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Dragonsdawn, like many good books I've read, strikes me as ideal material to create a movie from. It has a wide cast of bold, vibrant, and most importantly, human personalities that demand real acting. It has detailed reference material for creating scenes and props, an epic sprawling world, and events and catastrophes on a such a vast scale that it demands the viewer's attention. Considering that the book was written in the year I was born I'm surprised that no one has made a notable attempt at a big-screen adaptation. On the same note, however, it's probably also a good thing that it hasn't been done yet as CG technology has only recently gotten good enough to really do the world of Pern justice. Still, that said I'd really like to see a movie adaptation of Dragonsdawn, not because I think that a movie could do better, but because the story is already told so well that the only real way I can think of to improve upon it is to add a visual element.
Speaking of which, for those of you who read my last post you'll know that, even for a title like Dragonsdawn, the book is essentially sci-fi. The few fantasy elements that do trickle into the story at the end are glaringly fantasy, but in the end account for such a small part of the story that it blends into the background. For the most part the world is so well constructed and plays by the rules of reality so much that you could actually imagine the events occurring given another hundred or more years. For a story that does indeed get something akin to a dragon (I'm not spoiling much, it says it right on the back cover), and indeed uses the dragons as a major selling point, they don't have a huge impact until the end.
And speaking of having a huge impact the story killed off one of my favorite characters! I should have known better. This is one of those books where, yes, people die from time to time but it's rarely a main character. And if it is going to be a main character it's going to be someone you really really like. That's what kind of a story this Pern novel is. There aren't many stories that have the guts to, er, gut one of the more beloved characters, but Dragonsdawn is one of them. Dragonsdawn doesn't even have the courtesy to kill off my favorite character in the first or last third of the book like most stories. Nope, instead they die right in the middle of the story. Just the right point in the story to annoy you for the entire last half of the story. *sigh* Come to think of it, the only other character that died that actually surprised me was killed off at nearly the same time. However, I wasn't nearly as upset with their death, although the way they died was undeserved.

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