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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9824519" data-attributes="member: 6799660">I suspect we are deceiving ourselves if we think anything we love is too obscure for those working in the film industry. Fiction is their bag, just as strongly (or more) as it is to us in the nerd-o-sphere. Certainly there were people in love with Asimov and Bradbury, yet up until streaming channels started mining things for content we had all of: Bicentennial Man(/the Positronic Man), I Robot (with  Beastmaster-level minimal relation to the book), Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and a TV adaptation of the Martian Chronicles. I suspect there are other issues. Most of them related to when they came out, what sci fi looked like at the time, and perceived draw. A lot of these novels peaked in popularity back when most visual sci fi was of the 'Attack of the 50-foot _______' variety, interspersed with 'Rocketship to the Planet of <set that fits on a soundstage>' budget-friendly films and tv shows. Occasional speculative fiction/novel adaptations that didn't require many expensive special effects (like Colossus: The Forbin Project, Logan's Run or The Andromeda Strain) came out, but most did not set the box office on fire. By the time Star Wars, Terminator, Jurassic Park and other movies made sci fi big business, the books in question were advertiser's target demographic's parent's favorite novels*. *how many possessive-form nouns can I string together?</blockquote>

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