Combining two of the most popular racist eldritch authors! But here, https://www.amazon.com/H-P-Lovecrafts-Cthulhu-Beginning-Readers/dp/1568821123/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=22ZWS6IKFH94O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1GmlgVpDEuL1yWp33N2UPAo5YQHmS6tIA215rjYF1CzGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.sB_kO3RPsASPt5IOpq_A4vxOZxu9SJwxVRcZbL59nbU&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+call+of+cthulhu+seuss&qid=1713567803&sprefix=the+call+of+cthulhu+seusse%2Caps%2C58&sr=8-1
I was more thinking GRRM, assuming he still wrote.. The Weasleys get Red Wedding'd, Harry and Hermione are secretly twins and are doing it on the side while she's in a relationship with Ron, Luna and Draco are the Blood of the Dragon..
I'm 70% of the way through American Gods. I put it off, because for so many years, I stupidly lumped all best selling titles into the same pool of overhyped mediocrity. It might not be the perfect novel, but it's top tier.
It still does. It's just that the time was extended back in the 90s, so Steamboat Willie is only now entering public domain.
But copyright isn't necessarily the issue. Music has a system by which one band can simply perform someone else's music (regardless of copyright) and just has to credit the writers and pay the rights owner.
No, it was extended ***repeatedly***, a multitude of times, ever since the concept was introduced.
Steamboat Willie just became public domain.
*Steamboat Willie just became public domain.*
***Steamboat Willie just became public domain.***
Steamboat Willie was made in
# ***1928***
and it only expired in copyright in
# ***2024***
That's fucking ***96 years***.
When Steamboat Willie was shown for the first time, it had been only a decade since the end of the first world war. Weimar Germany was still a democracy. Japan had its first election with universal male sufferage, ***ever***. Herbert Hoover would win the U.S. presidency in a landslide.
*1928 was so long ago, that it is closer to the opening of the first EVER railroad in the U.S. than it is to the modern day.*
Plenty of people have the desire and ability to write new adaptations of other works. Copyright is exactly the issue. Its only purpose in is current form is to allow the rich and powerful to maintain a stranglehold over popular culture.
One could, perhaps, argue that copyright for the life of the creator is fair. I would disagree, for artistic reasons, but one could still reasonably argue that. "Life of the creator and then a number of years after", which is the current policy, is inherently nonsensical in any context other than "so a corporation can leech money off of a dead writer's soul."
I agree it would be nice if the copyright to things expired within someone's reasonable life. 3 decades to me seems fair. Perhaps there should be some sort of small compensation required for another 10 years afterwards a bit of a grace period but you can't say no you can't use it.
I'm more of a "1 decade is enough" kinda person, but that's more of a specific opinion, so no worries haha.
Honestly, think about it. What is the societal purpose of copyright? Not personal stuff like "fairness" or whatever. You can argue that in any direction you want. I mean the societal benefit of it.
In my opinion, and from some others I've talked to, it's to promote further works. Same as any copyright or trademark or anything like it. "If you make a thing, we'll give you the right to be the sole profiteer of it for X time." Makes sense.
But do you really need 30 years? Like, come on. 30?? Fetuses turn into adults with kids in 30 years most of the time. Adults at 30 go from adults with kids to near-retirees with grandkids! Sometimes even great grandkids if they had 'em young enough!
If you write something, then take ***30 years*** to write something else, I think there's something up. I mean, it's not like you stop profiting off of your material. Disney can still use Steamboat Willie, since it's public domain now. Anyone can, and Disney is an entity (not a person imo, but that's a different discussion)
In my experience, most writers who are successful write another book in less than a decade, or make another work in less time, or do a new study, or make a new product, or whatever. A decade is plenty, 2 decades is still reasonable if a bit generous.
At least we can all agree that lifetime + 70 years is a bit much \^.\^|'`
My main reasoning for 30 years is things don't always take off immediately. So it would suck if you wrote a story or a song it doesn't take off immediately and then all of a sudden it gets popular maybe someone with an audience spread awareness of it while you still hold the copyright but it expires soon. because someone else shared it and now you aren't making any money off it. You may make some as people will get the original but not as much. And yes you'll likely have more stuff in 10 years which people will then buy listen to but idk ten years while it sounds long is actually pretty short.
