person
> perspective... but his worlds are so bloody vivid and beautiful that they
> would be a feast for any graphic artist to dig into, even if 70% of the
> in-text layers would be lost. Imagine a Moebius-style graphic novel based
> on Urth of the New Sun... or as mentioned moving freely through a
> 3d-rendered version of Nessus or Viron.
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> Oh by the way, which entry-point to Lafferty would you fellows suggest?
> Haven't read anything by him but thought it might be time.
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> yrs,
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> Andreas Johansson
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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