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Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.

When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is stifling creativity, he commissions an interactive book for his daughter that serves as a guide through a surreal alternate world. Stephenson will adapt his novel for the miniseries, the first time the Hugo and Nebula award winner has written for TV.

This could be great. Or, I guess, it could be another Earthsea situation.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 at 4:30 pm and is filed under Books. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “I almost don’t believe that”

  1. Homo Sum » Blog Archive » Two in two days? Says:
    January 17th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
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    [...] As with yesterday’s Snow Crash news, this could be great, or it could be a train wreck (assuming of course that it ever gets to the filming stage). [...]

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