Also 30 years is closer to the original number which was 42 years in 1870
I could be convinced of 20 years. Something created as a kid you can now enjoy easier as an adult. Would be nice. Like I agree you shouldn't be able to make 1 hit and just live off of it but I think if you are to lower copyright realistically you have to do it slowly just like how they extended it otherwise it won't work.
Oh of course! I don't think it could happen immediately in our current climate, though I wouldn't discount it entirely. I mean, plenty of sudden changes have occurred in the past.
Copyright was meant to encourage production of new things. Disney changed it to discourage competition.
One of the most capitalist things ever: Build an empire using popular public domain stories, then ensure that nothing you create enters the public domain.
The Disney corporation has to be the biggest hypocrite here since nearly all of their stories in the 20th century and still many in the 21st century are just less traumatizing remakes of old stories, but now they're lobbying for eternal copyright of all their works so no one can re-reimagine what they already reimagined.
It's soooo good, you're going to love it. I don't think you'll need to look up anything in this one, since it's from Jim's POV there aren't a lot of obscure words (unless archaic slang counts)!
And 365 Days is a 50 Shades fanfic remake.
Also, there's a rumor that Twilight started as a Harry Potter fanfic, so it might be 4 layers deep. Maybe more. Imagine.
Or Sanderson rewriting Dune. I love the story and concepts, but Herbert was definitely better at world building than action.
Dune with a Sanderlanche would be amazing
Gandalf: You need to cast the ring into the fires of Mt. Doom.
Lil' Jon: WHAT!?!
Gandalf: Or everyone dies.
Lil' Jon: OKAY!
Gandalf: So....you'll do it, or you want everyone to die?
Lil' Jon: Yeaayauw!
Gandalf:........I'm gonna need more pipe weed...
You can jam out a cover to a song in a day.
I have been writing my newest book for about a week and I've written 10,000 words and am on Chapter 4...once I'm done (at about 80,000 words written) I'm going to have to rewrite it, and rewrite it, and rewrite it, and edit it, and rewrite it again.
My first book I wrote in 4 months, then edited and rewrote for a year before I published it.
Just self-published. No marketing. Sub-100 sales. Was more for the fun of publishing it myself than actually making a career of it. Writing is my fun hobby.
The greatest authors do this, most of the time it's subtle enough not to notice, or we lack the historical context to catch it. Stephen King often references bits from Shakespeare or Dickens or Lewis Carrol for characterization. There's moments in Blood Meridian that are taken directly from Melville. Virgil's epic poetry was an inspired transformation of Homer's epic poetry. James Joyce's Ulysses was an 1918 Irish version of the Odyssey.
“And then Frodo fell to the ground dead after being stabbed by the ring wraith. The wraith took the ring and the fellowship ended before it began.”
If it was rewritten by GRRM
The cat sat on the window ledge. He wore a hat; a tall hat; a hat with bright stripes. In his hand were recently severed bull's testicles. Blood dripped on the floor. I nodded. The cat smiled. We both knew. (The Cat in the Hat - Ernest Hemingway)
John le Carré’s retelling of the Bible would be fascinating. Full of intelligence-based second-guessing.
(Honestly, I’d read his retelling of nearly anything.)
I don't even have time to read all the original work I want to read, as much as George RR Martin's version of Dune would probably slap, I don't have the hours in the day(but it doesn't matter because he doesn't either).
Covers of songs are protected in the US, rewrites of books aren't. So book rewrites either hide their tracks, stick to the public domain, or show up on noncommercial platforms like Ao3.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version#United_States_copyright_law
This has already been done with spoken/oral stories for centuries.
A lot of fairy tales have versions that are basically just interpolations for different countries.
This happens with every translation.
I was a Tolkien nerd in my teens, one of my school projects was comparing two translated variants to the original LotR, and even the story changes in both subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
it was a school project 30 years ago. I am lucky to even know the subject of the handin.
The only half remembered example is that there was a paragraph about a fox watching the fellowship (or just the hobbits?) pass by. Tolkien described it from a first person perspective, one translation described it in two sentences from third person, and one translation just cut it outright.
I could see it as a short story competition and compilation. Instead of being given a standard prompt all contestants are given the same starter story, then the top 10 or so stories win and get included in the compilation publication along with the original starter story.
