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

The other night, [livejournal.com profile] 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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