What's next after Zombies?

[SkidAce]

The near trend in YA seems to be dystopias, with female protagonists.

Angels are seeing a bit of a comeback in fiction.

In the longer term... I predict sexy bigfoot will become a thing. That, or sexy creature from the black lagoon. All the sparkle of glistening scales will give the vampires a run for their money.

The young teen fantasy/adventure section in Barnes and Noble is packed to the brim with dystopias and female protagonists. Dashner has a new book with a young male hero, about a cyber-reality. and Sanderson released a YA book with dark super heroes.

But what's next. Hmmmmmm. If I knew I'd be rich.

I'm going with altered reality/cyber networks. Maybe Snowcrash style books will make their way back around.

 

[Tonguez]

I think Fey need a bit more loving - you get the sexy vampire in Sidhe, the cutesy of gnomes, the ghostly horror of Sluagh, the beastial fury of trolls and you can even include angels, vampires, werewolfs and witches and whole world (or two) of magic and inspiration to draw on.

Or maybe a live action version of Gargoyles (Disney)

 

[sabrinathecat]

I laughed at a sign on a bus for a local community college. "Like zombies, we feed your brain." Um, what? Zombies eat brains. "Feed on brains" might have worked. It was just a messed up message by someone trying to cash in on the zombie thing without understanding it in the slightest. Almost a joke.

Oh, we can do the seelie vs unseelie fey! There was a quartet of books about that (very vapid tweener crap with Fever in all the titles).
Live Gargoyles could be fun.

 

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The young teen fantasy/adventure section in Barnes and Noble is packed to the brim with dystopias and female protagonists. Dashner has a new book with a young male hero, about a cyber-reality. and Sanderson released a YA book with dark super heroes.

But what's next. Hmmmmmm. If I knew I'd be rich.

I'm going with altered reality/cyber networks. Maybe Snowcrash style books will make their way back around.

If I recall correctly the novel Ready Player One has had it's movie option picked up.....which would fit nicely with the reality/cyber network idea....

 

[trappedslider]

Kelly Armstrong's Bitten just got turned into a tv series - there's been a huge occult romance niche in fantasy novels for quite some time, and if this show does even passably well (especially with the current success of shows like Being Human and Dead Like Me) I'm sure there's going to be more occult romance series showing up in the future...

Dead like me isn't exactly current..but True Blood would be closer and I can see it happening more often..maybe even something based on Anita Blake

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Urban Fantasy will just broaden. Besides the obvious successes, there have been a bunch of short-lived shows that never found an audience. But there's some potentially big properties/names out there still untouched. De Lint, Gaiman, Green, Lackey, Barker, Koontz and others have stuff ripe for the picking.

I could also see something based on SM Stirling's post apocalyptic Change novels or Brin's sword & planet stories get greenlit.

I'd love to see Bova's Grand Tour or Tutrledove's Darkness series get translated to TV or a series of movies, though.

Other than that? Vampire Ninja Bunnies. What's not to love?

 

[tomBitonti]

Wait, is this a trick question?

MORE ZOMBIES!!!

 

[Umbran]

Wait, is this a trick question?

MORE ZOMBIES!!!

While zombies are cool, I am not looking forward to a literary equivalent to the Battle of Yonkers*.


*If you don't know what the Battle of Yonkers is, and are reading this thread, shame upon you! Go pick up a copy of Max Brooks' World War Z.

No, not the movie. The movie is crap, and just stole the book's name hoping we wouldn't notice. Go read the book. It is a completely different beast.

 

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While zombies are cool, I am not looking forward to a literary equivalent to the Battle of Yonkers*.


*If you don't know what the Battle of Yonkers is, and are reading this thread, shame upon you! Go pick up a copy of Max Brooks' World War Z.

No, not the movie. The movie is crap, and just stole the book's name hoping we wouldn't notice. Go read the book. It is a completely different beast.

Oddly enough, a segment of fans ( myself included) have decided that the movie is part of the book given the book's format,we just figure it's another story set in the universe.


As for the main topic...I'd like to see The Dresden files back on tv....I could see maybe each book as it's own season or something like Doctor Who with multi-part episodes for each book.....

 

[Umbran]

Oddly enough, a segment of fans ( myself included) have decided that the movie is part of the book given the book's format,we just figure it's another story set in the universe.

You can do as you wish, of course. But the movie is inconsistent with (and outright contradicts) the book in much of its content. I don't find that justification for the movie acceptable, myself.

Plus, even when I've already swallowed "zombies!", that film has some "science" that is so egregious that it makes me want to hurl objects at the screen. It's just awful, IMHO, and I would prefer to simply ignore the movie.

As for the main topic...I'd like to see The Dresden files back on tv....I could see maybe each book as it's own season or something like Doctor Who with multi-part episodes for each book.....

I was considering this just recently. I've come to the opinion that much of what makes the book series good is the internal dialog (well, monologue, I guess) of the main character. That's not something that is frequently (or ever?) done well on screen. Representing the events of the books in normal third-person perspective would lose so much in the translation, that I'm not sure I'd want them to bother.