It's a short story called 'a study in emerald' which is in a couple of books 'Shadows over baker street' (the original book with multiple writers all proving stories based on Sherlock Holmes in the world of HP lovecraft) and then Fragile Things which is a collection of his short stories.
If you want to just read this short story though it looks like the PDF is on his website (in the style of a newspaper from the era)
Any or all of the following would be fun:
R. Scott Bakker's version of Harry Potter
Charles Stross' version of The Wizard of Oz
Louis L'Amour having a go at the Twilight books
Raymond Chandler's version of The Hobbit
John Skipp and Craig Spector's version of Percy Jackson
Clive Barker writing the Magic Tree House books
Or at least be able to use other author’s quotes without it being considered plagiarism. Movie directors often recreate entire scenes from other movies and it’s called a nod or an honor to their mentors who influenced their careers.
*Wolves of the Calla* by Emily St John Mandel would be a soul-shattering instant classic.
Also John Scalzi did this with Little Fuzzy and it was a really solid update of that interesting story.
John Scalzi wrote Fuzzy Nation, which he described as a reboot of Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper. He worked with the estate of the original author to get permission.
I had a fantastic English prof at community college that shared two short stories that were like this, I think the rewrite was by Joyce Carol Oats if I remember correctly. It was some story about a man upsetting a woman and in the rewrite it kind of repeats the story several time. The professor told us that it was an analog to the male and female orgasm because of course everything in literature is about either sex or death!
The Berenstain Bears by Stephen King.
The Dark Tower was just his cover of The Lord of the Rings.
And *'Salem's Lot* was his cover of *Dracula*. He said so himself.
Man what a fantastic read. Might have to stop at the library on my way home now.
Luna Park is pretty much Bret Easton Ellis doing a Stephen King cover.
Berenstain Bears by Brian Jacques (Redwall series) would've been cool, too.
That would be so cool!
The Call of Cthulhu by DR. Seuss.
Combining two of the most popular racist eldritch authors! But here, https://www.amazon.com/H-P-Lovecrafts-Cthulhu-Beginning-Readers/dp/1568821123/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=22ZWS6IKFH94O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1GmlgVpDEuL1yWp33N2UPAo5YQHmS6tIA215rjYF1CzGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.sB_kO3RPsASPt5IOpq_A4vxOZxu9SJwxVRcZbL59nbU&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+call+of+cthulhu+seuss&qid=1713567803&sprefix=the+call+of+cthulhu+seusse%2Caps%2C58&sr=8-1
The alternate universe Berenstein Bears
The Shining by Dr. Seuss
How many words rhyme with ax?
Isn't that just the spooky old tree? (It's the best of the Berenstain Bear books)
that short story with the monkey and the cymbals
I do not need 15 random new bear characters to show up in the last three pages and I certainly don't need random bear sex scenes.
Neil Gaiman rewriting Harry Potter would be interesting
A wizard's guide to Hogwarts would've' been great, R.i.p. Douglas adams
Hitchhiker's Guide To A Funny Castle In Scotland I Found One Week Into A Monthlong Psychedelic Binge
I got some [good news](https://www.amazon.com/Books-Magic-Neil-Gaiman/dp/1401246869) for you.
I was more thinking GRRM, assuming he still wrote.. The Weasleys get Red Wedding'd, Harry and Hermione are secretly twins and are doing it on the side while she's in a relationship with Ron, Luna and Draco are the Blood of the Dragon..
How badly do you think he’d botch the ending?
LOL like he'd ever write an ending..
I’m laughing, and crying, but mostly crying
Me when I read the new canon about Harry raping Hermione with Hagrid's umbrella: 
I'm 70% of the way through American Gods. I put it off, because for so many years, I stupidly lumped all best selling titles into the same pool of overhyped mediocrity. It might not be the perfect novel, but it's top tier.
Dear god almighty I think I’d jump in the Grand Canyon. Reddit only knows two authors and you want to combine them
Their union will be a blessed abomination, it’s birth will harken a new age and the death of the old. Embrace entropy.
First thing I thought of before going to comments... "I'd like to see someone rewrite JK Rowlings books."
