re: #22 Nerdy Fish

It depends on how much you’re willing to give up in the translation from a classic old book to a new TV series. One of my favorite adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes mythos is the BBC’s production of a modern-day Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular hero, and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson. The stories followed the same essential plot as the originals, but the innovative deductive leaps were completely reimagined to fit into modern London. Cell phones were a prominent part of the Moriarty arc, if I remember correctly. It was really good, even if it threw away all of the quaint charisma of the classical Victorian London formulation.

I like that version too. But I think it’s apples and oranges.

Because, I’m not sure we’re far enough away from the days from Cyberpunk to do that yet. 50’s sf? easy-peasy to rewrite with modern or even short jump into the future tech ala black mirror. But when the book from 40 years ago was supposed to be 20 years from now and misses most of the minimums?

Be nice if we at least had the orbitals, alas…