(urth) Adaptations?

Norwood, Frederick Hudson NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu
Wed Apr 29 07:57:53 PDT 2015


Entry point to Lafferty.  “Continued on Next Rock”

Rick

From: Urth [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] On Behalf Of Andreas Johansson
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:25 AM
To: urth at lists.urth.net
Subject: (urth) Adaptations?

Hi,

First of all, a great thanks to all of you out there debating and analyzing the big and the small of all things Wolfean. It's severely enlightening, both for understanding Wolfe in many more layers, and literature in general. Now then, a question that arose recently as I began the BOTNS for I think a fourth time, while at the same time delving deep into Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - how wonderful wouldn't a "sand box" type of videogame, set in Severian's Urth? - so my question was, has there been any kind of adaptations of any of Gene Wolfe's works? Graphic novels, theatre productions, short movies, anything? Given his massive output (more than fifty short stories, hehe), you'd think that somewhere, someone would've picked up the challenge.

Of course, much of what makes Wolfe special is an inherent trait of the medium that would be lost in a visual adaptation that loses the 1st person perspective... but his worlds are so bloody vivid and beautiful that they would be a feast for any graphic artist to dig into, even if 70% of the in-text layers would be lost. Imagine a Moebius-style graphic novel based on Urth of the New Sun... or as mentioned moving freely through a 3d-rendered version of Nessus or Viron.

Oh by the way, which entry-point to Lafferty would you fellows suggest? Haven't read anything by him but thought it might be time.

yrs,

Andreas Johansson
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