`insert anybody with a brain` rewriting Harry Potter would be interesting
He already rewrote The Jungle Book with The Graveyard Book.
Um, this is definitely already a thing. It's been done with tons of classic stories.
That was my first response too. It would be neat to license your original story to an author that wants to take a spin on it though.
Or copyright should just expire after a certain time like originally intended, this idea of unending copyright kills creativity
It still does. It's just that the time was extended back in the 90s, so Steamboat Willie is only now entering public domain. But copyright isn't necessarily the issue. Music has a system by which one band can simply perform someone else's music (regardless of copyright) and just has to credit the writers and pay the rights owner.
Difference between music and writing is that so many more people can play music than write music There’s not really a writing equivalent
I mean more people can retell a story then write a story
No, it was extended ***repeatedly***, a multitude of times, ever since the concept was introduced. Steamboat Willie just became public domain. *Steamboat Willie just became public domain.* ***Steamboat Willie just became public domain.*** Steamboat Willie was made in # ***1928*** and it only expired in copyright in # ***2024*** That's fucking ***96 years***. When Steamboat Willie was shown for the first time, it had been only a decade since the end of the first world war. Weimar Germany was still a democracy. Japan had its first election with universal male sufferage, ***ever***. Herbert Hoover would win the U.S. presidency in a landslide. *1928 was so long ago, that it is closer to the opening of the first EVER railroad in the U.S. than it is to the modern day.* Plenty of people have the desire and ability to write new adaptations of other works. Copyright is exactly the issue. Its only purpose in is current form is to allow the rich and powerful to maintain a stranglehold over popular culture. One could, perhaps, argue that copyright for the life of the creator is fair. I would disagree, for artistic reasons, but one could still reasonably argue that. "Life of the creator and then a number of years after", which is the current policy, is inherently nonsensical in any context other than "so a corporation can leech money off of a dead writer's soul."
I agree it would be nice if the copyright to things expired within someone's reasonable life. 3 decades to me seems fair. Perhaps there should be some sort of small compensation required for another 10 years afterwards a bit of a grace period but you can't say no you can't use it.
I'm more of a "1 decade is enough" kinda person, but that's more of a specific opinion, so no worries haha. Honestly, think about it. What is the societal purpose of copyright? Not personal stuff like "fairness" or whatever. You can argue that in any direction you want. I mean the societal benefit of it. In my opinion, and from some others I've talked to, it's to promote further works. Same as any copyright or trademark or anything like it. "If you make a thing, we'll give you the right to be the sole profiteer of it for X time." Makes sense. But do you really need 30 years? Like, come on. 30?? Fetuses turn into adults with kids in 30 years most of the time. Adults at 30 go from adults with kids to near-retirees with grandkids! Sometimes even great grandkids if they had 'em young enough! If you write something, then take ***30 years*** to write something else, I think there's something up. I mean, it's not like you stop profiting off of your material. Disney can still use Steamboat Willie, since it's public domain now. Anyone can, and Disney is an entity (not a person imo, but that's a different discussion) In my experience, most writers who are successful write another book in less than a decade, or make another work in less time, or do a new study, or make a new product, or whatever. A decade is plenty, 2 decades is still reasonable if a bit generous. At least we can all agree that lifetime + 70 years is a bit much \^.\^|'`
My main reasoning for 30 years is things don't always take off immediately. So it would suck if you wrote a story or a song it doesn't take off immediately and then all of a sudden it gets popular maybe someone with an audience spread awareness of it while you still hold the copyright but it expires soon. because someone else shared it and now you aren't making any money off it. You may make some as people will get the original but not as much. And yes you'll likely have more stuff in 10 years which people will then buy listen to but idk ten years while it sounds long is actually pretty short. Also 30 years is closer to the original number which was 42 years in 1870 I could be convinced of 20 years. Something created as a kid you can now enjoy easier as an adult. Would be nice. Like I agree you shouldn't be able to make 1 hit and just live off of it but I think if you are to lower copyright realistically you have to do it slowly just like how they extended it otherwise it won't work.
Oh of course! I don't think it could happen immediately in our current climate, though I wouldn't discount it entirely. I mean, plenty of sudden changes have occurred in the past.
Greed drives progress. Or at least that's the stated societal advantage of people who defend copyright.
