Current Events > This would be a good George RR Martin TV show to make. Tuf Voyaging.

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Tuf Voyaging is a 1986 science fiction fix-up novel by American writer George R. R. Martin, first published in hardcover by Baen Books. It is a darkly comic meditation on environmentalism and absolute power.

This novel is a collection of related short fiction works, originally published over several years, beginning with 1976's "A Beast for Norn". The book includes a prologue and Martin's S'uthlam storyline (published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact), adding them as bridging material, and gathering them with other Tuf stories into one episodic novel.[1]

The novel concerns the (mis)adventures of Haviland Tuf, an exceptionally tall, bald, very pale, overweight, phlegmatic, vegetarian, cat-loving-but-otherwise solitary space trader. Tuf inadvertently becomes the master of the Ark, an ancient, 30-kilometre-long (19 mi) "seedship" - a very powerful warship with advanced ecological engineering capabilities - after a deal with several venal and cutthroat traders goes awry. Tuf travels the galaxy, offering his services to worlds with environmental problems, and sometimes imposing solutions of his own.

Spoiler tags are the first story... also information from the back cover, nothing too major, but I thought I'd hide that anyway

George thought Conleth Hill would be good for the part... makes sense, after reading it. Tuf is a very articulate, dry, tone deaf person. Would be the perfect actor for it... he's the bald guy in GoT.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Conleth_Hill_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg/800px-Conleth_Hill_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg

It's also good because they're episodic... it doesn't have a larger plot to follow George RR Martin's procrastination. In the book, it goes story to story, around a post-Earth, mostly human galaxy. Solving problems with the ecosystem and catastrophes. Has good lore, barely scraping the surface.

I'm going to finish the book tomorrow. Nothing to really spoil here, since the "voyaging" goes place to place with independent stories

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another one of his stories, that I read back in the day, that could be cool if a proper adaptation came along is Fevre Dream.

it's about a steamboat captain who's hired to give passage to this vampire dude.

it was a pretty unique take on the genre, iirc.

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g0ldie posted...

another one of his stories, that I read back in the day, that could be cool if a proper adaptation came along is Fevre Dream.

it's about a steamboat captain who's hired to give passage to this vampire dude.

it was a pretty unique take on the genre, iirc.

That's actually the first one I read! Because I'm trying to enjoy his work outside of Song Of Fire And Ice, since he still hasn't finished those

yeah it was pretty damn good. I liked Salem's Lot by Stephen King a bit more, though

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bump

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finished it yesterday

Turns into a sociopath towards the end, only mostly redeemed in his actions

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If he wants to do TV stuff as well, just do Dunk and Egg and finish that up there. No need for a 4th or 5th novella, just make it a TV show. Dunk and Egg would make an awesome show

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