Henry James in Space

(it came out of office brainstorming and made us all laugh w/o being the slightest help for the task to hand)

The Flash Gordon movie is probably a close fit already

Mark's idea was anticipated on this page, which features the following letter:

Stephen Baxter's response to Andrew Lias' strictures is, well, gracious to a fault. I find Mr. Baxter's characters to work reasonably well, given the context of his books. I remember reading Kingsley Amis (who was quoting C.S. Lewis) remark to the effect that having odd things described by odd people represents an oddity too many. SF novels that contain carefully worked out, multi-layered characters tend sometimes to fail (according to me) just because the focus will not settle between the two. Henry James in space helmet, so to speak. (There's an idea: Daisy Miller goes to Mars.)

Now I think of it, Jonathan Lethem's (yes, the guy who edited the last Da Capo rock writing book) last-but-one novel, 'Girl in Landscape' was billed as "The Searchers [the film] in space". So Henry James in space would be about the grandchild of intergalactic settlers returning to the sinful cities of the Home Planet and being corrupted by a compromised marriage.

the bostonians is totally about aliens!! (well, lesbians, but same diff in 1870)

'Celine and Julie Go Boating' - semi-adapted from a HJ short story - is all abt time travel, so J. Rivette = the obv candidate to direct the movie versh.

TS: Edgar Rice Burroughs vs. William Burroughs: who had the better aliens?