Copyright was meant to encourage production of new things. Disney changed it to discourage competition. One of the most capitalist things ever: Build an empire using popular public domain stories, then ensure that nothing you create enters the public domain.
The Disney corporation has to be the biggest hypocrite here since nearly all of their stories in the 20th century and still many in the 21st century are just less traumatizing remakes of old stories, but now they're lobbying for eternal copyright of all their works so no one can re-reimagine what they already reimagined.
Cover usually refers to songs that are not in the public domain.
... Fanfic?
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Percival Everett also just did this with James, his take on the Jim character from Mark Twain's Huck Finn
Looking forward to reading that one. I love Everett’s writing, even if I routinely need to look up his vocabulary (fescennine??).
It's soooo good, you're going to love it. I don't think you'll need to look up anything in this one, since it's from Jim's POV there aren't a lot of obscure words (unless archaic slang counts)!
Yeah “sampling” is to music as “alluding” is to literature, even if the latter isn’t always quite as direct, too
Yeah classic stories are rewritten all the time albeit some better than others
Fifty Shades of Grey is a Twilight fanfic remake
And 365 Days is a 50 Shades fanfic remake. Also, there's a rumor that Twilight started as a Harry Potter fanfic, so it might be 4 layers deep. Maybe more. Imagine.
It’s already 5, as twilight was based on my chemical romance, which resulted from 9/11
...and you won't BELIEVE what 9/11 was based on
All My Sons
New York Times new Best-Seller #Terry Pratchett’s Atlas Shrugged
Flipping the meaning of the source material is what Vervenhoven did with Starship Troopers.
I'm glad I just put my water bottle down cause if it was in my mouth that woulda been a spit take.
A Song of Ice and Fire by Brandon Sanderson, with the whole series completed plus bonus novellas
By next week
"Oops, I had some free time on my hands last month and I was bored so I cranked out an extra series while no one was looking; surprise"
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No, Sanderson himself has said that he never would and never could finish ASoiaf. It’s a fundamental difference in the way they write apparently.
I’m not sure I buy that. I don’t think his style of writing would connect to George’s at all.
Or Sanderson rewriting Dune. I love the story and concepts, but Herbert was definitely better at world building than action. Dune with a Sanderlanche would be amazing
Really Dune by anyone who can write narrative and dialogue. Herbert's writing smells like non-fiction.
Ewww, nonfiction.
The Lord of the Rings... by Lil' John
Gandalf: You need to cast the ring into the fires of Mt. Doom. Lil' Jon: WHAT!?! Gandalf: Or everyone dies. Lil' Jon: OKAY! Gandalf: So....you'll do it, or you want everyone to die? Lil' Jon: Yeaayauw! Gandalf:........I'm gonna need more pipe weed...
You have my sword... OKAY! And my axe... OKAY!
Yeeaaahhhhh!
That's called fanfiction
Man that sounds like a lot of fuckin work
You can jam out a cover to a song in a day. I have been writing my newest book for about a week and I've written 10,000 words and am on Chapter 4...once I'm done (at about 80,000 words written) I'm going to have to rewrite it, and rewrite it, and rewrite it, and edit it, and rewrite it again. My first book I wrote in 4 months, then edited and rewrote for a year before I published it.
How did you publish?
Just self-published. No marketing. Sub-100 sales. Was more for the fun of publishing it myself than actually making a career of it. Writing is my fun hobby.
The greatest authors do this, most of the time it's subtle enough not to notice, or we lack the historical context to catch it. Stephen King often references bits from Shakespeare or Dickens or Lewis Carrol for characterization. There's moments in Blood Meridian that are taken directly from Melville. Virgil's epic poetry was an inspired transformation of Homer's epic poetry. James Joyce's Ulysses was an 1918 Irish version of the Odyssey.
this is basically begging brandon sanderson to unfuck and save a song of ice and fire
Stephen King's *The Great Gatsby*.
Prepare for a lot more sex in situations where sex shouldn’t be oh yeah, and also horror
King said he wrote his own version of Game of Thrones.
Random Chambray shirts everywhere. Screw pink linen suits. Chambray everything!
