Set for a film adaptation for a while now, this trilogy of young adult novels by the ridiculously, unfairly talented Patrick Ness would almost certainly work better in the form of three television miniseries. Its the story of settlers on an alien world, living in an agrarian economy after a bitter war with the indigenous species, who fall victim to a germ in the atmosphere that allows the thoughts of human males and animals to be heard, in the form of a cacophony of words, images and metaphors nicknamed the Noise... and, as the story goes, "the Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking." The series has won nearly every award possible since its initial publication, and with good reason its quite simply one of the most staggering works of science fiction in decades. When discussing any potential adaptation, some have raised concerns that the heroes are children: however, half of the most popular characters on Game Of Thrones are teenagers or younger, and no one would argue that Arya Stark isnt worth the television time shes given. Ness work, aside from being a scary, sometimes horrifying breakneck thriller - sad, exciting and incredibly moving - is an important treatise on notions of good, evil, redemption, war and the morality of terrorism. It also features a cracking love story between the two teenaged protagonists, and boasts a genuinely terrifying villain: by the climax to the third book, it seems that half the world is in flames thanks to the atrocities hes perpetrated.
Professional writer, punk werewolf and nesting place for starfish. Obsessed with squid, spirals and story. I publish short weird fiction online at desincarne.com, and tweet nonsense under the name Jack The Bodiless. You can follow me all you like, just don't touch my stuff.
