From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 01:28:40 MDT
At 11:25 AM 8/21/02 +1000, the Avster commented on the forthcoming flick on
a [barely] posthuman theme:
>Since PKDick is now so popular, wish someone would do a movie of
[...]>but... there's HUNDREDS!
>wishes! fishes! shame one of us couldn't do it!
Well, Barbara Lamar and I did write a mainstream thriller with escalating
posthumanish elements, titled POSTHUMAN SYNDROME. It went to my New York
agent around the start of September last year. The plot involved artificial
chromosomes, enhanced intelligence, self-optimizing biology, a terrorist.
In the real world, several days later, the planes hit the tall buildings.
Back came the book quick as a flash for a total rewrite to get rid of the
awful reader-deterring terrorist (among other problems the agent
discerned). Sigh. That rewrite's just about been done now, with the
terrorist changed into a nice friendly ordinary serial killer (just as
everyone's rushing to see movies about terrorists). Of course we've missed
the window of novelty with our title. But hey, maybe all these other people
are softening up the audience for our positive spin...
Damien Broderick
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