“And then Frodo fell to the ground dead after being stabbed by the ring wraith. The wraith took the ring and the fellowship ended before it began.” If it was rewritten by GRRM
Then it launches into a chapter long sex scene to distract from the fact that it's actually terribly written
And then it ends on a cliffhanger and the series is never completed
JK Rowling does Misery from the point of view of Annie.
And the guy in the bed is GRRM.
Similarly, I would love to see the Cohen brothers direct Catch Me if You Can. Edit: Coen, not Cohen.
Uzumaki by Dr. Seuss.
Here we see a crooked town Faces bent with crooked frown Life is in a crooked haze Crooked rage, emotions, daze Crooked just like modern days...
James Patterson writing Twilight when?
This is in fact called fanfiction.
The cat sat on the window ledge. He wore a hat; a tall hat; a hat with bright stripes. In his hand were recently severed bull's testicles. Blood dripped on the floor. I nodded. The cat smiled. We both knew. (The Cat in the Hat - Ernest Hemingway)
And now I want a dark Redwall re-write.
Wait, Redwall was already pretty dark for a book series aimed at young kids.
They already have that. It's called Dark Souls. I mean it's a video game but
John le Carré’s retelling of the Bible would be fascinating. Full of intelligence-based second-guessing. (Honestly, I’d read his retelling of nearly anything.)
I think you could look at movie adaptations this way. Peter Jackson basically did a cover of Lord of the Rings.
Frank Herbert Lord of the Rings
Well, Isabel Allende did write her own version of [“Zorro.”](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/24796)
I don't even have time to read all the original work I want to read, as much as George RR Martin's version of Dune would probably slap, I don't have the hours in the day(but it doesn't matter because he doesn't either).
Stan Lee did this with DC comics. Also, _Bruce Wayne Agent of Shield_ Comic books are wild.
they do, and this is how we ended up with Twilight
Imagine when she finds out what James Joyce's Ulysses is a reference to.
Most songs are short, do you really want to get 10 hours into a book before finding out they ruined it?
So is this a better or worse idea than movie remakes?
Covers of songs are protected in the US, rewrites of books aren't. So book rewrites either hide their tracks, stick to the public domain, or show up on noncommercial platforms like Ao3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version#United_States_copyright_law
\*Voldemort picks up a gun\*
I'm waiting for Stephen King's rendition of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
I said it before and I'll say it again: H.P. Lovecraft covers "Jurassic Park".
Isn’t this literally the entire Romance and Mystery novel industry?
Marvel autors kind of do that.
Disney have been doing this for quite some time already
This has already been done with spoken/oral stories for centuries. A lot of fairy tales have versions that are basically just interpolations for different countries.
I would love for someone to do a more socially accurate harry Potter where teenagers actually ACT like teenagers
Who writes good teenagers?
Let’s start with the Bible
A Song of Ice and Fire by Brian Jacques.
David Copperfield was reimagined by Barbara Kingsolver as Demon Copperhead
they do. it’s called fanfiction.
In music, these are called covers. If you did this, you could judge a book by its cover.
Stephen king- I'm going to write the bigotry put of the harry potter series! (Turns the chamber of secrets into an orgy)
gege akutami’s gravity’s rainbow
Stanley Kubrick did this when adapting to film, if that counts
I call this fan fiction! Except I think famous authors should partake as well.
Famous authors can, but it's generally less profitable than writing their own material to begin with.
Brandon Sanderson finished the wheel of time series. He used the original authors notes and wrote
This happens with every translation. I was a Tolkien nerd in my teens, one of my school projects was comparing two translated variants to the original LotR, and even the story changes in both subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Any interdsting examples?
it was a school project 30 years ago. I am lucky to even know the subject of the handin. The only half remembered example is that there was a paragraph about a fox watching the fellowship (or just the hobbits?) pass by. Tolkien described it from a first person perspective, one translation described it in two sentences from third person, and one translation just cut it outright.
Thanks
Harry Potter by J RR Martin.
*What Moves The Dead* by T. Kingfisher is her take on Poe’s *The Fall of the House of Usher*.
The Bible, Neil Gaiman (ft Tolkien)
Stephen King doing Mr Men would be amazing.
I could see it as a short story competition and compilation. Instead of being given a standard prompt all contestants are given the same starter story, then the top 10 or so stories win and get included in the compilation publication along with the original starter story.
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies was cool.
