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[carapace]

Niven was once my favorite Sci-Fi author, but I think I know what you mean.

Have you read "The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe? It is really really good.

[jessaustin → carapace]

It would be difficult to do Wolfe justice in a film? Maybe something self-contained like Pirate Freedom or The Fifth Head of Cerberus, but everything in the "Solar Cycle" has such bizarre complications and connections to everything else that a movie couldn't avoid making many cruel cuts.

[carapace → jessaustin]

Yeah, I agree with you.

But I dream about making a graphic novel out of New Sun...

Wolfe's work is very literary, for lack of a better word. ;-)