Great Apes (1997) — a man wakes up in a world where chimpanzees evolved to be the species with self-awareness, while humans are the equivalent of chimps in our world.
Isn't that ... Planet of the Apes ?
Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Amy - Jul 21, 2008 3:42:48 pm PDT #7842 of 10001
Because books.
amych - Jul 21, 2008 3:44:58 pm PDT #7843 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Isn't that ... Planet of the Apes ?
Pretty much. Only it's also Metamorphosis, because the dude wakes up as a chimp one day. And he's bitchy about his shrink in all his books, or some such. Erm, whatev.
Amy - Jul 21, 2008 3:49:24 pm PDT #7844 of 10001
Because books.
Only it's also Metamorphosis, because the dude wakes up as a chimp one day.
::runs out to buy copy::
NOT.
Barb - Jul 21, 2008 3:51:38 pm PDT #7845 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
* The Book of Dave (2006) — The story of a London cab driver who suffers a mental breakdown due to failed relationships, estrangement from his son and an obsession with The Knowledge. He writes a book of rantings which he buries, that is discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London.
The Knowledge?
Oh puh-leeze. *sigh* Yet-- I shouldn't talk-- he sells and I,well... don't.
Atropa - Jul 21, 2008 3:55:54 pm PDT #7846 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I wonder if that's part of some viral marketing thing? There're ads at bus stops all over Chicago for some blood-based energy drink marketed at vampires. I keep meaning to poke around and find out what that's all about.
Those are for the upcoming HBO series that's based off of the Sookie Stackhouse books.
I thought they'd hit the vampire limit with the Jane Austen as vampire story, but apparently, I was wrong.
There is no such thing as a vampire limit. There are those of us who LIKE vampire fiction and yet cringe at most of it that is out there.
Barb - Jul 21, 2008 3:58:25 pm PDT #7847 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
I didn't mean vampire fiction in general, because that's been around forever and I don't see it going anywhere (nor should it) but more in terms of where the genre has gone.
The suffragette one COULD definitely be interesting if written well, but I stand firm that turning Jane Austen into a vampire was just wrong.
Atropa - Jul 21, 2008 4:01:58 pm PDT #7848 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I didn't mean vampire fiction in general, because that's been around forever and I don't see it going anywhere (nor should it) but more in terms of where the genre has gone.
Oh, I get quite cranky about where the genre has gone. I l like fluffy vampire novels (which is why I read a lot of YA ones), but most paranormal/vampire "romance" novels make me roll my eyes and start ranting about how today's vampires lack a true menacing edge. It usually devolves into me cursing White Wolf Games, for I am nothing if not predictable.
sj - Jul 21, 2008 4:05:12 pm PDT #7849 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jilli, were you the one that mentioned the Vampire Kisses series recently? I picked one up the other day and they are so darn cute that I had to go back for the rest. I'm on the third one now.
billytea - Jul 21, 2008 4:05:59 pm PDT #7850 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The Knowledge?
Hee. I like that one. I pulled a similar deal in a D&D campaign, I had a family of halflings who'd formed a religion from a bunch of papers from a wizard's laboratory, including shopping lists, family recipes, one or two pages of genuine prophecy, and a pulp fiction novel detailing the adventures of the gnome swashbuckler Casanunda and his fights against Baaztor, the hideous beast-man of Draenor.
A religion based on the Knowledge would be a lot of fun.
amych - Jul 21, 2008 4:07:48 pm PDT #7851 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Hmm, your version, I like. Maybe it's the gnome swashbuckler factor.