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What book would you like to see become a movie/mini-series?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8809400" data-attributes="member: 6750306"><p>Victor Milan's <strong>CLD (Collective Landing Detachment)</strong> would be a good book to see get a video treatment... It's one of those things where there are no good guys anywhere in the story, and only the fact that the world they live in is so much worse than the protagonists themselves makes them somewhat sympathetic characters.</p><p></p><p> The "deathbirds" of the CLD are convicted criminals (everything from petty thieves, rapists, and murderers to political undesirables) sentenced to serve as expendable shock troops in the Collective's drive to subjugate the universe in the name of the Universal Will, subjected to a training course that routinely kills half the participants (if they're lucky) before being shipped off to "liberate" alien worlds for the benefit of society.</p><p>But one such mission goes horribly wrong, leaving the CLD stranded on a hostile alien world with no support.</p><p>Which is when the CLD decides they don't feel like being "expendable" anymore.</p><p></p><p>One review describes it as, "Visualize Starship Troopers redone as a Stalinist dystopia with good elements of Warhammer 40K, Bill the Galactic Hero and the RPG Paranoia. It is dark, spikey, nihilistic, political, and amazingly funny. The characters are nearly all repulsive, the setting is so much worse than they are that they come off as mildly sympathetic and everything that happens is bloody, horrid and futile."</p><p></p><p> Honestly, it's something to offend everyone, which would make for some really good tv. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 8809400, member: 6750306"] Victor Milan's [B]CLD (Collective Landing Detachment)[/B] would be a good book to see get a video treatment... It's one of those things where there are no good guys anywhere in the story, and only the fact that the world they live in is so much worse than the protagonists themselves makes them somewhat sympathetic characters. The "deathbirds" of the CLD are convicted criminals (everything from petty thieves, rapists, and murderers to political undesirables) sentenced to serve as expendable shock troops in the Collective's drive to subjugate the universe in the name of the Universal Will, subjected to a training course that routinely kills half the participants (if they're lucky) before being shipped off to "liberate" alien worlds for the benefit of society. But one such mission goes horribly wrong, leaving the CLD stranded on a hostile alien world with no support. Which is when the CLD decides they don't feel like being "expendable" anymore. One review describes it as, "Visualize Starship Troopers redone as a Stalinist dystopia with good elements of Warhammer 40K, Bill the Galactic Hero and the RPG Paranoia. It is dark, spikey, nihilistic, political, and amazingly funny. The characters are nearly all repulsive, the setting is so much worse than they are that they come off as mildly sympathetic and everything that happens is bloody, horrid and futile." Honestly, it's something to offend everyone, which would make for some really good tv. :D [/QUOTE]
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