<story><title>Ted Chiang on Seeing His Stories Adapted and the Ever-Expanding Popularity of SF</title><url>https://electricliterature.com/the-legendary-ted-chiang-on-seeing-his-stories-adapted-for-the-screen-and-the-ever-expanding-916a9530e598</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>curtis</author><text>One of the things that Ted Chiang talks about is the adaptation of James Ellroy&amp;#x27;s novel &lt;i&gt;L.A. Confidential&lt;/i&gt; to the film of the same name:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;If I had read the novel first, I would have said it was impossible to adapt into a movie. But what the screenwriters did was take the protagonists of the novel and construct a completely new plot in which those characters could play the same basic roles. The resulting movie is faithful to the spirit of the novel even though it’s radically unfaithful to the text. That’s an approach that would never have occurred to me; I think I’d be too reverent of the original to adapt anything to film.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the challenges of adapting &lt;i&gt;Story of Your Life&lt;/i&gt; to film were different, but it was certainly something I was thinking about when I walked into the theater.  I personally think they did a pretty good job, but I suppose that depends on what you thought the essential part of &lt;i&gt;Story of Your Life&lt;/i&gt; was.&lt;p&gt;Now that I think about it, the movie &lt;i&gt;Ender&amp;#x27;s Game&lt;/i&gt; was pretty faithful to the source novel, but probably fell down as a movie because of it.  It&amp;#x27;s interesting to think about how that movie might have been better if it had tried to be (as Chiang says of &lt;i&gt;L.A. Confidential&lt;/i&gt;) &amp;quot;faithful to the spirit of the novel&amp;quot; while playing faster and looser with the actual source material.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ted Chiang on Seeing His Stories Adapted and the Ever-Expanding Popularity of SF</title><url>https://electricliterature.com/the-legendary-ted-chiang-on-seeing-his-stories-adapted-for-the-screen-and-the-ever-expanding-916a9530e598</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neves</author><text>This thread had 2 very good links to Chiang short stories:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lightspeedmagazine.com&amp;#x2F;fiction&amp;#x2F;exhalation&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lightspeedmagazine.com&amp;#x2F;fiction&amp;#x2F;exhalation&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;subterraneanpress.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;fall_2010&amp;#x2F;fiction_the_lifecycle_of_software_objects_by_ted_chiang&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;subterraneanpress.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;fall_2010&amp;#x2F;fiction_the_...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any more good links to free Chiang stories?</text></comment>