And now for something light

[rhu]

OK, let's get a good discussion going here. :-)

The other night, introverte and I were discussing film adapations of science fiction stories that originally appeared in print. We were unable to come up with a single example of a story that meets all these criteria:

• Science fiction (not fantasy) (excluding, for example, The Lord of the Rings and The Wizard of Oz)
• First appeared in print (excluding, for example, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
• Movie adaptation remains essentially faithful to the print story (excluding, for example, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, I, Robot, etc.)
• Both the original print story and the movie adaptation are generally accepted as great (excluding, for example, well, most others).

The closest I could come up with was Farenheit 451 but I'm not sure the movie really qualifies as great. But I figure that if there exists a true example, you, gentle readers, will let me know.

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[cheshyre]

Just found an old Usenet post regarding the stories adapted for the New Twilight Zone:

NEW STORIES FROM THE TWILIGHT ZONE, ed. by Martin H. Greenberg, Avon Books
(trade paperback), 1991, 0-380-75926-8, $10.00

"Shatterday"                             Harlan Ellison
"Healer"                                 Alan Brennert
"Nightcrawlers"                          Robert R. McCammon
"Examination Day"                        Henry Slesar
"A Message from Charity"                 William M. Lee
"Paladin of the Lost Hour"               Harlan Ellison
"The Burning Man"                        Ray Bradbury
"Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"         William F. Wu
"One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty"   Harlan Ellison
"I of Newton"                            Joe Haldeman
"The Star"                               Arthur C. Clarke
"The Misfortune Cookie"                  Charles E. Fritch
"Yesterday Was Monday"                   Theodore Sturgeon
   [episode title: "A Matter of Minutes"]
"To See the Invisible Man"               Robert Silverberg
"Dead Run"                               Greg Bear
"Button, Button"                         Richard Matheson
"The Everlasting Club"                   Arthur Gray
   [episode title: "Devil's Alphabet"]
"The Last Defender of Camelot"           Roger Zelazny
"A Saucer of Loneliness"                 Theodore Sturgeon
"Lost and Found"                         Phyllis Eisenstein
"Influencing the Hell Out of Time and    Parke Godwin
                      Teresa Golowitz"
   [episode title: "Time and Teresa Golowitz"]

There were only two other stories adapted by TZ, but were not available
for the anthology:

"Gramma"                                 Stephen King
"Need to Know"                           Sidney Sheldon

Note: Alan Brennert's "Healer" was actually an original teleplay that
he after-the-fact turned into a short story (he did the same with two
others of his TZ teleplays: "Her Pilgrim Soul" and "Voices in the Earth",
both of which can be found in his collection HER PILGRIM SOUL AND OTHER
STORIES).

Even aside from the TZ connection, this anthology is a collection of
*great* stories, and is worth buying just for that reason.