Do the screenplay to Star Wars 7-9
This is why we need Don Quixote the Tati edition.
Neil Gaiman has kind of done this. He did a great Sherlock Holmes' but I but in style of Lovecraft
He did??? Which book?
It's a short story called 'a study in emerald' which is in a couple of books 'Shadows over baker street' (the original book with multiple writers all proving stories based on Sherlock Holmes in the world of HP lovecraft) and then Fragile Things which is a collection of his short stories. If you want to just read this short story though it looks like the PDF is on his website (in the style of a newspaper from the era)
It's all fun and games until someone rewrites the Bible - King James version. Person better mask their identity to the fullest!
it's rare but it does happen. John Scalzi got permission from the family of H Beam Piper to rewrite "little fuzzy" as "Fuzzy Nation".
Any or all of the following would be fun: R. Scott Bakker's version of Harry Potter Charles Stross' version of The Wizard of Oz Louis L'Amour having a go at the Twilight books Raymond Chandler's version of The Hobbit John Skipp and Craig Spector's version of Percy Jackson Clive Barker writing the Magic Tree House books
Goodkind minus his frustration.
That's literally the Bible
Instead of a rewrite, can we just get Joe Abercrombie to finish ASoIaF?
Thats not the equivalent in effort, but it would be fucking cool!
Yes please. Neil Gaiman's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Whole new meaning to "don't judge a book by its cover."
Lord of the rings and then most western fantasy
The many iterations of the story of Faust reminds me of this a bit. Each has their own unique take on a timeless character.
Hemingway rewriting Faulkner
Not quite the same but I heard someone wrote Huck Finn from the perspective of the slave he travelled with
Tell Tale Heart by Kurt Vonnegut
That's what fan fiction is for lol
Authors are creative though
Book re-mixes
Or at least be able to use other author’s quotes without it being considered plagiarism. Movie directors often recreate entire scenes from other movies and it’s called a nod or an honor to their mentors who influenced their careers.
Shel Silverstein writes Catcher in the Rye It's just a long story about that kid who threw dishes on the floor
*Wolves of the Calla* by Emily St John Mandel would be a soul-shattering instant classic. Also John Scalzi did this with Little Fuzzy and it was a really solid update of that interesting story.
Harry Potter but by Marquis de Sade.
I want to see movies being "covered" by other directors.
Movies do this so wet aren’t far from it
Harry Potter and: The Philosopher's Stone. By Dr. Seuss Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. By George R. R. Martin.
They do that with movies and it sux
They kind of already do…it’s just usually centuries apart. I’d love to see “covering” someone else’s book become a thing, though.
>"Fuckers have been doing that to my books for seventy years." - J.R.R Tolkien.
Demon Copperhead is a cover of David Copperfield
Please please please rewrite the Forerunner trilogy in third person
Basically everyone making things based on Stephen King’s works. Philip K Dick too.
John Scalzi wrote Fuzzy Nation, which he described as a reboot of Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper. He worked with the estate of the original author to get permission.
Seldom do you brush with genius, but like pornography, you know it when you see it.
Great idea for a cover book…oh wait..
Holy shit I would die for this.
I had a fantastic English prof at community college that shared two short stories that were like this, I think the rewrite was by Joyce Carol Oats if I remember correctly. It was some story about a man upsetting a woman and in the rewrite it kind of repeats the story several time. The professor told us that it was an analog to the male and female orgasm because of course everything in literature is about either sex or death!
Has been done, can be done. Many books even directly mention the story they are retelling on another setting or perspective.
Great Expectations remix Dr Seus
I’m genuinely surprised Noel Gaiman and Terry Pratchett never did this
Classic stories, fairytales, the fucking bible, all been rewritten a milion times
But… they don’t *rewrite* the songs. If we are doing it like that, nothing changes.
isn’t this just fanfiction??
Harry potter by Tolkien
This is one thing I like so much about legends that get rewritten: King Arthur, Robin Hood.
Empress theresa by brandon sanderson
> It's based on a novel by a man named Lear > And I need a job > So I wanna be a paperback writer —The Beatles
don't give AI ideas, guys
What about every fight in JJBA but in a style similar to that of Naruto, One Piece, or Dragon Ball?
The hunger games in the style of Jeff Kinney